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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Lower case letters race each other up the coconut tree; when the whole alphabet is in the tree, they all fall
out and get hurt. Upper case letters (parents/family) hug them and fix them up to make them feel better. The lower
case letters climb back up the coconut tree. It’s nighttime and there is a full moon. Lowercase ‘a’ crawls out of bed
and wants to play all over again.

Freight Train
A freight train rides along a track. There is a red caboose at the back, orange tank car, yellow hopper car,
green cattle car, blue gondola car, purple boxcar, a black tender and a black steam engine (1978). It moves through
tunnels, by cities, crosses trestles, in darkness, in daylight, and then it is gone.

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Alexander wakes up and from then on, everything goes wrong. He has gum in his hair, he trips on a
skateboard and drops his sweater in the sink. His brothers find cool toys in their cereal boxes and he doesn’t. On
the way to school, he does not get a window seat. His teacher doesn’t like his art, singing, or counting. At lunch
his best friend ditches him, and his mother forgot to give him dessert. After school he goes to the dentist and has a
cavity. The elevator closes on his foot, his brother pushed him in the mud and Alexander starts punching him
when his mother sees him and scolds him. At the shoe store they don’t have the shoes he wants in his size and he
gets ugly white ones. At his dad’s work he forgets he isn’t allowed to play with the office equipment. He had lima
beans for supper and saw kissing on TV, which he hates. His bath was too hot, he got soap in his eyes, his marble
went down the drain and he had to wear pyjamas he hates (railroad train pyjamas). His brother took back a pillow
he gave Alexander, his night light burns out, he bites his tongue, and the cat wants to sleep with his brother, not
him. Throughout, he keeps mentioning that he wants to move to Australia.

Good Night, Gorilla

The zookeeper makes his last rounds before he goes to bed, saying goodnight to all the zoo animals. But
the gorilla snags his keys and one by one lets all the animals out of their cages. They follow the zookeeper into his
house and into his bedroom, where his wife is. She says goodnight to her husband, but all the animals reply
instead. She brings them all back to their cages and heads back home, but the gorilla and the mouse still follow her
to bed, where they sleep for the night. There is often a moon and balloon in the background, and there is always
the mouse and its banana. In the gorilla’s cage there is a Curious George stuffed animal, in the elephant’s there is
Babar, the lion is a “stuffed animal” itself, and the armadillo has Ernie. A picture of the zookeeper’s family is on
the nightstand, and eventually at the end of the story, it reveals that it’s a picture of the zookeeper, his wife, and
the gorilla.

The Stinky-Cheese Man

An old man and woman made a man out of stinky cheese because they are lonely. When the woman opens
the oven, the stinky cheese man runs out and says you can’t catch me! But they don’t want to catch him because he
smells awful. The SCM meets a cow, a little girl and boy. None of them want to catch him either. The SCM comes
to a river and doesn’t know how to get across without falling apart. A fox offers to help him. Riding on the fox’s
back, the SCM smells so bad the fox gags and sneezes and the SCM flies off the fox, into the river, and falls apart.
 Stellaluna
Stellaluna and her mother are separated by an owl attack. She falls into a bird’s nest where she is adopted
by Mama bird. Stellaluna doesn’t fit in: she hates sleeping at night, she hangs upside down, she can’t land
gracefully on branches and she hates eating bugs. But Mama bird will only let her stay if she follows the rules.
(Mama Bird thinks Stellaluna is a bad example for her baby birds.) She practices flying so she will get better, but
she flies too far and soon it is dark. She is soon surrounded by bats and is told that what is wrong for birds is right
for bats. She reunites with her mother. She shows her bird friends what her bat family is like. Now the birds feel
like they don’t belong. Despite their differences, they are alike in many ways, and are still friends.

Artemis Fowl
Characters
Artemis ‘Arty’ Fowl II- skin white as a vampire; a pale adolescent with authority and vocabulary of a powerful
adult; gaunt; white polo shirt; deep blue eyes
Butler – Artemis’ butler; giant, with mammoth hands; deep blue, almost black eyes, shaven head
Juliet – Butler’s little sister (teen); glitter mascara, blonde hair, long painted nails
Captain Holly Short – an elf (fairy was just a general term), also a leprechaun, but that is just a job. Nut-brown
skin, cropped auburn hair, hazel eyes, hooked nose, plump and cherubic mouth (her great-grandfather was Cupid),
slim frame, long tapered fingers, pointed ears, three feet tall (one cm below average); Mother a European elf with
fiery temper and willowy figure.
Lieutenant Cudgeon – Retrieval Squad’s leader; sexist bastard
Commander Julius Root ‘Beetroot’ – face often purple (like a beetroot), terrible complexion, red as a tomato
Foaly – paranoid centaur (convinced human intelligence agencies were monitoring his network); always wears a
tinfoil hat so the Mud People (humans) can’t read his mind
Mulch Diggums – kleptomaniac dwarf; dubious; preferred digging and entering (his magic forfeited, he doesn’t
mind); arrested over 20 times; dwarf males can unhinge their jaws, ingest several pounds of earth/sec, which is
processed, and ejected out the other end. (dwarves hate fire, no desire to live above ground); hazel or tawny eyes.
(once dwarf hair removed from body, it stiffens in rigor mortis.)

