Squirrel joins his friends on a fishing trip, but spends the day disagreeing with them on everything from whether fishing is fun to how to reach their boat.
In an attempt to get to know each other and share the same space, a bat and a squirrel ask themselves if a daytime and a nighttime animal could ever become friends.
A story told in letters between an owl who just wants some peace and quiet from the neighborhood children so he can read, and the squirrel bookshop owner who helps him realize the value of companionship and community.
Revver the squirrel is now an accepted part of the race team (more or less), but he still has a lot to learn, and when the team travels to the airport for a distant race, Revver wanders into the terminal looking for his friends, and gets lost.
"Ten-year-old Michael sneaks into a cave near the Dead Sea where his father has been working and finds a pair of 2,000-year-old squirrels, which he stows in his backpack and takes home to Tennessee"--Provided by publisher.
Wendy the Wanderer's overprotective father never lets her go anywhere alone, so when he hires a babysitter, Wendy decides to venture out into Trubble Town alone where she meets Squirrely McSquirrel and other townsfolk.
Squirrel and Sloth are two unlikely friends since they do things at completely opposite speeds. Squirrel gets them a job at a pickle packing factory to earn money to buy a new bicycle for two, but things soon go wrong. The work of a speedy squirrel and a super slow sloth don't make for good pickle packers, and the friends are fired. Left with their 677 1/2 jars of incorrectly-packed pickles, they come up with a new plan to get their bike.
