1. The Fear Place
Genre:
Realistic
Fiction

2. Meet the Author Phyllis Reynolds Naylor constantly comes up with new
ideas and characters. Every
time she gets a new book idea,
she puts the title of the book
on a three-ring binder. As she
thinks up characters and scenes
for that book, she jots them down
in the notebook. She usually has
about ten of these idea notebooks on her shelf
while she is writing a book.

3. Meet the Illustrator Paul Lee works in his pajamas all
day, and he likes to work with the
television on. Although he has an
artist's table, he prefers to draw
while lying on the floor with all his
materials spread around him!
Lee says that he suffers from
"the-grass-is-always-greener
syndrome," which means that whenever he is
working on something, he wants to be working
on something else. So he often works on very
different projects at the same time.

4. Vocabulary Words

5. cautious
These animals are
cautious when crossing.

6. dismayed
Athletes feel dismayed
when they lose the game.

7. immobile
When you are scared,
you might be immobile.

8. futile
Trying to
climb this
rock would be
futile for a beginner.

9. gully
A gully can be very deep,
especially after it rains.

10. ascending
The balloons are ascending
higher and higher.

11. grudges
It is easy to hold
grudges against a bully.

12. momentum
A race car’s forward
momentum is very fast.