Reading Notes-Phoenix Rising
Vocabulary
Chapters 1~6
 Pg. 5 Muzzle- Protecting part of the dog, covering the mouth
 Pg. 5 Fawned- Show slavish devotion
 Pg. 40 Balked- Hesitate
Chapters 7~12
 Mimicked
 Static
 Nylon song
 Pg. 54 Carding paddles
Chapters 13~16
 Pg. 83 Purists
 Pg. 83 Lethal
 Pg. 84 Meddle
 Pg. 110 Grudge
 Pg. 84 Great Pyrenees
 Pg. 85 Stashed
 Pg. 93 Bantered
 Pg. 103 Dancey
 Pg. 108 Looter
 Pg. 109 Bleat
Chapters 17~22
 Pg. 129 Molasses
 Pg. 125 Vermin
 Pg. 111 Hobbled
 Pg. 118 twitching
 Pg. 119 Juggling papers and books
 Pg. 122 Blind trust
 Pg. 124 Wind chill factor
Chapters 23~end
 Pg. 153 Montpelier
 Pg. 154 fitting my body
 Pg. 163 early thaw
 Pg. 175 truck downshifting
 Pg. 149 calluse
Character
Nyle
 Very Kind
 Care for others
 Likes to keep things
Gran
 Open hearted
 Cares for Nyle a lot
Muncie
 Pg. 92 Short
 Likes Nyle who is her best friend
 Pg. 58 She thinks that evacuees are mutants
Ripley
 Pg. 7 Bully
 Pg. 7 Very naughty
 Pg. 7 Mean
Connection
Chapters 1~6
 Pg. 31 Nyle is 8th grade and I am 8th grade too.
 Pg. 18 Gran tells Nyle “But you have to do the things you’d rather not.”
And sometimes my parents want me to do things that I really don’t
want to do.
 Pg. 27 Sometimes there are things that you can’t tell your friends
because it is embarrassing like Nyle not telling Muncie what is
happening in her house.
Chapters 7~12
 Pg. 61 Nyle talks to Ezra and feels kind of comfortable talking with him.
Sometimes when you meet a person that you don’t know, you will feel
very comfortable after a while.
 Pg. 76 Ripley fights with Nyle with snowballs and I once fought with my
brother really harshly.
 Pg. 63 my brother and me jokes around like Ezra and Nyle.
Chapters 13~16
 Pg. 88~89 Nyle and Ezra arguing is like sister and brother arguing. I
argue with my little brother quite often. Self.
 Pg. 84 I like dogs but my mom doesn’t let me to buy it.
Chapters 17~22
 Pg. 133 Ezra is very scared of radiation outside. He needs to check it
with the detector every time. Sometimes I an very worried about
something that is almost over and that is kind of small.
 Pg. 140~141 Ezra talks about his father and he is really sad. I had this
experience where I am talking about something and I just suddenly feel
sad and want to cry out loud.
Chapters 23~end
 Pg. 150 Ezra remembers the song that Nyle sang it to him when he
was sick. I remember when I had this disease called Kawasaki
disease. I remember most of the things that my mother and my father
did for me.
Plot
Chapters 1~6
 Pg. 6 November
 Pg. 7 Nyle and Muncie fights and argues with Ripley about Tyrus killing
a sheep.
 Pg. 9 the curtains are normally not closed but it was closed when Nyle
went back home.
 Pg. 13 Gran tells Nyle that evacuees are staying in their house.
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Pg. 13 They called Red Jackson because of the sheep problem.
Pg. 23 Nyle tries to see Ezra’s face.
Pg. 27 Muncie asks if Nyle can come over to do homework together,
but Nyle says that she has works to do. She is hiding the evacuees
from Muncie.
 Pg. 33 Nyle talks with Mrs. Trent about them staying over
 Pg. 36 the principle tells the students that they capped the nuclear leak.
 Pg. 40 Nyle had to use the cloth to give Ezra water because Mrs. Trent
looked exhausted.
Chapters 7~12
 Pg. 44 Mrs. Haskins gave Nyle’s class a work where they had to write
to the senators of what is happening.
 Pg. 46 Ezra woke up and spoke to Nyle.
 Pg. 47 Nyle was singing songs, read books, put water on his lips for
Ezra.
 Pg. 49~51 Nyle and Muncie were getting the wools and leading the
sheep into the fence.
 Pg. 53 Ezra begins to talk with Nyle normally.
 Pg. 58 Nyle and Muncie arguing about a problem where Nyle thinks
that people who are infected are still human but Muncie thinks that they
are mutants.
 Pg. 64 Nyle and Gran get the milk and make it into cheese.
 Pg. 72 November to December
 Pg. 74 Nyle and Muncie plays snowball fight together.
