Toy Sooner, who has worked five years to become a strong single mother and a marine biologist at the South Carolina Aquarium, remembers her vow when Olivia Rutledge passed away; as Toy writes a report, her daughter points to a floating object in the sea, a sick sea turtle that needs help.

Spending the summer with his grandmother on South Carolina's Dewees Island, eleven-year-old Jake finds two friends who are also struggling with family issues and together they try to save a sea turtle nest from predators.

"When the magic tree house returns it whisks Jack and Annie away to the Galapagos Islands where they become World Turtle Experts and must save a tortoise in danger of an erupting volcano"--

Oliver the tortoise looks back on his happy life as he wonders why his pet human, Ike, who he has had for eighty years, has stopped visiting the garden.

He may be slow but Truman the turtle is determined to find his girl Sarah, who has boarded a city bus on her way to preschool.

"A family of turtles goes for a long, long walk that has an unexpected and very fun ending"--

"A giraffe struggles to feel comfortable with his neck"--

Adopting a large egg when her busy family does not have time to listen to all she has to say, a chatty baby Chick misses the egg's good listening qualities before discovering that it has hatched into a brand-new friend.

"When a quick-footed bear and a quick-witted turtle race across a frozen lake, Turtle has a secret plan to win!"--

When Tortuga arrives at Abuela's house to bring her supper, Abula looks suspiciously like Coyote. Includes a glossary of Spanish words used.