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A Nest for Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home

Age 8-12
Grade 3-7

Henry Cole

A Nest for Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home

Hardcover (Katherine Tegen Books Feb. 23, 2010) , 1 edition

Amazon Editors recommend this book for readers who enjoy chapter books with more complexity or entry-level middle grade novels.

A fanciful history lesson for middle graders, featuring a charming mouse named Celeste.

Celeste is a mouse who is looking for a home. Is it nestled in the toe of a warm boot? In the shirt pocket of Celeste’s new friend Joseph? Or is home the place deep inside Celeste’s heart, where friendships live?

Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of black-and-white drawings, A Nest for Celeste is a short novel that tells the story a mouse living in the 1800s and his friendship with John James Audubon’s young apprentice. While enjoying this sweet amd appealing story, young readers will also learn about nineteenth-century plantation life and the famous naturalist who was known for his paintings of birds and American wildlife.

Series
Nest for Celeste (Book 1)
ISBN
9780061704 / 9780061704109
Pages
352
Weight
16.0 oz.
Dimensions
5.6 x 1.2 in.

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