This week our 2nd grade book club members are discussing The Chicken Squad: The First Misadventure by Doreen Cronin (author of Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type).
Meet Dirt, Sugar, Poppy, and Sweetie: the shortest, yellowest, fuzziest detectives in town. These four chicks who are not your typical barnyard puffs of fluff, and they are not about to spend their days pecking chicken feed and chasing bugs. No sir, they’re too busy solving mysteries and fighting crime. They’re darling. They’re daring. They’re chicks on a mission—and on this, their first (mis)adventure, the Chicken Squad launches a galactic backyard expedition.
When Tail the not-so-brave squirrel comes barreling into the chicken coop, the chicks know it's up to them to figure out what Tail is so afraid of. But when he describes it as BIG and SCARY, that doesn't give much insight as to what is lurking beyond the coop. Good thing these
chicks are professionals. But even professionals get worried.
Especially once they see that round, shiny, green, BIG thing in the
yard. What if it’s a UFO full of aliens who want chickens as pets? Can the Chicken Squad defeat something that just might be -gulp- from out of this
world?This hilarious backyard adventure is the first in a series of three books. To preview our discussion questions, click here. Visit the Grade 2 page for more links to Doreen Cronin's books and a web site about idioms - expressions that mean something totally different from the literal definition of the words being used.
Happy reading!
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