Rhyming text and illustrations describe the life cycle of a salmon.

One fall day, Kate goes with her father, a fish biologist, to the river where he works -- a river in the Pacific rain forest -- the "salmon forest," as he calls

Describes the efforts of the Jackson Elementary School in Everett, Washington, to clean up a nearby stream, stock it with salmon, and preserve it as an unpollut

Traces the life of a coho salmon as she hatches in a creek, swims to the Pacific ocean, and returns to her creek to spawn.

Finalist for the Washington State Book Award • From the award-winning author of The Mushroom Hunters comes the story of an iconic fish, perhaps the last great