So Noah and his younger sister Abbey decide they'll expose Dusty's filthy deeds. Moreover, Paine refuses to be bailed out of jail until something's done about the poop pollution, which causes financial problems for the Underwood family.and aggravates Noah's mom. Unfortunately, Paine can't prove his charges against Dusty, since the shipowner flushes the waste at night, when no one is around. This lands Paine in jail but doesn't do much to stop Dusty, who resurrects the boat and goes on with his business. So when Paine learns that Dusty Muleman - crooked owner of the casino-boat Coral Queen - regularly (and illegally) dumps the ship's toilet waste into the ocean. Like the author's adult novels, it tells an amusing story while addressing the topic of environmentalism and conservation in south Florida.🌴🌺🐠Įleven-year-old Noah Underwood's dad, Paine Underwood, is an environmentalist who's very protective of the Florida Keys - where the family lives. This summer, Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, save a neighbor's cat, save an endangered panther, and then try to save his own father.This is one of Carl Hiaasen's middle-grade books. But the job keeps getting more complicated-and it isn't just the animals who are ready to chomp. When Wahoo Cray's dad-a professional animal wrangler-takes a job with a reality-TV survival show, Wahoo figures he'll have to do a bit of wrangling himself to keep his father from killing the show's inept and egotistical star. It's all about to hit the fan, and when it does, these kids better scat.
But first they'll have to reckon with a junior arsonist, a wannabe Texas oilman, and a ticked-off Florida panther. The most terrifying teacher in school is missing in the Everglades, and it's up to Nick and Marta to find her.
Now Dad's in the clink, the boat's back in business, and only Noah can flush the truth out into the open. Problem is, there's no evidence of illegal dumping. The Coral Queen casino boat is treating the ocean like a toilet bowl, so Noah's dad decides to sink the darn thing. Can the awkward new kid and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls' fate cemented in pancake batter? Everybody, that is, except the cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Take a trip to Carl Hiaasen's Florida-where the animals are wild and the people are wilder-with this collectible box set that includes the bestsellersĮverybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes.
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