Hello again, my friends! We are now in Week #2 of our Reading Project and I have a small housekeeping issue to discuss with you.
PLEASE be careful when you are selecting the blog post to which you are planning to respond! I had some issues last week and over the weekend with students who had written lovely comments, but they wrote them in the WRONG PLACE. To preserve what little sanity I have left, I did NOT approve those comments and I sent emails to those students telling them that they needed to re-post.
This is not the first time Mrs. Scott and I have taken students to this particular rodeo, so there are OTHER posts that have “Week #2″ in the title! If you notice, our posts for this project have the dates of our particular “Week #2″ in them, so hopefully that should help get you to where you need to be going!
So without further adieu, this week’s topic is (drumroll, please!) SETTING!
- Describe the setting of your first project book (and pretty please include the title of the book in your comment!). Remember that setting is made up of two concepts – place and time – and you need to describe them BOTH. Let’s think of setting more in terms of time period than time of day and if there is a city, state or country that is a part of your setting then that would be helpful, as well.
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- Tell us about a specific event in the book and explain how the setting was important to that plot point. Setting and plot always work together and we want you to illustrate that for us using your book! Select an event and then describe how the “where/when” of that event taking place is important to the “what” that is happening in the story. We’re looking for a setting-plot connection!
We look forward to reading your responses!
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charityb
// Aug 31, 2009 at 9:03 am
ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOPHINS
a) The setting in my book is a villaige named Ghaslasat they live in that villiage because they want to stay away from the enemy. this took place in the spring and summer.
b) Yes it is because this is the most impronant place in the story it is where they live.
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Mrs. S Reply:
August 31st, 2009 at 11:49 am
The setting becomes really important in this book because she is able to use the resources from the island to do what she needs to survive. I think you’ll find out how important it is as you keep reading.
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Zachary T. Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:33 pm
who is the enemy describe what does the island look like.
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travis h Reply:
September 4th, 2009 at 7:42 am
So the dophins couldn’t live if their was no water they would die.
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Lauren H. Reply:
September 7th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Do you think that you could live/survive with the village people or would you miss the here in KY?
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CHelsea H.
// Aug 31, 2009 at 9:11 am
The setting of Bull Rider is in Salt Lick, Navada presant time.
yes, the setting is important to the book Bull rider because Salt Lick as a bull ring and there’s a ranch that are important to the book.
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Mrs. Northcutt Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
How are the bull ring and the ranch important to the book? I’m sure that you’re telling us the truth, but we need more details!
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Kenny G.
// Aug 31, 2009 at 9:15 am
The setting of the book Story Time is in a school called Witter Elementry people having thoughths of the building is haunted .The time is in the past becuse in the book it tell s the time is 1982.
The setting in this book you need the settingor you will be bord and you willhave no idea what is when and where it is happing so yes you need it.
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Mrs. S. Reply:
September 4th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
I don’t really have a comment about your book, but your name instead. I have to say that when I first saw it, I thought of the classical music artist Kenny G. and I had to take a second glance!!!
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Mrs. Northcutt Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Ha! I hadn’t even thought of that, but now that you mention it…
But seriously, it there anything important that happens in your book at the supposedly haunted school? We know that you need a setting to have a where/when for the story to take place, but you need to connect the setting and the plot more clearly.
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mathew m
// Aug 31, 2009 at 9:17 am
The setting of my book Skulduggery Pleasnt takes place in the
shadows and the time is present day and made up.
The settting is inportant to the plot because if there was no setting it would not be even a book what happens in the story is inportant because if Skuldggery was not there stephine would be dead.
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Mrs. Northcutt Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Why would Stephanie be dead if Skulduggery wasn’t there?
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Mackenzie A.
// Aug 31, 2009 at 9:20 am
Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy
By:Wendelin Van Draanen
The setting is in present time,because it takes place in Hollywood and the billboards are advertising things like new skinny leg jeans and new 24 hour lipgloss. The story mainly takes place in the villa, because a thirteen year old cant run around Hollywood and Dominique/ Lana/ Sammys mom and all the other actresses cant be out past curfew.
The setting is important because,it is where everything takes place and also is where Sammy unlocks the mystery of a mummy. The mummy is Maximillion Mullers dead wife Claire, she is locked in a secret room Sammy needs to find it to save her mother from death, and to unlock the mystery.
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Mrs. Northcutt Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Oooh! I can feel the creepiness coming through your description! I like how you’ve used your context clues to figure out the “when” of your setting.
Do you think you’d want to read some of the other Sammy Keyes books now that you have read this one?
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Lauren H.
// Aug 31, 2009 at 9:32 am
*The Runaway Dolls*
My book has Four settings the dollhouse, a wagon, a forest and a store. But the one that is talked is talked the most is their home the dollhouse. The time period is the present day in a fantasy world.
