
Foxy-Lox finds a small hoof print beside a picnic basket that no one has collected. A storm will soak everything by evening.
A four-page mystery: a forgotten picnic basket, a trail of crumbs and a kind explanation.


Foxy-Lox finds a small hoof print beside a picnic basket that no one has collected. A storm will soak everything by evening.

A winding trail of apple crumbs leads downhill, but halfway along, the crumbs divide. Foxy checks which path has fresh bent grass.

Behind a mossy log lies Ginger-Deer’s helper badge. Foxy remembers seeing the same badge pinned beside the town garden.

The mystery ends at the garden, where Ginger is planting in the rain. She forgot the picnic while helping seedlings, so Foxy spreads the blanket above them both.
To Ginger-Deer in the town garden.
SnackPack Sentences & Spelling has many more short reads like this one, plus the Reading Trail, word packs and literacy games.
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