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Penny the Pint-Sized Penguin

Penny the Pint-Sized Penguin
Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 2 to 3
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   4.83

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    easily, slider, nickname, lined, races, belly, fastest, picked, join, course, behind, being, size, close, held, race
     content words:    Pint-Sized Penguin, Pint Sized Penguin

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Penny the Pint-Sized Penguin
By Tracy Huntley 		  
1     Penny the penguin was very small. From the day her mother laid her egg, everyone said how tiny she was.
 
2     When her father held the egg on his feet, the other fathers said, "That is the smallest egg we have ever seen."
 
3     One spring day when Penny hatched from her egg, she got the nickname "Penny the Pint-Sized Penguin".

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