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Written by Carl Hiaasen

Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers in 2010

384 pages.

Genre: Nature, Adventure

Summery: This book is full of fun craziness. A kid who eats pencils and burns billboards, a teacher who disappears, a crooked oil drilling company, a boy with one arm tied behind his back, a guy glued to a tree, and a substitute teacher who is as dotty as a dalmation.

Response: Carl Hiaasen is my favorite. Period. His writing is clean, fresh, and funny. His characters are rounded and distinct. I liked some of his other books better than this particular one, but I'm just being picky. This book is instant fun and sunshine, but the main character's father is a soldier in Iraq, so it carries an underlying real life message as well. Fantastic book. Read it.

Word of Caution: Really, it's pretty dang clean. Teenage vandalism, if I were to put anything here.