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Best Friends for Frances
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Best Friends for Frances Paperback - 1976

by Russell Hoban; Lillian Hoban (Illustrator)

For the first time ever, this classic story is available in the I Can Read format. With gently abridged text and beautiful full-color art, this edition will introduce a new generation of beginning readers to Hoban's lovable, irrepressible badger.


From the publisher

This sweet friendship story starring America's favorite badger, Frances, is a classic that continues to be loved by children, siblings, and parents everywhere.

Frances doesn't think her little sister can be her friend, but when Frances finds herself left out because of a "no-girls" rule, she decides to show those boys what girls can do. In the process, she discovers that sisters can indeed be friends . . . maybe even best friends!

This Level Two I Can Read book is geared toward kids who read on their own but still need a little help.

First line

It was a pleasant summer morning, so Frances took her bat and her ball and some chocolate sandwich cookies and went outside.

From the rear cover

Sisters that are much too small
To throw a catch or bat a ball
Are really not much good at all . . .

Frances doesn't think her younger sister Gloria can be her friend. Besides, Albert is Frances's friend. But when Albert has a no-girls baseball game, Frances sets out to prove to Albert a thing or two about friendship--and what girls can do. Along the way, Frances discovers that sisters can indeed be friends . . . maybe even best friends.

Details

  • Title Best Friends for Frances
  • Author Russell Hoban; Lillian Hoban (Illustrator)
  • Series I Can Read Level 2
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ill
  • Pages 31
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins, New York, N.Y.
  • Date April 28, 1976
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780064430081 / 0064430081
  • Weight 0.28 lbs (0.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 7.8 x 0.16 in (25.40 x 19.81 x 0.41 cm)
  • Ages 04 to 08 years
  • Grade levels P - 3
  • Reading level 470
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
    • Topical: Friendship
    • Topical: Home School
  • Library of Congress subjects Brothers and sisters, Brothers and sisters - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92038401
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

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Citations

  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/1994, Page 275
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