Summary Of Scat By Carl Hiaasen

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“Scat” by Carl Hiaasen is about a boy named Nike and his friend, Marta who try to find their missing teacher. She was found but now they stop an oil scam, who illegaly drills in an wildlife preserve. Carl Hiaasen has an message through her book “Scat’. The message is that you can’t judge a person from their looks or even personality. Words After the disappearance of Mrs.Starch, Smoke appeared at school. He was clean and dressed nice, nobody even recognize him after that change. Some kids thought that “It’s got to be an imposter”(p.105). At first he was all bad and he had an thing with fire but now he is a totally different person. Mrs. Starch, a biology teacher was strict and never missed a day of school. She took “care of a baby panther”

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