Wrecker by Carl Hiaasen. 336 p. Knopf Books for Young Readers/ Random House Children's Books, September 26, 2023. 9780593376287.
Waiting on Wednesday features Wrecker by Carl Hiaasen. Mr. Hiaasen's environmentally themed books are popular at TMS and this is his seventh book for young readers since publishing his debut MG novel, Hoot in 2002. Wrecker is due out on September 26.
Here's the publisher synopsis: 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. . .
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