Nguyen Xuan – handmade loafers, silk shirt, three gold signet rings, English has a tinge of Oxford, nails recently
manicured; stringy moustache; wears khaki shirt on trip to see fairy
Sprite – long and hooked nose, 2 slitted golden eyes, pointed ears, skin like putty (because of alcohol addiction)
Artemis ‘Timmy’ Fowl I – Artemis’ father, disappeared; put the family fortune in jeopardy; missile launched at
his ship (with 250, 000 cans of cola).
Angeline Fowl – Artemis’ mother; bedridden since her husband’s disappearance (nervous tension – mentally ill);
smells of petals in water
Captain Trouble Kelp – head of LEPretrieval One; intrudes on Fowl’s property
Corporal Grub Kelp – Kelp’s brother (lower in rank)
Professor Cumulus – behavioural specialist tries to read Artemis
Dr Argon – psychologist from ‘below the US’ also tries reading Artemis

Plot
Prologue: psychiatrists analyze and discuss Artemis Fowl. Problem: his own intelligence, he’s a child prodigy. //
He goes to Ho Chi Minh City to find a sprite. Convinces her to give them the Fairy book, for he will purge her of
alcohol. They take pictures of the book pages and leave. Butlers served Fowls for centuries; once put together,
paired for life. He wants the translation of this book (fairies bible, written in GNOMMISH) because he wants gold;
if he can take advantage of the fairies he can force them to co-operate by exploiting them (he knows their secrets).
He discovers the Gnommish figures are similar to Egyptian hieroglyphics and that it is to be read in a spiral
manner – he decodes the book. Fowls are legendary criminals, but because of his father, their billionaire status was
no longer (until now, because Artemis has a means of getting gold). // Holly Short was in a very bad mood
because Root was mad that the only girl in Recon ever had been assigned to his squad. LEPrecon = elite branch of
Lower Elements Police. She’s late for work and Root is on her case, tells her so because she is a girl she has to try
harder than the other men; Root almost gives up her spot to someone else, but he gives her one more chance – to
watch others get a rogue troll. Travels above ground through pressure elevator; once there, she sees the troll is
about to break through the city wall, so she intervenes, against Root’s orders. But she isn’t invisible to the troll like
she thought (her magic gone), it grabs her, she shines light in its eyes, it falls, but now she is visible to humans;
she passes out. Root is furious, she must recharge her magic that night, or she won’t be able to come back. //
Artemis hunts for a fairy; Holly finds a seed, Artemis sees a signal, sees Holly, shoots a dart at her, but misses.
She’s on her guard, they talk, Holly learns they know fairy sacred secrets, they shoot her with a tranquilizer. //
Root realizes Holly’s in trouble, decides to get her back himself (ie. Reactivate himself) along with the best. Butler
diverts the attention of the Dockers for Artemis. Holly wakes up in the cell in Artemis’ home, with Juliet watching
her. Artemis tricks Root by placing Holly’s locator in a whaler ship and detonates it, with Root escaping just in
time. Artemis has a slight digression – his mother thinks his father is back – delusional. Artemis and Holly
converse – she learns of his plans to get riches; the first ‘cross-species thief’; makes her believe she told him
everything with a truth serum. Root and Foaly gather information about Fowl; learn his location, family history,
age, etc. Butler and Artemis see fairies (with cinecamera) around his estate. Butler goes to deal with the intruders
(scare them, not kill them). He does just that. Tells Corp. Grub he wants a negotiator. // Holly tries banging her
bed into the floor to get some earth to plant the seed she has in her boot. Root makes the manor in limbo (time-
wise) so for the next eight hours, it will be twilight at the estate. Root gets an iris cam and a finger shooter.
Artemis wanted them to stop time. Root enters mansion, Fowl tells him about the gold and that he can escape the
time-field. Analysts try to figure out if he’s lying – apparently he isn’t. // Mulch in jail – almost gets killed by
goblins (fire-breathing). He is taken away, and is convinced to dig beneath the Fowl manor to get inside and save
Holly and see what else he can find. He forgets about Dwarf digestion, which blasts Butler who was sneaking up
on him. Artemis realizes the fairies are feeding him a loop, Juliet sent to check on Holly, but Artemis realizes that
was a bad idea, too late (acorn and earth = magic back). Juliet is under the mesmer. Mulch escapes the manor and
fakes his death (cave-in; putting the iris cam on a rabbit he strangled) and escapes the fairy world too. // The
analysts catch a ‘glitch’ in Artemis’ language (your race doesn’t have permission to enter while I’m alive) – but
does if he’s dead. Cudgeon has the council’s full backing and has permission to take over the party. He becomes
the Acting Commander over the operation. Root didn’t believe the warnings that Cudgeon would backstab him,
but alas. Cudgeon releases a troll in the manor (regardless of the fact Holly is in there – sick risk he’s willing to
take; it’s all about selfish motives and politics for him.) Holly is on the prowl. She punches Artemis in the face and
for once he is at a loss for words. Butler chooses the safety of his family (Juliet) over Artemis’ – this is a big deal.
Butler and Juliet take cover. Butler is pierced by the trolls ivory tusk, puncturing a lung, tusk releasing a lethal
poison into his system. Before the troll tries eating him, Holly fights the troll, Holly gets knocked out, beside
Butler, she heals herself and him with magic fairy power and Butler knocks the troll out. Artemis wanted the
fairies to think he accidentally invited them in (only if he’s dead). Cudgeon is guilty of obstruction. Root
‘accidentally’ points his finger at Cudgeon and is shot with the finger shooter. Holly doesn’t want the manor to be
bio-bombed, because Juliet is innocent. Artemis gets the gold. Artemis buys a wish from Holly, using the gold.
Holly is released. Artemis drugs himself, Butler and Juliet. They bio-bomb/blue-rinse the place, enter, no one is
there. They start throwing up – spatial nausea (they couldn’t enter the house unless Artemis is dead, but he isn’t
dead so they undergo a form of allergic reaction.) Mulch stole a lot of gold – free, rich and presumed dead.
Artemis wished to the fairy that his mother would be better, and she was. // Epilogue – Holly became expert on
Artemis Fowl cases. Report by Dr Argon.

