Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

If you don’t remember Harrison Ford moaning, “Snakes!  Why did it have to be snakes?”, than you may not have grown up in the 80s.  The hero of Carl Hiaasen’s Squirm, however, has whatever the opposite of ophidiophobia is (and yes, I just googled ‘fear of snakes’).  Billy Dickens is a wildlife person in general, but he’s got a particular fondness for snakes.  He knows how to handle them, too, which is about to come in handy, because his life is about to get complicated.  His long-lost father, grizzly bears, an endangered panther, spy drones, a couple of Crow Indians, a dead parrot, a ranch hand named Rusty, and lots and lots of shoes (not his) are about to invade Billy’s summer.  Will you be along for the ride?

Seriously, though.  Carl Hiaasen.  The man’s a crackup, and my oldest is going to love this one!