Frank Carlson Library

The Water Sprites are supposed to perform their medal-winning synchronized swimming routine aboard a cruise ship, but everything goes wrong when the piglets aboard start throwing things at the swimmers--so Gracie enlists the help of famous Rita Sinclair and her dancers to help impose order on the unruly passengers.

It is Gracie's first time at the Pig Jubilee with her synchronized swimming team, the Water Sprites, and she is the youngest pig with a chance to win a gold medal--the trouble is that she keeps getting distracted and missing her solo part, a triple spin dive.

Urged by her mother to find a physical activity, Babymouse, who would rather read and eat cupcakes, tries out for the swim team.

"Holly's mom is a hoarder, and Holly is fed up with being picked on at school for being weird...and having the wrong clothes...and sticking out. All she wants is to be invisible. She loves swimming, because in the water everyone is the same. Ed goes to the swimming pool because everything else in his life has changed. In his old life, he had money, was on the swim team, and knew who he was and what he wanted. In his old life his dad hit his mom. Holly...

"Ben Franklin loved to swim and, at the age of eleven, he was determined to swim like a fish--fins and all. This ... account of young Ben's earliest invention follows the budding scientist's journey as he tests and retests his swim fins. That first big splash led Ben to even more innovations and inventions. Includes Franklin quotes, a timeline, bibliography, and source notes"--Amazon.com.

"A reverent celebration of learning to swim among a diverse cast of children and families who each experience the mysterious joys of water in nature"--

Froggy is afraid of the water until his mother, along with his flippers, snorkle, and mask, help him learn to swim.

When hydrotherapy for an injured leg takes him to the pool on a regular basis, twelve-year-old Jerry finds himself fascinated and challenged by the rigors of competitive swimming.

A small child learning to swim becomes familiar with the water through quiet lakes, friendly rivers, and family storytime before attempting a bigger body of water.

Even though he loves water, Sergio the penguin is afraid to swim in the deep water until he learns how.