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The Boat
A Boat is a realistic, humorous story about a sailor with a telescope. On each two-page spread he sees something new then has a humorous collision or encounter with what he’s discovered. In the...
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The Booby Trap
The Booby Trap is humorous, narrative fiction about a group of children who set various booby-traps in order to catch a burglar. Illustrations add humour and extend meaning. Speech bubbles are used...
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The Box House
The Box House is a humorous, fictional text about a boy named Jack who makes a box house outside for him and his mom to sleep in. Each hour, something bad happens and Jack and his mom must go inside...
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The Break
The Break is a realistic recount by a boy, Mick, who goes hiking with his older brother and his friends. The big boys laugh at Mick and get ahead of him. Mick is so angry he leaves the trail and...
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The Bumper Cars
The Bumper Cars is a humorous and realistic fiction story about children getting in different coloured bumper cars. When a girl gets in the green car, the tire falls off and bounces into the ball...
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The Butterfly Robber
The Butterfly Robber is a fictional narrative about a man who steals all the butterflies from the Butterfly Park. When he realizes the butterflies are getting sick, he releases them back to the...
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The Cat Show
The Cat Show is a humorous, animal fantasy about a dog that visits a cat show. Illustrations support the text. The word big is printed in larger font that the other text. Onomatopoetic words, such as...
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The Complete Survival Guide
The Complete Survival Guide is a procedural text that details how to survive in a variety of hostile situations. Hyperthermia and hypothermia, shelter, water, fire, attitude, and improvisation are...
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The Cuckoo Bird
The Cuckoo Bird is an expository text about how cuckoo birds find nests, how they lay eggs, and how they find food for their babies. Illustrations enhance and extend meaning. Photographs are labeled...
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The Daily Meow Newspaper
The Daily Meow is an animal fantasy story with a series of fictional newspaper reports. Some of the headlines of reports in The Daily Meow newspaper include: Cat Robber Raids Again, Tiger Trio at Cat...
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The Day
The Day is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about a bird trying to sleep through the different types of weather. An owl woke the bird up! Readers gain information from the text,...
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The Fall
The Fall is a narrative about an athletic boy who shatters his shoulder after falling while sliding down the stairs. The book also discusses text connections, planning a narrative, and features of a...