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by Tracey Hecht (Author), Josie Yee (Illustrator)
"This gentle adventure supports newly independent readers" --Booklist
The Nocturnals 8-book Early Reader Collection encourages kids at all reading levels who like adventurous stories featuring unusual animals. In this adventure-filled Level 3 Early Reader, Bismark the wacky sugar glider is bored! He complains to his friends, Dawn the serious fox and Tobin the sweet pangolin. So when Karina the kinkajou comes along, she shows the Nocturnals how to use their imaginations to cure boredom! GREAT FOR BEGINNING READERS AGES 6-8Teaches Life Skills: Imagination and Accepting New Ideas.
Perfect for kids who like unusual animals and science! Bonus Book Content: Nocturnals Fun Facts and Animal Glossary
Download complimentary printable activities on the book's website: Sight Word Games, Bingo, Common Core Language Arts Educator Guide, Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Activities, and More! Read All 8 of the Nocturnals Grow & Read Adventures, including Level 3 Early Readers The Chestnut Challenge and The Weeping Wombat. These Beginning Readers introduce Life Skills such as Good Sportsmanship, Forgiveness, Empathy, and Expressing Feelings and Emotions. NEW! Get The Nocturnals companion Grow & Read Animal Activity Book to extend the story with animal facts, coloring, drawing games, mazes, puzzles, and more! (Sold separately)
Author Biography
Tracey Hecht is a writer and entrepreneur. The American Booksellers Association chose the first book in her critically acclaimed middle grade series, The Nocturnals: The Mysterious Abductions, as a Kids' Indie Next List pick. In addition, her Grow & Read early reader book, The Chestnut Challenge, was given a Mom's Choice Gold Award. In partnership with the New York Public Library, Tracey created a Read Aloud Writing Program that she has since conducted--both in person and virtually--in over 150 schools, libraries, and bookstores across the country. Other books in the Nocturnals Grow & Read early reader collection include The Tasty Treat, The Moonlight Meeting, The Peculiar Possum, The Slithery Shakedown, The Kooky Kinkajou, The Best Burp and The Weeping Wombat. Tracey currently splits her time between New York City and Oquossoc, Maine, with her husband and four children.