Place-
In the dollhouse during day light hours they (the dolls) are still as statues. At night when the palmers are asleep they exsplore the house, they talk, they play a game.
Time-
The reason I think that the time period is present day in a fantasy world is that everthing is normal. There’s no dinos so its not in the past. The book don’t specify what time period it takes place. Its also a fantasy world because there is talking dolls and well that isn’t normal. Plus you don’t see that in every day life but you do see humans doing normal stuff every single day.
The setting is important because in the doll house when Kate Palmer ( one of the owners) Locks the door in the dollhouse they can move around without going into PDS ( permanit doll state) Which is where if a human sees a doll move or talking they are statues FOREVER.
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Mrs. Northcutt Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Very interesting! So, perhaps if I’d done a better job of sneaking up on my dolls as a child I might have caught them doing things! Good job on using the clues of what wasn’t in the story to determine the setting.
Do the dolls worry about getting stuck in PDS?
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Donovan H
// Aug 31, 2009 at 10:08 am
The setting in Harriet the spy is a big city with apartments and houses that are close together. The time is in the past. Probaly in the 1980s or 1990s. They have all the technology of today just a little less advance.
When the kids form the spy catcher club they have to live pretty close together to walk to a certain house every day. The setting comes in because they live close together and the event is the making of the spy catcher club.
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Natalie P. Reply:
September 1st, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Harriet the Spy sounds interesting! What more is it about?? I would really like to know more about it!
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Trace m
// Aug 31, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Everlost
The setting of my first project book is present day because the twin towers were there when they were alive, and it mostly took place in Everlost.Everlost is like the real world but they are ghost instead of human beings and in Everlost there are MONSTERS!
The setting is important because there are safe places and dangerous places. In the safe places they can stand still and not sink into the earth, in the dangerous places if they stand still they will sink into the earth.
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cameryn d. Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Why are your main chacters monters in everlost?
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Trace m Reply:
September 4th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
The main characters arent monsters ,the main characters are humans but there are monsters in the book.
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Mrs. S. Reply:
September 4th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
I finished this one last weekend. What a great book! The setting of this book is kind of hard to describe isn’t it? Everlost is obviously a fantasy place, but there are so many ‘places’ in Everlost, that it gets confusing. You did a great job!
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Dallas B
// Sep 1, 2009 at 4:30 pm
The Potato Chip Puzzles
part one: Place- A Potato Chip factory, a amusement park, a museum, a farm, and a Court house.
Time- in the present because they have cell phones and a ferrce wheel.
part two: at the amusement park in front of the ferrce wheel someone stole the key. that was still one the ride!
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Mrs. Northcutt Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Good job on using your context clues to determine your setting!
Now what happened on the ferris wheel?
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Natalie P.
// Sep 1, 2009 at 6:44 pm
A. The name of my 1st book I am reading is “The Graveyard Book.” The setting is in a graveyard in the 21st century, with alive and dead people. It is very spooky at night time and a little creepy during the day.
B. A specific event in the story is when Bod is trying to fight off the guy that is trying to kill him. During that scene they are in some kind of a special tomb and it really helps set the mood of the story!
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Zachary T. Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Is this book scary and why was someone trying to kill him?
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Mrs. S. Reply:
September 4th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
The best way to find out Zac is to read the book. You would like it! It’s a great book, but even the reader isn’t sure why he is trying to kill Bod at that point. That’s one thing that makes it so interesting. You have to stick with it to figure out why.
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Natalie P. Reply:
September 4th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
In some parts it is scary and in others it is not very. Someone was trying to kill him because the bad guy killed his family in the first so he has to kill the boy too.
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Mrs. S. Reply:
September 4th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
The setting of that fight really does help the mood. It puts you on the edge of your seat. It isn’t often you read about a fight that takes place in a tomb.
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Natalie P. Reply:
September 4th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
I know, that was likethe best part of the entire book!
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Jodie B. Reply:
September 4th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
The book sounds really weird. Is it and does Bod get away or not?
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kellie g. Reply:
September 5th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
this book looks very interesting. does this book involve zombies or not? it looks really interesting so i might read that as my third book. it really makes you want to read the book after you just read that little summary becauseit is so detailed and interesting.
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Mrs. Northcutt Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Not so much with the zombies, Kellie. However, the book does feature a vampire, a werewolf, and an assortment of ghosts and ghouls!
I heart this book…
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Matea .M
// Sep 1, 2009 at 8:35 pm
The book The Serial Garden set in the 1950`s which is in the past. They just moved to a little cottage on a hill overlooking the town which you could see as far as the river valley to Lynchbourne.
