Scute Approved Reading

Title: Turtle Summer

Author: Mary Alice Monroe, Illustrator: Barbara J. Bergwerf

Interest Level: Lower Grades (Pre-K – 3^nd)

Accelerated Reading Level: 4.5 (0.5 points)

Turtle Summer features art, photos, and journal entries from a mother volunteering to protect loggerhead sea turtles with her daughter.

 Synopsis: This heart-warming journal shares the joys of a mother and daughter s special bond and their summer together as Turtle Team volunteers. Photographs blend with art and prose to bring to life this loving story of their time together protecting endangered loggerhead sea turtles. Join mother and daughter as they patrol the beaches searching for sea turtle nests, and then stand with them under starry skies as they protect the eggs and young hatchlings. (Adapted from Amazon Books)