Central Kansas Library System

With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.

Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid, Roy, and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls' fate cemented in pancake batter?

Travel with Finn, a red-haired boy who lives on Elm Street, as he enlists the help of Santa on a journey to save a polar bear and his home--the melting glaciers. Along the way they encounter a walrus and a pod of beluga whales. This wonderfully written and beautifully illustrated tales reminds us all that anyone can make a difference in the world.