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Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15

with characters who are indelibly memorable

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a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor

Scat Condition:Good Saleem Sinai is born atBestselling author and columnist Carl Hiaasen returns with another hysterical mystery for kids set in Florida's Everglades. Bunny Starch, the most feared biology teacher ever, is missing. She disappeared after a school field trip to Black Vine Swamp. And, to be honest, the kids in her class are relieved. But when the principal tries to tell the students that Mrs. Starch has been called away on a "family emergency," Nick and Marta just don't buy it.