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Fans of Sara Pennypacker and Katherine Applegate will love this thrilling environmental fable—filled with laughter, music, and adventure.

There’s no other place Tubs Marshfield would rather be than singing a song in his perfect little swamp along the Louisiana bayou. His music can make anyone feel happy.

But something terrible is happening within the swamp that even Tubs’ songs can’t fix—and it’s making his neighbors feel sick! No one knows what to do, least of all Tubs.

A mysterious prophecy may hold the key…or send Tubs away from his friends forever.

  • Animal Fantasy Adventure: Meet Tubs Marshfield, a music-loving frog whose perfect life in the Louisiana bayou is turned upside down when a strange sickness threatens his home.
  • Friendship and Community: When his neighbors fall ill, Tubs must rely on his friends—a smart doctor frog named Lila and a joke-telling swallow named Gloria—to uncover the truth.
  • A Timely Environmental Story: A heartfelt fable that gently explores themes of pollution and the importance of protecting the places we love.
  • Music and Magic: Follow a mysterious prophecy and discover how one small frog’s songs can inspire the courage to stand up and make a difference.
ISBN: 9780062865489
Imprint: HarperCollins
On Sale: Nov 16, 2021
List price: $9.99
No of pages: 224
Trim Size: 5.600 in (w) x 7.100 in (h) x 0.650 in (d)
BISAC 1: JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy / General
BISAC 2: JUVENILE FICTION / Science & Nature / Environment
BISAC 3: JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Marine Life

Cara Hoffman

Biography

Cara Hoffman is the author of three critically acclaimed novels for adults: Running (a New York Times Editor’s Choice), Be Safe I Love You (nominated for a Folio Prize), and So Much Pretty (a New Yorker Books Pick and New York Times Best Suspense Novel of 2011). She is also the author of the popular middle grade novel Bernard Pepperlin (a Junior Library Guild Selection). She has written for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Paris Review, Bookforum, and National Public Radio, among others, and has been a visiting writer at University of Oxford. She lives in Manhattan and teaches at the Stonecoast MFA program at University of Southern Maine.

Gary Furlong

Fans of Sara Pennypacker and Katherine Applegate will love this thrilling environmental fable—filled with laughter, music, and adventure.

There’s no other place Tubs Marshfield would rather be than singing a song in his perfect little swamp along the Louisiana bayou. His music can make anyone feel happy.

But something terrible is happening within the swamp that even Tubs’ songs can’t fix—and it’s making his neighbors feel sick! No one knows what to do, least of all Tubs.

A mysterious prophecy may hold the key…or send Tubs away from his friends forever.

  • Animal Fantasy Adventure: Meet Tubs Marshfield, a music-loving frog whose perfect life in the Louisiana bayou is turned upside down when a strange sickness threatens his home.
  • Friendship and Community: When his neighbors fall ill, Tubs must rely on his friends—a smart doctor frog named Lila and a joke-telling swallow named Gloria—to uncover the truth.
  • A Timely Environmental Story: A heartfelt fable that gently explores themes of pollution and the importance of protecting the places we love.
  • Music and Magic: Follow a mysterious prophecy and discover how one small frog’s songs can inspire the courage to stand up and make a difference.

ISBN: 9780062865489
Imprint: HarperCollins
On Sale: Nov 16, 2021
List price: $9.99
No of pages: 224
Trim Size: 5.600 in (w) x 7.100 in (h) x 0.650 in (d)
BISAC 1: JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy / General
BISAC 2: JUVENILE FICTION / Science & Nature / Environment
BISAC 3: JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Marine Life

Cara Hoffman

Biography

Cara Hoffman is the author of three critically acclaimed novels for adults: Running (a New York Times Editor’s Choice), Be Safe I Love You (nominated for a Folio Prize), and So Much Pretty (a New Yorker Books Pick and New York Times Best Suspense Novel of 2011). She is also the author of the popular middle grade novel Bernard Pepperlin (a Junior Library Guild Selection). She has written for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Paris Review, Bookforum, and National Public Radio, among others, and has been a visiting writer at University of Oxford. She lives in Manhattan and teaches at the Stonecoast MFA program at University of Southern Maine.

Gary Furlong