Humphrey's Creepy-Crawly Camping Adventure (Humphrey's Tiny Tales #3)

by Betty G Birney (Author) Priscilla Burris (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

Everyone's favorite classroom pet is now starring in chapter books!

Humphrey has had lots of adventures as the classroom pet of Room 26, but never one like this. He is going on a campout in the backyard with Heidi and her friends! There's stargazing, roasting marshmallows, searching for creepy-crawlies--and then there are the prank-loving boys next door, who want to prove that the girls are scaredy-cats.

Humphrey doesn't think girls are scaredy-cats. He doesn't think girls are like cats at all. Can this VERY-VERY-VERY small hamster show them with a hairy-scary trick of his own?

With sweet illustrations and an easy reading level, Humphrey's Tiny Tales are hamster-iffic for emerging readers.

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School Library Journal

K-Gr 3—You can't keep a good hamster down. Humphrey, the hamster who lives in Mrs. Brisbane's class and who first appeared in The World According to Humphrey (Putnam, 2004) pops up again in the latest installment of a spin-off series that's ideal for novice readers. Here, Humphrey heads home for the weekend with Heidi for a camp-out sleepover. Heidi and pals are psyched—until the boys show up and the night takes a turn for the scary. Small but mighty, Humphrey is an endearing and earnest narrator whose gentle but on-the-nose observations will resonate with budding readers.

Copyright 2015 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Betty G Birney
Betty G. Birney has won many awards for writing for television, including an Emmy, three Humanitas Prizes, and a Writers Guild of America Award, and she won the Christopher Award for Friendship According to Humphrey. In addition to the Humphrey series, she is the author of The Seven Wonders of Sassafrass Springs and The Princess and the Peabody's. She grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, where her parents grew up as neighbors on Humphrey Street. Her website, bettybirney.com, is full of fun Humphrey activities and information.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780147514592
Lexile Measure
610
Guided Reading Level
O
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Publication date
May 05, 2015
Series
Humphrey's Tiny Tales
BISAC categories
JUV000000 - Juvenile Fiction | General
Library of Congress categories
Camping
Fear
Hamsters
Humphrey (Fictitious character: Birney)

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