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Interest Level: PreK - Grade 3

Grade Level Equivalent: 2.4

DRA: 38

Guided Reading: O

Genre/Theme:

  • Poetry and Rhymes

Topics:

  • Halloween
  • Ghosts, Monsters and Witches

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"A deceptively simple text with a lyrical rhythm describes a pear-shaped pumpkin growing in a garden, who unexpectedly whispers that he'll protect the yard from the `foolies'. Lee's fragile watercolors cast an appropriately haunting aura to the strange proceedings." -Publishers Weekly

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Bill Martin: A blessed thing happened to me.I had a teacher who read to me.There were no books in our home when I was a child. I didn't learn to read ... Read More.

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