Bibliograph

Unusual chickens for the exceptional poultry farmer., Kelly Jones

Type

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Unusual chickens for the exceptional poultry farmer., Kelly Jones

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

880, Lexile5.2, ATOS Level

resource.interestGradeLevel

MG/Middle grades (4th-8th)

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Unusual chickens for the exceptional poultry farmer.

Nature of contents

dictionaries

resource.readingGradeLevel

Text Difficulty 4

Responsibility statement

Kelly Jones

Summary

Fans of Polly Horvath or Roald Dahl will love this quirky story of a determined girl, and some extraordinary chickens. Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown feels like a fish out of water when she and her parents move from Los Angeles to the farm they've inherited from a great-uncle. But farm life gets more interesting when a cranky chicken appears and Sophie discovers the hen can move objects with the power of her little chicken brain: jam jars, the latch to her henhouse, the entire henhouse.... And then more of her great-uncle's unusual chickens come home to roost. Determined, resourceful Sophie learns to care for her flock, earning money for chicken feed, collecting eggs. But when a respected local farmer tries to steal them, Sophie must find a way to keep them (and their superpowers) safe. Told in letters to Sophie's abuela, quizzes, a chicken-care correspondence course, to-do lists, and more, Unusual Chickens is a quirky, clucky classic in the making

Target audience

juvenile

Classification

Creator