Crocs
(2022)
Fiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
J/FICTION/WHITE,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2022
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781250813510, 1250813514 :, 1250813514, 9781250813510
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
After a summer of tagging sharks off the west coast of Florida, Sabina, Maribel, and Luke have a new assignment: searching for "survivor trees" that are resistant to the disease that is destroying the state's citrus trees; the search takes them to the remote mangrove islands of Sanibel Island, where they discover Spanish oranges, a grave, an immense saltwater crocodile, a reclusive woman who believes that the ghost of a dead king, beheaded by Spanish explorers, is haunting her, and her neighbor who is involved in the illegal reptile trade--and in their effort to protect the woman and her animals they are soon plunged into a struggle for survival
Ages 8-12
Grades 4-6