Setting
Ho Chi Minh City
Underground – the last human-free zone
Fowl Manor – ringed by a ten-foot crenelated stone wall, and original guard towers and walkways. Inside: vaulted
hallway, generations of classical Fowl portraits, stained oak doorway leading to a large conference room;

Bone: Out from Boneville

Characters
Fone Bone (FB): protagonist
Phoney Bone (PB): decides to run for mayor – greedy and corrupt
Smiley Bone (SB): comic relief; all three Bones are cousins
Ted: the green bug
Thorn: girl who FB falls for
Gran’ma (Rose) Ben (GB): Thorn’s grandma
Lucius: Owner of the Barrelhaven
Jonathan Oaks: man who lets GB, Thorn and FB pass by the log blocking the road
Miz Possum
Three possum brothers
The Great Red Dragon (GRD)
Rat Creatures (RC)
Kingdok (KD)
The Hooded One (THO)

Plot
Fone Bone, Smiley Bone (SB) and Phoney Bone (PB) are stranded in the desert. They were chased out of
Boneville because of PB’s greedy schemes. They find an odd-looking map and are separated by a swarm of
locusts. Fone Bone goes looking for them. He finds the forest and meets Ted who offers to take him to Thorn to
help find his cousins. They encounter the Rat Creatures (RC) and Ted ditches Fone Bone. Winter comes and Miz
Possum asks Fone Bone to watch her three sons while she goes on errands. They run away and are caught by the
Rat Creatures. Fone Bone (FB) saves the possums, and is chased by the Rat Creatures until the Great Red Dragon
(GRD) saves him. FB goes to the river and meets Thorn and falls head over heels for her. They go to GB’s and FB
sleeps. Thorn finds the map (which is familiar to her), comic books and Moby Dick in FB’s bag. // PB is lost and
hungry. He meets the GRD, insults him, meets Ted who takes him to GB, and insults them too. PB and FB reunite.
PB sucks at chores. GB has a gitchy feeling. When PB learns people bet money on GB’s cow races he starts
scheming and runs off. PB watches the RCs get scolded and summoned by KD. GB, Thorn and FB realize PB’s
missing. // The RC’s, KD and THO meet. We learn they are seeking PB and cannot catch FB because he is
protected by the GRD. They RCs are ordered to look for FB and PB. // Thorn, GB and FB awake and are
surrounded by RCs. GB fights them while Thorn and FB run; they are surrounded by RCs. // PB goes to the Barrel
Haven where SB is the bartender. They scheme to dress SB as a cow and get people to bet on him so PB can bet
on GB’s cow, so when GB’s cow wins they get the money. (They both have to work in the bar to pay off their
tabs). // Thorn and FB are saved by GRD (and Ted). They go back to GB who is safe; they get ready to go into
town for the fair. // PB is visited by THO, who tells him he will kill FB and take PB’s soul. // FB, GB and Thorn
travel to town; GB and Lucius flirt, FB and SB (FB and PB RE-) reunite. THO spares PB, for now…

Setting
The desert
Forest (summer and winter)
Grandma Ben’s house
Barrelhaven

The Giver
Plot

Characters
Jonas:
Father
Mother
Lily:
Gabriel
The Giver
Asher
Fiona
Rosemary
Larissa

Setting

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Characters
Harry Potter – messy jet-black hair, lightning-bolt scar on forehead, small and skinny, thin face, knobbly knees,
bright green eyes and wore round glasses fastened with tape.
Hermione Granger – bossy voice, bushy brown hair, large front teeth
Ronald Weasley - tall, thin and gangling, flaming red hair, freckles, big hands and feet and long nose.
Draco Malfoy – pale, pointed face, bored, drawling voice;
Severus Snape – Potions professor; greasy black hair, hooked nose, sallow [yellowy] skin, cold and empty black
eyes
Rubeus Hagrid – gamekeeper/keeper of keys at Hogwarts; twice as tall as a normal man, five times as wide, and
wild-looking, with long tangles of bushy black hair and beard that hid most of his face, hands the size of dustbin
lids, feet in leather boots the size of baby dolphins, muscular arms;
Neville Longbottom – round-faced boy
Albus Dumbledore – headmaster at Hogwarts; tall, thin, very old, silver hair and beard, long enough to tuck into
his belt, long robes, purple cloak, and high-heeled buckled boots. Light bright blue eyes, sparkling behind half-
moon glasses, nose long and crooked
Professor Minerva McGonagall – transfiguration professor; deputy headmistress of Hogwarts; head of
Gryffindor’s house; severe-looking woman, wearing square glasses, wearing an emerald cloak, black hair drawn in
a tight bun; strict, clever,
Voldemort – chalk-white, glaring red eyes, slits for nostrils (like a snake)
Professor Quirrell - pale young man, twitching, stuttering, purple turban; teaches Defence Against Dark Arts
(DADA)

