Black Sand Beach 1.5 by Richard Fairgray

Author:Richard Fairgray [Fairgray, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2021-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

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I sat down. I didn’t like the sound of this. I wondered what was wrong with frogs. I wondered why I needed to worry about frogs now, too.

“Did you know that frogs are nature’s warning system?” he asked. “The first sign that things aren’t going to be okay is that the frogs start to disappear.”

I had read this somewhere in a book about river pollution. It was true. When something changes, when something starts to go wrong, the first sign is the absence of frogs.

“That’s why we need to get you a frog,” he went on. “So long as you have a frog you’ll know that everything is okay.”

That morning, before my parents came home, my grandfather and I went to the pet store and he bought me a small glass tank with a little plastic pond that really looked like it was made of stones. He bought me a bag of dried flies and some little flakes called Croak Crackers, and he bought me my very own pet frog.

I didn’t think it would do any good, but having the frog, feeding the frog, naming the frog, all these things actually made me feel a little better.

Every morning I woke up and said hello to my frog. At first it was my way of checking he was still there, but pretty soon I got used to him and it became just a part of my morning ritual.

I’d worry about him when I was at school, but less and less with each passing week. I’d make it through math and recess knowing that my frog would be there when I got home.

I fed him flies and Croaker Crackers and I watched him hop around in his tank and in and out of his little plastic pond.

Then, one night, I woke up to a tapping sound. I turned on the lamp by my bed, and in the dim light I could see a tiny bit of movement coming from the tank. I rubbed my eyes and walked over to see what was happening. My frog was awake and he was smacking his little foot on the side of the tank as hard as he could.

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