Pierre the Penguin: A True Story
by Jean Marzollo and Laura Regan
When Pierre, an African penguin living at the California Academy of Sciences, begins... read more
- Grade
- 1-8
- Genre
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2010
Word Count 415
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 510L
- ATOS Reading Level: 2.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 136904
- Curricular Area
- Science
- Subject Headings
- Bathing suits--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | Birds
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction
- Penguins
- Feathers--Diseases--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | Zoos
- Jackass penguin--Health--Juvenile literature
- Bathing suits
- African penguin--Health
- Feathers--Diseases
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