# Mr. Popper's Penguins

**Author:** Richard Atwater · Florence Atwater
**Lexile:** 910L
**Grade range:** Grades 3–5
**Age range:** 8–11
**First published:** 1938
**Page count:** 139
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780316058421`
**ISBN-10:** `0316058424`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/mr-poppers-penguins
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A small-town house painter receives a penguin in the mail and soon has a dozen of them living in his refrigerator, which he trains into a vaudeville act. The Atwaters' Newbery Honor novel is a common 3rd-5th grade assignment and appears in Common Core Appendix B.

## Themes

- family
- adventure
- imagination
- determination

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 4-5 Newbery Honor](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)

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