The Gift

The Gift is a narrative about a girl and her dad trying to save a kitten while mending their relationship and grieving the recent death of her mom. The text contains some emotionally sensitive content. The book also discusses text connections, planning a narrative, and features of a narrative. 

The text is divided into chapters and a Contents is provided.  A variety of sentence types is used.  Illustrations support and enhance the text. Text boxes call attention to literary features such as personification, alliteration, imagery,  similes, and metaphors and prompt the use of comprehension strategies, such as questioning, predicting, inferring, analyzing, and clarifying.

The text uses descriptive language.

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