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By Lois Lowry Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman

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By Lois Lowry Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman

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    1. By Lois Lowry Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman

    2. Genre: Realistic Fiction

    3. Genre Realistic Fiction is a story that could happen in real life but is made up by an author. It usually has people in it but does NOT have talking animals or imaginary characters.

    4. Prior Knowledge What have you learned about friendship? How is sharing a part of friendship? Think about why the characters are acting the way they are during the story…

    5. Background information Remembering your own experiences will help you understand the story. What do you know about tree houses? What memories do you have about playing in a tree house or a play house?

    6. Selection Summary Chrissy is thrilled when her grandfather builds her the best tree house she has ever seen. It’s not complete, though, until Chrissy hangs a “KEEP OUT!” sign on the door. Chrissy’s friend Leah decides to have a tree house built too. Each girl spends time alone in her tree house, and they do not speak to each other. Finally, the girls discover that a tree house is best when shared with a friend. Can two girls with two tree houses find a way to share?

    8. Marvelous Marvelous: A wonderful or amazing thing Pulling a rabbit out of the hat was a marvelous trick!

    9. Magnificent Magnificent: Very beautiful The fireworks on the fourth of July were magnificent.

    10. Shutters Shutters: A door-like cover that opens and closes over a window.

    11. Hinges Hinges: Metal joints that attach a door to its frame and lets the door move. A couple of rusty hinges made the door squeak when it opened.

    12. Dangling Dangling: Hanging down loosely I play with the cat by dangling toys.

    13. Jiggled Jiggled: To move back and fourth quickly I jiggled my jell-o to make it wiggle!

    14. Enjoy reading the story!

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