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Shark is bored with its habitat! Follow Shark as it tries out different places to live. Which habitat will make the best home for Shark?

Normally, Olivia spends all year looking forward to her family's summer vacation in Florida. But not this year. Not when her parents have recently separated, and her father has to stay behind in Colorado. Olivia doesn't know what she'll do all summer without him. They've always been a pair, and she's never felt the same bond with her mother or younger sister. So Olivia plans to spend the summer laying low, and trying to ignore the hurt gnawing at her heart. Then she learns that the local sea turtle population is in serious risk of dying because of her neighbor's poorly designed house.

It's February of 2014 in the seaport city of Sevastopol in Crimea. Sofiya Oleksandrivna only wants two things: to figure out a way to get Ilya Ilyich to stop bullying her, and to convince her mother to come back home. But as battleships come to populate the waters around their city and Russian forces, including Ilya's father, start to make their presence known, an even greater threat takes over Sofiya's life.

Ivy and Ezra are “critter couriers” whose family volunteers to transport injured and orphaned animals to their local wildlife hospital. When they discover a baby river otter with a hurt leg, Ivy worries about the little otter being separated from its family--a feeling she knows all too well. She’s struggled to make new friends since her twin cousin BFFs moved away.

Ein kleiner Hai mit großen Fragen. Rot, gelb, blau und grün — so leuchten die Zähne von Hainer jedem entgegen. Aber wegen dieser bunten Zähne wird der kleine Hai von seinen Mitschülern Sharklyn, Tiburon und Sharkira ausgelacht, denn solche Zähne hat in Haimhausen niemand. Hainer beschließt, seiner Heimat den Rücken zu kehren und sein großes Vorbild Hainaldo um Rat zu fragen. Die Zähne des berühmten Flossenballspielers sind blendend weiß, perfekt spitz und wachsen nach jeder Heldentat größer nach.

One morning, the lighthouse family wakes up to find a baby sea lion asleep in their kitchen! The baby, whose name is Topper, explains that his mother left him here and instructed him to wait for her return. Pandora the cat and Seabold the dog are happy to care for Topper, and mouse children Lila, Whistler, and Tiny are excited to make a new friend.