Why is Duke so rude? Find out in this decodable beginning reader focusing on long u. This book uses sequenced phonics skills and sight words to help developing readers. Original illustrations guide readers through the story. Author Cecilia Minden, PhD, a literacy consultant and former director of the Language and Literacy program at Harvard Graduate School of Education developed the specific format for this series.

Elizabeth Scully has been a classroom teacher and reading specialist for 20 years in Western New York. A graduate of Cornell University, she continued her studies in Language and Literacy at Harvard University. She is a trained Reading Recovery teacher and certified at the Associate Level with the Orton-Gillingham Academy. When she is not crafting stories about the animals in her life, Elizabeth is busy trundling her family of boys around town.