One day, Mar a's father takes her to the busy market. There they trade goods for food for Mana's mother and baby brother. Mar a helps by making her father laugh while he works. But she wants to do more. So Mana finds a very special way to help her family.

Author: Elaine Marie Alphin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 04/25/1997
Series: I Can Read Books: Level 3
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.50w x 0.18d
ISBN: 9780064442343
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2.5
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 28479 / Bear for Miguel

About the Author
Alphin, Elaine Marie: -

Elaine Marie Alphin is the author of the I Can Read Book a bear for miguel, illustrated by Joan Sandin, as well as several young adult novels, including Counterfeit Son, which won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Mystery. Ms. Alphin lives in Madison, Indiana.

Sandin, Joan: -

Joan Sandin is the illustrator of many books for young readers, including the I Can Read books Small Wolf, written by Nathaniel Benchley, Snowshoe Thompson, written by Nancy Smiler Levinson, and her own The Long Way Westward and The Long Way to a New Land. Ms. Sandin lives in Tucson, AZ.