Before Reading:

Title: "A Mother in Mannville"
Author: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Overview:
This book is seven pages long with 12 point type.  In the story there is one big picture and one small picture.

    The author might have written this because she met a boy named Jerry in North Carolina, where the story takes place, and she probably felt bad for him.  The author was probably sad while writing this because it might have put a bad thought a child not having any parents.

    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is known for writing short stories with conflicts between people and nature.  She prefers to write in a quiet and natural setting.  She lived in North Carolina for a little bit but spent a majority of her life living in Cross Creek, Florida.

Predictions:
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