While their sixth-grade class is on a field trip to Everglades National Park, James "Gum" Shoo and his friends find a suspicious park ranger and a gang of poarchers.
Determined, after his mother's accidental death, to foil his stepfather's plans for his future, fourteen-year-old Jacob travels alone to Africa in search of his father, a biologist studying elephants in a remote area of Kenya.
When Ruva, a young giraffe, is captured and sent to a zoo in San Francisco, she calls upon two rats, a street-smart chameleon, a runaway boy, and all the magical powers of the animal world to return to "the warm place" that is home.
When college freshman Laurel Adams joins a summer research project, she and her fellow researchers investigate the poaching of Alaskan brown bears and find their lives in jeopardy.
His return to North Caicos Island leads fifteen-year-old Jim and his friend Julia into more danger and adventure as they search for a missing naturalist, battle deadly poachers, and try to survive a hurricane.
