From before the time she hatches until she returns to the same beach to lay eggs of her own, a sea turtle is helped to escape from danger many times by different human hands.

Turtle Moon transports the reader to Verity, Florida, a place where anything can happen during the month of May, when migrating sea turtles come to town, mistaking the glow of the streetlights for the moon. A young single mother is murdered in her apartment and her baby is gone. Keith, a 12-year-old boy in the same apartment building, also disappears. In pursuit of the baby, the boy, and the killer, are Keith's divorced mother and a cop who was once...

When Old Turtle dies and is taken back by the sea, his friends remember that he was a wonderful teacher and friend who made his world a better place.

Twelve-year-olds Barana and Abby come together to solve a sea turtle egg poaching mystery plaguing Barana's Honduran coastal village, and learn the true meaning of friendship, courage, and community along the way.

Little Turtle hatches on the beach and struggles to make a perilous journey down to the sea.

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.

On Anna Maria Island, Florida, with her mother and younger sister, Lanie, for the summer vacation, twelve-year old Olivia is upset by her parents' divorce, especially as she has always been closest to her father who is not with them this year; she plans to lie low and nurse her hurt and anger--until she learns that the local population of sea turtles is threatened by her neighbor's beach house and realizes that she has to do something about it.

"The Aldens are spending spring break on a beach, but they aren't just soaking up the sun. They're protecting an endangered species! Their job is to mark sea turtle nests so the eggs can be moved to a safe place to hatch, but someone is digging up the eggs without permission. Can the Boxcar Children figure out what's going on and help save the sea turtles?" --

Ernie and his aides tag sea turtles as they come onto the beach to lay eggs. Similar fictional vignettes combined with factual information focus on the behavior and endangered situation of the sea turtle.