64 pages • 2 hours read
Watt KeyTerror at Bottle Creek
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Chapters 10-17Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapter 10 Summary
Cort can sense the hurricane coming. The animals have all left, leaving the area unnaturally quiet and still. He goes to the Stovall house for breakfast and to discuss preparations for the storm. While Mrs. Stovall cooks him bacon and eggs, Cort thinks of how his father never cooks anymore since his mother left. It begins to rain.
Chapter 11 Summary
Liza helps Cort and his father move their possessions from the houseboat to the Stovalls’ garage. Despite the rain, Cort does not bother with a raincoat, reasoning that he will get wet through whatever he wears. Cort’s father still cannot decide what to do about the houseboat, but eventually he starts working on it because “[i]t’s gettin’ mean out there” (57).
Chapter 12 Summary
After helping Liza prepare propane lanterns, Cort goes to help his father with the houseboat. They tie it off with heavy rope to two sturdy water oaks and adjust the stabilizing poles at the corners of the boat’s platform. Cort’s father tells him to get Catfish out of the boat while he goes to get final supplies from the shops.
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