Wrecker

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Wrecker needs to deal with smugglers, grave robbers, and pooping iguanas—just as soon as he finishes Zoom school. Welcome to another wild adventure in Carl Hiaasen's Florida!

Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living.

So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat don't want Wrecker to call for help—in fact, they'll pay him to forget he ever saw them.

Wrecker would be happy to forget, but he keeps seeing these men all over Key West—at the marina, even in the cemetery. And now they want more than his silence—they want a lookout.

He'll have to dive deep into their shady dealings to figure out a way to escape this tangled net. . . .---from the publisher

336 pages                                        978-0593376287                             Ages 10-13

Keywords:  action/adventure, mystery and detective, crime, social activist, Ku Klux Klan, 10 year old, 11 year old, 12 year old, 13 year old

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When the teeth of a moray eel sink into your hand, you know you're up against a formidable enemy.  It's the same when a smuggler traps you and forces you into working for him.  With the waters of Key West, Florida as his happy place, Wrecker is struggling.   His part time job cleaning iguana poop off the lady's grave stone has landed him in the middle of a group of smugglers who need an underage guy to pilot their boat.  He's met a girl he likes.  But, does she like him?  His father, Valdez VII, is singing knock off songs to grab attention to his act and his stepfather is fighting for his life against the coronavirus because he refused to get the vax.

A blend of action, the pain of a father/son relationship that doesn't work, a wheelchair bound stepsister who has the guts to fight the cruise ship industry as they blatantly destroy the habitat in the waters of Key West, this story centers on Wrecker and his family. He's a good guy - the kind of guy who you want for a friend.  But just how long will his luck hold out against this gang of thugs and their coffins?

Recommended by:  Barb Langridge, abookandahug.com

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