Lockley Puffin longs to soar. But the unwritten rule among puffins is “Don’t Make Waves.” So Lockley must battle his own insecurities as well as a faction of hat-wearing owls as he tries to save his island home from invasion and starvation. His unlikely allies are his two best friends, a know-it-all walrus named Egbert and a vagrant hummingbird named Ruby.

It’s the Age of Seafaring, and Bren Owen longs for nothing more than to escape his small town for a life of adventure. He gets his wish when a dying sailor bequeaths a strange gift with a hidden message. Cracking the code could change Bren’s fortune, but he’ll have to tie his fate to a mysterious Dutch admiral obsessed with the legend of an island that long ago disappeared from any map.

In book two of The Vanishing Island trilogy, Bren and his new friend Mouse seek to unravel the mystery of a white jade stone and a map inscribed in bone. Bren just wants to return home. Mouse is determined to find the Dragon’s Gate, connected to her kidnapping as a child. But nothing goes according to plan when they cross paths with Lady Jean Barrett, a charismatic archaeologist with a sense of destiny.

After the harrowing and life-changing events at the Dragon’s Gate, Bren is more determined than ever to make his way home. But to do so he’ll first have to help an Indian noblewoman bent of reclaiming an ancient power that would help liberate her homeland. The Vanishing Island trilogy concludes with one last adventure into the unknown, where Bren will be forced to confront his deepest fears.