Backhoe Joe / written by Lori Alexander ; illustrated by Craig Cameron.
Nolan is delighted to find a stray backhoe and, after naming it Joe and persuading it to follow him home, sets out to train it so that his parents will let him keep Joe as his very own.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062250155
- ISBN: 0062250159
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, [2014]
Content descriptions
Target Audience Note: | Ages 4-8. AD500L Lexile Decoding demand: 69 (high) Semantic demand: 80 (high) Syntactic demand: 54 (medium) Structure demand: 85 (very high) Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR LG 2.4 0.5 182011. |
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Subject: | Pets > Training > Juvenile fiction. Backhoes > Juvenile fiction. |
Genre: | Humorous fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Pulaski County Library-Waynesville | E Ale (Text) | 33642000735472 | WAY Things That Go | Available | - |
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Summary
Backhoe Joe
Fans of Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker, Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night by Brianna Caplan Sayres, and Kate McMullan will be thrilled by this celebrated and endearing picture book about a young boy with a dream of owning the perfect pet. When Nolan finds a stray backhoe in the street, he can't wait to adopt it. But this backhoe is not very well behaved. As Nolan tries to train his new pet truck, he learns that maybe this backhoe already has a home... This delightful story of a boy and his construction vehicle is brought to life with Craig Cameron's vibrant illustrations, making this the perfect addition to every young reader's library.