Lone Cone Library

The week of her tenth birthday, Alice and her parents go to Sanibel Island, Florida, just as they do every year, but this time some of the people who are always there are missing and some new people have come. This unsettles Alice, who wants things to be exactly the same as they alway have been.

While Ocean and his little brother Kingston search for a rare sunrise seashell on the island of Maui, they encounter a variety of species along the way, including sea turtles, eels, sea urchins, and much more. Includes fun facts.

Simple rhymes introduce different kinds of shells, from oyster shells and turtle shells to peanut and pasta shells.

Follows Marcel the Shell as he introduces his neighbors, favorite activities, and home.

When Buddy Bear and his mother go to the beach, she teaches him all about shells and mollusks. Includes facts about shells.

When Martin, who has never seen the ocean, receives a seashell from Uncle John, he realizes there are many things for him to learn.

In India, a healer invites twelve-year-old Anand to join him on a quest to return a magical conch to its safe and rightful home, high in the Himalayan mountains.

Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. But when a documentary filmmaker discovers them amongst the clutter of his Airbnb, the short film he posts online brings Marcel millions of passionate fans, as well as unprecedented dangers and a new hope at finding his long-lost family....