Kids and Adults
A bull shark in the swamp? No one in the
Louisiana town of St. Roch believes it at first, but when a local boy has a
face-to-face encounter with the toothy monster, every big fisherman is called
out for the hunt. There's a big cash bounty on the shark.
Sharp-eyed Birdie Gaux and her handsome dog
Bowser can't help noticing that shark fever is causing some shady doings in
town. For instance, where is Snoozy, the clerk who works at the Gaux family
fishing store? He's the town's best fisherman, but suddenly he's missing. Is a rival
bounty hunter behind Snoozy's suspicious disappearance? Or perhaps the marine
biologist who said he'll do anything to keep the shark alive?
Birdie and Bowser are
determined to find Snoozy and bring him home safe, but the job is more
dangerous than they know. Bowser better practice his paddling: He and Birdie
are heading for deep waters . . .
This book
snuck up on me. Which is kind of weird because I keep an eye out for new books.
I only learned about it when I was looking on Overdrive and found the
audiobook.
I think
this story was based on the Shark Attacks of 1916, I Survived did a book on the
subject. It was said that the shark in question was most likely a bull shark,
the most aggressive shark in the world.
For more of
a review on the Bowser and Birdie series, check out Review #39, date September 3,
2016
I don’t
know if Spencer Quinn will write another book for this series mostly because
he’s already done Woof, Arf, and Bow Wow. What other dog sounds could he
do? And now that I’m thinking about it, he might do Bark next.
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