Pippa Pinkerton comes from an industrious, imaginative and a delightfully chaotic family living on Wigglers Island in the Willamette Valley. When their family Labradoodle is about to give birth, Pippa, age 10, finds herself left to her own devices to deliver the puppies. Can she do it alone? Will she have to? And when one of the puppies goes missing, how will she find him?