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Prologue-Book1

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Krupitsky, Naomi. The Family. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2021. Hardcover.

· The Prologue is dated July 1948.

· It compares shooting a gun to jumping into cold water.

· In Book 1 (1928-1937), Sofia Colicchio and Antonia Russo, who are five years old, live next door to one another and are best friends.

· Their families moved to Red Hook in Brooklyn, because their fathers’ mob boss, Tommy Fianzo, wanted them there.

· Sofia lives in a three-bedroom apartment.

· She has recently discovered that people are afraid of her father.

· He is always served first at the deli or the café.

· She goes with him to his meetings sometimes, and then he takes her for gelato.

· Antonia Russo lives in a two-bedroom apartment.

· Sofia and Antonia spend all of their time together.

· They enjoy playing make-believe games.

· The girls live mostly...

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