Potato Chip Pete
9781442554849
Potato Chip Pete is a recount by an avid young gardener. When a potato chip company invites local gardeners to compete in a potato-growing competition, everyone is worried about Pete, the grumpiest gardener ever. Happily, when the results are announced, everyone sees a different side of Pete. The story is told in dialogue and first-person narrative.
The text is composed of a variety of sentence types. Illustrations support the text but not all events are illustrated. Quotation marks, exclamation marks, and dashes are used. Large display type is used for emphasis. The book concludes with a two-page spread explaining the characteristics of a recount.
Some words may require clarification: local, company, compost, certificate. The suffixes -y (smelly), -ed (grumped), and -er (grumpier) are used.
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