For eighteen-year-old Shannon Lightley, life s been an endless parade across Europe, following either her actress mother or her renowned journalist father. Paris, Milan, London Shannon has been everywhere, but somewhere along the way, she realizes she s really nowhere.

Having graduated from high school and about to board yet another flight for yet another destination, Shannon is offered an alternative: stay in Portland, Oregon, with her parents close friend and help his law firm investigate a group of strangers living near the local university. A will with a substantial inheritance...

From Caldecott-winning illustrator David Small and bestselling author Bonny Becker, an unforgettable Christmas story that will leave the whole family giggling.

When Alice Jayne finds a crocodile under the tree on Christmas Eve, her family goes into an uproar The Christmas Crocodile doesn't mean to be bad, not really, but soon he is eating up Christmas--from the dinner roast to the left stove-top burner...even the Christmas tree Everyone has an opinion about what to do with him. Uncle Theodore suggests they send him to Africa, Father recommends the zoo, and Aunt Figgy...