Penguin Named Patience: A Hurricane Katrina Rescue Story

Contributor(s): Lewis, Suzanne (Author), Anchin, Lisa (Illustrator), Ryan, Tamara (Narrated by)

ISBN: 9781585368402

Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press

Hardcover

$18.99

Pub Date: February 1, 2015

Dewey: 598.4709763

LCCN: 2014016870

Lexile Code: 0550

Features: Illustrated, Price on Product

Target Age Group: 06 to 09

Physical Info: 0.37" H x 10.30" L x 10.31" W ( 0.89 lbs) 24 pages

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Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000173965 ( Penguin Named Patience: A Hurricane Katrina Rescue Story)

Reading level: 3.30

Interest level: LG

Point value: 0.5

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: New Orleans's Audubon Aquarium of the Americas is severely damaged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, putting many animals in peril, including Patience and the other penguins. They must leave their home and their favorite human, Tom, the penguin keeper, until the Aquarium is restored.

Brief description: Author Suzanne Lewis is a former art director, commercial photographer, and bookseller. She wrote her first children's book after visiting the Audubon Aquarium and learning about Patience. Suzanne lives in Santa Rosa, California.