# Cress Watercress

**Author:** Gregory Maguire
**Grade range:** Grades 4–5
**Age range:** 9–11
**First published:** 2022
**Page count:** 225
**Genre:** Middle Grade Animal Fantasy
**ISBN-13:** `9781536224559`
**ISBN-10:** `1536224553`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/cress-watercress
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

After her father fails to return from gathering honey, Cress the rabbit and her family move to a rundown oak and start over; an illustrated woodland novel from the author of Wicked.

## Where this book is assigned

### South Dakota Prairie Bud, Bloom & Pasque Awards

- **recommended** · 4th grade · South Dakota — [source: South Dakota Library Association — Children's Book Award Nominations 2024-2025 (Prairie Bud PreK-1 · Prairie Bloom 2-3 · Prairie Pasque 4-5)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.sdlibraryassociation.org/resource/resmgr/awards/childrens/2023-24/2024-2025_nominations.pdf)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · South Dakota — [source: South Dakota Library Association — Children's Book Award Nominations 2024-2025 (Prairie Bud PreK-1 · Prairie Bloom 2-3 · Prairie Pasque 4-5)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.sdlibraryassociation.org/resource/resmgr/awards/childrens/2023-24/2024-2025_nominations.pdf)

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