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The Mosquito Brothers (Hardcover)
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The Mosquito Brothers (Hardcover)
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List price R352
Loot Price R267
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You Save R85 (24%)
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Accompanied by quirky line drawings by Spanish illustrator Erica
Salcedo, this is a gently humorous and remarkably informative
nature-adventure story about an unlikely pointy-nosed hero with big
dreams and an even bigger heart. After he nearly drowns in a
parking-lot puddle, Dinnn Needles is fearful of many things,
including flying. When his four hundred siblings swarm off without
him, he finds time to dream —about family stories, a lost
brother, adventure in The Wild and, above all, how to be cool. At
school in an abandoned air-conditioner, Dinnn learns about the
deadly Pondhawk dragonfly and other dangers that lie beyond his
home under a drive-in theater screen. But Dinnn never really takes
to city life. Lonely and left out, he is filled with an unexplained
longing. He sips spilled cola from abandoned pop cans, but it is
not as tasty as flower nectar. He tries to make friends with the
local street mosquitoes, but that just lands him in a sewer filled
with spiders and water snakes. He hears about the red mini-van that
brought his parents together and wonders about his extended family
in the country. He even finds a great black jacket in a roadside
ditch, but it doesn’t make him cool. And then one day, as fate
would have it, the red mini-van reappears, giving Dinnn a chance to
visit to his relatives in The Wild, where new perils await an
inexperienced city mosquito — being struck by a raindrop, zapped
by a porch light or snapped up by a hungry fish at dusk. But in the
end Dinnn discovers that being cool is a matter of what you do,
especially for one’s friends and family, including two new
brothers. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in
English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3 Describe characters
in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and
explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
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