Uh-Oh Cleo

Author: Jessica Harper

Illustrator: Jon Berkeley

Title: Uh-Oh Cleo

Genre: Children’s chapter book

Sub genre: family, medical care

Theme: Fiction

Primary and secondary characters: Cleo, Jack, Jenna, Mom, Dad

Date: 2008

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Publisher Company: Penguin Young Readers Group

Brief summary on how to use for students:  The students will be able to use this book to understand that you should be careful when you play. Accidents happens sometimes when you do not ask someone for help when you need it.

Summary: Cleo has a large family that has six kids and loves to play Candyland with her twin brother Jack that is their favorite game! Her sister Jenna loves to bother the two and their toy house. This Saturday started off like any other, but her twin brother Jack decided to climb their large toy house to try to get something down instead of asking their mother for help and the whole toy house tumbled down. Cleo gets hit in the head and she has to get stitches and that is how a regular Saturday turns into stitches Saturday.