Unable to get a bank loan, Willy decides to use his college fund to enter the National Dogsled Race, who's prize is exactly $500. When a tax collector comes to the farm, Willy learns that Grandfather will lose his home if they don't come up with the $500 he owes. Willy calls for the doctor, who examines Grandfather and concludes that nothing is wrong with him, other than losing the will to live. One day, Grandfather doesn't get out of bed. Grandfather likes to play jokes on Willy. Willy lives with his Grandfather and dog, Searchlight, on a potato farm. Stone Fox follows the sacrifices Willy must make in order to save his Grandfather's farm. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. Discuss how the supporting characters in the story impact the major characters. Explore the concept of selfless acts and find an example of it in the novel. Complete some online research to explain why Stone Fox might react to people in Willy's town a certain way. Make predictions on events that will happen in the story. Reflect on events that happen in a chapter, like what time do Searchlight and Willy race down main street. Identify statements about Grandfather's farm as true or false.
The activities within this resource engage the reader and provide clarity of the subject matter.
He lived out his final years with his wife, Gloria, in California and died of complications from pancreatitis in Anaheim, California.Students are introduced to the concept of sacrifice and how it's necessary to protect one's livelihood. Gardiner also edited children's stories for television.
He took a special class on screenplay and wrote Stone Fox as a movie, but a producer told him to publish it into a novel. He lived in West Germany, El Salvador, Mexico, Italy, Ireland, and Idaho where he heard a local legend that inspired Stone Fox. Always creative, in his younger years he ran Num Num Novelties, home to such originals as the aquarium tie. He was an engineer before working on his first and best-known children's book, Stone Fox, which, at the time of his death in 2006, had sold four million copies. He earned his master's degree from University of California, Los Angeles.
John Reynolds Gardiner (Decem– March 4, 2006) was a writer best known for writing the book Stone Fox.īorn in Los Angeles, California, he was a rebellious boy whose teachers believed he would never get anywhere in life.
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