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The map was folded into a square no bigger than a playing card, tucked inside a book about birds. When Imani spread it on the attic floor, dust rose in a little cloud.
It was hand-drawn: their street, the creek behind the houses and, past the old mill, a small X labeled in her great-grandfather’s neat writing — "What matters most."
Imani and her brother spent Saturday following it. They waded the creek, pushed through blackberry brambles and finally dug beneath a flat stone by the mill. Their shovel hit metal: a tin box, rusted shut.
Inside there was no gold. There were letters — dozens of them — that their great-grandparents had written to each other during the years he worked overseas. Imani read the first one aloud, and her brother, who never sat still, listened until the sun went down.
"I guess he was right," her brother said at last. "This is what matters most."
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Free Grade 6 English worksheet (Common Core RL.6.1): read "The Map in the Attic" and answer questions about key details, characters and theme. Skill: Key ideas and details in literature. Level: Grade 6 — also suits Year 7 (UK).
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Key ideas and details in literature.
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