The Coconut Crab

A chapter book for advanced readers. Think of a cross between Charlotte's Web and Finding New, without the emphasis on death or sharks.
"If you had been there on that day, you would’ve noticed the water first—so calm and clear in the shallows surrounding the little island, that it was hardly blue at all. Where the sand shifted underneath, the water looked silvery white, as grainy as an old photograph of the desert. Where the turtle grass waved in the tide, it was the bleached green of a hazy summer morning."