Professor Flitwick – Charms teacher; tiny wizard

Madam Hooch – flying lesson teacher; short grey hair, yellow eyes like a hawk
Madam Pince - librarian
Madam Pomfrey – the matron [head nurse] (nice but very strict)
Hedwig – Harry’s snowy owl
Scabbers – Ron’s fat gray pet rat (used to be Percy’s)
Trevor – Neville’s toad
Fang – Hagrid’s enormous black boarhound
Fluffy – Hagrid’s three-headed dog who he bought off a Greek chappie at a pub, to guard the philosopher’s stone
Norbert – Hagrid’s Norwegian Ridgeback dragon (from a huge black egg)
Ronan – red hair and beard centaur
Bane – black haired/bodied centaur, wilder looking than Ronan
Firenze – younger centaur, white-blonde haired, palomino body, sapphire-blue eyes; carries Harry – a no-no
Cornelius Fudge – Head Minister for Ministry of Magic
Dedalus Diggle – wizard who hugs Vernon, who Harry saw bow at him, and meets in the Leaky Cauldron
Griphook – second goblin Harry meets, takes him to his vault; head shorter than Harry, wearing uniform of
scarlet and gold, swarthy clever face, pointed beard, very long fingers and feet
Madam Malkin – measures Harry for his robes
Mr Ollivander – wand maker/seller; old man, creepy wide, silvery pale eyes,
Lily Potter – dark red hair, bright green eyes
James Potter – tall, thin, untidy black hair, glasses
Mrs Weasley – plump woman
Ginny Weasley small red-headed
Percy Weasley – prefect
Fred Weasley – twins, Beaters in Quidditch
George Weasley – twins, Beaters in Quidditch
Crabbe and Goyle – Malfoy’s sidekicks (like Dudley)
Oliver Wood – burly fifth year; captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team
Angelina Johnson – Gryffindor Chaser
Fat Friar – ghost post-Hufflepuff; little fat monk
Peeves – poltergeist [noisy spirit]; listens only to the Bloody Baron; little man, wicked dark eyes, wide mouth
Bloody Baron – Slytherin ghost; blank staring eyes, gaunt face and robes stained with silver blood
Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington ‘Nearly-Headless Nick’ – resident ghost of Gryffindor Tower
Professor Binns – only ghost professor (History of Magic)
Mr Argus Filch – caretaker
Mrs Norris – Filch’s cat; scrawny, dust-coloured, bulging lamp-like eyes

Mr Dursley/Uncle Vernon – big beefy man with barely a neck, and a very large moustache
Mrs Dursley/Aunt Petunia – thin and blonde and twice as much neck than usual
Dudley Dursley – large pink face, not much neck, small watery blue eyes, thick blonde hair that laid smoothly on
his thick, fat head.
Mrs Figg – mad old lady who lives 2 streets away; her house smells of cabbage and she had many cats
Piers Polkiss, Malcolm and Gordon – Dudley’s friends in crime

