Isabela captura un congo

by Karen Rowan, Contee Seely (Editor)

Isabela Huffman is a precocious 9 ½-year-old girl who finds herself tangled up in trouble again while travelling to Costa Rica with her mother. "I don't cause problems!" Isabela insists. "Problems find me." Isabela and her friend Daniel devise a plan to capture and train a howler monkey. When their antics cause a baby monkey to shock himself on an electrical wire and fall from a tree, Isabela and Daniel are in a race against the clock to try to save his life before it's too late.

Isabela captura un congo is the second novel in the Fluency Fast series for true beginners. It uses a vocabulary of only 350 words to tell a 3500-word story. It is repetitive and simple and uses many cognates to make the book comprehensible to beginning adults and children.

72 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 2011

Reviews

[Sabriya Miksovsky · Rating 1 out of 5]

I read it for school it was pretty lame. i don't think the book in itself is bad, but it was below my reading level

[Michele · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun little story of Isabela, who is visiting Costa Rica. She imagines it might be fun to have a monkey for a pet. Alas, when Isabela and her friend offer the monkey a banana it touches an electrical cable, falls to the ground, and . . . sorry anything more would be a spoiler. Suffice it to say this little story, all in Spanish of course, beats all holy heck out of Dick and Jane.

[Carla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another good reader by Karen Rowan for beginning Spanish students. Fun for Reader's Theatre and acting out in class. It's got the right amount of repetition so that the language sticks all while having a plot that is fast paced and engaging. This little book will boost learner's confidence in reading Spanish!

[Carla T. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another good reader by Karen Rowan for beginning Spanish students. Fun for Reader's Theatre and acting out in class. It's got the right amount of repetition so that the language sticks all while having a plot that is fast paced and engaging. This little book will boost learner's confidence in reading Spanish!

[Samy Deloera · Rating 3 out of 5]

It wasn’t the best book. It was kinda interesting but not as much as other books.

[ogbookworm · Rating 4 out of 5]

This helped me so much with Spanish 1!

[Andrea Brown]

I really like the Isabela series.

[Izzy Lorjuste · Rating 5 out of 5]

For what it was, this book was actually really good.
And served a second role in getting me back into learning Spanish.

[Isabella Poppe]

It’s a good book