Freckleface Strawberry: Loose Tooth!

Freckleface Strawberry #6

by Julianne Moore, LeUyen Pham (Illustrations)

Academy Award–winning actress and New York Times bestselling author Julianne Moore brings us more adventures from Freckleface Strawberry in the Step into Reading line of leveled readers! Everyone’s favorite red-haired seven-year-old has a loose tooth! And if it comes out at school, she gets a special prize from the nurse. But what if it doesn’t budge before the bell rings? Kids who are at the stage of wiggly teeth will laugh along as they read this light and funny story about Freckleface’s pursuit of the ultimate loose-tooth prize.
 
Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories, for children who recognize familiar words and sound out new words with help.

Also available in the Freckleface Strawberry   Lunch, or What's That?; Backpacks!;   Loose Tooth!;  and  Freckleface Strawberry and the Really Big Voice . 
 
Find activities and other fun stuff at FrecklefaceStrawberry.com!

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, School, Humor

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 12, 2016

About the author

Julianne Moore is an American actress.

In October 2007, Moore made her literary debut with the publication of Freckleface Strawberry, a children's book based on her experiences as a child. In April 2009, Moore followed up with a second children's book titled Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully.

Reviews

[Oana-Maria Uliu]

Pointless.

[Barbara]

Youngsters will certainly relate to Freckleface Strawberry's plight. She has a loose tooth that is right on the verge of coming out of her jaw, but she wants it to fall out at the right time. If it falls out while she's at school, she will get a tooth necklace to wear just like her other classmates. When the day is almost over and the tooth is still inside her mouth, she does a hard thing and pulls it out herself. Yikes! That's a lot of pain for one cute necklace. The illustrations, similar in style to cartoons and featuring friendly students as well as plenty of freckles dotting the main character's arms and face, are attractive and fit the story perfectly. Beginning readers will surely be drawn to this book and this series.

[Stephanie Tournas]

Freckleface Strawberry has a loose tooth - her first one - and she has big plans. She is determined for it to fall out at school because the school nurse will give her a tiny tooth necklace to put the tooth in. And that necklace is NICE! As the clock ticks on towards the end of the school day, Freckleface Strawberry may have to take matters into her own hands. This early reader has very short chapters, repeating sentence patterns and a satisfying story line. There is racial diversity among the characters and the parents have non-traditional roles. The graphic illustrations are vivid and colorful.

[Jillian]

I mostly liked it - it's a familiar situation to a lot of kids. Especially when there's a tooth necklace involved. (How come *I* never got a tooth necklace? I lost a couple teeth in school!!)
The only problem I had is with a few illustrations - because of the nature of the story, Freckleface Strawberry tends to be giving huge, toothy grins in a lot of the pictures. Add that with the illustrator's take on freckles (red dots) and her focused look of concentration, and you get something that is a little bit unsettling.

Anyway, it's a cute story that will be easy for beginning readers to get into.

[Teré Mashburn]

Text-to-Text:
This story remids me of the overall theme of determination. Freckleface was determined for her tooth to come out. But not just anytime, it hadnto come out at school.so she could get a tooth necklace to pkace her tooth in. Ultimately she kept thinking of scenarios and as an end result she used the resources she had available to pull her tooth out at school, just as she wanted.

[Rebecca Millerjohn]

I thoroughly enjoy Freckleface Strawberry books. An adorable little girl whose freckles are incredibly prominent and celebrated. She also has a diverse group of friends in her school and very realistic adventures like this one about her tooth. Great midlevel early readers

[Michele Knott]

I really enjoy this early chapter book series.

[Angie]

Cute! I've never read any of these ... Will be looking for more :)

[Heather Jo]

megan spring reading 2016, children's book, leveled reader, easy reader, level three, series, freckleface strawberry, loose tooth, first grade

[Rose Rosetree]

Isn't it a big enough deal for a kid to lose a baby tooth? Won't the Tooth Fairy come regardless?

But not in the (frankly) showoff world of cute little Freckleface Strawberry. In this story, there has to be a kind of completition. If Freckleface loses her wiggly tooth in time, she can win a special prize from the nurse at school.

So relatable to kids! So hilarious to some.

This book-length adventure has built in FIVE STAR appeal.

[JL Salty]

cute. very cute.
i'm assuming Windy Pants Patrick is a nickname for something that happens in a previous book.
but if freckleface strawberry's nickname due to bullying is the whole impetus for the series, why does Windy Pants Patrick's name appear? Might have to find the other books.
such drama from a 24 page book ;)

[Emma]

Extraordinarily creepy. Tooth necklaces. Creepily smiling paper white little girls covered in red "freckles." I'm out.

[Diane]

Freckleface Strawberry desperately wants to loose her tooth at school so that she can wear a tooth necklace like all of her friends.

[Tami]

I pick 5 stars. I pick 5 stars.