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Spirit Animals Book 1: Wild Born
Last updated Sunday, January 7, 2018
Author: Brandon Mull
Date of Publication: 2013
ISBN: 0545522439
Grade Level: 5th (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.)
Date(s) Used: Jan. 2018
Synopsis:
Four children separated by vast distances all undergo the same ritual, watched by cloaked strangers. Four flashes of light erupt, and from them emerge the unmistakable shapes of incredible beasts -- a wolf, a leopard, a panda, a falcon. Suddenly the paths of these children -- and the world -- have been changed forever.
Enter the world of Erdas, where every child who comes of age must discover if they have a spirit animal, a rare bond between human and beast that bestows great powers to both. A dark force has risen from distant and long-forgotten lands, and has begun an onslaught that will ravage the world. Now the fate of Erdas has fallen on the shoulders of four young strangers . . . and on you.
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What is a spirit animal?
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If you had a spirit animal, which animal would you like it to be?
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What superpower would you have?
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How would you use this superpower to help others?
Vocabulary
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Incurred - to become liable for or bring upon oneself.
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Obscured - hard to see or not distinct.
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Meticulously - carefully attentive to every small detail; painstaking.
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Cunning - skill used in a sly or tricky way.
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Inscrutable - impossible to comprehend or interpret; mysterious.
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In which way would you save the world?
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What is your favorite animal in this world?
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