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Part I (Pages 1 - 64)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Anappara, Deepa. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line. Random House, New York, 2020.

• This book is written in a mix of first and third-person points of view and in the past tense.

• Chapter 1 is titled This Story Will Save Your Life, and it is written from the third-person point of view.

• This section tells the story of Mental, a man who organized and ran a group of street boys to scavenge.

• Unlike other street bosses, Mental was kind to the boys and he watched out for them.

• Mental died one day, and the boys were bereft.

• Following Mental's death, many of the boys were vulnerable themselves.

• A legend began that if a boy was in trouble and he said Mental's real name - a secret to everyone except the boys - Mental's...

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