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Picture Book · Ages 5–8 · 1996 · Est. 20 min read-aloud
Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair
A town addicted to TV forgets how to read. Can books save them?
4.2/5 Goodreads · 675 ratings
40 pages· 2,488 words· Est. 20 min read-aloud
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Bookroo's summary
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
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The fine print
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
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