• Age: 4 to 8
• Grade: p to 3

Emma loved visiting the garden centre with her Mom and Dad. She loved the smell of the air and all of the pretty flowers. But this one special visit to the centre introduces Emma to the duck's nest. Little did she know that soon she would visit the centre just as the ducklings were hatching.

Patti Larsen is an award-winning middle grade and young adult author with a passion for the paranormal. Her YA thriller series, The Hunted, is available now. Book one of that series, RUN, is a recent recipient of the 2012 PEI Book Awards for Fiction. Ten books of her very popular Hayle Coven Novels, beginning with Family Magic, are also out now. Her YA steampunk series, Blood and Gold, can be found on Amazon, along with her YA paranormal novel, Best Friends Forever, The Diamond City Trilogy, The Clone Chronicles and more. Her middle grade novel, The Ghost Boy of MacKenzie House (Acorn Press), is available now. She is a full time writer and a part time teacher of her Get Your Book Done program. Patti lives on the East Coast of Canada with her very patient husband and four massive cats.

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Matt Reid is a freelance graphic designer living and working in Bedford, Nova Scotia. He studied fine arts at Mount Allison University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and has been drawing for 35 years. Some of his work can be found at mattreidcreative.ca. This is his first book.

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