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Chapter Book-7 Section 3

Author:  E.B. White
Title: Charlotte's Web
Illustrator: E.B. White
Genre: Children's Literature
Subgenre: Chapter Book
Theme: Determination
Primary and Secondary characters: Fern, Wilbur, Charolette
Awards, date of publication: 1989
Publishing company: 
Summary: one morning at the breakfast table, A young girl named Fern watches her father leave their home with an ax in his hand. Fern then asks her mother where he is going. Her mother then tells her that her father is going to kill the runt that was born last night. Fern then talks her father into saving the pig. The pig is named Wilbur and is moved to a farm down the street. This is where Wilbur meets Charlotte who is a spider. One day Wilbur finds out that he is going to be fattened up so he can be ate for dinner. Charlotte begins spinning webs that say words like "radiant" so that the men will not eat him. It works and the men do not eat him. Unfortunately, Charlotte dies but hatches eggs so that Wilbur will still have friends. This book could be used when introducing popular literature.

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