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Part I (Pages 1 - 63)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Spufford, Francis. Light Perpetual. Scribner, New York, 2021.

• This book was written in the present tense and from the third-person perspective.

• The first section is titled "t + 0: 1944."

• The book opens with a description of a terrible bombing of a Woolworth's store in the fictional area Bexford in London, England, in 1944.

• The bombing kills scores of people, including five specific children named Vern, Alec, Ben, Jo, and Val.

• Jo and Val are the only girls of the five, and they are twin sisters.

• At the end of the this brief section, the narrator imagines a future in which the bombing, for one reason or another, never happens and all the people who actually die in it live.

• The second section is titled "t + 5: 1949."

• In 1949, Jo, Val, Vern and Alec are all in music...

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