This book is about a new kid that moves to a town in Coconut Cove, Florida and makes two unsuspecting friends and a bad enemy. Roy and his new friends join forces to stop a construction site from being built to save a colony of burrowing owls. The book also shows a view point of a police officer who is investigating the vandalism of the construction site, Mother Paula's All-American Pancake House. He ends up helping the kids to save the owls.