View a FREE sample

Prologue and Part One: July

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: North, Alex. The Whisper Man. Celadon Books, 2019. E-book.

• The untitled prologue is addressed to the speaker’s son, Jake.

• The father states that because he and his son have never been very good at talking to one another, he has decided to write everything down instead.

• He promises to tell the absolute “truth about everything that happened in Featherbank,” including “Mister Night,” the “boy in the floor.” “the butterflies,” and “the little girl with the strange dress” (2).

• Part One: July begins on page 3.

• Chapter 1 begins on page 5.

• The narrator presents events from a predator’s perspective.

• The man is stalking a six-year-old boy named Neil across a piece of waste ground, also known as a vacant lot.

• Neil is completely unaware of the danger he is facing as the man...

(read more Chapter Abstracts)

This section contains 14,039 words (approx. 47 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample