num_pages: 373
description: The first book in an epicly hilarious series, starring some of history’s best-known mythical beasts—the Loch Ness Monster, El Chupacabra, the South Florida Skunk Ape, and more—from dynamic duo Peter Nelson and Rohitash RaoTwelve-year-old Jordan Grimsley is a tech-savvy city kid who’s never gone more than five minutes unplugged in his entire life. When his mom and dad inherit an old abandoned house in Florida in the middle of a thick and forested swamp, one that belonged to Jordan’s long-lost grandfather, they see it as a unique fixer-upper opportunity, and a chance to get Jordan and his sister off the grid and connected with their roots. While clearing stuff out of his grandfather’s attic, Jordan finds a scrapbook filled with news clippings from the 1980s about local sightings of the mythological South Florida Skunk Ape. The last aricle in the collection reports that it was all an enormous hoax perpetrated by none other than Jordan’s grandfather, and that he went missing soon after. Desperate for someone to talk to, Jordan turns to the only other kid for miles—twelve-year-old Eldon Pecone. Eldon is easily persuaded to join Jordan on an excursion into the swamp where many of the sightings occurred. This is when Jordan makes a startling discovery: not only is the Skunk Ape real, but Eldon is one of twelve Creature Keepers—humans assigned to protect a variety of mythical beasts. And when they discover that the Loch Ness Monster has gone missing, it kickstarts a hilariously epic race across the globe to restore balance to the world's oceans.
language: English
title: Creature Keepers and the Hijacked Hydro-Hide
publisher: Balzer + Bray