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In this novel in verse, a boy named Theo can’t stop worrying about the war he sees on TV.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a distant country, war is wreaking havoc. Theo, safe in his house, is horrified by the images of violence he sees on TV, and he can’t stop wondering why: Why the war? Why this senseless violence? Why so much hate? His dad says it’s complicated, and has no real answers to give him. His friends at school say that kids shouldn’t be worried about faraway wars. But Theo can’t stop thinking about bombs destroying houses and schools. He starts to feel very, very alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by an unusual act he sees on TV, where a woman gives seeds of the national flower to an enemy soldier, Theo wonders if there’s a way that he can help sow the seeds of peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeaving poems and striking illustrations, this book shows how war hurts people everywhere. The story reminds us that everyone — young or old, near or far — has the power to create positive change. 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summarize the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescribe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.5\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExplain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.6\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.7\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMake connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.2\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDetermine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDetermine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.5\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExplain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescribe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnalyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.2\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDetermine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; 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In this novel in verse, a boy named Theo can’t stop worrying about the war he sees on TV.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a distant country, war is wreaking havoc. Theo, safe in his house, is horrified by the images of violence he sees on TV, and he can’t stop wondering why: Why the war? Why this senseless violence? Why so much hate? His dad says it’s complicated, and has no real answers to give him. His friends at school say that kids shouldn’t be worried about faraway wars. But Theo can’t stop thinking about bombs destroying houses and schools. He starts to feel very, very alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by an unusual act he sees on TV, where a woman gives seeds of the national flower to an enemy soldier, Theo wonders if there’s a way that he can help sow the seeds of peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeaving poems and striking illustrations, this book shows how war hurts people everywhere. 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ages 9
to 12
/ grades 4
to 7