"Environmental mystery solvers Shelby and her best friend, Watts, who is never without his encyclopedia, must help Fred the hermit crab find all the shells that went missing from the beach." --

Absorbed in his search for food, a shy hermit crab, disguised in a fancy new shell, inadvertently rescues a flounder caught beneath a trap and wins the admiration of the other marine animals.

Hector, a shy hermit crab, is upset when flowers begin growing on his shell, but he finds that they help him make friends.

A hermit crab who has outgrown his shell searches for a new one among the creatures of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Includes a key which identifies the coral reef animals in the illustrations.

"A hermit crab who has outgrown his old shell moves into a new one, which he decorates and enhances with the various sea creatures he meets in his travels." --

When Neville sees the hermit crabs which he so gently collected being mistreated by the crab man at a Jamaican hotel, he no longer wants to supply them but would thereby forfeit his income. Neville's father works in Jamaica's sugarcane fields, and while the family makes do, there's no extra money for Neville's fondest wish: to buy his mother a pretty new dress. When Neville learns that the crabs he catches for pay are being mistreated, he must decide...