Everything you need to understand or teach The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo.
The Magician's Elephant is a novel by author Kate DiCamilo. In this novel, Peter Augustus Duchene is a ten-year-old orphan living with a soldier that once fought beside Peter's father. When the old soldier, Vilna Lutz, sends Peter into town one day to buy food, Peter spends his coin on receiving an answer from a fortune teller instead.
The fortune teller tells Peter that his sister is still alive. She also...