Night of the spadefoot toads

Description:

When his family moves from Tucson, Arizona to Massachusetts, fifth-grader Ben has a hard time leaving the desert he loves, but when he finds a kindred spirit in his science teacher and ends up trying to help her with some of her problems, he finally begins to feel at home.

subjects: Environmental protection,  Fiction,  Household Moving,  Moving, Household,  Schools,  Teacher-student relationships,  Vernal pool ecology,  School stories,  Habitat,  Juvenile fiction,  Boston Authors Club,  Conservation,  Eastern spadefoot,  Moving,  Children's fiction,  Moving, household, fiction,  Ecology, fiction,  Environmental protection, fiction,  Teacher-student relationships, fiction,  Schools, fiction,  Massachusetts, fiction

Places: Massachusetts