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Luke, a young South Carolina boy who lives at the beach, has a special gift. He understands the language of all the beach life around him: the raccoons, the seabirds, even the crabs and the fish. For this reason, Great Mother Turtle gives Luke an important and difficult mission: first, to protect her eggs and then to make sure her baby hatchlings reach the ocean without being attacked by other beach creatures.

Nostalgia comprises 48 of Pagès' short poems. Her words speaks of her nostalgia for England's landscape when she came to live in the US, as well as her awe of natural beauty, in general. Her poems speak of gardens full of gnomes, fairies, and moonlit messages, as well as birds, water, and trees to assure us of nature's continued companionship and support throughout disappointments, trials, and losses. They us of a beauty that changes but never fades and of continued hope even during times of loss.

One night, Lucy's angry stepfather takes eight-year-old Lucy from the little room in which she has been locked away for years, puts her in the back seat of his van, and leaves her in a remote English wood. Lucy's only knowledge of nature comes from books. When she experiences the miraculous outdoors directly, she is full of wonder at the beauty and life all around her.