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Vocabulary
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Long answer
Byrd Baylor
100
Seven
How many celebrations did the girl have?
100
animal prints in the ground
What are tracks?
100
among bear grass, yuccas, cactus, and rocks. The deep ravines, hawks nest, cliffs, and coyote trails.
What is the desert?
100
Your hear will pound and you'll feel like you're standing on top of a mountain and you'll catch your breath like you were breathing some new kind of air.
What is worth a celebration?
100
Peter Parnall
What is the illustrator?
200
Her greatest of all celebrations is meteor showers.
What is her greatest of all celebrations?
200
joyous events or happy occasions
What is a celebration?
200
No, because she has desert animals to keep her company
What is does the narrator feel lonely in the desert?
200
At a time like that, something goes kind of crazy in you. You have to run to meet them yelling all the way. You have to whirl around like you were one of them, and you can't stop until you're falling down.
What is what happens on Dust Devil Day?
200
The Desert
What is the setting for all Byrd Baylor books?
300
The time of the falling stars.
What is another name for the greatest of all celebrations?
300
teetering back and forth
What is swaying?
300
I'm in charge of celebrations.
What is how could she be lonely?
300
I may be the only person in the world who's seen a rabbit standing in the mist quietly watching three rainbows.
What is Rainbow Celebration Day?
300
Poems about desert animals.
What is Desert Voices?
400
Coyote
What is the animal she follows in her celebration?
400
ordinary not special
What is average?
400
September 28th
What is Coyote Day?
400
I was flowing deer tracks, taking my time, bending down as I walked, kind of humming to myself.
What is Coyote Day?
400
Tells about mornings in different countries.
What is Way to Start A Day?
500
A Green parrot
What is the cloud she sees for one of her celebrations?
500
looking at something with wonder or respect
What is admiring?
500
almost a week in the middle of August
What is the Time of Falling Stars?
500
All that week I sleep outside. I give my full attention to the sky. Every time a streak of light goes shooting through the darkness, I feel my heart shoot out of me.
What is Time of Falling Stars?
500
Tells about a girls life in the desert.
What is I'm in Charge of Celebrations