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Twelve-year-old Haven channels her anxiety about the climate crisis into a fight against the factory suspected of polluting the river running through her town.
Gazing at the river outside her window, a child imagines all the places the river could take her from the city all the way to the ocean, and dreams of all that she would see.
"Last night the rain poured down. Today the stream is empty! Where did the water go? It's a good thing mouse detectives Dot and Jabber are on the case! Their search upstream leads to funny encounters with a puddle of minnows, a snake, and lots of clues" --
"One spring morning, Cam was playing by his house. He watched a trickle of water running through the pine trees. The water splashed and sang in the voice of snow, Come with me. Come with me. I will take you to the sea." --back cover
"Dad takes Bluey, Bingo, and Mackenzie to the creek after they grow tired of playing at the playground. But Bluey doesn't like the thorns, or the spiders, or the pointy rocks, or . . . the leeches! She struggles to find the fun. Can Bluey learn to step out of her comfort zone and try new things?"--
Marsden yearns to take her sister and escape Glory, a town famous for seedy businesses and suicides, but her friendship with Jude yields secrets that may chain them to the Indigo River forever.
When Martha Tom crosses the Bok Chitto River into the slave-owning plantation in Mississippi territory she meets Lil Mo, an enslaved boy whose mother is about to be sold, so Martha convinces Lil Mo's family to cross the river and be free.
While vacationing at a friend's country home, the four Alden siblings try to find a long-missing, priceless brooch and investigate the existence of a ghostly stream.
"Everyone has heard the story of the Narrow. The river that runs behind the Atwood School is only a few feet across and seemingly placid, but beneath the surface, the waters are deep and vicious. It's said that no one who has fallen in has ever survived. Eden White knows that isn't true. Six years ago, she saw Delphine Fournier fall into the Narrow--and live. Delphine now lives in careful isolation, sealed off from the world. Even a single drop of...
Ben and his friends are determined to find out where the paper lanterns of the annual Autumn Equinox Festival go, so they follow the river as far as they can until the only followers left are Ben and Nathaniel.
"With just a flick of her pencil, Kiki can bring her drawings of Indian legends to life...but when a mysterious curse threatens her newly created kingdom and friends, how can she use her powers to save them?"--
Reluctuant Nicky spends a wonderful summer with Grandma who introduces him to the joy of rafting down the river near her home and watching the animals along the banks.
A greedy bee learns a lesson when he "slurps and burps" too much nectar, falls asleep in a meadow, and needs help from other insects to find his way home after dark.
Frogs, fish, a turtle, and other creatures who live in or around a river state their need for the river, making a plea for protecting this natural resource.
"A spunky young girl decides to sell lemonade on a hot summer day, venturing out all the way to the river's end where she finds some unexpected and fantastical clientele"--
When Caroline Oresteia, seventeen, finally has a chance to be a wherryman, she gets caught in a web of politics and lies, with her father's life at stake.
Mouse, Rabbit, and Shelly the tortoise take a shortcut through the creepy, crooked creek, but Rabbit is afraid there might be crocodiles there, even after Mouse assures him there are not.
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