# Martha Speaks

**Author:** Susan Meddaugh
**Grade range:** Grades K–3
**Age range:** 5–8
**First published:** 1992
**Page count:** 32
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780395633137`
**ISBN-10:** `0395633133`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/martha-speaks
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Problems arise when Martha, the family dog, learns to speak after eating alphabet soup.

## Themes

- dogs
- spanish language materials
- ficción juvenil
- perros

## Where this book is assigned

### Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania)

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 1994-1995 winner (K-3)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 1st grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 1994-1995 winner (K-3)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 1994-1995 winner (K-3)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 1994-1995 winner (K-3)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)

### Nebraska Golden Sower Award

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 1995 winner (Picture Book)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 1st grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 1995 winner (Picture Book)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 1995 winner (Picture Book)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 1995 winner (Picture Book)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)

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