Describes Buddy the German Shepard's training at a school for police dogs in the late 1920s and his special relationship with the young Morris Frank, a blind man who trained Buddy to be the first seeing eye dog. ---from the publisher
48 pages 978-0590265850 Ages 4-8
Keywords: narrative nonfiction, biography, animals, dogs, blindness, role of the individual, power of the individual, history, 20th century, seeing eye dog, 4 year old, 5 year old, 6 year old, 7 year old, 8 year old, part of a series
About the Hello Reader series:
With inspiring and educational stories, Scholastic's Hello Reader series caters to the spectrum of reading abilities among beginning readers. My First Hello Readers use basic words to reinforce phonics and sight vocabulary. The books at this level offer punch-out flash cards plus six additional pages of skill-building activities. Levels 1 - 4 combine a greater vocabulary and longer sentence length. Each book has an introductory letter from an education specialist guiding parents on how to help their children learn to read. Grades 2 - Grades 4.--from the publisher