Plot
Mr and Mrs Dursley are boring and normal people with a son, Dudley. They are embarrassed of their relatives
James, Lily and Harry Potter. One day Mr Dursley notices strange things, and the mentioning of the Potters. At
night, a McGonagall (as a cat) and Dumbledore appear in front of their house, talk about Voldemort, the death of
the Potters and survival of Harry (as miracle). Hagrid arrives with Harry and they leave him on the doorstep, with
a letter explaining everything. Eleven years later, Harry lives in the cupboard under the stairs and is bullied by
Dudley and treated like dirt by his aunt and uncle. It’s Dudley’s birthday and Mrs Figg can’t watch Harry (broke
her leg) so Harry must tag along; Dudley and Piers and the family go to the zoo. They see a boa constrictor, Harry
and the snake have a convo, and when Dudley and friend look again, the glass is gone and the snake runs loose.
Punished. Harry gets a mysterious letter in the mail but Vernon and Petunia don’t let him read it. He gets more
every day until Vernon takes them to a remote island the night before his birthday. That night, Hagrid arrives, tells
Harry the truth, the letter and off they go to London (Diagon Alley) to buy his school supplies. Meets Quirrell and
other wizards/witches, goes to Diagon Alley through a hole in the Leaky Cauldron. They go to Gringott’s and
withdraw enough money for school that Harry’s parents left him. Meets Malfoy while being fitted for robes, buys
Hedwig and a wand (unusual combo – holly and phoenix feather, eleven inches) and its brother was Voldemort’s
wand. Sent back to the Dursley’s until school starts. They pretended he does not exist. Dropped off at King’s
Cross, meets the Weasley’s who show him how to get to Platform 9 ¾. Befriends Ron, rejects Malfoy. Meets
Neville and Hermione. The first years meet the ghosts; sorted by the Sorting Hat (Harry and friends Gryffindor).
They go to classes and meet professors – Snape hates him. Ron and Harry visit Hagrid, who hides information
from Harry re Gringott's and Snape. Flying lessons with Gryffindor and Slytherin; Madam Hooch leaves, Malfoy
takes away Neville’s Remembrall in the air, threatens to drop it, Harry dives to save it, McGonagall walks in, takes
him with her, and makes him Seeker. Malfoy challenges Harry to a fight, at midnight, but it’s a trap and they
almost get caught. They hide, and find themselves in the forbidden corridor on the third floor: a monstrous three-
headed dog above a trapdoor. Harry gets a Nimbus Two-Thousand. Wood teaches Harry the game and rules,
practicing how to catch the Golden Snitch (with tennis balls). Ron hurts Hermione’s feelings and she misses
classes crying in the bathroom. At the Halloween feast, someone let a troll loose in the dungeons, Ron and Harry
trap it in the bathroom, but it’s the one Hermione’s in, so they fight and conquer it. Hermione lies to McGonagall
to save Ron and Harry, and they become friends. They spot Snape limping; Harry went to retrieve the book Snape
took away, but witnessed Filch bandaging Snape’s bloody and mangled leg, talking about the three-headed dog.
The day of the first Quidditch game, someone (they think it’s Snape) is jinxing Harry’s broom, trying to shake him
off; Hermione makes Snape’s robe catch fire and then Harry, back on his broom, ‘catches’ (nearly swallows) the
Golden Snitch. Gryffindor wins and Hagrid accidentally reveals information about Fluffy and Nicholas Flamel.
Christmas break rolls around and Harry and Ron stay at Hogwarts while Hermione goes home. Christmas Day,
Harry gets an invisible cloak (which was his father’s), with no signature. That night, he goes to the Restricted
Section in the library to find information on Nicholas Flamel, but Filch and Snape sniff around so he hides in a
room and finds the Mirror of Erised, where he sees his parents. He becomes addicted to looking into it, until one
night he goes to the room to find the mirror gone and Dumbledore there, who explains it shows us our deepest
most desperate desire of our heart. Gryffindor Quidditch team discover Snape will be refereeing the next game;
they win the game because of Harry. Harry finds out who Nicholas Flamel is. Harry overhears Snape and Quirrell
talking in the forest about the Philosopher’s Stone and Fluffy. Harry finds Hagrid has a Norwegian Ridgeback
dragon egg, got it from a hooded stranger who got some information out of him. When it hatches, they see Malfoy
peering through the window so they have to get rid of it; Harry and Hermione send it off with Charlie’s friends but
are caught wandering and get detention with Malfoy and Gryffindor loses 150 points because of it. Harry hears
Quirrell pleading with someone in a room, agreeing to something. Their punishment is going in the Forbidden
Forest with Hagrid and Fluffy, to find what has been killing the sacred unicorns and drinking their blood. Meets
centaurs and encounters a dark hooded figure drinking unicorn blood; Harry’s scar gives piercing pain; they think
Snape is getting the philosopher’s Stone for Voldemort. Hagrid told the man who sold the egg to him how to get
past Fluffy. Dumbledore is out of Hogwarts. Harry, Ron and Hermione decide to go down the trapdoor. They play
the wooden flute past Fluffy, land in Devil’s Snare, Hermione helps the two out, finds the room of keys, Harry
catches the old one with a bent wing, Golden Snitch style, have to play life-size Wizard’s Chess, Ron gets hurt,
they must continue on. Hermione figures out the potions puzzle, she goes back through purple flames to help Ron,
and Harry moves forward through the black flames. He meets Quirrell – surprise! Makes Harry look in the Mirror
of Erised, Harry lies about what he sees (the philosopher’s stone drops in his pocket). He keeps hearing a voice
near Quirrell and discovers that Voldemort is living on the back of Quirrell’s head. Quirrell tries seizing Harry but
Harry’s skin burns Quirrell so he grabs his face but his scar hurts so badly he loses consciousness. He awakes three
days later, with Dumbledore at his side. Dumbledore pulled Quirrell off Harry just in time (the effort almost killed
Harry) and the stone is destroyed. Quirrell couldn’t touch Harry because it was agony to touch a person marked by
love (mother saved him out of love, and Quirrell was sharing a soul with Voldemort). Ron and Hermione reunite
with Harry, they go to the end of the year banquet, Slytherin seem to be winning the House Cup, but Harry and
friends bravery earn them enough points to be champions. They leave Hogwarts, and Harry tells friends it’s a good
thing the Dursley’s don’t know he can’t use magic.

Setting
The Dursley’s – The driveway of number four, Privet Drive
The Leaky Cauldron: grubby-looking pub, dark, shabby
Diagon Alley – stacks of cauldrons, shops, different people, broomsticks and owls for sale, windows with eels’
eyes, spell books, quills, parchment, potion bottles, globes of the moon
Gringott’s (Wizard’s Bank) – snowy-white building towering over little shops, burnished bronze doors; inside
below, narrow stone passageway lit with flaming torches, sloped steeply downwards with little railway tracks
(small carts take customers to their vaults)
King’s Cross Station/Hogwart’s Express
Hogwarts Hall – lit by thousands of candles floating in mid-air over four long tables, laid with gold plates and
goblets; top of the hall where the teachers sat; velvety black ceiling dotted with stars
Hagrid’s Hut – small wooden house on edge of forbidden forest; only one room inside; hams and pheasants
hanging from ceiling, copper kettle, open fireplace, massive bed in the corner with patchwork quilt.
DADA room – smells of garlic
Potion’s Classroom – down in dungeons, cold, creepy (pickled animals in glass jars around the wall)

