Realistic

Fiction

Hooked by Diana Noonan

illustrated by Gervasio Benitez

PAIRED
Poetry
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 STRATEGIES & SKILLS
Comprehension Vocabulary
Strategy: Reread gobble, individuality,
Skill: Theme mist, roots

Vocabulary Strategy
Metaphors Word Count: 1,853

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 Essential Question
What shapes a person’s identity?

Hooked by Diana Noonan

illustrated by Gervasio Benitez

Chapter 1
A Fishy Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Chapter 2
Hooked on History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Chapter 3
Fishing in the Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Respond to Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

PAIRED
Let’s Make Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
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Focus on Literary Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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 Chapter 1 A Fishy Story
“Here goes,” Cristina said.
“The first cast is always
the luckiest.” She flicked
her fishing line and sent
the bronze lure whizzing
through the air. The bait
made a satisfying plop as
it entered the water.

Her dad whistled his

approval. “Great cast,”
he said.

“Not so great, actually,”

Cristina groaned. She
began winding in the
line. “I’ve caught a snag, and I’m using Granddad
Thomas’s lure. What if I can’t get it back?”

“You will if you work at it,” her dad said.

Cristina flicked her fishing line this way and

that. It was no use asking her father for help.
He always said she had to do things for herself.
Cristina sometimes wondered if he would be
easier on her if she weren’t blind. It seemed like
he was always trying to teach her to be more
independent than everyone else.

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 “You know,” her dad began, “I didn’t like fishing
when I was your age.”

“You didn’t like fishing! That’s impossible!”

Cristina said. She gave her line an extra-hard tug.

Cristina was crazy about fishing. She loved

coming to the family cabin at Lake Tahoe. Her
dad joked that she would probably become a
fishing guide one day.

“I went fishing once a year,” he said. “And only

because your granddad made me. He liked fishing
because it took him back to his roots! It reminded
him of his father, your great-granddad.”

“Great-Granddad went fishing all the time, didn’t

he?” Cristina asked.

Her dad reeled in his line and cast out again.

“He sure did. He made his own lures too. They
were so good he became famous for them.”

“My lure is still stuck!” Cristina grumbled. “What

if I can’t get it back? It’s the most important one
in my collection.”

“Be patient and just keep working at it,” her

dad replied.

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 Cristina tried to keep calm, but it was hard
when her dad wasn’t helping her. She flicked
her line up and down. “So why didn’t you like
fishing?” she asked, trying not to let him see how
annoyed she was with the snagged line.

Her dad laughed. “Oh, I didn’t like to sit around

in the mist all morning. I didn’t like to row a boat
or get my feet wet either. I was more interested
in making things. One time I made a canoe out
of cardboard and duct tape and tried to float it
on the lake!”
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 Cristina twanged the fishing line with her finger.
The line had become a vibrating guitar string. “So
why did you change your mind about fishing?”

Her father started to explain, but suddenly

Cristina heard a loud thrashing noise. “You’ve got
one!” she shouted. “Pull it in, Dad.”

“It’s a beauty,” her father said when the fish

was flapping in the bottom of the boat.

Cristina caught the muddy, weedy scent of

the animal.

“Once I’ve taken the hook out of its mouth, do

you want to hold it?” her dad asked.

Cristina ran her fingers gently over the smooth

fish. “It’s pretty big,” she said.

“Around 3 pounds, I think,” her dad replied. “I’ll

put it back in the water now.”
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 “This is hopeless,” Cristina complained as she
heard the fish splash into the lake. “You’ve already
caught a fish, and I’m still trying to get my line
back. Please, can you help, Dad?”

“Come on, Cristina, you can do it if you use

your imagination. Think about what might be
happening under the water. Then figure out how
to solve the problem.”

“I don’t have an imagination!” Cristina said

grumpily. “I just have a special lure that I’m going
to lose.”

“You have plenty of imagination,” her dad

replied. “It runs in the family.”

“Does it?” Cristina asked.

“Sure,” Dad said. “I’ll tell you about it.”

STOP AND CHECK

Why is Cristina grumpy?

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 Chapter 2 Hooked on History

“Great-Granddad had lots of imagination. And

patience. He spent hours making lures out of
things like old spoons, coins, and door handles.
One time he even made a lure out of
Great-Grandma’s earrings!”

