Isabelle Huffman is a precocious 9½-year-old girl who finds herself tangled up in trouble again while visiting French Guiana with her mother. “I don’t cause problems!” Isabelle insists. “Problems find me.” Isabelle and her friend Daniel devise a plan to capture and train a howler monkey. When their antics cause a baby monkey to shock himself on an electrical wire and fall from a tree, Isabelle and Daniel are in a race against the clock to try to save his life before it’s too late.

Isabelle Huffman est une fille de neuf ans et demi qui rencontre encore plein de problèmes pendant son voyage en Guyane avec sa mère. « Je ne cherche pas de problèmes, moi! » insiste-t-elle. « Les problèmes me trouvent. » Isabelle et son ami Daniel décident de capturer un singe hurleur. Lorsque, à cause de leur plan, un bébé singe reçoit un choc d’un câble éléctrique et tombe d’un arbre, Isabelle et Daniel doivent tout faire pour lui sauver la vie avant qu’il ne soit pas trop tard.

Isabelle capture un singe hurleur is the second novel in the Fluency Fast series for true beginners. It uses a vocabulary of only 424 words to tell a 4400-word story. It is repetitive and simple and uses many cognates to make the book comprehensible to beginning adults and children.

Features

• 424 unique words; total word count: 4400
• 43 pages of text
• written in present tense
• written in first person singular
• setting: French Guiana

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