The missing manatee by cynthia defelice biography

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Skeet puts aside his search for the manatee and its killer when Dirty Dan the Tarpon Man offers to take him out to catch his first tarpon on a fly.

Unfolding in mid-1980s Sacramento, California, this story stars 12-year-olds Rosalind and Benjamin as first-person narrators in alternating chapters.

Then, while riding in his boat to escape his parents' troubles, he discovers a manatee that's been shot in the head.

Things go from bad to worse when Skeet finds a manatee floating in the water, dead from a gunshot wound.