The Tangled Loon

On a warm summer evening, a young boy named Ja-son skips rocks across the surface of a lake in Maine. He sees his elderly neighbor, Mr. Brown hunched over the side of a boat trying to untangle fishing line that is wrapped around a loon. Jason soon realizes that Mr. Brown can't free the bird on his own. Will he be able help his old neighbor save the tangled loon?

This story, inspired by true events, poignantly demon-strates that the lives of humans and animals are in-terwoven and delicately balanced. Another underlying message found between the lines of The Tangled Loon shows us how friendships can be made during the most unexpected times and circumstances.