Think squirrel. Squirrels live in communities. If you are a squirrel your life is all about nuts, gathering nuts, eating nuts, and talking about nuts. When you're not thinking about nuts it is because you are in great danger, at which point you are thinking about trees and boroughs, places to hide. When Jed is scooped up by a hawk and as fate would have it, dropped instead of eaten, it is a couple members of his community that decide to go find him. What an adventure!