Schooled
Characters
Capricorn (Cap) Anderson – strange, tall and skinny as a rake, wears beads, has long blonde flyaway hair down
to the middle of his back, clothes look like homemade pyjamas, and sandals look woven out of corn husks, wears
tie-dye, a psychedelic headband
[Protagonist; homeschooled boy taught by hippie grandmother, transfers to middle school when she breaks her
hip]
Rachel Esther (Rain) Rosenblatt – Cap’s hippie grandmother
Mrs. Flora “Floramundi” Donnelly – lets Cap live with her; used to live at Garland Farm with Rain
Sophie Donnelly – Mrs. Donnelly’s 16 year-old high school daughter; Bitch. Comes around. Beautiful
Naomi Erlanger – “one of the beautiful people 116” Lena’s best friend. Schemes against Cap with Zach because
she likes him, but then falls for Cap
Lena Young – naturally pretty, strong personality, Naomi’s best friend, wears size zero jeans and heavy makeup
(‘applies makeup with a snow blower’ 34)
Zach Powers – popular boy in school; makes Cap president and plots Cap’s demise as president
Darryl Pennyfield – Zach’s football buddy and co-Neanderthal
Grant Tubman – Naomi wants Lena to like him (and not Zach) but he had a tongue piercing that looked like a
pimple, he removed it and now it’s infected
Hugh Winkleman – nerdiest boy in school; first person (and for a while, the only one) who befriends Cap; happy
Cap was voted school president and not him (selfish)
Mr (Frank) Kasigi – Assistant principal at Claverage Middle School
Mr Rodrigo – Claverage Middle school’s bus driver (has a heart attack [?]); older, standoffish
Miss Agnew – art teacher; tie-dyed with Cap and art-class
Coach Pulaski – Claverage Condor’s football coach
Luke Simard – last year’s pres. Skipped grad and applied to an alternate high school
Lorelei Lumley – imaginary girl Naomi makes up (to impress Zach); 7th grade student-gov’t groupie who writes
perfumed love notes to Cap (he doesn’t understand them anyway)

Plot
Capricorn lives at Garland Farm with his hippie Grandmother, Rain, who home-schools him. Rain fell
from a tree, broke her hip and Cap drove her to the hospital (rehab for eight weeks). Mrs Donnelly, who used to
live at Garland Farm, takes Cap in her care. Zach Powers meets him and knows he wants to elect Cap for president
instead of his previous choice, Hugh. Sophie is pissed Cap is living with her and Mrs Donnelly; Cap thinks she is
beautiful. Hugh befriends Cap out of pity and relief (that he’s not being picked on). Naomi picks on Cap so Zach
notices her (she wants to be his gf) and schemes with him to make Cap’s presidency hell. She soon starts feeling
sorry for Cap, and secretly admires him. Mrs Connelly learns Cap is president and why. Cap gives Sophie a
driving lesson (she secretly appreciates it – he’s a good teacher). Zach doesn’t like how Cap isn’t reacting to their
pranks, so he makes the school pick on him constantly (which Hugh is grateful, yet guilty about). Mr Rodrigo had
a heart attack so Cap drives the school bus to the hospital; arrested. Cap teaches students how to tie-dye, and
becomes semi-popular. Mr Kasigi scolds Cap for not conferring with him about the dance; they go to the bank and
get a checkbook, counter-signing some since he’s going out of town for a conference. Buys bracelet for Sophie,
donates thousands to charities; doesn’t understand concept of checks/money. Naomi kisses Cap; Hugh starts hating
Cap (as hero and heartthrob). Zach is pissed that Cap is popular, Hugh and Zach scheme. At the pep rally, Hugh
and Zach dress Cap up in the rivalling uniform, Rhinecliff Raiders. Cap walks on stage and is tackled by the
football team, the Claverage Condors (thinking it was an actual player from the rival team). Darryl finds out Zach
was behind it, and goes to avenge Cap; just when he was about to punch Zach, Cap steps in to intervene, and is
punched instead. His grandmother picks him up in an ambulance (for her) and they go back to Garland Farm. Mr
Kasigi comes back to find an overdrawn account because of the checkbook he gave Cap. The Halloween dance is
cancelled, and students are worried Cap might be dead. Zach (and Hugh) scheme to join the cause (to save Zach’s
reputation) and make a dance in tribute to Cap, on the school parking lot. Sophie passes her driving test, and
imagines Cap is with her. She realizes it was who Cap sent her the bracelet. Back at Garland Farm, Rain is upset
Cap keeps mentioning Claverage. Cap goes against her wishes and walks to the Halloween dance; Sophie was
driving to pick him up anyway so she drives him. Kids at the service tell the audience how Cap touched their lives
– then Cap shows up to say a proper goodbye to all 1100 students, and remembers every name. Back at Garland
Farm, Cap discovers Rain sold the farm for 17 million dollars, and that they’re moving into town; before the
condo is set up, he gets to stay with the Donnelly’s again!

