Natalie Babbitt Writes for Young Readers

T-Chart: Themes and Author Perspective

As you listen to the story, write down the themes in The Moon Over High Street in the left column, and notes on Natalie Babbitt's perspective on young people in the right column.

Comparing Perspectives

Takes notes about your own and the author's perspective for the different themes.

Language Identification Organizer

Listen closely and check off each phrase as you hear it.

• may have taken a distinctly dystopian turn
• Her newest work takes on the American dream and the choices we must make
• something magical and beautiful that you can turn to
• or to allow himself to be adopted by the millionaire
• an heir that he can have complete control over
• a theme is about security, the security that money can give us
• riding my bike around and skirting by the rich people's neighborhood
• There's nothing in it that couldn't really happen.
• we don't have to look to that as the only source of becoming important to ourselves.
• children are irrelevant because they don't have any power.
• they understand a great deal more than we give them credit for.