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So Rude! Animals Behaving Badly​​
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  • Recommended Grades: K-3

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  • 32 pages

  • Publisher: Millbrook Press (October 7, 2025)
     

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  • ISBN-13: 979-8765671047

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A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

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Grownups say, “Be on your best behavior." But in the animal world, rudeness sometimes rules the day!

 

Scarlet kingsnakes lie; they pretend to be venomous coral snakes to scare off predators. And hippos make a mess; they spray waste to defend their territories. For these animals and many others, being rude can be a matter of survival. Author and science educator Jessica Fries-Gaither introduces seven human behavior rules and the animals that break them!

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