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Maybelle in the Soup
by Katie Speck
A Junior Library Guild Award Book
Kid's Wings Award for Excellence in Literature
Texas Bluebonnet Award NomineeSM

"Well, even if a cockroach can't get exactly what a cockroach wants, you can't blame her for trying."

Maybelle lives under the Just-So Peabody's refrigerator and lives on crumbs and spills, but the desire of her heart is to eat from a real bowl. She has always followed her three important rules, but sometimes a cockroach has to do what a cockroach has to do. Fortunately, her flea friend, Henry, is there to try to save her most of the time, but where is he when she falls headfirst into the bowl of turtle soup and is almost slurped down by Mrs. Snodgrass?

This is one of the funniest stories you will ever read aloud! (And you HAVE to read it aloud so everyone can laugh out loud TOGETHER!) Maybelle's appetite for food leads them into hysterically funny situations. The characterization is beautifully portrayed and invites you to reconsider squashing that poor roach or giving your dog a flea bath. Who would want to hurt poor, creepy, little Maybelle or her brilliant Henry? It's an easy chapter book that will leave you begging for more, and happily, there is more: Maybelle Comes to Tea.

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Maybelle in the Soup by Katie Speck

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Bug Bios

Cockroach Care

Creepy Crawly Bugs
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The Cockroach Home Page

Picture Gallery

Facts about Fleas
Fleas! Fleas! Fleas!

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Maybelle in the Soup by Katie Speck
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The Unit Contains:
Discussion Cards
Crossword Puzzles
Cockroach and the Flea: Readers’ Theater
Puppets for The Readers’ Theater
Maybelle’s Rules to Live By
Making Connections (Predict/Read/Confirm Chapter Questions)
Idioms
Character Connections: Maybelle’s Rules and Your Rules
Building Your Vocabulary
Story Mapping
Multiple Choice Comprehension Activities
Comparing Books
Creative Writing Planning Corner—2 Pages
Creative Writing, First Draft
Creative Writing, Final Draft
Researching an Insect
Logic Puzzle: Crumbs and Spills Menu
Word-Changing Rules (ing, y, and double consonants)
Discussion/Writing Prompts

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With special thanks to the talented Robert Finley for allowing us to use his performance of, "El Pelele" by Enrique Granados as our background music.

 

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