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"Every year when Moonlight Pond freezes over, a talent contest takes place deep in the woods. Ducks dance, mice perform. But there is one animal that never competes. Toad watches the talent show from behind his rock, careful to keep himself hidden. Because Toad doesn't have a special talent---or so he thinks! When Toad is finally discovered, he slips on the icy pond and realises he does have an incredible talent...ice-skating! This hilarious, heart-warming,...
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Twelve-year-old Jessie spends the summer with her family on Quicksand Pond, a New England vacation spot, where she develops a star-crossed friendship with independent Terri, and meets a reclusive old lady whose connection to a murder that took place decades ago still informs her present--and affects Terri in ways that Jessie gradually comes to understand the more time they spend together.
6) Pond babies
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Explores some of the different animal babies at the pond, such as a duck, a turtle, and a loon. Includes note to parents on what to do at a pond.
7) On Duck Pond
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On bird hill and beyond volume 2
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The Cornell Lab Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
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A young boy and his dog on a serene pond that erupts in a cacophony of birds, frogs, turtles, and other creatures.
9) At the pond
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Candlewick Press
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2022.
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Witty poems and luminous illustrations celebrate a day at the pond.
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Tundra Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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The beaver flood has finally frozen perfect ice, without a bump or a ripple. For the kids in town, it s Christmas in November. They wait, impatiently, for the right moment. Finally, it arrives: the full moon. They huff and puff through logging trails, farms, back roads and tamarack swamps, the powdery snow soaking pant legs and boots, till they see their perfect ice, waiting. And the game is on.
14) Ruby & Rufus
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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[2019]
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Ruby and Rufus love the water. They play on the pond every day! But what will they do when the pond turns to ice?
15) The pond
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A young boy and his family are trying to overcome the loss of his father. The natural world becomes part of the healing process.
16) Lucky duck
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When the pond community is threatened by a fox, Frank, the odd one out in a family of ducks, ventures into the dangerous forest alone on a quest to save his home, discovering both his courage and unique identity along the way.
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Wild fairies volume 2
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Rodale Kids
Pub. Date
[2018]
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The second installment of the Wild Fairies series, Lily's Water Woes, follows wild fairy (and mermaid) Lily, who is feeling left out. While her fairy friends get to travel to beautiful beaches and lush forests, Lily is always stuck at home, unable to be away from the water for very long. Her froggy pal, Splash, tries his best to cheer her up, but Lily still wishes she could stay out late and play like the other fairies. Wanting to help their friend,...
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Stinky Cecil volume 2
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"The hilarious tale of a group of amphibians (and one free-range hamster) who set out to save their tiny pond home from one very large steamroller" --
After Cecil the toad discovers that a new freeway project is aimed right at his pond, he and the other pond creatures resolve to stop the construction.
19) Beyond the pond
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Balzer + Bray, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2015]
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A boy discovers that the pond in his backyard contains a whole world ready to be explored.
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