Alfie: (The Turtle That Disappeared)

Discover the friendship between a girl and her turtle-from both points of view-in Thyra Heder's Alfie, anaward-winning picture book that celebrates the relationship between a child and a pet.

An ALA/ALSC Notable Children's Book

Nia loves Alfie, her pet turtle. But he's not very soft, he doesn't do tricks, and he's pretty quiet. Sometimes she forgets he's even there-that is, until the night before her seventh birthday, when . . . Alfie disappears!

Where did he go? And why? Nia can't say . ...