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Zoom!

Zoom! Written by Robert Munsch & Illustrated by Michael Martchenko Overview: Lauretta is a girl who uses a wheelchair to get around and she decides that she needs a new one. Her and her mother go to the wheelchair store and look at lots of different motorized wheelchairs, but they are all too slow of the young girl. That is, until she sees the 92-speed wheelchair. She takes it home and tries it out for the day. Because it is so fast, she is able to rescue her little brother and take him to the hospital in her wheelchair when her family's car would not start. Her parents tell her that she can keep the wheelchair because of how useful it proved even though it is very expensive. She tells them that she actually wants a different wheelchair: one that's even faster! This is an exciting and easy to read story that would be great for 1st-2nd graders. This would also be a fun read aloud book in the classroom and the students could all act out the zooming sounds. The pictu...