Dolly Becomes A Scout

By Kay Whitehouse and Mark Wayne Adams

Meet Dolly, a sweet and dependable hand truck! Dolly is in for some free-wheelin’ fun as she helps Michelle’s Girl Scout troop with their cookie project. But when disaster strikes, Dolly finds herself stranded and scared. Will she be reunited with her family?

Vocabulary words are sprinkled throughout the book with puzzles in

• Language: English
• Publisher: VH Publishing
• Release date: Aug 31, 2016
• ISBN: 9781532365515

Kay Whitehouse

Kay Whitehouse lives in DeLand, FL. Writing and creating stories, as well as song lyrics, is Kay's passion. A published author, she was inspired to write A Hand Truck Named Dolly series for children ages 5-8 after buying a small hand truck to assist her move into a new house. Kay found herself talking to it and calling it Dolly. When she told her grandchildren a bedtime story about a hand truck who was adopted by a family and named Dolly they begged her to write the book. She hopes you like it as much as they do.

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Copyright © 2016 by Kay Whitehouse

VH Publishing

Deland, FL 32720

www.ahandtrucknameddolly.com

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Author: Kay Whitehouse

Illustrator/Designer: Mark Wayne Adams

Editor: Jennifer Thomas

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, translated, or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without the written permission of the publisher.

This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, or incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Kay Whitehouse

First Edition

ISBN-13: 978-1-4951-9607-2

ISBN-13: 978-1-5323-6551-5 (e-book)

LCCN: 2016909640

First Printing 2016

Published in the United States of America

Printed in the United States of America

To Brooke, Jacob, and KK

whose encouragement made it happen.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: A Nose for Spiders

Chapter 2: A Big Blow

Chapter 3: There Is Hope

Chapter 4: Penciled In

Chapter 5: Finder’s Keepers?

Chapter 6: Lost in Storage

Chapter 7: The Power of Hope

Chapter 8: Bees and Boys

Chapter 9: Cookies, Anyone?

Chapter 10: No Riders, Please

Chapter 11: No Beeswax

Chapter 12: Could It Bee?

Fill in the Blanks

Crossword Puzzle

Word Scramble

Word Search

Girl Scouts of America

Author’s Note: Learning to Live with Spiders

Dolly Diagram

CHAPTER 1

A Nose for Spiders

Look at Bear! Hope squeals. There’s a spider web spread all over his face! And look! Spiders are crawling across his nose!

Oh my! Bear chased a lizard into some bushes and came out with something very different. His whole face is covered by a web, and he has, like, gobs of little yellow spiders in his curly fur. By the way, Bear isn’t really a bear—that’s just his name. He’s a great big standard poodle.

Brooke looks up from the gardenia bush she is trimming and laughs. I am standing