» Cooped Up

Josh is lonely and misses his old house, especially his dog, Duchess. They can't have pets in their apartment, but Grandad finds a way to keep everyone happy.

Authors use speech marks to show when someone is talking. Find the sentences in the book where someone is talking. Notice the speech marks. Where would you put speech marks in these sentences? • Look at them zooming around out there, he thought. • I'm going to make a feeding station, Josh said. • This is great, said Grandad when they got home.