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April Rose in Charge

Story Stats

Rating: 5
Grade Level: 3, 4, 5
Page count: 20

Author

Barbara
Sinopoli

Appeared in

Cricket Magazine Vol 44, Num 6 March 2017, Cricket Magazine Vol 44, Num 7, April 2017 & Cricket Magazine Vol 44, Num 8, May/June 2017.

Story Summary

Twelve-year-old April Rose assures her mom that she can manage the sheep farm while her mom is at a meeting. After all she has two of the best sheep dogs around and she's brought in the sheep a million times. But not during a torrential rain storm with flash flooding and not with a baby lamb trapped in a brush patch in near pitch-black conditions. A great young hero story.