Pub Date: March 1, 2011
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2009025379
Lexile Code: 0640
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: 07 to 10
Physical Info: 0.30" H x 7.30" L x 5.20" W ( 0.20 lbs) 88 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Action and Adventure | Hispanic and Latino | General | Superheroes | Readers | Chapter Books
Series: Zapato Power
Description: One day Freddie Ramos comes home from school and finds a strange box just for him. What's inside? ZAPATO POWER-shoes that change Freddie's life by giving him super speed! But what will Freddie do with his fast new skills?
Brief description: Jacqueline Jules is the author of fifty books, including Freddie Ramos Takes Off, a Cybils Award winner, and Never Say a Mean Word Again, a Sydney Taylor Honor Book. She lives on Long Island, New York. A former school librarian, she loves to interact with young readers and teachers.
Review Quotes:
Designed for early readers, this chapter book includes frequent black-and-white cartoon illustrations featuring kids with outsized round heads...The few Spanish words establish the boy's ethnicity but will be understood in context...An unusually appealing early chapter book.--Kirkus Reviews