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Student's Name Malingin, Ronibe B. Date Dec. 17,2018

Report No. #1
A. Introduction
Title Sand Dollar Summer
Author Kimberly Jones
Genre/Type of Book Domestic Fiction

B. Body
1. When/Where the book takes place:

A. Time: Modern B. Place: Fiddle Beach, Maine

2. Who/what is the book about? The book was all about the story of one family’s
unforgettable summer. A girl name Lise with her mother and younger brother spend their time
in summer at Fiddle Beach, Maine. This is the first experience of Lise in the ocean and she
hates the ocean. It because she was afraid but an old man help her to change the perception
towards the ocean.

List principle characters:

Lise- Twelve-year-old who was afraid of the ocean
Free- A five-year-old younger brother who is a "mute"
Annalise- A strong and self-reliant mother of Lise and Free
Michael- He is a doctor and a funny best friend of Annalise
Ben - An old Native American man who teach Lise an important lesson to accept and
overcome the ocean
3. Summarize Plot/Climax
What happened in the book?

A Twelve-year-old Lise spend her entire summer on an island in Fiddle Beach,

Maine instead of spending time with her friends in camping. Her mother is injured in a car
accident and to recuperate, her mother wanted to go back where she was grew up. Lise is
horrified when they got in the beach house because she feels nothing like her own comfortable
home. Lise and Free always spend their time in beach making sand castles and playing. One
day, Michael visit them and he explore Lise and Free in the island. He also encouraged Lise and
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Free to try boogie board in the ocean but Lise refuse it because it's cold to swim and it makes
her feel unsettled and insecure. While Free is enjoying in boogie board Lise was walking around
in the beach alone. She find sand dollar and she was amazed. While she was holding on it an
old man came named Ben. He explained the name thing on the hand of Lise and they start to
be a good friends. Lise always visit house of Ben and they talk about like life, memories and etc.
Ben also thought Lise the good side of the ocean and to conquer the fear. Until one day , the big
storm comes and Lise is looking for Ben on the shore line and she is running. The waves are
getting bigger and bigger and she wanted to save Ben but her head is being smashed into rocks.
She is under the water and can't breathe but then Michael and Babe (the dog) find her and
rescue her.
C. Conclusion
Write a short paragraph about what you believe is the overall theme or purpose of the book,
including the main idea and moral that the author has put forth through the events.

All of us have different fear and don't let the fear make you down and be strong. Like Lise
did, even she was afraid to the ocean she tried to save Ben. Now, she become matured, her
opinions and viewpoint change. In our real life situations sometimes we have problems and we
afraid of it but we need to conquer it because problem is not for a life time. Sometimes we afraid
to try but then we should think that trying is best way to have courage and determination of the
things you want. The theme of this book is learning to cope with changes in your life.

D. Evaluation
Your opinion of the book
This novel is a tragic yet pleasant book for everyone. It can gives spiritual and
intellectual value to the readers. The author also really showed the feelings of all the characters.
Even though Free didn’t talk, I was still really able to understand what he was feeling. I like the
author’s good emotional description about Lise’s fear of the ocean and how she is nervous about
all the creatures in it. I definitely recommend this book because it is very good with explaining
everything and some kids will really relate to this story especially all of us.

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