by Abby Klein
The mommy shark lays the eggs in the water. The eggs stay in an egg case that is hard and protects the baby shark until it hatches into the ocean.
Other sharks grow from eggs inside their mom’s body and are born alive into the ocean.
When the baby shark is born, the mommy shark doesn’t take care of it. It has to take care of itself—just like Winger before I rescued him. My mom does so much for me. I’m glad I’m not a shark!
SUZIE’S SECRET
RIDDLE
Use the code below to find the answer to my riddle.
—Suzie
What do you get when you cross a parrot and a shark?
A VERY SILLY STORY
by Freddy Thresher
Help Freddy write a silly story by filling in the blanks on the next three pages. The description under each blank tells you what kind of word to use. Don’t read the story until you have filled in all the blanks!
HELPFUL HINTS:
A verb is an action word (such as run, jump, or hide). An adjective describes a person, place, or thing (such as smelly, loud, or blue).
FREDDY’S WINTER BIRD FEEDER
1. Find a large pinecone.
2. Tie a piece of string to the top of the pinecone.
3. Cover the pinecone with peanut butter.
4. Roll the pinecone in birdseed.
5. Hang your bird feeder from a tree branch in your yard or outside a window, and watch the birds gobble up the seeds.
MAZE
See if you can find the way to Winger’s nest.
Freddy has another problem—a really, really, big problem!
FREDDY THRESHER is the only one in his class who hasn’t lost a tooth. Now, Max the bully is calling him a baby, and Freddy’s ready to do anything to get one of those pesky teeth to fall out.
Read all about it in Tooth Trouble!
And don’t miss Freddy’s hilarious adventures in Homework Hassles. …
Freddy has to write a report on a nocturnal animal. So why not stay up all night and do some outdoor research with his best friend, Robbie? Freddy’s ready for some midnight fun, but nothing turns out the way it’s planned!
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Text copyright © 2004 by Abby Klein
Illustrations copyright © 2004 by John McKinley
Special thanks to Robert Martin Staenberg.
Excerpted text on pages 79-81 is from Are You My Mother? by P. D. Eastman, Random House, 1960.
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