Welcome to Hickory Hollow! The town may be tiny, but it is a special place for the people who live there. There is always fun and adventure to be had in Hickory Hollow. It's a great place to be a curious kid! There are important discoveries to be made, secret riddles to be solved, unexplained mysteries to be discovered, and even hidden treasures to be found. But watch out! Sometimes, the town seems to have a mind of its own.

Skye Douglas is not excited about her newest school assignment. She's got better things to do with her time than research a former Hickory Hollow resident. But when Skye stumbles across a poem on Annabelle Ainslow's town monument, she's intrigued. The poem hints about a mysterious creature that supposedly lives in Shellbark Forest. But no one, aside from Annabelle, has ever seen this creature.

With the encouragement of her Grandpa Louie and the help of her friends Josh and Mateo, Skye is determined to prove the legend and redeem Annabelle's name. But finding a creature that may or may not exist isn't easy. Will Skye ever find the creature and prove Annabelle right?