Isabela captura un congo
by Karen Rowan
Isabela Huffman is a precocious 9½-year-old girl who finds herself tangled up in trouble again while travelling to Costa Rica with her mother. I don t cause problems! Isabela insists. Problems find me. Isabela and her friend Daniel devise a plan to capture and train a howler monkey. When their antics cause a baby monkey to shock himself on an electrical wire and fall from a tree, Isabela and Daniel are in a race against the clock to try to save his life before it s too late.
Isabela captura un congo is the second novel in the Fluency Fast series for true beginners. It uses a vocabulary of only 350 words to tell a 3500-word story. It is repetitive and simple and uses many cognates to make the book comprehensible to beginning adults and children.