Setting
Garland Farm – buildings made only of wood, covered in duct tape, and dull colours: seven acres of land with
one house, one barn, a vegetable garden, fruit trees, and a pick up truck.
The Donnelly’s– Split-level. Outside of house: some wood, also warm and bright bricks, stucco, stone, and
aluminum. Inside: carpet, tile, white walls (and other colours), hundreds of pictures, curtains, tassels, clocks,
figurines, and (probably useless) decorations; too many stairs (no purpose). Sophie’s bathroom shelf has colourful
jars/bottles/tubes (and interesting names). Car: a Saturn.
School Bus – crowded, noisy, uncomfortable. People fought, shrieked, threw things at each other, and tormented
the driver. On the floor: lollipop sticks, chewing gum, hair, broken pop-can tabs, straws, buttons and unidentifiable
things. ‘The bloodiest battlefield 71’: no teachers.
Claverage Middle School – halls lined with lockers, there is a small courtyard off the library, music room,
schoolyard, and the art room. It was crowded, noisy, obnoxious, and even scary.
Hospital
The Cafeteria
Driving – he’s a good driver
The Bank – Cap hates what it represents and what it does/is; scared of the security guard with the gun

Stargirl
Characters
Stargirl Caraway Previous names: Pocket Mouse, Mudpie, Hullygully; Real name is Susan
–not gorgeous, not ugly, freckles across her nose; no makeup, huge eyes, sandy-coloured hair down to her
shoulders
-Tenth grade, previously homeschooled
-dream job: silver-lunch-truck-driver, she loves the fillers in newspapers, she chooses random people, watches
them for 15 minutes and tries to figure them out.
-Ukulele strapped across her back, a large canvas bag with a life-size sunflower painted on it
-Her first outfit: off-white floor-length dress, with ruffles around the neck and cuffs (looked like her great-
grandmother’s wedding gown)
-Second outfit: bright red baggy overall shorts, hair in twin-plaited pigtails, tied with bright red ribbons, rouge
smudge on her cheeks and dabbed oversized freckles on her face
Other outfits:
-1920s flapper dress, Indian buckskin, a kimono, denim miniskirt with green stockings and crawling up one leg
were many enamel ladybug and butterfly pins; her “normal:” floor-brushing pioneer dresses and skirts, long
lemon-yellow dress
-Ocotillo Ball – strapless bright, rich yellow gown (as if pressed from buttercups); the skirt billows outward from
her waist (like with one of those hooped contraptions); her hair is incredible (but ambiguous); either the colour of
honey/strawberries, and it fluffs like a meringue high above her head, it’s either all her hair or it’s a wig; her
earrings dangle (shape also ambiguous), little silver somethings of monopoly pieces? (no: little trucks). They are
obscured by her ringlets; a white, inch-long banana shaped fossil from a rawhide string around her neck
(identifying her as a member of the Loyal Order of the Stone Bone); she wears a small sunflower/black-eyed
Susan (her ‘real’ yet fake name) as a corset
-*Stargirl as Susan: magnificently, gloriously ordinary, with tiny barrettes and toe rings; she is mad for shopping:
shirts, pants, costume jewellery, makeup (all, and only with, a designer label)
Cinnamon – Stargirl’s pet rat
Mrs Caraway – Stargirl’s mother; used to be Stargirl’s teacher, and made costumes for movies. Wore shorts and a
tank top on Leo’s visit
Charles Caraway – Stargirl’s father; works at MicaTronics; doesn’t have much hair at all.
Leo Borlock – eleventh grader; producer/director of Hot Seat, an in-school TV show; becomes a set designer
Kevin Quinlan – Leo’s best friend and on-camera host of Hot Seat; becomes an insurance salesman and has a
family
Chico – handheld close-up camera, named after a boy who wanted to use the camera but was too skinny and
couldn’t hold it up; he buffed up and the following year got the job
Hillari Kimble – famous for her mouth, The Hoax (she tried out for the cheerleading team, made the team but
turned it down, she only tried out to prove she could be on it) and Wayne Parr (her bf, who didn’t talk, just
appeared beside her, and was gorgeous). Her face, hair and figure were ‘right enough’ for cheerleading
Wayne Parr - Hillari Kimble’s gorgeous bf. Jaw square, chiselled cheeks, perfect teeth and hair. All he had to do
was appear, did not talk. Did nothing in extracurricular activities yet admired by all. ‘Monumentally good at doing
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Mallory Stillwell – captain of the cheerleaders; bleached blonde and beautiful
Dori Dilson – brown-haired 9th grader, wrote poems in a loose-leaf notebook the size of her; used to be the only
girl who sat with Stargirl
Anna Grisdale – senior, grandfather
Mrs Grisdale – Anna’s mother; kicks Stargirl out of her father’s funeral
Jennifer St. John, Mike Ebersole, Becca Rinaldi – interrogators at the Hot Seat
Clarissa, Betty, Adam – names Stargirl and Leo give to the people they follow
Peter Sinkowitz – the five-year old Stargirl takes pictures of, as a biography, and plans to give it to him when he
is old enough to appreciate it.
Renshaw – the student Leo encounters in the gym, and tries to say hi, but Renshaw doesn’t notice/acknowledge
Leo’s presence
Mr McShane – Mica High’s faculty representative to the state contest; he drives Leo and Stargirl to the finals and
back.
Raymond Studemacher - the first to dance with Stargirl (the first to ‘crack’); ordinary all around
Guy Greco – lead singer of the Serenaders at the Ocotillo Ball
A.H. (Archie Hapwood) Brubaker – palaeontologist; taught universities in the East, retired; when wife dies
(Ada Mae) he moves west. He smokes cherry-sweet tobacco. White hair
Señor Saguaro – 30 ft. cactus in Archie’s backyard; two arms high on the trunk, one straight out, the other turned
right and upward, waving. The waving arm was green from elbow up; everything else was brown and dead. Only
his ribs, thumb-thick vertical timbers, held him up. Elf owls nested in his chest.
Barney – skull of a 60-million-year-old Palaeocene rodent; part of Archie’s bone collection

