As soon as Jason hears the legend of Elihu, he knows he must catch the great fish. But Old Snout, the gator, guards Elihu. Legend says, too, that whenever Elihu is hooked, the bass whispers a secret. This novel also features two foster children looking for a home; Sundance, the miniature horse with a craving for peppermints; and a young girl who edits her dream of becoming an ice-skater as she recovers from a brain tumor that has robbed her balance.
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Shelley Fraser Mickle. Jason and Elihu
ONE. THE WIDE-AWAKE DREAM
TWO. THE LEGEND OF ELIHU
THREE. JASON’S SENTENCE
FOUR. THANKS BUT NO THANKS
FIVE. FISHING FOR ELIHU
SIX. HOOKED
SEVEN. JAZEL
EIGHT. COOTER’S STONE
NINE. CAUGHT
TEN. SENTENCED WITH SILENCE
ELEVEN. A MARBLE ROLLING DOWNHILL
TWELVE. ELIHU’S NOSE
THIRTEEN. THE ORANGE LAKE BASS TOURNAMENT
FOURTEEN. FINDING DENTON TIGER
FIFTEEN. MEETING ELIHU SNOW
SIXTEEN. MRS. HASTURN’S CLOSET
SEVENTEEN. HERE I COME, ELIHU
EIGHTEEN. WORMS ON A CHRISTMAS TREE
NINETEEN. FISH BREATH AND TUNA JUICE
TWENTY. A DEATHLY STRUGGLE
TWENTY-ONE. AFTER ELIHU
TWENTY-TWO. THE FIRST SATURDAY IN JUNE
Some Questions to Discuss
Отрывок из книги
Tic, tic, tic. The line in Jason’s hands bobs. The great fish Elihu is about to strike. “Shhhh. Wait. Careful. Go slow,” Grampy Luke whispers from the back of the jon boat behind Jason.
Near the bank, Jason thinks he sees bottle caps floating in the water. But suddenly the caps rise and swim toward him. They are alligator eyes. Jason swallows. “There! Old Snout! Grampy Luke, fight him off!”
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Now that he was eleven he thought he ought to be much taller. Slow-growing his mother called him. She said he was like her brother, who ended up six-feet and did all his growing after he turned twenty. Jason sure hoped his mother was right.
His hair–the reddish-brown color of his father’s–was just about the color of a new pencil’s eraser. More than a dozen times he’d been called Eraser Head. Pipsqueak and Squirt, too. At least, those were some of the names. There were more.
