Runaway Pond

Runaway PondBy: Nancy Price Graff Illustrator: Bagram Ibatoulline Based on a true story, this tribute to everyday heroism doubles as a lyrical primer on how landscapes evolve. Long Pondclear, reflective, and bent in the middle like a crooked fingerhas been a source of joy and nourishment to a Vermont village for many years. But when a sudden late summer storm causes the pond to swell and burst its banks, endangering everyone in its path, only one person is fast

To save them he will have to risk sacrificing everything

they form a tenuous friendship and a plan

Eisenhower emerges in Smith’s perceptive retelling as both a canny politician and a skillful

stubborn families

By: Matt Brown | Illustrator:  Paco Sordo | Series: Dreary Inkling School 'Great fun' Danny Wallace

Joan’s life was anything but ordinary

and she doesn’t want to roll in the mud with Pig

including wyverns and ceffyl-dwrs

By: Suzanne Lang | Illustrator:  Max Lang | Series: Step into Reading

the march to war

But the Venatori have mobilized forces of their own

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