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Hill of Fire (I Can Read Book 3)

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I use this book with my ESL students 2nd-8th grade. What really makes it interesting is that it is a true story! I've been there, seen the church (what's left of it) and met the people. The only thing not true is there is no hot dog stand. Excellent book and easy to read.

"Hill of Fire" tells the true story of a Mexican farmer who encounters the beginnings of a volcano in his corn field. The vocabulary is very easy, and yet the author captures the mood of the sleepy village that was changed forever by El Monstruo. I recommend this book to teachers of grades K-3 and to children who are just moving away from picture books.

This historical fiction story relates to those who lead a hum-drum existence in meeting daily responsibilities. A dirt farmer in a small village in Mexico complains that nothing every happens in his life. Then, one eventful day, his ox-drawn plow buries itself so deep in the earth that smoke (the smoke of a volcano) begins to escape. Older students from Mexico will especially enjoy that cultural's influence in the story sequence (written like a simplified proverbial folktale) and illustations. If read aloud and read well, your students's laughter will tell you they understand the story.

We were exicted to read this book. The description of the land and how the volcano was describe in good detail.

This is a story about a volcano that grows in a field of corn. The characters are Pablo and his dad. This story is from Mexico and is in a little village. The story starts like this. It's a normal day Pablo was in school. His father was working at field of corn. Pablo went to help his dad when they are holes to plant corn when a hole makes lot of smoke and they run to their house. And the police came to rescue village people to a safe place. And when tourist came to see the volcano and Pablo told all the story of the Hill Of Fire.

I like this book because is a interesting book and fun book an emotional book.

I like the book because it has volcanoes in it and I like farmers and corn fields too.The book is good; it has a family and a volcano the pictures of the book are great. It is a really easy book .Thomas P. Lewis made the story real. I like the book because there are volcanoes. I think that the author wanted to tell that volcanoes are not always dangerous.

I think you should read. Hill of Fire. It is very good. I like the middle part. My favorite part is when the volcano erupts. I think you should read this book.

In this story there was a farmer that lived with his wife and his son. His son's name was Pablo. They had everything they needed, but nothing ever happened. But one day some thing really happened. The ox he was plowing with uncovered a volcano in the earth.

I didn't like the book. I give it three stars because it's kind of boring. It is boring because it is really short.

The message is that an ox can make a volcano appear, but I don't believe that. The second message is that the farmer had a boring life, but then the farmer had an interesting life. The message is that boring lives can get interesting.

I read this book in elementary school. It really happened: the story of the volcano Paricutin. A con of the story is the simile, "the volcano smoking like an old man smoking his pipe" and smoking is bad for us. A better simile would have been, "like a dragon breathing fire" or something.

It was an exciting book because I learned about volcanos and Mexico