Cattail Moon

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Cattail Moon
Jean Thesman
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Character List

• Emmaline Quade-15, Julias best friend, also
  musician, curly hair with freckles on her nose
  and forehead
• Luke Sutherland-16, Long dark brown hair, tall,
  shy, only son left at home
• Christine Woodmark-Slender,is believed to haunt
  the marsh, wrote books and sang
• Julia Foster-15, Musician plays piano. She has
  green eyes, straight brown hair with blond
  streaks, she is spoiled and emotional.

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Summary

• The story takes place deep in the Cascade
  Mountains in a small town called Moon Valley.
  The starts a girl named Julia Foster who moves
  out to the country with her father and
  grandmother. She meets a guy which she falls in
  love with, named Luke Sutherland at the marsh.
  While she was there she also saw a ghostly figure
  .She confides in her grandmother about what she
  saw at the marsh. Amazingly her grandmother told
  her that the figure was an old enemy of Lukes
  Grandmother when she was alive, but she died of a
  sickness. Julia sees the figure many times after
  the conversation. Lukes grandmother was very
  angry at Chrinstine because it turns out that
  Matthew, Lukes grandfather, loved Christine
  instead of his wife. Julia was having trouble
  with finding things about her music and so was
  Christine when she was alive. Christine was
  haunting her to tell her to follow her dream with
  music.

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Flow Chart

• Julia moves to Moon Valley with her dad.
• She sees the ghost who haunts the marsh.
• Her curiosty leads her into making an
  investigation on the ghost.
• Julia finds out the ghosts name, Christine
  Woodmark.
• With the help of friends and her love, she finds
  books, music, and drawings that belonged to
  Christine.
• After reading Christines book she thinks her
  life and Christines relates.
• Christine appears tom Julia and tells her not to
  leave her not to leave her musical talent behind.
• Julia says good-bye to her love, family and
  friends.
• She then moves back to Seattle and returns to her
  music classes.

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Ending

• Luke and I sit on a log not speaking when all of
  a sudden we both speak .Sorry he said. I turn
  and look at him and say Luke I love you and I
  dont care if you dont love me. Luke stares at
  me and says I love you . I start to cry and
  Luke grabs my hand and kisses it and says I love
  you and will miss you. I look up in wonder.
  Luke youve not heard? Theres a school I can go
  to about an hour away and Im moving in with my
  father!

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Credits

• Kaala - Group Leader, 13 years old,
• D.O.B. July 12, 1984, Plays the Clarinet, funny
  and friendly
• Bridget - 13 years old,
• D.O.B. May 18,1984, Born in Queens, NY
• Loves to talk, nice, and friendly
• Jersey - 13 years old,
• D.O.B. July 18, 1984, friendly, plays the piano,
• and loves to sail
• Stephen - 14 years old, D.O.B. Sept. 3, 1983,
  Born in Los Angeles, California, plays basketball