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Interest Level: Kindergarten - Grade 2

Grade Level Equivalent: 4.8

Lexile® measure: 750L

DRA: 28

Guided Reading: L

Genre/Theme:

  • General Fiction

Topics:

  • Culture and Diversity
  • Character and Values
  • Friends and Friendship
  • Friends and Friendship

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About This Book

In this 1998 American Bookseller Kid's Pick of the Lists, Velvet, who wins a school contest by drawing the most beautiful apple with only eight crayons, becomes a little less odd as her classmates learn more about her as a person.

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Mary E. Whitcomb: Whitcomb is an elementary school teacher. She collects rocks, fossils and shells. Read More.

Tara Calahan King: Jessica Harper is an award-winning songwriter. Tara Calahan King, is the illustrator of "Odd Velvet" and "Enemy Pie." Read More.


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