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  • Albert

Albert

Author
Donna Jo Napoli
Illustrator
Jim LaMarche
Publication Date
June 01, 2005
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  2nd − 3rd
Language
English
Albert
Description
The morning begins like any other. Albert reaches out the window to check the weather, but from the moment a twig lands in the palm of his hand, life is never the same. A "Los Angeles Times" Best Book of the Year. Full color.
Publication date
June 01, 2005
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780152052492
Lexile Measure
600
Guided Reading Level
K
Publisher
Clarion Books
BISAC categories
JUV002040 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Birds
JUV029000 - Juvenile Fiction | Nature & the Natural World | General
JUV039000 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | General
Library of Congress categories
Birds
Nests

Publishers Weekly

According to PW 's starred review, this is "a beguiling tale of a recluse forced out of his shell through unlikely circumstances." Ages 5-8. (July) Copyright 2005 Publishers Weekly Used with permission.
Donna Jo Napoli
Donna Jo Napoli is the acclaimed and award-winning author of many novels, both fantasies and contemporary stories. She won the Golden Kite Award for Stones in Water in 1997. Her novel Zel was named an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon, and a School Library Journal Best Book, and a number of her novels have been selected as ALA Best Books. She is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband. Visit her at DonnaJoNapoli.com.

Kadir Nelson is an award-winning American artist whose works have been exhibited in major national and international publications, institutions, art galleries, and museums. Nelson's work has won the Coretta Scott King Award, the Robert F. Sibert Award, two Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Awards, and the 2005 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. His beloved, award-winning, and bestselling picture books include We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball; Thunder Rose, written by Jerdine Nolen; Ellington Was Not a Street, written by Ntozake Shange; Salt in His Shoes, written by Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan; and many more. Kadir lives in Los Angeles.
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