Caught! Seaport- Hard Cover

Two o'clock in the morning. A shipping container of "patio chairs" rolls past the X-ray truck — and something inside glows the wrong color.

Welcome to the secret world of the seaport, where a hidden team of scientists, dog handlers, and detectives hunts for the one shipping box in a thousand that's telling a lie. Ride along on real kinds of cases as officers read an X-ray by color, catch a beetle stowaway hiding in a wooden pallet, prove where a shirt was really grown from the atoms locked in its threads, and open a container wall built one inch too thick.

Packed with real cases, real science, and one very good beagle, Caught! Seaport is nonfiction that reads like a detective story — and shows curious kids the astonishing, mostly invisible work that keeps the world's goods safe, honest, and moving. Every chapter ends with a true "This Really Happened" case, and the book closes with a glossary, a quiz, and a look at the real careers behind the hunt.



Book 1 of the Caught! series. Also available: Airport (Book 2) and Land Border (Book 3).