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About This Passage
This is how Chapter 28 begins. It is a sad, quiet sentence. Kate has come back to the place where she used to be happy with Sam, but the lake is gone and the town is empty. The phrase 'a ghost town on a ghost lake' uses the same word twice to make the reader feel how empty the place is.
After twenty years, Kate Barlow returned to Green Lake. It was a place where nobody would ever find her—a ghost town on a ghost lake. The peach trees had all died, but there were a couple of small oak...
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Narration Prompt
Retell Chapter 28 to a grown-up. Start with Kate coming back to Green Lake and ending with the lizard on her ankle. Say what Trout and Linda wanted from her, and what Kate said instead of telling them.
Discussion Questions
- What in the story tells you that Kate Barlow still loves Sam, even after twenty years have passed?
- What in the story tells you that Linda and Trout Walker are not just mean, but also scared and desperate?
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Came back to a place where you had been before.
Item 2
The color of grass and leaves when plants are healthy.
Item 3
A spot or location where something is or where something happens.
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