Read the excerpt from "Tough Break."Fabio slumped in his chair when he heard the verdict. "You have a broken leg," the doctor said, looking at the boy who was known for fast dives on his trampoline.
Read the excerpt from "Light Bulb Moment."To make matters worse, Mrs. Allen, his English teacher, had confused her blue water bottle with the one that Jake was using to hold his raw seawater sample. She took a huge gulp of it and then started sputtering in frightfully poor grammar that shocked everyone. She insisted that she had swallowed a large chunk of seaweed. Jake did not tell her that he actually had no idea what was in his raw water sample. He had scooped it out of the bay very quickly that morning for fair demonstration purposes. In other words, it was quite possible that Mrs. Allen had swallowed a fish.
Which excerpt provides a clue to the time period in which "Homesickness" takes place?
Which is the general setting of "Sea Life"?
Read the excerpt from "Black Day, 1935."Then Pop turned to Hans. “The good news is: I stopped at the Grange this morning and put in your tree order. It looks like this farm is not going down without a fight.”Hans grinned, standing up a little straighter. He couldn’t help himself and crossed the kitchen floor to give his dad a bear hug the way he did when he was little. “No, Pop, it’s not,” was all that he could say as his tears tracked through the dust.
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