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K-3
Illustrated by
Denise Brunkus.
Pet guinea pig Charlie abandons his owners and heads to Hollywood, where he lands a big part in a movie. Ultimately, he feels like a pig out of water and returns home. There's abundant humor in the illustrations of humans unblinkingly accepting a talking, auditioning guinea pig, whose slick speech ("No problema") has, perhaps inevitably, a scripted feel.