Cayuga Island Kids – Book 2
The Adventure of the Big Fish by the Small Creek
Recipient of the 2022 Ben Franklin Silver Award for Young Reader Fiction, 8-12
The Cayuga Island Kids chapter book series highlights the adventures of five contemporary kids who live on a residential island near Niagara Falls.
The second book in the series begins one mid-summer day. First, the Cayuga Island Kids rescue a mallard caught in the plastic rings from a six-pack of cans. Litter. Moments later, a girl on a bike carelessly tosses a plastic bottle in the creek. The Cayuga Island Kids successfully retrieve it, and that’s when they decide it’s time for action.
But moving from knowing something needs to be done to getting it done takes determination, teamwork, and sometimes, looking in a new direction.
How the Cayuga Island Kids go from fishing a plastic bottle out of the creek to bringing the community together to build a recycling bin big enough to hold plenty of plastic makes for a lively adventure.
Young readers will be entertained as they learn about the importance of recycling, brainstorming ideas, research, teamwork, the value of community effort, and the promise of new friendships.
Best of all, readers will cheer on the Cayuga Island Kids as they come to realize that, although we are each just one person, together we can make a BIG difference.
Published by City of Light Publishing. Intended for Grades 1-3, ages 7-9. Book 2 in the series is scheduled for release in Fall 2021. Book 3 will follow in Spring 2022.
From the back cover:
It begins with a plastic bottle and a couple of ducks and ends with a big fish and a couple of new friends.
How the Cayuga Island Kids go from fishing a plastic bottle out of the creek to bringing the community together to build a recycling bin big enough to hold plenty of plastic makes for a great adventure.
Although we are each just one person, together we can make a BIG difference.
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Up ahead in the park, Lacey spotted Julian and Yoko near the edge of the creek.
They seemed to be looking at something in the water.
Mac and Maya were behind them.
Lacey could see Mac’s fishing gear, but he wasn’t about to catch anything.
The pole lay on the ground.
That wasn’t the clue that made Lacey hurry along.
Maya stood on her tiptoes peering over Yoko’s shoulder. She had her hand over her mouth.
That was a bigger clue.
Something was wrong.
Praise for The Adventure of the Big Fish by the Small Creek and The Cayuga Island Kids series