“I bet he wasn’t very popular with her after

that!” said Cristina.

She suddenly squealed. “The line! It’s free!”

She started winding, but a moment later, the lure
snagged again. She felt like bursting into tears,
especially because her dad still wouldn’t help.

“In a way, Great-Granddad was an artist,” her

father continued. “His lures were beautiful. But
they were practical as well, and people caught
lots of fish with them. They were so successful
that people from all around California asked him
to make lures for them.”

“He started a workshop, didn’t he?” Cristina

said, tugging hard on the line.

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 “He certainly did. He had 15 people working for
him,” her dad said proudly.

“Why didn’t your father take over the workshop?”

Cristina asked.

“Great-Granddad really wanted him to, but

your granddad was only interested in painting.”
Her father shrugged. “He loved painting with
watercolors.”

Cristina growled in frustration. “I’m wasting my

whole day with this snag. And I can’t cut the line
because I’ll lose my most special lure!”

“Think, imagine, solve, and you’ll do it,” her dad

advised her patiently.

Cristina was about to say that she didn’t think

his advice was very helpful, but her dad was
enjoying telling the story, and he continued talking.

“Your granddad didn’t like to catch fish, but he

ended up painting them! I guess living by a lake,
he’d seen a lot of fish. One day he was asked
to do the illustrations for a book about different
kinds of fish.”

“The book that became famous,” Cristina said

with a smile.

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 “That’s right,” her dad said, nodding. “Your
granddad was successful, too. When he was
painting, he had patience and imagination. Which
reminds me, how are you doing with that snag?”

Cristina sighed. “I’m not,” she told him. “My lure

is a sunken treasure that’s lost forever.” She rested
the line in her lap. Maybe if she relaxed, she’d
figure out how to free the lure. “So how did you
get interested in fishing, Dad?” she asked. “You
said that you didn’t even like it when you were
my age.”

STOP AND CHECK

What did Cristina’s granddad like to

do instead of making fishing lures?

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 Chapter 3 Fishing in the Family
“Great-Granddad wanted my father to make
lures, just like he did,” Cristina’s father said. “But
your granddad ended up painting fish instead. He
hoped I’d be a painter like him, but I became a
marine ecologist.”

“That doesn’t explain how you came to like

fishing,” Cristina said, laughing.

“I was in college,” her father said. “I was

learning about seabirds and how they kept getting
caught on the long lines used for fishing tuna.”

Cristina suddenly had an idea. She picked up

her line again.

“The seabirds liked to dive down for the squid

bait on the tuna hooks. But they would grab the
hooks as well as the bait. Then they’d get caught
on the hooks and dragged along behind the boat
until they drowned.”

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 “That’s horrible,”
Cristina said. Her rod
was on her lap, and
she was using her
hands to pull the line
tighter and tighter.

“I knew right then

that I wanted to
help save the birds,”
her dad continued.
“I thought about my
fishing trips with your
granddad and the
lures we’d used—the
ones Great-Granddad
had made. I figured out why his lures were so
good at catching fish.”

He smiled. “I started designing lures of my

own—special ones with hooks that wouldn’t catch
seabirds! Of course, I had to try out every lure
I made, and by the time I’d developed one that
worked, I was completely hooked on fishing!”

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 “But only catch-and-release fishing—you’d put
the live fish back in the water,” Cristina said. Then
she added, “Watch this, Dad.”

She released the tight coil of line that she was

holding. It pinged through the air, and she began
winding. She felt the lure sliding through the water
toward her. “As long as it doesn’t snag again
before I wind it right in, it’ll be okay.”

Cristina held her breath until she heard the lure

rattle against the edge of the boat. She couldn’t
stop grinning. “I used my imagination, just like
you said. I put a lot of tension on the line, then
I released it quickly. I figured that the hook might
spring back off the snag, and it did!”

“Well done!” her dad said.

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 Cristina felt for the lure. She carefully pulled
off the weed that was tangled around the hook.
“Should I cast again?” she asked.

“Of course,” her dad answered.

Cristina flicked her line back, then sharply

forward. She laughed. “I’ve been thinking that it’s
strange that Great-Granddad, Granddad, and you,
and I are all connected by fishing in some way.
Great-Granddad made lures, Granddad painted fish,
you make lures that are safe for birds, and me—I
just plain love to catch fish!”

