Keeping Secrets

Written and illustrated by Laura McGee Kvasnosky

Book #5 in the Zelda and Ivy Series

Hardcover

$15.99

$14.87

5 - 8

Reading age

Page count

460L

Lexile measure

Mar 10, 2009

Publication date

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What's Keeping Secrets About

Publisher Summary

A companion to the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner! The fabulous fox sisters return in three wry adventures for beginning readers. It’s springtime, and little sister Ivy wants to prove she can keep a secret, but there are some secrets that are too good to keep. Big sister Zelda longs to play the perfect April Fool’s Day prank, but can she outsmart the clever Ivy? And will opera star hopeful Zelda be upstaged by a butterfly in the final act? Fresh and funny, full of sugar and sass, this trio of tales about everyday life with siblings and friends is sure to strike a chord with young readers everywhere.

What Kind of Book is Keeping Secrets

Topics

animals foxes spring

Genres

action and adventure funny and humorous fiction

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The Creative Behind the Book

Author & Illustrator

Laura McGee Kvasnosky

Laura McGee Kvasnosky (www.lmkbooks.com) grew up in Northern California. She is the author of the Zelda and Ivy books, one of which won dual Golden Kite Honors Awards in 1999 from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), and the American Library Association’s 2007 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award as America’s most distinguished book for beginning readers published that year. Along with Kate Harvey McGee, she is also the author of Little Wolf’s First Howling, which won the Margaret Wise Brown Honor Book Award for children’s literature text. Laura lives in Seattle.