 Pg. 76 Ripley and Nyle fight again.
 Pg. 77 Ezra opened the curtains and Muncie saw them.
 Pg. 80 Nyle and Gran talking about the Trents.
Chapters 13~16
 Pg. 82 Nyle talks to Ezra that she is going to watch the meteor shower.
 Pg. 85 Nyle gets Ezra a puppy.
 Pg. 85 Ezra yells at Nyle that he doesn’t want that puppy.
 Pg. 87 Nyle takes the puppy again to Ezra, but Ezra thinks that the
puppy is sick because of the radiation.
 Pg. 91 Nyle, Muncie and Gran going to Manchester.
 Pg. 92 a waitress makes fun of Muncie and she thinks that Muncie is
cute calling her “Dwarves.”
 Pg. 93 a boy called Dan Taylor is with other boys playing with Muncie
and Nyle.
 Pg. 98 Nyle and Gran talking about if Mrs. Trent and Ezra should stay
in the house or not.
 Pg. 100 Mrs. Trent and Ezra come out of the room towards the kitchen.
 Pg. 102 Ezra asks where is the puppy.
 Pg. 103 now Ezra thinks that the puppy doesn’t have sickness but Nyle
thinks that the puppy has sickness to be funny and joking.
 Pg. 105 Nyle and Gran visiting Aunt May and Uncle Lemmy’s dairy
farm.
 Pg. 108 When Nyle asks the cousins to go outside, they looked terrified
and ignoring Nyle.
Chapters 17~22
 Pg. 112 Ezra and Nyle talking about the house.
 Pg. 113 Ezra visits Nyle’s room for the first time. He is still scared of
the radiation.
 Pg. 114 on the detector, there was a little sign that there was radiation
in Nyle’s room. But it was the watch.
 Pg. 115 Ezra borrowing books from Nyle.
 Pg. 118 Nyle goes and meets with the Mr. Perry who is the principle.
They talk about Ezra doing assignments and doing work.
 Pg. 120 sometimes Ezra and Nyle does homework in the same room
talking.
 Pg. 121 Ezra asks if staying Nyle’s house is uncomfortable. He also
asked Nyle if she thinks that he is a jerk.
 Pg. 124 the Christmas came but Mrs. Trent didn’t celebrate Christmas.
 Pg. 124 Nyle going to the last pastures bringing sheep.
 Pg. 127 Nyle, Muncie and Ripley has a argument. Ripley makes fun of
them.
 Pg. 132 Ezra and Nyle get ready to go outside to see the puppy that
was in the pasture for one day.
 Pg. 135 Nyle lets Ezra to try driving the truck because they need to get
the hay and give it to the sheep.
 Pg. 138 Ezra names the puppy’s name to “Shep.”
 Pg. 140~141 Ezra begins to talk about his father and how he died.
 Pg. 144 Nyle now for real, likes Ezra.
Chapters 23~end
 Pg. 145 Muncie ignores Nyle.
 Pg. 146 Nyle tries to say hi to Muncie but she talks in a mean way.
 Pg. 147 Nyle and Muncie talks about how Nyle didn’t tell Muncie that
she had evacuees in her house earlier.
 Pg. 150 Nyle and Ezra doing project together when Nyle sings a song
called “Tender Shepherd” which she sang it to Ezra when he was sick.
 Pg. 151 Gran suggests Ezra and Mrs. Trent to go the school concert
where Nyle is playing.
 Pg. 152 Whenever people were asking who Mrs. Trent and Ezra were;
Gran would just say, “Meet my friend Miriam.”
 Pg. 153 Mrs. Trent and Ezra had to go to Montpelier for an
appointment with some state people.
 Pg. 155 Ezra is all-good now, which means that he can go to school
now.
 Pg. 156 Ezra and Nyle going to school together.
 Pg. 160 Ezra and Nyle were working on a letter homework that Nyle
has to do, and she chose Anne Frank to write about. After she wrote it,
she read it out loud to Ezra. But what is said in the letter reminded him
of his father and his old memories.
 Pg. 161 Ezra writes a letter to Nyle.
 Pg. 164 Ezra and Nyle meet Ripley on the way home. And they start to
fight.
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Pg. 165 Ezra helped Nyle to fight but he was not a fighter. Ripley beat
him so hard that he was bleeding.
Pg. 166 when Ripley was about to hit Nyle, Muncie saved her.
Pg. 167 Gran took Ezra to hospital.
Pg. 174 Muncie and Nyle talks together about Ezra dying and how all
of them are dying.
Pg. 176 Gran tells Nyle that Ezra started to bleed before Ripley hit him
because of a disease called leukemia.
Pg. 178~180 Ezra and Nyle talks together for the last time.
Pg. 182 Nyle and Muncie’s relationship goes back to normal.