Plot
Leo’s uncle gives him a porcupine necktie, and Leo wants to start a collection but can’t find any. His
parents wish him a happy birthday in the newspaper, mentioning this. He mysteriously receives a porcupine
necktie. On the first day of school, Leo and Kevin meet Stargirl, a whacky girl who sings Happy Birthday to
students on her ukulele. Kevin and Leo decide to get her on their TV show, Hot Seat. They hope rumours of her
being fake are true, because she’d never last here (not a hotbed of non-conformity). Leo no longer wants to put her
on the Hot Seat. One day after school, Leo follows Stargirl home, but she ends up visiting multiple houses, and
even the desert. Stargirl joins the cheerleading team and cheers for both teams – football games rose in attendance.
On holidays, she put candy on everyone’s desk. Students began to look forward to school because of what she
would do/say/wear etc. Hillari threatens Stargirl not to sing to her on her birthday. She sings looking at Leo,
saying Hillari’s name. J Students go to consult with Archie (the retired professor and archaeologist who gives
free lectures to kids every Saturday morning) about Stargirl. By Thanksgiving, Stargirl is popular, everyone copies
her (rats, dress, song). She joins the Arizona League of Women Voters, the oratorical contest (for high school
students interested in public speaking); she won and will be going to the district competition in Red Rock (state
finals in Phoenix, Arizona). Leo (and Stargirl) agree to put her on the show. Anna Grisald’s grandfather dies,
Stargirl attends the funeral and reception and Anna’s mother kicks her out of the reception. After the basketball
team became undefeated, the Electrons started hating their opponents and the idea of losing. Students start getting
angry at Stargirl for cheering for both teams. When she was on Hot Seat people began interrogating and acting like
a mob, rude comments, rude questions, shouting at her – the show is never aired, but everyone knows about it. She
doesn’t cheer for the other team, but when the other teammate gets injured she is at his side, after that they lost
their first game – Stargirl still cheered enthusiastically so someone threw a tomato in her face. She is kicked off the
cheerleading team. Leo finds a Valentine card from her saying I LOVE YOU. He walks to her house and they
have a conversation in her driveway, at night, with him crouching behind their car and her on the other side.
Stargirl takes him to the desert where she shows him how to meditate. After a while, Leo notices he is ignored by
everyone at school, like they don’t exist (shunning). Stargirl wins the competition in Red Rock High school and
will be going to state finals in Phoenix Arizona. Stargirl teaches Leo how to wonder, revel, and notice the small
things, they send greeting and congratulations to different addresses. She has a happy wagon, the more stones in
the wagon, the happier she is (20 pebbles). After Stargirl proclaims her love for him for the whole school to see,
Leo starts avoiding her. Stargirl and Leo get into an argument, Leo tells her to be like the rest of them because
nobody likes her. She transforms back into Susan, an ordinary girl who looks like everyone else. She is depressed,
though doesn’t say so. She thinks if she wins the oratorical contest, everyone will love her (since no one likes her,
still) and she will be popular. She wins the contest (with a spontaneous speech she didn’t practice), gets back to the
school parking lot and only Dori Dilson is there to welcome her. The next day she becomes Stargirl again. As she
predicted, Leo doesn’t ask Stargirl to the Ocotillo Ball, because he doesn’t go. She goes, is the talk of the town;
boys dance with her, and finally when the band plays the bunny hop, she leads all the students (with the exception
of Hillari Kimble and Wayne Parr) in a bunny hop dance all the way past the golf course, and disappeared. (Pied
Piper and Biblical allusion; followers) They reappeared, still in time, and when they got back, Hillari is so furious
Stargirl “ruined the dance” that she slaps her. Stargirl kisses her cheek (BIBLICAL ALLUSION), and leaves for
good. // Fifteen years later. Leo remembers the summer after the ball Leo finds Stargirl’s house is for sale and that
she moved to Minnesota. A year later, Archie shows Leo Stargirl’s office, which was Archie’s old tool shed. Leo
went to college, visited Archie less, who was getting old. Archie buries Barney the skull. When Leo visits town
again, Archie, Señor Saguaro and the tool shed are gone; a new elementary school is built over Stargirl’s
enchanted place. Leo discovers through Kevin (through the high school reunion) that Stargirl’s spirit still remains
in the school (ukulele in band, cheerleaders who cheer for both teams etc). Leo does things Stargirl did, to remind
him of her. One (33rd/34th) birthday, he receives a porcupine necktie.

Setting
Mica – new city, (nearly everyone had been born somewhere else) known for its electric heritage, Stargirl’s father
works where most fathers work (MicaTronics)
Mica Area High School (MAHS) and the MAHS Electrons (school name)
The Sonoran desert – no dunes, no sand, and the ground has a sandy gray colour, but hard and pebbly, and
glinting with mica; full of plants (cacti), yucca, beavertail and ocotillo.
Leo’s house – never described (nor are his parents present)
Stargirl’s house – glossy bent furniture, throw rugs over hardwood floors, southwest accents: an Anasazi-style
wedding vase, and a Georgia O’Keefe print (nothing out of the ordinary – Leo is surprised)
Ocotillo Ball
Stargirl’s office – Archie’s old tool shed; ribbons, wrapping paper, construction paper, cardboard boxes of
newspaper clippings, watercolours, paint cans, phonebooks, map of Mica, homemade calendar, an album of Peter
Sinkowitz, a filing cabinet with information about people
Archie’s house/yard – back porch with a tool shed and Señor Seguaro