The Smart Kid's Guide to Losing a Pet

The Smart Kid's Guide to Everyday Life
  • Interest Level: Grade 2 - Grade 5
  • Reading Level: Grade 3

Discusses what happens when a pet dies, explores ways to remember a pet, and provides strategies for coping with grief.

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978-1-63143-642-0
$39.95
Interest Level Grade 2 - Grade 5
Reading Level Grade 3
Genre Nonfiction
Category Social Studies
Copyright 2015
Publisher The Child's World, Inc.
Language English
Number of Pages 32
Publication Date 2014-08-01
BISACS JNF053090, JNF053050
Dewey 155.9
Graphics Full-color illustrations, Full-color photographs
Dimensions 8 x 9.5
Lexile 570
Guided Reading Level P
Features Author/Illustrator biography, Educational front/back matter, Glossary of key words, Index, Informative sidebars, Phonetics, Reviewed, Sources for further research, Starred, Suggested websites, and Table of contents
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Author: Christine Petersen

Illustrator: Ronnie Rooney

Reviews

A noteworthy review of The Smart Kid's Guide to Everyday Life from Booklist on October 1, 2014

In what might be the most poignant entry in the Smart Kid’s Guide to Everyday Life series, Petersen takes on the unavoidable—and unavoidably sad—topic of pet death. Beginning with a history lesson (humans befriended wolves about 32,000 years ago), she goes on to explain View →