Title:
Mr. Popper's penguins
JLCTITLE245:
by Richard and Florence Atwater ; illustrated by Robert Lawson.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1938.
Physical Description:
138 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780316058421
9780316058438
9781435204935
Abstract:
Relates how the unexpected delivery of a large crate containing a live penguin changes the life of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the polar region.
Reading Level:
910 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG 5.6 3.
Reading Counts 3-5 4.9 5 Q.
Reading Counts RC: T: 4.9 L910: 5.
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.6 3.0 58.
AR 5.6 3.0.
Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 5.6 3 Quiz 58 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available, literary skills quiz available.
Contents:
1. Stillwater -- 2. The voice in the air -- 3. Out of the Antarctic -- 4. Captain Cook -- 5. Troubles with a penguin -- 6. More troubles -- 7. Captain Cook builds a nest -- 8. Penguin's promenade -- 9. In the barber shop -- 10. Shadows -- 11. Greta -- 12. More mouths to feed -- 13. Money worries -- 14. Mr. Greenbaum.