In the chapter The Ghostly Governess when Harriet and her brother Mark talked to Admiral Lecacheur to get some information about the ghost Mrs.Allison they sat on a bench in the Admirals garden by the river.
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Mrs. Northcutt Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
So, are there spooky things like a ghost in all of the stories in this book?
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cameryn d.
// Sep 2, 2009 at 3:45 pm
The setting of my first project book “The Goatnappers” takes place in the present day at the old place. I know my book takes place in the present day because there is alot about fashion. And there is a McDonald’s. I know the main setting of my book is the old place because, what the old place is, is where they hide the goat and rabbit.
Yes the setting is important to the plot. Because, the setting is the old place which is a burnt down house with tall weeds and a barn so they can hide the goat Little Billy and the rabbit.
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mackenzie a. Reply:
September 4th, 2009 at 7:40 am
So why did they still the goat in the first place? How did they still the goat? whos goat is it.
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ashley r.
// Sep 2, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Home Of The Brave
A.the setting of the story is winter and in Amercia at his ants. The time is present because of the clues that it gives you like now,then,here.
B.when Kek was going to run away. you need to know were he is going, why he is runing away.
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sierra g. Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:04 pm
were does this story take place ? what is the scenery like? Is it a good book. Is this a book you would recemend?
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MaHailey b.
// Sep 2, 2009 at 5:33 pm
A. The setting of ” Extra Credit is at school. And there is this teacher that gets this shoe box out & inside of it has assimate in it. And when you grab a piece of paper out it will say something that you have to do. And the teacher called up Abby up to get an assimate.
B. The plot of the book ” Extra Credit.” I think that the plot isn’t inportant because, the setting is at school. The reason why the setting of the book isn’t inportant is because it always start at school. And also it’s about Abby writing a letter to somebody in another country.
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Mrs. Northcutt Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Actually, it sounds to me like it is important to the plot that the setting is at school! You mention assignments that a teacher is giving and you don’t really get those from places other than school.
Is the letter that Abby is writing to someone in another country the assignment that she drew from the box?
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Hannah B.
// Sep 2, 2009 at 6:25 pm
1.The book is called Game. The place is located at school…the time is also after school at basketball practice.
2.A specific event in my book are the basketball games… the games are so important to them because they want to win the games, and Drew was sat down on the bench through some of the games
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Mrs. Northcutt Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
I’m not sure that you understood what sort of “time” you were supposed to be including in your post! The “time” aspect of setting should be considered to be the time period rather than the time of day.
Is this a novel that takes place in the present? The past? The future? Is the world realistic, fantasy or futuristic?
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sierra g.
// Sep 2, 2009 at 8:49 pm
deep,dark,and dangerous.
1 It takes place at a cottage on a lake front. The cottage is called Gull Cottage. The wheather is stormy. It takes place in the present day.
2 A girl amed Teresa drowned at the lake thirty years ago. The main character Ali finds out that her mom and aunt were there when Teresa drowned. This is important because Ali runs in to Teresa who goes by the name of sissy. Sissy tries to get Ali to get her mom and aunt to tell the truth about the drowing.
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Natalie P. Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:05 pm
I am reading that book now it is sooooo good!!!!!!!!!!
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Hannah B. Reply:
September 4th, 2009 at 10:38 am
If you had to go somewhere would you go could you be please be speififc??
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Zachary T.
// Sep 2, 2009 at 10:37 pm
The Deep and Dark and Dangerous
a.The setting is Gull Cottage at Sycamore Lake in Maine.It is summer time. The picture Ali found said 1977 and it is 30 years later so summer of 2007.
b.The setting is important because Sissy takes Emma and Ali out in the middle of the lake in a boat.The same boat Teresa was in when she drowned it was cold and foggy and you couldn’t see the boat tipped over and they all fell in the lake.
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Mrs. Northcutt Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Ooh! You should give us a little more detail about the relationships between the characters.
Which one of them is the ghost?
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Zachary T. Reply:
September 9th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Ali and Emma are cousins their moms are sisters.Their moms used to spend every summer at the lake until the accident.Then they never went back until now.Delsie which is Emma’s mom has gone back to paint and Ali is babysitting Emma. Sissy shows up and Ali realizes she is the ghost of Teresa with unfinished business.
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seth
// Sep 3, 2009 at 5:28 pm
1 In the book Whales on Stilts they live in a town called pelt. Which is crazy floating restraunts, a area that lives in horror, and a whole district to warehouses that are abandond. This town seems like the present with a little future mixed in. Because we have no floating restraunts or mind controle.
2 I think I figured this out because through out the book it talks about the floating restraunt and at the end with a whale guy contoling whales minds. So this evidence suports that it is the present with a little future mixed in.
