When she confronts a screaming raccoon that may or may not be a ghost, animal control officer Francine Poulet questions her abilities.

A raccoon works very hard to be first every time until a fox arrives who is even faster and the raccoon no longer wants to climb the local mountain with his friends until he sees that the duck is not climbing because he is always the last.

Raccoon brothers Bingo and J'miah are the newest recruits of the Official Sugar Man Swamp Scouts. The opportunity to serve the Sugar Man, the massive creature who delights in delicious sugar cane and magnanimously rules over the swamp, is an honor, and also a big responsibility, since the rest of the swamp critters rely heavily on the intel of these hardworking Scouts. Twelve-year-old Chap Brayburn, ancient Sugar Man, and his raccoon-brother Swamp...