Down the Road
Down the Road by Alice Schertle; illustrated by EB LewisDown the Road is about a young girl who wants to help her parents…as a family, they usually go to the store to buy eggs and other groceries. One day, both parents are too busy to go to the store for fresh eggs and they allow Hettie to go get them for the first time by herself. She takes the money and a basket and walks to the store by herself. She has to walk across a long dusty road and over a stream. After she buys the eggs, she is very careful not to break them on her way back home. She walks by an apple tree. Knowing her parents love apples, she starts to collect three for the family. As she is picking apples, all the eggs fall out of the basket and break. Hettie is very upset and climbs the apple tree to figure out what to do next. Her dad finds her in the apple tree…find out what happens next when you read Down the Road.This is a great book to read to K-2.
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