pets

Sugar gliders are social animals, but they aren t your usual pet. These cute, cuddly, gliding marsupials were first brought to the US in 1993, and have since become wildly popular. As small as a grain of rice when they are born, these exotics only grow to be 3 to 5 ounces, which makes them perfect to tuck away in your pocket! If you are looking for an affectionate, unique addition to your family, a sugar glider might just be for you! This title will allow students to refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. Text based questions Bold keywords with phonetic glossary Color photos with captions Fact boxes.

Uses questions like the one in the title to introduce information about animals kept as pets.

"Doc's hamster, Coleslaw, needs a checkup. It's time to take this pet to the vet"--Back cover.

"Meet Orq. He cave boy. Meet Woma. He woolly mammoth. Orq love Woma. A lot. He want pet. Orq's mother say Woma shed. And smell. And not housetrained. Yuck. Woma not allowed in cave. But Orq has plan. Kind of."--OCLC.

Join three young, super-smart sleuths as they solve local crimes and unravel the mysteries of their neighborhood. Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose encounter their first alphabetical mysteries. In The absent author, Dink writes to his favorite author, mystery writer Wallis Wallace, and invites him to visit Green Lawn. To Dink's amazement, Wallace says he'll come! But when the big day arrives, Wallace is nowhere to be found. The police think he just missed his plane, but Dink suspects foul play. It's up to Dink and his two best friends, Josh and Ruth Rose, to find the famous writer--before it's too late! In The bald bandit, the Green Lawn Savings Bank has been robbed! When a private detective comes to Dink's door looking for the kid who videotaped the crime, Dink and his friends volunteer to find him. After all, there's a reward! But tracking down one red-headed kid isn't so easy, especially if he doesn't want to be found. Can the trio find that kid--and his tape. In The canary caper, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose get an urgent call from Mrs. Davis. Her canary is missing! The little bird has vanished without a trace, and he's not the only one. Two other pets are missing. The kids suspect a pet-napper, and now that Ruth Rose's cat, Tiger, has turned up missing too, it's become personal!.

Chi, a lost kitten who has been adopted by the Yamada's, is found by her feline family and thinks about what it means for her human family.