Marcus Finds His Voice

This story, as with the other books in the Marcus series,invites young readers to explore their natural worldand experience its wonders through the eyes of itslovable protagonist. The syllabic highlighting of text provides young readersgreater ease in applying phonetic understandingto decode new vocabulary. The rich vocabulary isintentional, and awakens the mind to an excitinglinguistic adventure that will be experienced by theyoung reader as a challenge overcome. It is theauthor s heartfelt desire that this story be an initial sparkigniting a life-long passion for reading and unlockingthe power of literacy for its readers.