Wrecker

Author Carl Hiaasen

Grades 6-12 Ages 10 and up

Wrecker needs to deal with smugglers, grave robbers, and pooping iguanas—just as soon as he finishes Zoom school. Another wild adventure in Carl Hiaasen's Florida, now in paperback!

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, in the cemetery, even right outside his own door. 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. . . .

Available Formats

Trade Paperback 9780593376324
Hardcover 9780593376287
Hardcover Library Binding 9780593376294
eBook 9780593376300
Unabridged Audiobook Download 9780593396353

State Awards

Ohio

2024, Ohio Buckeye Children’s and Teen Book Award, Nominee

Texas

2024, Texas Lone Star Reading List, Selection

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