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    The Chestnut Challenge: The Nocturnals

    By Tracey Hecht and Josie Yee

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    “Fun-to-read story” —Story Monsters
    Mom’s Choice Awards® Gold Recipient

    In this adventure-filled Nocturnals Level 3 Early Reader, Dawn the serious fox, Tobin the sweet pangolin, and Bismark the wacky sugar glider are having fun playing checkers. Chandler, a sneaky chinchilla, challenges Tobin to a game. After some strange distractions, the Nocturnals suspect something is not right. Chandler is a competitive player... but could he also be a cheater?

    Includes Bonus Nocturnals Fun Facts and Animal Glossary
    Life Skills include Good Sportsmanship, Playing Games for Fun, and Forgiveness.

    FUN-FILLED BEGINNING READERS FOR AGES 6–8!
    Download complimentary printable activities at NocturnalsWorld.com: Sight Word Games, Makerspace Crafts, Bingo, Common Core Language Arts Educator Guide, Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Activities, and More!

    Read All 8 of the Nocturnals Grow & Read Adventures, including Level 3 Early Reader The Kooky Kinkajou. These Beginning Readers introduce Life Skills such as Imagination and Accepting New Ideas.
    They all feature Dawn, a serious fox, Tobin, a sweet pangolin, and Bismark, a pint-sized sugar glider.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFabled Films Press
    Release dateJul 1, 2020
    ISBN9781944020422
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    The Chestnut Challenge: The Nocturnals
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    Tracey Hecht

    Tracey Hecht is a writer and entrepreneur who created The Nocturnals, the critically acclaimed middle grade and early reader series. The American Booksellers Association chose her first book, The Nocturnals: The Mysterious Abductions, as a Kids’ Indie Next List pick. In addition, her Grow & Read early reader book, The Chestnut Challenge, was given a Mom’s Choice Gold Award. With the New York Public Library, she has also created a Read Aloud Writing Program that has since been conducted in hundreds of schools, libraries, and bookstores. Other books in the Nocturnals middle grade series include The Ominous Eye, The Fallen Star, and The Hidden Kingdom. Tracey currently splits her time between New York City and Oquossoc, Maine, with her husband and four children.

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      Dawn (the red fox), Tobin (a pangolin), and Bismark (a sugar glider) are the core cast of characters for the series. In this book they meet Chandler, the chinchilla. While the trio of friends are playing a game of Chestnut Challenge Chandler appears and claims to be the Chestnut Champion. He challenges sweet, passive Tobin to a game. Well, chirping chickadees”, Chandler cheats. Dawn, in her usual compassionate, diplomatic manner lets Chandler know that champions do not cheat and invites Chandler to play just for fun. The personalities of the animals make the book so appealing. Dawn is quiet with a “take charge” personality and calm in a crisis, Tobin sweet and somewhat shy, and Bismark – oh Bismark! - boastful, flirtatious, hilarious, self-proclaimed “god amongst gliders”, yet lovable.The Nocturnals series of books are educational and fun. This particular book is Level 3 which is for children in grades 2-3. At this point they are reading independently. The themes emphasized in this book are sportsmanship, forgiveness, and friendship. In the back of the book are fun facts on the characters met this book. The publisher also provides free downloadable exercises, crafts, and coloring pages. The publisher provided me with a copy of this book. The review is strictly my opinion.