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Garden Heights

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Bunnicula — Deborah and James Howe
Garden Heights · Independent Novel Study

Bunnicula

a novel by Deborah and James Howe
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✦RBLevel 2 · Confident ReadersUS Grades 3–4Lexile 700LAR (ATOS) 4.2 · First published 1979
📖 Read the book first: you need a copy of Bunnicula to use this workbook. Recommended edition: Atheneum Books for Young Readers / Aladdin paperback (Simon & Schuster), ISBN 9781416928171. 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
🐾 Animals, Real and Imagined
How rabbits really eat, what a dog’s nose and a cat’s eyes can do, fruit bats and vampire bats, and why chocolate and garlic are dangerous for real pets.
SUPPORTING
🌙 Spooky Stories, Told Gently
Dracula as a famous old story, Transylvania and its legends, Edgar Allan Poe and Sherlock Holmes — the mystery tradition the Monroes’ pets live inside.
SUPPORTING
📖 How a Story Is Built
A dog who tells the story, clues and red herrings, humor and exaggeration, and an ending the reader decides.
8-Part Novel Study
Choose a Part
VocabularyReading IntelligenceLiterary ElementsThink DeeperBig QuestionAcademic Reading Challenge
Progress
PT1
Part 1 · Editor’s Note & Chapter 1
The Arrival
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PT2
Part 2 · Chapter 2
Music in the Night
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PT3
Part 3 · Chapter 3
Some Unusual Goings-On
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PT4
Part 4 · Chapter 4
A Cat Prepares
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PT5
Part 5 · Chapter 5
Chester Goes into His Act
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PT6
Part 6 · Chapter 6
Harold Helps Out
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PT7
Part 7 · Chapter 7
A (New) Friend in Need
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PT8
Part 8 · Chapters 8–9
Disaster in the Dining Room • All’s Well That Ends Well . . . Almost
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