Title: Alfie
Description: Nia loves Alfie, her pet turtle. But he s not very soft, he doesn t do tricks, and he s pretty quiet. Sometimes she forgets he s even there! That is until the night before Nia s seventh birthday, when Alfie disappears! Then, in an innovative switch in point of view, we hear Alfie s side of the story.
Subjects: Gifts, Human-animal relationships, Turtles as pets, Juvenile fiction, Birthdays, African Americans, Children's fiction, Turtles, fiction, Pets, fiction, Birthdays, fiction, Gifts, fiction, African americans, fiction