Rookery Island

"Rookery Island" consists of the combined four works of the Stu Greene series. Stu Greene is a high school junior on the cusp of the transition from amateur to professional photographer. Skilled and creative, his photographs are routinely published in newspapers and are proudly displayed in local offices. He "accidentally" encounters a girl for whom he takes on a project to create a wild bird rookery from a large drainage pond adjacent to their high school.
That chance encounter changes not only their lives but those of their families and friends as the young man carries them along in his drive to create a lasting monument of his love. In the second book, Stu rescues his girlfriend's college roommate's sister from an abusive relationship. He hides the sisters and his girlfriend on his uncle's citrus farm. While there, his roommate falls in love with his girlfriend's roommate, his cousin falls in love with the sister, they bust a corrupt FBI agent, and Stu performs a rescue at sea.
It's just another day at the office for a journalism student in his sophomore year. In the third book of the series, a successful software executive inherits a run-down zoo and water park when most men his age would be retiring. Even his depth of business experience is not enough to keep his adversaries at bay, so he resorts to tactics not usually associated with legitimate businesses. The fourth volume in the series chronicles the one-year-long voyage that Stu and several of his friends take on a floating video studio that is not exactly what it seems to be.