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The missing manatee

Cynthia C. DeFelice

2005181 pagesabout 3–4 hours
2005
first published
  • 2005Thorndike Press · ENGISBN 9780786281787
  • 2005Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 181 pages · ENGISBN 9780374312572

While coping with his parents' separation, eleven-year-old Skeet spends most of Spring Break in his skiff on a Florida river, where he finds a manatee shot to death and begins looking for the killer.

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