When Daniel's third-grade class raises baby chicks for a class project and he takes the five chickens home for the summer, he is surprised when one of them turns out to be a rooster.

Dudley the rooster's ability to make the sun rise with his crowing is questioned by a spiteful goose, whose malice almost destroys the popular rooster.

What has gotten into Brewster the rooster? The Macintosh family can't understand why their barnyard pet is crowing at the darnedest things. 'I'm worried about Brewster,' Magnolia said, mixing carrot cake batter with raisins. 'Something has changed. It seems so strange but he's crowing at the oddest occasions.' Whether it's the children playing catch in the yard, Zeb painting the barn red, or Grandma Pearl flipping hotcakes, Brewster can't stop from...

Presents a story of the mayor of the noisy city of La Paz who institutes new laws forbidding all singing, but a brave little rooster decides he must sing, despite the progressively severe punishments he receives for continuing to crow. The silenced populace, invigorated by the rooster's bravery, ousts the tyrannical mayor and returns their city to its free and clamorous state.

Gabriel Gallo is not a morning chicken, so he asks his wife to take over his job of crowing at dawn. This translation of the unique Fact & Fiction Animal Tales series provides fluent Spanish readers with a variety of genre and text structures to compare and contrast nonfiction and fiction in one book. The first part is a creative side-by-side format that develops multiple reading comprehension strategies and increases Spanish fluency. The useful Speed...

Presents a story of the mayor of the noisy city of La Paz who institutes new laws forbidding all singing, but a brave little rooster decides he must sing, despite the progressively severe punishments he receives for continuing to crow. The silenced populace, invigorated by the rooster's bravery, ousts the tyrannical mayor and returns their city to its free and clamorous state.