It is summer in Bog Hollow, and Austin, Ethan, Daryl, and Nellie are working together, despite the contentious relationship between Austin and Nellie, to prepare the new snake exhibit at the park's visitor center; but Austin and Nellie also have other things to worry about--Nellie's pet corn snake has escaped, and Austin's father and Nellie's mother are spending an awful lot of time together.

Twelve-year-old Austin Finch, his younger brother Ethan, sons of the park ranger, are determined to protect all the creatures of Bog Hollow State Park, even the Turkey vultures, from the Manley twins and their father who would like to turn Bog Hollow into a golf course--and they find an ally in the new girl Nellie Tibbits, whose mother has come to southern Georgia to study snakes.

"A new family moves in, and Franklin is afraid to make friends with them because they seem very different. Soon he realizes that he and his new neighbours have a lot in common after all" Cf. Our choice, 1998-1999.

In The Chestnut Challenge, the Nocturnal Brigade--Tobin, a sweet pangolin, Bismark, a loud-mouthed sugar glider, and Dawn, a serous fox-are playing a game of Chestnuts when Chandler, a conniving chinchilla, challenges Tobin for the title of chestnut Champion. However, after a series of strange distractions occur, the Brigade begins to suspect that something is not quite right, Chandler is a competitive chinchilla ... but could he also be a cheater?...

Grace can do a lot of things...but can she save the planet? Or at the very least, can she help her best friend Mimi get her favorite stuffed animal back? Lots of exciting things are happening to Grace and her friends. Most exciting of all, Mimi's older cousin Gwen is coming to stay with Mimi, and Miss Lois's class is going green! For their "green" project, Grace and Mimi aim to inspire their friends and classmates to conserve plastic bottles. But...

"Kaleo helps a friend at school. With decodable text and adorable illustrations, young readers can learn what it means to care for others." --publisher's website.

As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen's family takes in Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, nearly seven thousand people, across the sea to Sweden. The heroism of an entire nation reminds us that there was pride...