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Leaf Me Alone!

Leaf Me Alone!
Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 1 to 2
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   1.43

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    actually, here, kids, moan, whine, come, alone, awhile, blow, crush, drift, fear, flutter, gold, great, hard
     content words:    Perhaps I'll, But I'll

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     Spanish: Déjenme Sola

Leaf Me Alone!
By Beth Beutler 		  
1     
Here come those kids again, I thought.
They do it every year.
They have something they call a rake.
It fills me with such fear!
 
2     
"Why can't I just stay on the tree?"
Up here it is great fun.
I'm soft and green out on a limb
And flutter in the sun.
 
3     
But then it happens, autumn comes,
The wind gets rather cold.
I start to dry, turn red and brown
And sometimes yellow or gold.

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