Swimming Home

by Susan Hand Shetterly

Book Overview

An epic animal migration story in the tradition of March of the Penguins. The story follows a school of fish (river herring, or alewives) on a journey of hundreds of miles, escaping porpoises, seals, eagles, and herons. Swimming Home is also the moving story of a boy and his father who see the fish stopped just short of their goal by a new road, and transport them across the last hundred feet.

The Tilbury House Nature Book series brings the natural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884483541
• ISBN13: 9780884483540
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.1" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5