Level: J DRA: 18 Genre: Fantasy Strategy: Visualize Skill: Compare and Contrast Word Count: 348 The Mountain 1.4.17 HOUGHTON MIFFLIN Online Leveled Books ISBN-13:978-0-547-02713-5 ISBN-10:0-547-02713-3 by Emily de Laurelia • illustrated by Nicole Rutton 1032755 H O UG H T O N M IF F L IN 1_027135_AL_LRSE_CVR_L17_MOUNT.indd 1 5/17/10 5:53:26 PM The Mountain by Emily de Laurelia illustrated by Nicole Rutton Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner unless such copying is expressly permitted by federal copyright law. Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be addressed to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers, Attn: Permissions, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777. Printed in China ISBN-13: 978-0-547-02713-5 ISBN-10: 0-547-02713-3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0940 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 If you have received these materials as examination copies free of charge, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers retains title to the materials and they may not be resold. Resale of examination copies is strictly prohibited. Possession of this publication in print format does not entitle users to convert this publication, or any portion of it, into electronic format. Mole and Rabbit were best friends. They lived beside a mountain. One day, Rabbit felt bored. He didn’t want to look for rocks. He didn’t want to tell jokes. He wanted to do something new. 2 “Let’s go to the other side of the mountain!” Rabbit said. “That’s far away,” said Mole. “Would we go by car or train or bike?” “There are no roads for cars and no tracks for trains. There are no trails for bikes,” Rabbit said. 3 “We could make a tunnel through the mountain!” Mole said. “