A Thousand Words In Charlotte's Web

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Have you ever seen a spider make a web that had words in it like SOME PIG, TERRIFIC,or RADIANt? You can in Charlotte’s Web. New paragraph because new topic a summary. In this book Fern’s dad was about to kill Wilbur until Fern stopped her father. When Wilbur was growing then Fern had to sell Wilbur to her Uncle because he needed to much food. Wilbur met Charlotte on Fern’s Uncle’s farm. Charlotte was going to try to save Wilbur’s life by writing words in her web to stop Mr.Zuckerman from killing Wilbur. Charlotte wrote Wilbur was SOME PIG,TERRIFIC,or RADIANT . This book is really funny. Wilbur had fainted in front of the whole crowd. Templeton the rat bit on Wilbur’s tail to revive him. Wilbur earned a medal and everyone cheered

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