"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces raccoons to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--Provided by publisher.

After leaving her newborn kits to search for food, a mother raccoon is separated from them by a flooding creek.

When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him.

Raccoons introduces emergent readers to raccoons' features, habitat, and behaviors while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once. Raccoons includes tools for teachers and caregivers as well as introductory nonfiction features...

Timothy learns about being accepted and making friends during the first week of his first year at school.

When Little Raccoon asks his mother when she loves him the most, she finally answers "always right now."

Katie discovers that the magic wind has followed her to summer camp when she suddenly turns into the baby raccoon she and a new friend have been secretly feeding, and then later gets an inside view of her cabin's bully.

A raccoon and his friends go to great lengths to make sure they will always have a library from which to borrow books.

Chester Raccoon is very unhappy about leaving his home, a tree that has been marked by tree cutters, but his mother tries to convince him that their new home might be even better.

Examines the raccoon's environment, anatomy, social life, mating, babies, and encounters with humans.