The Missing Manatee
Cynthia DeFelice

The Missing Manatee

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Location: Cassacoochie Springs (fictional town) North central Florida on the Gulf of Mexico
Reading level: Upper Elementary/Middle School
Genre: fiction

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