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NIGHT OF THE SPADEFOOT TOADS
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Written by
Bill Harley
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Hardcover: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-56145-459-4
Total Pages: 224
Size: 6 x 8-1/2
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BILL HARLEY is a two-time Grammy Award–winning storyteller, musician, and writer who has been writing and performing for kids and families for more than twenty years. He is the recipient of Parents' Choice and ALA awards. Bill won a 2007 Grammy Award for his children's storytelling album Blah Blah Blah and a 2009 Grammy Award for his children's spoken-word album Yes to Running! Bill Harley Live. He lives in Massachusetts.You can visit Bill Harley's website at: www.billharley.com
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A satisfying story about the powerful impact of our actions on the world around us.
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Accelerated Reader & Reading Counts Tests:
Reading Counts Level: 3.4
AR Quiz#: 131221
AR Reading Level: 3.7
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When his father takes a new job in Massachusetts, Ben Moroney must leave behind his best friend Tony, a western banded gecko named Lenny, and worst of all, the desert home he has loved and explored.
Ben’s adjustment to his new environment is not going well until he unexpectedly finds a kindred spirit in his eccentric fifth-grade science teacher, Mrs. Tibbets. Together they explore the varied habitats on her rural property, and she introduces him to the elusive and endangered Eastern spadefoot toads that make their home there.
When Ben discovers that Mrs. Tibbets’s relatives plan to sell the land to developers, he knows he must try to stop them. As Ben’s obsession with saving the spadefoot toads’ habitat grows, his schoolwork suffers and his relationships with his family and new friends are strained. One foolish, impulsive act threatens to destroy his friendship with Mrs. Tibbets—and maybe even her career. But just when it seems things can’t get any worse, Ben finds a way to meet his responsibilities to the people around him and learns what it means to feel “at home.”
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Reviews
“Harley’s appealing story shows readers that adults and children can connect in meaningful friendships, and reminds them that conservation can begin in their own backyards.”Kirkus "...the main character is a well-developed, realistic 'child hero.'"School Library Journal
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Awards
* 2009 Kansas State Reading Circle Recommended Reading List (starred, intermediate)
* 2009 Green Earth Book Awards (winner, Children's Fiction)
* 2009 KIND Children's Honorable Mention Book (Humane Society Youth)
* Nominee, 2009-2010 Keystone to Reading Book Award
* Nominee, 2010-2011 Volunteer State Book Awards (grades 4-6)
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