Snorkel McCorkle and the Lost Flipper

Ten-year-old Snorkel McCorkle is an eco-warrior determined to save the planet and all the creatures on it. She is bi-racial with a mass of unruly curls that are always tangled in her snorkel and mask. She's been wearing them and her flippers 24/7 since she learned that her mom, a marine biologist, was lost at sea while measuring water quality off the Florida Keys three months ago. Snorkel is the only person who believes her mom is still alive drifting in the ocean. Every night Snorkel charts how far her mom could travel that day on a map of ocean currents-up the Atlantic coast, to Newfoundland, across the Atlantic, possibly past England and Scotland to Norway. By now she could be as far as the Canary Islands. Snorkel's best friends are Matilda the Manatee, who's missing a flipper but has a tracking device, and Figaro the opera-singing-pelican, whose foot was mangled by ghost line. When Snorkel's kayak is pulled out to sea in a storm, her friends Matilda and Figaro rush to her aid. During the trio's time in open water, Snorkel learns first hand the dangers facing the creatures of the sea-ghost nets, islands of plastic debris, seismic testing. She also learns how a person could survive floating on the currents.