Young Larry — Daniel Pinkwater

Hide your blueberry muffins!

Meet Larry. He's an average polar bear from the Arctic who just happens to take a snooze on an ice floe. When he wakes up, he is in Bayonne, New Jersey. Stranded at the shore, Larry gets a job as a lifeguard and uses his pay to buy blueberry muffins -- until the day the head lifeguard discovers that Larry is a polar bear. Suddenly Larry finds himself jobless and, even worse, blueberry-muffinless.

It's a bear's life -- or is it? -- in this laugh-out-loud tale of an endearing polar bear who stumbles into a charmed lifestyle that other bears can only dream about.