Harvey

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Publication Year:
2017

ISBN-13: 9781773060125

<p><strong>A sophisticated and original graphic novel, about a young boy's reaction to his father's death.</strong></p><p>Harvey and his little brother are playing in the slushy streets of early spring when they learn, out of the blue, that their father has died of a heart attack. Everything changes and Harvey’s favorite movie, <i>The Incredible Shrinking Man</i>, suddenly begins to dominate his fantasy life. When relatives try to get him to look at his father in his coffin, Harvey finds himself disappearing. </p><p>Brilliantly illustrated, emotionally true and devastatingly sad, this book is an artful and utterly convincing study of one boy’s response to great loss. </p><p><strong>Key Text Features</strong><br />speech bubbles</p><p><strong>Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:</strong></p><p>CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.2<br />Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.</p><p>CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6<br />Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.</p><p>CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.1<br />Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.</p><p>CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3<br />Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.</p>