Directions: Create a Google Doc, Slide or a Word document to type your report.

 You must summarize the book in three well-written paragraphs. Make sure to include the beginning, middle & end to the story.  Then you need to choose four (4) of the following questions to answer in well thought out paragraphs:

1. How would your life be different if you had lived through some of the experiences of the story? 2. Why did you choose this book? 3. Give the names of the three most important characters in the book and a description of each: age, personality, physical description, relationship to other characters. Then state how each character is like or unlike you. 4. Identify the setting of the book. Be sure to include ALL important times & places. Compare/contrast these to your home/school/town. 5. Identify the problem faced by the main characters in the book. Have you faced similar problems? How was the problem solved? 6. Could the story have ended differently? How would you have liked it to end? 7. Write a paragraph telling about something you have seen or done that is related to the story. 8. Give an incident from the story that appeals to you. Give three reasons why you found it interesting. 9. How might the story be different if it were told from another character’s point of view? (For example: The Three Little Pigs told from the wolf’s point of view.) 10. Did you expect the story to end the way it did? What clues did the author give as to how it was going to end?

1. Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 2. Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary, Paul O. Zelinsky (illus.) 3. Holes by Louis Sachar 4. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord, Marc Simont (illus.) 5. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell 6. Matilda by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (illus.) 7. Rules by Cynthia Lord 8. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine 9. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo 10. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1) by Rick Riordan 11. The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate 12. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien