Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair
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Picture Book · Ages 5–8 · 1996 · Est. 20 min read-aloud

Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair

Written by Patricia Polacco

A town addicted to TV forgets how to read. Can books save them?

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40 pages· 2,488 words· Est. 20 min read-aloud· AD510L
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In Triple Creek, screens rule every moment, even in schools. Eli's Aunt Chip, a TV skeptic, discovers the town's forgotten how to read. Determined to revive literacy, she builds a book dam, challenging the town's obsession. Will the magic of reading break the screen's spell?

From the publisher

How much TV is too much TV? Welcome to Triple Creek, where the townspeople watch TV day and night. They watch it when they’re eating, working, playing, and sleeping. They even use TVs to teach the kids at school. But when Eli’s eccentric Aunt Chip (who refuses to own a TV) discovers that her nephew and her neighbors don’t remember how to read, she pulls the plug on the whole town, using books that have been piled high to build a dam to spread the magic of reading all around.

At a glance
Format
Hardcover
Pages
40
Words
2,488
Reading age
5–8
Audience
Picture
Lexile
AD510L
Themes & topics
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
4.2
F&P level
~N
Scholastic level
N
AR points
0.5
AR interest level
MG
AR quiz
18257
Publication
Published
March 19, 1996
Publisher
Philomel Books
Edition
Language
English
Type
Picture Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9780399229435
LCCN
95010112
OCLC
32201485

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