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It's Halloween, and Franklin can't wait for the costume party with games, prizes, a parade, and a haunted house.

"A new delightful rom-com from bestselling author Teri Wilson! Molly Prince, who stars as the mermaid at the Turtle Beach Aquarium, can't stop her new puppy from disrupting the work of newcomer marine biologist Max Miller. But the more her mischievous pup gets in Max's way, the closer Max and Molly get to each other"--

A frog and a turtle watch the rain turn their puddle into an ocean before ts along and returns things to normal.

When Turtle tells Squirrel he'd like to fly, Squirrel finds a way to help him--much to Turtle's dismay!

The Turtle family is puzzled by a very strange bump under the lettuce bed in their garden.

Few writers have attempted to explore the natural history of a particular animal by adopting the animal's own sensibility. But Verlyn Klinkenborg-with his deeply empathetic relation to the world around him-has done just that, and done it brilliantly, in Timothy; or Notes of an Abject Reptile.This is the story of a tortoise whose real life was observed by the eighteenth-century English curate Gilbert White, author of The Natural History of Selborne....

Two aging turtles meet and find a new interest in life.

In two stories bound together back to back, a tortoise realizesthe need for a shell after several scary encounters and a greedypython eats to excess, finally eating himself.

A turtle carved in rock on a bluff over the Hudson River by Indians long ago watches with sadness the changes man brings over the years.