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Bentley's First Week in the Nest
Callen Crow follows Bentley’s first week in the nest and learns to read changing feelings by noticing faces, bodies, sounds, words, choices, and small shifts in the moment.
In Bentley's First Week in the Nest, Callen Crow discovers that one happy change can bring many feelings at once. He feels proud, careful, worried, relieved, curious, and calm as he learns how to care for newborn Bentley during their first week together. This Hawkins Hollow Second Readers story gives early readers a warm, story-based way to practice noticing character feelings. Across three short chapters and four learning pages, readers follow Callen from the trail to the barn gate, pasture pond, and willow reading circle while watching how feelings change through face, body, sound, words, choices, and small shifts in the moment.
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Character feelings • changing emotions • new siblings • family adjustment • observation • gentleness • and reading comprehension
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