✦RBLevel 3 · Fluent ReadersUS Grades 4–5Lexile 730LAR (ATOS) 3.9 · First published 2007
📖 Read the book first: you need a copy of A Crooked Kind of Perfect to use this workbook. Recommended edition: Sandpiper paperback (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), ISBN 9780152066086. Another edition works if you can follow the chapters. All recommended editions →
Subject Personalities
The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.
PRIMARY LENS
🎹 Music and Musicians
How a piano and a pipe organ make sound, Vladimir Horowitz and Carnegie Hall, Italian music words, and why performers get stage fright.
SUPPORTING
🍪 Everyday Science and Inventions
The chocolate chip cookie, maple syrup, marzipan, the decibel, how mirrors work and why we dream.
SUPPORTING
📖 How a Story Is Built
A funny first-person narrator, irony, a running joke, suspense, and a circular ending.
