Choice Book Report-Scat

The conflict in the book Scat by Carl Hiaasen is that Miss Starch, the school’s biology teacher is missing. Miss Starch goes back into a wild fire in Black Vine Swamp to get a student’s asthma inhaler and tells the other teachers to take the students back and she would just drive her car back to school and meet them there. By the next day, her car was still in the parking lot at the swamp and was not seen or heard of the night before. A couple days of school go by and still no sign of her but her car was no longer in the parking lot meaning her or someone came and picked it up. That night the girl’s father, who had dropped her inhaler, had an awakening in the middle of the night. The dog was barking loud and obnoxiously so he ran down stairs to figure out what was going on. He opens the day but nothing was there, the dog and he go outside to look around. But when they go outside there is still nothing. The dog and he come inside the house but then he soon realizes that his daughter’s inhaler is in his dog’s mouth. The next day there is a letter in Miss Starch’s mailbox that was supposed to be sent to the school. The letter said “I have a family emergency and I’m not sure when I will be back. Then the search is on for Miss Starch and Nick and Marta are going to figure out what is going on in Black Vine Swamp.

Nick and Marta are faced with having to deal with a crazy substitute teacher while Miss Starch is gone who only teachers from page 117. Even though the students have already learned about what was on page 117, he still taught the page. They thought Miss Starch was crazy but they soon start to miss her.  Nick and Marta are in a mad search to find their biology teacher. They are looking at her house, talking to the police, figuring out if anyone has heard of anything, but other than that they are looking for Miss Starch all by them selves.

If I would have been looking for my missing teacher, I would probably have done the exact same thing, especially if I had a crazy substitute teacher who taught the same thing everyday.