THE NINE MINUTES / 05BOOK 05 · YOUR COMPANION GUIDE
Nine Small Thieves
Pia Marchetti · 9, runs the Small
Forty kids, four spoons left, and nine chicken-sized dinosaurs who have been sneaking out at night.
Keep this page beside the book. Follow its people and places, try its mission, then return after the last chapter.
BEFORE YOU READ / THREE PLACES TO BEGIN
Small is a way through.
Play the book · A two-minute Roost challenge
Small does not mean unimportant.
The missing-kit hunt
Two decisions. A place on the crew. Try a short challenge inspired by Nine Small Thieves.
A place on the crew.
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A spoiler-free companion activity, not an extract from the book.
EIGHTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS / ONE FOR EACH CHAPTER
Small things.
Whole stories.
Look for the objects your chapter leaves behind. Choose a drawing to take it into Storytime, where you can look closer while someone reads aloud.
OFF THE PAGE
Look closer.
Try it yourself.
Every volume pairs dinosaur evidence with a hands-on build. Both are free to read here.
Compsognathus
Explore the evidence, the discoveries and what the story made up.
Open the Field Notes ↗MAKE ITBuild something that works.
Sending something light up first, and letting it drag the heavy thing after it.
Open the activity ↗Come back after the last chapter.
Mark this book finished to open its reflection and work towards its passport seal.
AFTER READING
What does Pia notice that somebody taller or older might overlook?
Talk it through, draw an answer, or find a passage that changed your mind.