Just Big Enough
Just Big Enough
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Just Big Enough

Written and illustrated by Mercer Mayer
Part of the Little Critter Book Series
Paperback
$3.99
$3.79
4 - 8
Reading age
24
Page count
AD330L
Lexile measure
Jun 4, 2013
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Little Critter: Just Big Enough, written and illustrated in full color by bestselling author Mercer Mayer, offers a gentle but important lesson about bullying. In this 8x8 paperback, Little Critter is being bullied. Bigger kids steal his seat on the bus, eat his cupcakes, and won’t let him play football with them. Little Critter decides he has to get bigger, too. So he stuffs himself with vegetables, exercises until he’s exhausted, and turns himself a growing machine. He’s so disappointed when his hard work fails… But his grandfather helps him see that bigger isn’t always better. With this encouragement, Little Critter leads a team of smaller kids in a relay race against the big kids. And the little kids win!

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780061478055
    Publication Date
    June 4, 2013
    Publisher
    HarperFestival
    Page Count
    24
    Audience
    Picture
    Reading Age
    4 - 8 years
    Lexile® Level
    AD330L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~J
    Est. ATOS® Book Level
    ~2.4

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