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Blended

By Sharon Draper

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Blended is the story of 11 year old Isabella and how she navigates her parent's divorce, and all that goes along with that.

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P. 6, Parents angry, jangled their nerves

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P. 5, Description of the 88 weighted keys on the piano

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P.5, Play piano, wished for piano, Goa a piano, signed up for lessons

P.10, Dad explaining it not being her fault

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P.6, Fought. All. The. Time 

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P.1, Creative words

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P.6, Jangled their nerves

P.10, Because . . . because, uh, we've kinda ended up growing in different directions. “But your grown ups? You're already done growing.” 

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The teaching points for this lesson were written by Gail Boushey.

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