Illustrations and rhyming text present ten different endangered animals.

Cursed by an old carnival game, sixth-grader Rex Dexter uses his new ability to communicate with dead animals to investigate the mysterious deaths of endangered zoo animals.

Clarice Bean is thinking about all the endangered things: the BIG creatures, the LITTLE creatures, the plants and the trees. If only she can stop daydreaming, she might come up with a subject for her big school assignment--or is daydreaming part of the creative process? Meanwhile, it's not just the planet that needs help; there's her whole family too--like a forgetful granddad who keeps falling and a dad who is literally getting sick from a stressful...