Ruben Randall: Reads Between the Lines

By Nicole Clemons

My name is Ruben Randall and I am the coolest kid on the planet. I have a crew of friends that are the best. I am excited for you to meet Carlos, Laura, Big Ben, Beth, and the beautiful Paisley Flowers. I love to have fun but sometimes having fun gets me into a lot of trouble. Read my book to find out what happens during my classroom spit ball adventure. Oh and did I tell you that The Rube has a love life. Read to find out all about my troubles with love and be sure to check out the Work-It-Out Sheets, Author-At-Work, and the Artist-At-Work Sheets at the end of the book. You might learn something that you just didnt know. You will laugh, learn, and have lots of fun when you read Ruben Randall Reads Between the Lines.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499094923

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Copyright © 2014 by Nicole Clemons. 686712

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014919589

ISBN: Softcover       978-1-4990-9491-6

ISBN: Hardcover      978-1-4990-9489-3

ISBN: EBook              978-1-4990-9492-3

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 11/12/2014

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Contents

The Real Deal

Just Playing Around

Mrs. Lemons

Read between the Lines

A Day of Love

Let’s Infer

The Big Finish

Work It Out Sheet: Making Inferences 1

Challenge Questions

Making Inferences 2

Challenge Questions:

Act It Out Sheet: Creating Inferences 3

Extra Challenge

The Artist Works Sheet: Drawing Inferences 4

Author at Work: Creative Writing

Challenge: Creative Writing

The Real Deal

Hey, what’s up? Ruben Randall here, and let me start by saying that I am one of the coolest kids on this planet. I like to brag about myself sometimes because I can. I can brag about myself because I am really smart, really cool, really funny, and I think school is a cool place to be. I go to a great school called Cressfall Elementary School. My school has little people and giant people. The little people are on one side of the school, and the giant people are on the other side of the school. The principal and teachers make sure that the giant people stay far away from the little people so that they don’t get hurt or picked on. Just wait until I am a giant person. I will be a giant person with giant swag! I am so excited because that means I am going to really start to grow and I will be able to do giant-people things. I will be better at sports because I will be bigger, stronger, and faster, but the most important thing is that I will be smarter. The longer you stay in school, the smarter you get. Now don’t get me wrong. There was a time when I did not like school at all. My favorite part of school was when I heard the bell ring because that meant it was time to go home. When I say I did not like school, man, I mean it. I would make up all kinds of excuses why I couldn’t go to school.

One rainy morning, I heard my alarm clock go off, and I could not believe that it was already time to get up and get ready for school. It felt like I just went to bed. Well, to be