  | Because of Winn-Dixie Author: DiCamillo, Kate | |
| Price: $16.84 | ||
Summary:
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
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| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: MG Reading Level: 3.90 Points: 3.0 Quiz: 39557 | Reading Counts Information: Interest Level: 3-5 Reading Level: 4.10 Points: 7.0 Quiz: 21620 | |
Awards:
Newbery Honor, 2001
Common Core Standards
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Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → 4.RL Craft & Structure
Grade 4 → Reading → RF Foundational Skills → 4.RF Phonics & Word Recognition
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Grade 3 → Reading → RL Literature → 3.RL Key Ideas & Details
Grade 3 → Reading → RL Literature → 3.RL Craft & Structure
Grade 3 → Reading → RL Literature → 3.RL Integration & Knowledge of Ideas
Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → 4.RL Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity
Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → 4.RL Integration & Knowledge of Ideas
Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → Texts Illustrating the Complexity, Quality, & Rang
Grade 3 → Reading → RF Foundational Skills → 3.RF Fluency
Grade 6 → Reading → RL Literature → 6.RL Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity
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Grade 5 → Reading → RL Literature → 5.RL Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (+) (04/01)
School Library Journal (+) (06/00)
Booklist (05/01)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (06/00)
The Hornbook (07/00)
Full Text Reviews:
Bulletin for the Center... - 06/01/2000 “My name is India Opal Buloni, and last summer my daddy, the preacher, sent me to the store for a box of macaroni-and-cheese, some white rice, and two tomatoes and I came back with a dog.” There you have it: main characters and conflict, all in the first sentence. But there’s a lot more to this book. Opal has a singular voice with a simple, infallibly Southern inflection; her daddy is one of the nicest and quirkiest preachers to grace children’s literature; and Winn-Dixie, named after the grocery store from which Opal rescued him, is an ugly dog with a smile that makes friends and also makes him sneeze, not to mention a pathological fear of thunderstorms. In addition, readers will meet an elderly librarian whose stories inject the small town Florida setting with a past; a “witchy” neighbor who has hung a tree with beer and whiskey bottles, each representing a mistake she’s made in her life; a mentally challenged musician whose street-singing once led him to jail and who now plays for the residents of a pet store, including Gertrude the parrot, whose favorite word is “Dog!” The one person we don’t meet is Opal’s mother, who abandoned her family long ago. It is the pain of her absence that propels Opal into friendships with all the characters whom Winn-Dixie eventually brings together, lessening the loneliness of each. By turns funny and moving, vivid from trailer park to pet store, this will propel readers into a satisfying circle of companionship. - Copyright 2000 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.
