Book summary
By : myles breaux
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Intro summary
(Overdrive, 2011)
characters
Toby: The main character of the book. Parents are not together
Cal: Toby best friend.
Scarlett: Is Toby's crush. Is dating Juan
Juan: Scarlett's Mexican boyfriend. Likes to play baseball
Otto Wilson: The father of Toby. Works at a post office.
Wayne McKnight: Cal older brother. Is selected to fight in a war
conflict
Plot
1.Toby Sees Scarlett and little sister at fair
2.Toby and Cal see Zachary Beaver for the first time
3.Toby sees Scarlett's boyfriend Juan
4. Pauline Rankin, Zachary's guardian, has left for a couple of days.
5.The sheriff says if she doesn't return, Zachary will be put in a foster home
6. Toby becomes friends with Zachary
7.Zachary tells a lot of stories that are mostly fake.
8.Cal's brother, Wayne is selected to go to war
9 Cal's brother dies in war
10. Zachary beaver wants to get baptized in Lake Gossamer
11.Zachary is to big to get out of his trailer
12. Toby and friends have to think of a way to get him there because social services will at his house by Friday
13. Scarlett figures out how to get him out of his trailer
14. The kids drive Zachary in the back of a truck to the lake
15. They baptize Zachary in the lake
Quote
Citation of picture
worked cited
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/contributor/kimberly-willis-holt