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The Northern Lights
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     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 3 to 5
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   3.73

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    caribou, leading, natural, arched, fell, nearly, narrow, dangerous, heaven, whisper, seals, dark, reaction, spirit, toward, earth
     content words:    Northern Lights

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The Northern Lights
By Mary Lynn Bushong 		  
1     Long, long ago the northern sky was dark. Only the stars and moon shone at night.
 
2     One winter, food was hard to find. It was a starving time for the people of the North. The great caribou herds hid themselves. The seals could not be found.
 
3     One old couple saw their sons and their grandchildren getting hungrier. Their cheeks became thin. They stopped laughing and singing.
 
4     The old couple made up their minds. They would take lamps and go out on the ice. It would mean that more food would be saved for the others.

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