First Chapter Friday Read Aloud 2nd-4th Grade: Chickie Jurin’s Zamboozie Stew

Author Heidi DeStefano reads the first chapter of her middle grade novel, Chickie Jurin’s Zamboozie Stew, the first book in the Chickie Jurin’s Tales for the Chicken Obsessed series published by Sastrugi Press. Chickie Jurin, a ten-year-old misfit, wants to be the chicken expert of the world. When her family inherits a Montana ranch, she is thrilled to leave town and have a chicken coop of her own. Not everyone in her family wants to live in the middle of nowhere, though. Will gallons of Zamboozie Stew and the help of an eccentric sagebrush farmer convince her family that the ranch has space for everyone’s dreams? Or will Chickie’s dream get smashed like an egg in a jean pocket?