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Grandpa’s
Scrapbook

Genre

Historical
Fiction

Comprehension
Skills and Strategy

• Sequence
• Character
• Graphic Organizers

Scott Foresman Reading Street 4.1.3

ISBN 0-328-13418-X

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by Peggy Bresnick Kendler
illustrated by Pamela M. Anzalotti


Reader Response
1. In the story, Grandpa was a young explorer and a

steamboat pilot. Which came first and which came
second in his life?

Grandpa’s
Scrapbook

2. Look at the pictures on page 13. Tell about the
locations shown in the first two pictures in the
scrapbook. What clues help you figure this out?

3. Three of the vocabulary words in this book are
amazed, bewildered and yearned. Put them in
a three-column chart like the one below. List the
words in column 1, tell the part or parts of speech
they are in column 2, and write a sentence for
each word in column 3.
Word

Part of Speech

Sentence

by Peggy Bresnick Kendler
by Pamela
M. Anzalotti
4. illustrated
Two of the vocabulary
words, homeland
and

sculptures, are nouns. Look up definitions for both
words. Write a sentence using each word properly.

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“Grandpa, tell us a story!” Elizabeth said to
her grandfather. Elizabeth and her brother Jesse
were visiting their grandfather.
“Yes, Grandpa! Please tell us a story!” Jesse
said.
“I’ll do better than that,” their grandfather
said. “I’ll show you a story!”

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Elizabeth and Jesse were lucky. Their
grandfather was Mark Twain. He was one of
America’s favorite writers.
Not only did he write the best stories, but he
told the best stories too. They were all about his
childhood in his homeland of Missouri.

4

“How are you going to show us a story,
Grandpa?” Jesse asked.
Grandpa pulled a big, worn book out of a tall
bookcase. “This is my special scrapbook. It has
pictures of the places I loved when I was your
age. It’s a book full of wonderful adventures.”

5


Jesse and Elizabeth sat on the floor next
to their grandfather. His scrapbook was set
out in front of them. Grandpa was a tall man.
Even when they were all sitting down, he was
towering over them.
“Let’s begin,” Grandpa said. The children sat

as quietly as sculptures.

6

“My hometown is Hannibal, Missouri,”
Grandpa said. “There is a big river there. It is
called the Mississippi River, and it is about a mile
wide!” Twain used some of his own childhood
adventures in his famous books about Tom
Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Grandpa showed them a picture of three boys
playing by the river. “That’s me and my friends,”
Grandpa said. “We always pretended we were
pirates! We longed for adventure.”

7


“That river amazed me. We swam in it all
summer,” Grandpa said. “In winter, we would
sneak out of our houses late at night to go
skating!”
Grandpa showed the children a picture of
himself at home in bed. “This is me after I fell
through some thin ice into the river,” Grandpa
said. “I was sick in bed for three weeks.”

8

“We loved to explore the caves along the

river,” Grandpa said.
He pointed to a drawing of a girl. “This is
Laura Hawkins. We bewildered her, but she still
sometimes went on adventures with us in the
caves outside of town and on the river,” he said.
In his books about Hannibal, Laura Hawkins
was the model for one of the main characters,
Becky Thatcher.

9


Jesse and Elizabeth looked up at Grandpa in
awe. “Show us more!” said Elizabeth. She tried
to still herself so she could listen.
“This part of the scrapbook is full of pictures
from later in my life,” Grandpa said. “It’s from
the time when I was a steamboat pilot.”

10

“A steamboat pilot? You drove a steamboat,
Grandpa?” Jesse asked.
“Yes, Jesse. I couldn’t imagine anything more
fun than to drive a steamboat.” Grandpa pointed
to a steamboat ticket he had pasted on the page.

11

“When I was 22 years old, I became a cub pilot
on Mississippi River steamboats,” Grandpa said.
“A cub is someone who is just learning. I trained
for 18 months.”
Grandpa showed the children a picture of
himself as a young steamboat pilot. “I got my
license in 1859!” Grandpa said proudly.

12

“Where did you go?” Jesse asked.
Grandpa pointed to pictures in the scrapbook.
“I went up and down the Mississippi River. I saw
New Orleans, Louisiana, and St. Louis, Missouri,
over the next three years. We hauled cotton,
tobacco, and other goods to be sold. We carried
travelers from port to port. Steamboats were
very important to life on both sides of the
Mississippi River.”

13


Grandpa closed the scrapbook and smiled at
the children. “That’s enough for today,” he said.
“No, Grandpa!” Elizabeth and Jesse said at the
same time. “Show us some more stories!”

14

Just then, the children’s parents came into the
house. “I know what that means,” their mother
said, pointing to the big scrapbook. “When I was
young, your grandpa used to show me stories
too.”
“Next time,” said the children’s father,
“I want to be here to see them too!”

15


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Samuel Clemens

Reader Response

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne
Clemens in 1835. Mark Twain was Samuel’s pen
name. A pen name is not a real name. It’s a name
people use when writing books. The name “Mark
Twain” comes from a riverboat term meaning
two fathoms. A fathom is a unit of measure equal
to six feet. The term is used most often to talk
about the depth of water. Can you think of why
Clemens chose this for his pen name?
Mark Twain was one of America’s best-known
writers. He wrote many books for children
and adults. In addition to writing books and
working as a riverboat pilot, Twain held many

other jobs. He worked in print shops and wrote
for newspapers.
He prospected
for gold and
traveled to foreign
countries. He
married Olivia
Langdon in 1876.

1. In the story, Grandpa was a young explorer and a
steamboat pilot. Which came first and which came
second in his life?
2. Look at the pictures on page 13. Tell about the
locations shown in the first two pictures in the
scrapbook. What clues help you figure this out?
3. Three of the vocabulary words in this book are
amazed, bewildered and yearned. Put them in
a three-column chart like the one below. List the
words in column 1, tell the part or parts of speech
they are in column 2, and write a sentence for
each word in column 3.
Word

Part of Speech

Sentence

4. Two of the vocabulary words, homeland and
sculptures, are nouns. Look up definitions for both
words. Write a sentence using each word properly.