Score One for the Sloths

By Lester, Helen

Publishers Summary:
Sparky, a new energetic student at a sloth school, saves her lazy classmates when a wild boar from a government agency tries to shut the school down.

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ISBN
978-0-61810-857-2
Publisher
Lorraine Houghton


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on October 1, 2001

K-Gr 3 Everything is nice and peaceful at Sleepy Valley Sloth School, with the sloths content in their slothfulness, until Sparky arrives. She is, just as her name would indicate, full of energy, and decidedly unslothlike: "Let's read a story! Hey, we could use a little music!" She soon dubs her classmates "a bunch of bores," as they try to ignore her and continue to nap. When a representative of the S.O.S. (Society for Organizing Sameness)-"a real boar"-arrives to close the school because of its l...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Magazine

Reviewed on September 1, 2001

True to their nature, the sloths at Sleepy Valley Sloth School spend most of their time yawning and dozing. They're also big on snoring. The sports equipment in their classroom is covered with cobwebs; the pictures adorning the walls are of pillows and La-Z-Boy recliners; and the posted schedule is undemanding, to say the least ("Morning-nothing. Afternoon-nothing"). Enter Sparky, a new classmate-"a mover and a shaker and a go-getter" whose boundl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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