1. Read the first sentence. What do you learn about the girl telling the story? 2. The character has an interesting name. What images does it bring to your mind? 3. Who or what is Winn-Dixie do you think?
Because of Winn-Dixie KateDiCamillo
Chapter one
My name is India Opal Buloni, and last summer my daddy, the preacher, sent me to the store for a box of macaroni-and-cheese, some white rice and two tomatoes, and I came back with a dog. This is what happened: I walked into the produce section of the Winn- Dixie grocery store to pick out my two tomatoes and I almost bumped right into the store manager. He was standing there all red-faced, screaming and waving his arms around. ‘Who let a dog in here?’ he kept on shouting. ‘Who let a dirty dog in here?’ At first, I didn’t see a dog. There were just a lot of vegetables rolling around on the floor, tomatoes and onions and green peppers. And there was what seemed like a whole army of Winn-Dixie employees running around waving their arms just the same way the store manager was waving his.