The Scarecrow
A.T. Davidson
language
(LearningIsland.com, May 2, 2012)
The scarecrow in the Williams’s field was certainly scary, and not just to crows.Bobby couldn’t say why exactly he found it as scary as he did. He just did.He told himself it was only some material filled with straw, but avoided going near it, all the same. He preferred it if he didn’t have to even think about it.The scarecrow had been there forever, or so it seemed. It had certainly been there as long as he’d been around, and as far as Bobby was concerned that was forever enough.Find out what happens when Bobby is forced to go into the cornfield and face the scarecrow in this short but creepy tale.Ages 9 and up.LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.