-chapter book
This book is about a girl named Winnie that runs away from her strict family and finds a tree made out of a wishing fountain. There, she finds a boy named Jesse who is drinking from this fountain. He explains that it is a ritual in his family and he becomes immoral from doing so. A man in a yellow jacket is always watching them. When this guy decides to talk to them Mae ends up shooting him and killing him. A cop is watching the whole incident and puts Mae in jail to be hung. Since Mae will not die from this act, they tell her she must reveal the secret instead. Winnie is then told to drink the spring water on her birthday and she takes Mae's place. They do not tell the secret because the escape was successful. Lightning ruins the fountain so the Tuck family keeps doing the same routines. Winnie was praised for not drinking from the fountain and being a part of the same magic.
This is a good story to get the kids' imagination moving. Since the 4th grade writing test is an imaginative prompt it would be a good idea to make a prompt similar to this. I can use this book as an example of something that students could add to their writing. The prompt I will give them will be "imagine you find a magical fountain what would you want it to give you the power to do and why." This will be a good follow-up activity to the book because they will have to judge if the power they choose will help them or hurt them in the long run.
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