This Newbery Honor-winning, hilarious Floridian adventure involves new kids, bullies, alligators, eco-warriors, pancakes, pint-sized owls, and more. A New York Situations bestseller!

Everybody loves Mom Paula’s pancakes. Everybody, that’s, except the colony of pretty but endangered owls that go on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the uncomfortable new child and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of city? Or may be the owls’ destiny cemented in pancake batter?

“An excellent tour de-force.” -The Boston Globe

“A rollicking, righteous tale.” -The Miami Herald

“Yes, it really is a hoot.”-The Washington Post