The students of the first-grade class are horrified when Sam accidentally loses the class pet, a hermit crab, in a whimsical early reader story by the author of Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox.
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. Preschool - Kindergarten.---from the publisher
Keywords: beginning reader, first grade, classroom pet, school, responsibility, Christmas vacation, hermit crab, pets, caring for animals, 4 year old, 5 year old, 6 year old, 7 year old, part of a series
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Sam, a first-grader, gets to take the class pet home over Christmas vacation and discovers there is a lot of responsibility taking care of a pet even if it is a hermit crab.
Recommended by: Barb Langridge, abookandahug.com
