Needing eggs, milk, and flour to make pancakes, Margot and her grandfather set sail from their island home to gather the key ingredients and encounter a terrifying storm along the way. Includes recipe for banana pancakes.

Twelve-year-old Ella loves visiting her grandparents in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina every summer, and this year her grandfather announces they are going catfish noodling--but Ella is unsure about catching a fish with her bare hands.