Tricia's+book+report

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__ Book Report __ Directions: Answer all 8 of the questions/statements in complete sentences. Feel free to add a related picture to your report. ident 1. What is the title of your book and who is the author? The title of this book is The One and Only Zoe Lama, and the authors name is Trish Cohen. 2. Name and describe two main characters. One main characterof this book is Zoe.She has curly brown long hair. Zoe lives in apartment with her mother. She is fun and has really good ideas.Another main charactar is Devon. She is abig girl she wears pink and cares about the class pet to much. She has stright long blonde hair and wears all the clothes her dad makes her. The total opposite of Zoe. 3. Write a summary of your book. The book I read is __The One and Only Zoe Lama written__ by Trish Cohen.Zoe has the chicken pox and she was not aloud to go to school for two weeks.Zoe's nickname is Zoe Lama because everyone in school comes to her for advice.Then when she goes to school there is this six grader who now everybody goes to her for advice.Her name is Devon.Devon is now in her class.then they have this election for who is going to be president for there class island. Zoe lets Devon win.Even when her advice comes from a dog book. But Zoe feels bad because Devon's dad might die.

The following questions were taken from : http://www.ttms.org/say_about_a_book/say_about_a_book.htm  Big Question #1: What makes this book good?This book is good how it tells you advice and is mean to the total girl.

Big Question #2: What would make this book better? As a critic, it’s important to be honest. And honestly, some parts of some books are pretty bad. This book would better if Zoe would have won the elecetion instead of Deveon.

Big Question #3: What’s the one most important thing the author wants you to know? This is the main idea. It’s almost as though you could squeeze a whole book down to a __single sentence__ and say that’s what it was all about. It is about two girls who both give good advice.

Big Question #4: Why did the writer write this? Why did the author bother to tell this story? What is it about this particular story that the author thought was so important? Was it just for fun or to teach something?This story has no way it could be important. So I guess it was written for fun.

Big Question #5: What does the audience need to know to understand and enjoy the book? In other words, what background knowledge would be good to have prior to reading this book? There is a girl who solves people's problems.