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Chapters 1-4

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Franklin, Tom. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. Harper Perennial, 2010. Print.

• Chapter 1 (The Present) – The chapter and the book open with this sentence: “The Rutherford girl had been missing for eight days when Larry Ott returned home and found a monster waiting in his house” (1).

• Narration describes the storm the night before; Larry’s routine around the farm where he lives (including taking care of his mother’s chickens, all named after American First Ladies); his family history (a bachelor in his forties, father dead, mother ill with Alzheimer’s disease in a nursing home), and hints at a troubled personal history, including a reference to not being allowed to own a gun because of his past and due to being named a person of interest in the recent disappearance of both “the Rutherford girl...

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