Her father smiled. “People talk a lot about

individuality, but when it comes to families, I think
relatives are often similar to each other. You could
say that we’ve got fishing in our blood. Not to
mention patience and imagination.”

“If I have all those things in my blood, maybe

I will be a famous fishing guide one day and
take other blind people fishing with me,” Cristina
said, laughing.

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 Cristina paused to check her line. Could she
feel another snag, or was it something else?

“Because with fishing,” she continued, “you

use your hearing and sense of smell as much as your eyes.”

Her dad was about to reply when Cristina let

out a whoop of surprise.

“Yes!” she shouted. “I don’t just have fish in

my blood, I’ve got one on my line right now! And
I’ll tell you what,” she said as she struggled to
land the fish, “I’m not going to paint it or release
it. This one is for the frying pan. I’m going to
gobble it up for dinner!”

STOP AND CHECK

What does Cristina realize

about fishing and her family?

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 Summarize Detail
Summarize how fishing is important
Detail
to Cristina’s identity in Hooked.
Details from your graphic organizer Detail

may help.
Theme

Text Evidence
1. What features of this story tell you it’s realistic
fiction? GENRE

2. How are Cristina, her father, her grandfather,

and her great-grandfather all involved in fishing?
THEME

3. Cristina’s fishing line “had become a vibrating

guitar string” on page 5. What does this
metaphor mean? METAPHORS

4. Write about the things from the story that shape

Cristina’s identity. Use details from the story in
your answer. WRITE ABOUT READING

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 Compare Texts
Read a poem about a girl whose family loves music.

Let’s Make Music

Don’t Make Me Play

Mom says family reunions are fun.

Not when I have to play my ukulele
to relatives I’ve never met,
to cousins only clapping to be kind.
“Relax,” says Dad, “I’ll be playing with you.”

On the seat beside me,

his guitar laughs at my fear.
My face burns with embarrassment.
I wish our car were a rocket
heading for a distant planet
where music hasn’t been invented.
Illustraton: Sarah Goodreau

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 All Together Now!

Walking into the room

is like entering a lion’s cage,
but there’s no terrifying roar,
only the sweetest singing
and instruments everywhere!

“Meet my daughter, Destiny,” says Dad.

“She plays the ukulele!”
There’s no time to shrink,
no time to say hello.
But it doesn’t matter because
music is the introduction.

Illustraton: Sarah Goodreau

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 Music in the Blood

Dad strums a tune I know, and I strum back.

Drums pick up the rhythm,
a violin duels with a double bass.
I’ve just stepped in the door,
and I’m in a sea of music.

We play until my fingers tingle,

until night peeks in the window.
At supper when we stop to eat,
Mom laughs and whispers in my ear,
“You’re all Robinsons,
and there’s music in your blood!”

Make Connections
What does it mean to have “music in your blood”?
ESSENTIAL QUESTION

How are Cristina in Hooked and the narrator in

Let’s Make Music similar? TEXT TO TEXT
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 Alliteration People often think of alliteration as the
opposite of rhyme. Rhyming words have the same
ending sound, but alliterative words have the same
beginning sound. Alliteration isn’t just for poetry.
Authors use alliteration in stories to help words
flow. Alliteration is also fun to use in dialogue when
characters are being funny or playful.

Read and Find On page 2, Cristina “flicked her

fishing line.” The author could have said that she
touched or poked at her fishing line, but flicked links it
to the word fishing in a way that sounds pleasing to
the reader. Alliterative words don’t have to begin with
the same letter as long as the beginning sound is the
same. On page 4, Cristina tries to “keep calm” when
her line gets caught. The author could have written
stay calm, but the author connects the words using
alliteration instead.

Your Turn
Write a menu for a picnic using alliteration. For
example, you might bring “pleasing peanut butter
sandwiches” or “lickable lollipops” for a final treat.
Be creative with your menu. Share your marvelous
menu with the class.

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 Literature Circles
Fiction

Characters
Who are the main characters in Hooked?

Setting
Where does Hooked take place?

Sequence of Events
What happened first, then, next, and finally
in Hooked?

Conclusions
What conclusions can you draw about the
things that shape a person’s identity?

Make Connections
What connections can you make to the poem?
Is there an interest or a talent that runs in
your family?

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