Title:
My best friend is extinct / Rebecca Wood Barrett ; illustrated by Cornelia Li.
ISBN:
9781459824423
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
[Victoria, British Columbia, Canada] : Orca Book Publishers, 2021.
Physical Description:
227 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
Summary:
This is the story of 10-year-old Henry, who has moved with his mother, his father died when he was small, to a snowy mountain town where it has been hard to make friends. Making matters worse is a concussion he sustained when bullies collapsed a snow tunnel onto him. When Henry finds an injured prehistoric short-faced bear, he names him Yarp and, in secret, nurses him back to health.
Genre:
Audience:
Decoding demand: 89 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 88 (very high) Structure demand: 88 (very high) Lexile
Audience:
640L Lexile
OCLC Number:
on1157343766
Availability:
South St. Paul - Kaposia~1
