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=**Sofia's Fiction Book Report **= =**__High Wire__ By: Charles Ogden **=  

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== The story is about two kids, Edgar and Ellen, who are trying to figure out who or what killed Augustus Nod, The owner of the house they live in. He used to live there in 1807 and he tried to burn the house but before he sold the house to Sigmund Heimertz. Sigmund is the care taker of Edgar and Ellen and they think he is weird because he never talks to them. Edgar and Ellen are in Nod's lab trying to find clues but all they find is a notebook with code writing and Ellen say's it looks like chicken scratch. Ellen think that pet, a one-eyed fuzz ball, killed Nod and now they think he wants to kill them. She notices there is a page torn out and she thinks it's the page that decodes it so she gets mad and throws the book at Edgar. Edgar was trying to see what had effect with Balm,a substance that makes stuff last longer, when Ellen threw the book and it hit his knee and he dropped the balm on the heat,that did have effect on it, and the lab blew up. When they tried to escape they were surprised by Hiemertz and so they got out the lab by going thru a path that led to the sewers. == = 2 . Setting-  = == The story first takes place in the house of Augustus Nod in 1807 in Nod's Limbs. Then a couple years later Edgar and Ellen come and live there. Then in a circus where the whole Heimertz family works at and they also live there. Sigmund Heimertz is a family member but he stayed back to take care of Edgar and Ellen's house. It also takes place in the wax work which is where the circus is located. It also takes place in a fun house where they are suppose to get a key for Ormond. ==

=    3. Characters-     =

19. Nancy Weedle 20.Suzette Croquet


=   4. Conflict-    = ==    They are  trying to get three ambers and they have to give them to Ormond. They are looking for the keys because they want to be part of the Heimertz circus family so they want feel so lonely anymore. First they look in the fun house for the key and they find it but first they had to go through a squid and then get the amber. Then they had to get the second amber from the peacock house and the amber was in one of the peahens nest but the peahen got mad and Edgar had to start playing music to calm them down. The third amber was located inside a plant and they had to get the amber before the plant went out to make its show and before Ormond started his incredible show. ==

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=  5. Climax-   = == The story starts changing when they notice that Ronan is a very nice guy and that he tried to save everyone in the circus from preventing the tent to fall on top of everyone. All the Heimertz family found out that Ormond was a bad guy once he left with the three ambers and when he tried to make he tent fall down. Edgar and Ellen found Nods body under the lab and they noticed that pet had not killed Nod but that Nod had died from looking for balm underground. He died because there had been an earthquake and he had a lot of rock fall on top of him. They didn't think anymore that pet had been the cause of Nods death, or that pet was still trying to kill them. ==



=  8. Theme-   = == They learned that they should never trust anybody that you don't know very well, and to not judge people like Ronan if you don't know what they are really like inside. This has taught me not to trust people i don't know even if i know them because i don't know how they really are inside or what they really want from me. I have learned not to judge until i really know them as well as i know myself. We should never judge people because they might judge you and say really bad things about you. This sould also teach us not to trust any one because they might take advantage of you, and use you for doing something bad. ==

= 7. Resolution-  =

== Ormond leaves the circus and makes everyone see that he was a bad guy and that they shouldn't have trusted him. Now everyone knows that Ronan was a good person and that Edgar and Ellen should have never thought that he was bad. Although no one could catch Ormond everyone was happy and Edgar and Ellen were happy to be home and they were sad at the same time because they didn't stay in the circus but thay decided to stay home and wait for their parents. They now trust pet and know that he won't harm them or anybody. They know that all pet wanted to do was help on finding Nod because Nod used to be his master. == =Sofias Second page= = = = =