
Orca Echoes Collection with Resource Guide
Praise for Captain Jake
"This easy-to-read, beginning chapter book blends fictional characters with real facts... Large print, short chapters and many full page illustrations make this a good chapter book for developing readers."
—Resource Links, February 2009
This collection includes the following titles. To read book details, see the Orca Ech …

Orca Echoes Collection
At-level fiction for ages 7 to 9.
Praise for Captain Jake
"This easy-to-read, beginning chapter book blends fictional characters with real facts... Large print, short chapters and many full page illustrations make this a good chapter book for developing readers."
—Resource Links, February 2009
The following titles are included in this collection …

What are my jobs?
Children love to take an active role in helping around their homes. This busy book shows children helping out inside the house by cleaning and washing dishes, as well as outside by raking leaves and sorting materials for recycling.
Water changes
In this simple science book, children will learn about the different states of water—liquid, vapor, and solid, and what happens when water changes from one state to another. An illustration of the water cycle helps explain how water evaporates, moves to the sky, and falls back down as rain or snow.
This is my home
In this book, children will learn about different kinds of homes, such as houses, apartments, and mobile homes, as well as the purpose of each room within a home. Questions about the reader’s home help children connect the information to their own personal experiences.
This is my family
Families are built in many different ways. This interesting book describes the different members who make up a family including sisters and brothers, parents and stepparents, and grandparents. A creative activity asks children to write a book or a story about their families and add family photos.

Farmer Joe's Hot Day
Farmer Joe returns in a colourful reader!
Farmer Joe has a problem: he works so hard that by the end of the day he is very hot and tired.
"What can I do?" he asks his wife.
You'll laugh at the clever way Farmer Joe's wife helps him keep his cool. Or does she?
Farmer Joe's Hot Day was both the author and illustrator's debut book, and the trilogy became …

Farmer Joe Goes to the City
Farmer Joe returns in a colourful reader!
Farmer Joe goes to the city to buy his wife a birthday present. It has to be special and it has to be red — her favourite colour.
What a surprise! You'll never guess what Farmer Joe buys!
This classic story returns in a bright levelled reader format for a new generations of books lovers!