Bob by Wendy Mass, Rebecca Stead, and Nicholas Gannon

Livy visits her grandmother in Australia for the first time in five years to discover a secret she
left behind. The secret is Bob, a mysterious creature who’s been waiting five years in a closet
for Livy to return and fulfill her promise: to help Bob find his way back home.

Point of View
The story is told from both Livy and Bob’s point of view. A point of view describes who is telling
the story.

Here are some other books that feature alternating points of view.

STEM Challenge
One of the activities Bob does while reading the dictionary is build and rebuild a lego pirate ship
sixty-three times in the dark. Your challenge is to build your own pirate ship based on how it is
described by Livy as having:
1. 4 sails
2. A mast
 3. A lookout tower
4. A swimming pool
Any supplies can be used to build, but it has to stay upright and support a pirate weighing 1
pound.

Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome

It’s 1946, and Langston’s father moves them from Alabama to Chicago, and although he feels
lonely, he discovers one thing that is truly wonderful: the Chicago Public Library welcomes
everyone. There, he finds another Langston, a poet whom his mother found inspiring enough to
name her son after.

Who Was Langston Hughes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fcY-WesrvU
Dream Variations- Poem by Langston Hughes

To fling my arms wide

In some place of the sun,

To whirl and to dance

Till the white day is done.

Then rest at cool evening

Beneath a tall tree

While night comes on gently,

Dark like me—

That is my dream!

To fling my arms wide

In the face of the sun,

Dance! Whirl! Whirl!

Till the quick day is done.

Rest at pale evening . . .

A tall, slim tree . . .

Night coming tenderly

Black like me.

Poem Activity
The Langston in the story really loves Alabama, the place where he came from. Think about a
place that you love and write a freestyle poem about it.