Hungry, Hungry Sharks by Joanna Cole

Millions and millions of years ago, strange creatures lived in the world. There were dinosaures, crocodiles, turtles, leopard, whale, wolves, blue sharks, white sharks and others. There are many kind of sharks in the ocean: basking shark, blue shark, hammerhead shark, white shark, whale shark, etc. The most dangerous shark is the great white shark. Most fish lay eggs but most sharks do not. The white shark has just had a bunch of babies that had to go away as soon as they were born. They coudn´t stay there because mom would eat them. They had to look for their own food.
What to sharks eat? Do sharks eat people?
Read the book to find the answer!

(Michael Baggio and Jay-Seoung Yu - 3rd)

Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg

An afternoon, Judy and Peter were left alone by their parents at home . They were bored and decided to play in a park. There, they found a game box named "Jumanji" which is a jungle adventure game. They got excited and went back home to play the game. First, they read the instructions and found out that once you started to play the game, you could not be over until you reach the golden city of Jumanji. Peter started to play and shook the dice. He got number seven and, suddenly, a lion appeared. They got scared, but continued to play the game although other strange things would be happening - several monkey got there; a snake appeared; a volcano started to shake. They had to reach the gold city and kept going until they got there. When they did, everything went back to normal. Their parents arrived just in time.
(Carolina Galvão - 3rd, Isabela Lima - 4th, and Julia Vidal - 5th)

Polar Bears Past Bedtime by Mary Pope Osborne

Jack and Annie went to the frozen Artic but didn´t have proper clothes to wear. Luckily, they met a seal hunter who gave them coats, mittens and boots. The seal hunter had a dogsled with huskies. Annie and Jack thought they were wolves. So, they went to an igloo where the seal hunter told them stories about Polar bears and gave them two riddles. Later, when they were playing on the snowbank, they saw two bear cubs. Jack and Annie stayed there with the bears but suddenly they heard a crack and found out they were on a thin ice. Just then, there was another sound. It was the mother bear who had just arrived. Annie and Jack put bear masks to pretend they were Polar Bears and be able to go back to the igloo. Before they return to the magic tree house, they remembered about the riddles. One of them is: "Look at the letters: the first not the rest. Discover the place, that you love the best." Read the book to find the answer. (Isabela Lima-4th grade)

Magic Tree House, 12

Winter of the Ice Wizard by Mary Pope Osborne

Jack and Annie were tricked by a wizard. The wizard said he was Merlin and he needed help to get his eyeball. Jackie and Annie travelled to the snowy Land-Behind-the-Clouds withTeddy and Kathleen. Together they looked for the norns to ask them for the wizard´s eyeball. When they found the Nors, they said they had given it to the giant. (Carolina Abbot Galvão - 3rd)

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