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August to October

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Phillips, Julia. Disappearing Earth. Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. Hardback.

• In “August,” Alyona and Sophia Golosovky are near the water near St. Nicholas Hill in Petropavlovsk.

• Alyona is 11 and Sophia is 8.

• Alyona has spent the summer watching her sister while their mother works.

• Sophia gets too close to the water, and Alyona tells her to step back.

• Sophia acts like she is going to defy her sister.

• Sophia is tiny for her age and looks and acts like a kindergartner.

• Alyona wishes that she could hang out with her friends instead of watching Sophia.

• Alyona sees a man walking around the rocks, and then he disappears.

• Alyona tells Sophia a story about a tsunami that caused an entire village to disappear to distract her sister.

• It is a scary story, and Alyona asks Sophia...

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