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Here's an excerpt to help with your review of the story.
The Wheel on the School
De Jong, Meindert
Main Characters: Lina, the five boys in the school, all the villagers
Setting: A small fishing village in Holland
Newbery Award
Readability: 6
It all started with Lina, the only girl in the school, and her piece about storks. Storks were
supposed to bring good luck. Many other villages had storks. But in the little Dutch fishing village of Shora, no storks built their nests.
Lina and the other children wanted to bring storks to their town. Soon all the villagers wanted
to have storks in Shora. They had to find a wheel, but no one had a wagon.
Lina and the other school children (five boys, Jella, Eelka, Auka, Pier, and Dirk) set out to
find a wheel to place on the sharp schoolhouse roof as a spot for storks to build their nests. In the process they learned many things about each other and their neighbors.
Questions:
1. What is the story about ?
2. Why was a wheel so hard to find?
3. How did the children think Janus lost his legs?
4. Who surprised the children most?
5. What did the children learn?