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zachary S. Reply:
September 4th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
If you were stuck in the book what would you do, think about my question be specific with your anwser.
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seth Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
I would make the best of it eat at that resturant a time or two, play at the abandond warehouse district, and stay away from the horror hallow, and live my usual life
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travis h
// Sep 4, 2009 at 7:37 am
A]The place is Swindle’s house in Cedarvile.The time is around the 1980.
B]Yes because they need to be at Swindle’s house to get their card.The house has a navy sucrty sistemy.
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Mrs. Northcutt Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Who exactly is “they” and why are those people trying to get a card? What kind of a card is it?
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Julia D.
// Sep 4, 2009 at 10:45 am
1.My book name Waiting For Normal.It is located in front of a train track.The time is present in this book.
2.A spasific event in my book is that her mom leaves and does not come back.She thinks she is comeing back but she does not.
She hopes that she is going to come back with her other kids.
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Mrs. Northcutt Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Is this train track important to the story? Is it in a city or out in the country? Why did the mom leave?
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zachary S.
// Sep 4, 2009 at 6:59 pm
1.My name of my book is The Dangerus Days Of DanielX it takes present in the book.
2.A specific event happend daniel mom & dad were murdered by somebody daniel keeps on fighting to find out who killed his parents his were killed by a 24/24 rifel by number 6 on the list that he found.
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Mrs. Northcutt Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
You told us when this book takes place, but not where. Could you enlighten us?
I’ve read this one, so I know that there are at least two major “where”s!
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Jodie B.
// Sep 4, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Ways to Live Forever
1. The setting takes place at Sam’s home mainly. The time is present (happening right now). Sam lives in America in a small town.
2. A specific event in the book is when Felix meets Sam in the hospital when Sam is getting treatments for leukemia. They become best friends and the story also reflects on them throughout the book.
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Mrs. Northcutt Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Very direct and to the point! I remember that you told me about how Sam and Felix live close together. Why was that significant?
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kellie g.
// Sep 5, 2009 at 12:04 pm
1) The title of the book is savvy.the setting is kansas nebraska and present day. the place would be discribed as a normal state that Mibs lived in.
2) when Mibs papa or dad got in a reck and was put in the hospital.the setting helpsby having a place to reck at on an highway and the hospital to be put in after the reck on the highway.
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Mrs. Northcutt Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
What caused the wreck? Were the parents OK?
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Blake Q.
// Sep 7, 2009 at 2:45 pm
The title of my book is The Big Filed.
The main setting is a 11 year old boy playing in a MLB field.
It is the bottom of the 9th the score is 4 to 4. He is saying please hit it to me please. He thinks nobody eals on his team can hit the ball.He plays short stop.
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Mrs. Northcutt Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
You should tell us why an eleven year old is playing ball on a major league field! That sounds interesting…
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Mackenzi G.
// Sep 9, 2009 at 6:19 pm
HOOT
1.The place were Hoot takes place is Coconut Cove , Florida and,the time that Hoot takes place in 2000 during the spring
that is the setting for Hoot.
2.The specific Place in Hoot is where the Mother Paula’s Pancake House why this place is important to the plot
point is that the Mother Paula’s Pancake House
company did not know that owls were living and does not have
a construction permit to kill the owls.
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kenny.g
// Sep 10, 2009 at 6:58 pm
My books name is the Last Apprintes and I chose that book becuse it sounded entrsting from what I heard.And it is from what I read .It is kind of like a cemetery or something like that.The time is on halloween and kids are getting evil.
Apsifc place is when they go to the cemetery and the see gosts and gobblins and does not belive what they see.The setting is very important to this book or it would not be good.I think when they went in to the cementrey and they where scared that was whrn they where dared to go in .
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matthew s.
// Sep 11, 2009 at 10:51 am
1.The setting of The Red Kayak isa house by the river. A 2 story house down by a river where Brady and his parents live.It is in the past because he wonders if what happened to a little boy is his falt.
2.He was out crabing with his father. And started dumping them back in the water. The setting is important because they would have get to the land quick.
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DAKOTA.B
// Sep 11, 2009 at 11:14 am
hard gold
a thouht it was a good book and trace has read it befour and
thates how I picked my book
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courtney h.
// Sep 20, 2009 at 7:38 pm
A lot of sea otters have been killed from the Russians. The Russians captin Orlove used the fur for cover and they ate the meat. The Russians moved back to there place with the otters skin In the boat.They took all the Indians but they left one . They left him at the Island. Corona jump out of the boat and got away. Corona went back to the Island to save her brother.
questions
1. Did she save her brother.
2. Did she get to the shore.
3. What did she do to save her brother.
4. Are they okay.
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