Chaos ensues when Keisha's father brings an escaped alligator home to Carter's Urban Rescue, but it gets out of the bathroom while Grandma is guarding it.
Text and color photos provide an overview of alligators and crocodiles, describing the various varieties and their habitats, foods, behavior, and life cycle.
After moving to Orlando, Florida, and befriending an alligator because he considers it to be as ugly and unwanted as he is, Jim starts to feel differently about his life.