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Great Leads Grades 3-5 Possible leads to read aloud to the class to demonstrate how setting, action, character, reflection, event, or dialogue can lead you into a story: Avi. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. Harper Trophy, 1990. Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was just such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Barker, Clive. The Thief of Always. HarperCollins Publishers, 1992. “The Great Gray beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive. Here he was, buried in the belly of that smothering month.” Blume, Judy. Superfudge. Puffin Books, 1980. “Life was going along okay when my mother and father dropped the news. Bam! Just like that.” Cleary, Beverly. Ramona the Pest. William Morrow and Company, 1968. “I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus. “Then stop asking like a pest,” said Beezus, whose real name was Beatrice. She was standing by the front window waiting for her friend Mary Jane to walk to school with her.” Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963. Delacorte Press, 1995. “It was one of those super-duper-cold Saturdays. One of those days that when you breathed out your breath kind of hung frozen in the air like a hunk of smoke and you could walk along and look exactly like a train blowing out big, fat, white puffs of smoke. It was so cold that if you were stupid enough to go outside your eyes would automatically blink a thousand times all by themselves, probably so the juice inside of them wouldnt freeze up. It was so cold that if you spit, the slob would be an ice cube before it hit the ground. It was about a zillion degrees below zero.” Great Leads Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, Not Buddy. Yearling, 2002. “Here we go again. We were all standing in line waiting for breakfast when one of the caseworker