Ladybug Book #6: The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes To School

This week we have begun to read The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School by Laurie Halse Anderson. It's the story of a little girl with long, wild red hair. Sometimes in the story, Zoe's hair seems to have a mind of its own!

Second grade made several text-to-text connections to this funny book. One student compared it to Moosetache by Margi Palatini because, in that story, Moose's wild mustache gets in the way of what Moose wants to do. Another comparison was to the fairy tale Rapunzel. Just as Zoe Fleefenbacher used her hair to be handy and helpful, Rapunzel used her hair as a rope ladder for visitors to enter her tower room.

The solar system plays an important part in this book. We looked at an animation of the solar system (it's a drawing that moves!) to help us understand what was going to happen in the story. What Zoe's hair did at the end of the story was really funny!