Daisy's Defining Day

By Susan Mitchell and Sandra V. Feder

Daisy loves words, so she is delighted when Miss Goldner teaches the class about alliteration. When her neighbor Grant starts calling her Lazy Daisy, she decides to come up with an alliterative nickname so dazzling it sticks. As Daisy collects D words that describe her, she shows delightful determination in finding the perfect name.

Daisy’s Defining Day is book two in the Daisy series. With its fresh, fun characters and engaging, believable stories, the Daisy series introduces children to the satisfaction of independent reading and the joy of playing with language.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kids Can Press
• Release date: Feb 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781771381697

Susan Mitchell

Susan Mitchell is originally from Scotland, where she studied drawing and painting at the Edinburgh College of Art. In 1993, she moved to Montreal, where now lives with her husband and son while working as a freelance commercial illustrator. (Susan has designedmore Christmas cards than Santa has whiskers.) She also illustrated Paula Deen's My First Cookbook.

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To my mentor and first editor, Sheila Barry, who believed in Daisy from the start and made all my words better — S.V.F.

For sweet Sadie and happy Holly — S.M.

Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Daisy’s Wonderful Word Lists

Chapter One

Daisy liked knowing all the words to a song and singing them loudly while she danced around the house. She liked making cookies and using at least three different colors of frosting to decorate them. She liked making friendship bracelets with her best friend, Emma, and swearing to Emma that she would never take hers off.

Daisy especially liked riding her bike to the library to check out books. Books were full of words. And even more than making cookies or singing loudly, Daisy loved words. She kept track of her favorite words in a green notebook covered with purple polka dots.

On this particular day, Daisy carried her notebook in her backpack on the way to school. Now that it was early spring, Daisy and Emma often walked with their neighbor, Samantha. They used to try to avoid Samantha because she had only wanted to use words like stop and mine. But now Samantha was a lot more fun.

The only problem was that walking with Samantha also meant walking with Samantha’s younger brother, Grant. He and his friends used words like smelly and gross. Usually, the girls didn’t pay much attention to Grant, but today, Daisy found herself listening to his conversation.

We learned about rhymes yesterday, he said.

Daisy thought about her list of Favorite Rhyming Words. Sweet