1. By : Chris Van Allsburg be retold by:
Jocelyn Flores
The Stranger

2. Mr. Bailey was on this car then he hit some
thing. he thought is was deer but was not a
deer. it was a man. The man want to run away
but the man lost his balance and fell. then the
man got up again ,but Mr. Bailey helped him to
the truck.

3. Mr. Bailey drove home to help the stranger. He helped
the stranger inside. Mr.Bailey helped the stranger to
feel comfortable. Mr. Bailey asked a question to the
stranger, did not answer the question. Mr. Bailey
thought that the stranger does not knows how to talk.
The doctor came and said the stranger had lost his
memory .

4. Mr. Bailey give him some clean clothes. The stranger joined the
Bailey for dinner. The stranger watch Katy take a spoonful of hot
soup and gently blow on the soup. Then the stranger did the same.
Then Mrs. Bailey shivered she said there is a draft in here tonight.
The next morning stranger was outside walking across the yard and
two rabbits took a hop in his direction. He picked one of them up
and stroked its ears. then the rabbits hopped away. The rabbits look
back like the try to say are you come with us?

5. Katy sat with the stranger on the sun high . The geese are flying in a
perfect V shape flying south for the fall and winter. The stranger can
not stop looking at the birds. Two weeks later the stranger sill not
remember who he was but Bailey did not mind. Mr. Bailey said that
he like the stranger to be round it was because he had one family.
The stranger was so happy with use said Mr. Bailey he said to his wife
.

6. Another week passed but the weather did not change and the weather was
the same. It felt like it was still summer. it was if the season have not
changed. the weather was warm and the pumpkins grow larger than ever.
the leave one a tree were was green as like three week before . One day the
stranger went on the highest hill on the farm. the stranger was puzzled and
sighed. the trees were bright red and orange.

7. The stranger said that it will be better that all of the trees were
red and orange. The next day the stranger can not look at a tree.
The stranger knew something was wrong. the more the stranger
thought it about it the more the stranger got more upset until
finally he could think of nothing else. Then the stranger ran to a
tree and pulled off a leaf. He held it in a trembling hand and
without thinking blew on it with all his might.

8. The next day the stranger decided to leave. the
stranger packed and went out the door and Baileys
went to say good-bye but the stranger disappeared.