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Book 1: Pages 1-43

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Morgenstern, Erin. The Starless Sea. Doubleday, 2019. Hardcover.

• Book 1 begins with a section called “Sweet Sorrows: Once, very long ago…” (3).

• The narrator tells of a pirate who is locked in a basement.

• One girl timidly visits him to bring food, and then a second girl comes.

• She is bolder than the first girl.

• She brings the pirate water laced with wine and sometimes fruit or candy.

• On the night before the pirate is to be hanged, she asks him to tell her a story.

• In “Sweet Sorrows: There are three paths. This is one of them.” the narrator introduces the Starless Sea and the hidden, underground library on its shores.

• It is a sanctuary for storytellers, storykeepers, and storylovers.

• Some stay for hours or days before returning to the world above.

• Others stay...

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