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Mike is a typical American kid who spends her life consuming foods high in sugar or saturated in fat, playing baseball or basketball, or doing other typical childish things. Well, she is at least until she finds herself on a deserted island as an exchange student trying to get used to a new lifestyle.
The island is an active volcano at sea where a young girl named Lu is considered Queen and rules of all the others, including the poor royal pet turtle. Mike stays with her and tries to get an inventive boy named Og to recreate the luxuries she enjoybed back home. Something usually goes wrong and she is left living without the luxury again, usually the fault of Queen Lu.
The island is home to clever talking animals that hold Philosophical Society meetings, a hopeless hunter who chases them, Lu’s crafty mother, Lu’s singing father and an apparently wise but very abusive elder which is sure to leave Mike finding all sorts of trouble.
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