In this school the students teach the teachers. Then the students ask the principal if they can use their school as a video game arcade. The principal tells the students that if they read 1 million pages, they can make the school into a video game Arcade for one night. So all the kids read and make their goal. The students got their wish on the weekend.

Freddy has to learn how to ride a two wheeler before a marathon. His dad and sister teach him. It takes him 2 weeks to learn. Freddy rides very well and beats the bully, Max.

Freddy has two problems one max (the biggest bullly in first grade ) sits on freddys lunch, and two that Max and Freddy want to tryout for the hockey team. Since there is only one spot left, they are going against each other. Then they both find out one player left the team, so both Max and Freddy can play on the same team.

Magic Tree House takes Jack & Annie to the civil war. They have to find a list of things to do to help wounded soldiers. Jack & Annie help as volunteers and help take care of the soldiers. They get the list from a nurse. They also meet Clara Barton, who was a famous nurse during the civil war. They rode wagons to bring the soldiers from the war field to the hospital. After they learn all about caring for the soldiers, they go home in the tree house.

Tree House takes Jack & Annie to the moon in the future. They have to find something that starts with M. They try a mouse, meteoroid, and moon man all of them do not work then they find out the moon is the thing.

Jack & Annie go to ancient China to save a book from being burned. They have to pass soldiers to get to the book. A young man helps them get into the city to the library, and also helps them get out so they can go back to the tree house.

Freddy has to take care of a hamster for the weekend. Then in the middle of the night his hamster escapes from his cage. Freddy and his friend try to find the hamster by looking in different parts of the house and by using their flashlights. They find him hiding behind the bookshelf. In the morning, Freddy told his class about his weekend adventure.

It is about a boy who has to think of what to bring to school on the 100th day of school. He tries a real shark jaw but it only has 98 teeth.Then he makes 100 cookies but his dad eats one of them.Then he tries buttons which our perfect and he also brings the rest of the cookies.

Magic Tree House takes Jack & Annie to Wednesday, December 25th, 1776. They arrive on the West Bank of the Delaware river in Pennsylvania. They meet some patriots who are on a special mission. They have to find “something to send.” George Washington is giving a speech to all the soldiers. A captain copies the letter gives Jack & Annie the letter to send to his kids. When they are going back to the tree house, Annie runs away to go on the ship with the soldiers to cross the Delaware river. The soldiers help Jack and Annie get back to the other side so they can go home.

Jack & Annie go to Hawaii to find a special ship that can go on high and low tides on every kind of trip. They meet 2 kids named Kama & Boka. They learn about Hawaiian culture and how they live. Kama & Boka teach Jack & Annie how to surf. When Jack is now the beach, he feels an earthquake. A tsunami comes with a big wave. They escape from the tsunami by going back to the village. They realize that the special kind of ship they are looking for is “friendship.”

Magic Tree House takes Jack & Annie to Australia to free a little dog from a spell. They have to look for a gift from a kangaroo to break the first part of the spell. When Jack & Annie find a kangaroo, it was been chased by 3 dingoes. They find the baby kangaroo that falls out of the pouch. Since it was so hot, a wildfire starts. To get away from the wildfire, Jack & Annie take the kangaroo to a cave. In the cave they find a white glowing paint line, known as the rainbow serpent. The line was painted by aborigines.

After the mommy kangaroo gets away from the wildfire, she finds Jack and Annie with her baby at the edge of the wildfire. She gives them a piece of bark to say thank you.

Jack and Annie use an eagle’s feather, a watch, lotus flower, and the piece of bark to break the spell.

Jack teaches his friend, Drake how to swim because he is coming on vacation with them to Araxie. Jack takes Drake to different places to learn how to swim. My favorite part is when Drake makes a splash in the ocean in Araxie.

Geronimo goes shopping with his girlfriend, Petunia in New Mouse City. Petunia buys him a Crystal Gondola. Geronimo accidentally breaks the gondola. He notices that a scroll is in it and it says a call for help. Then he goes to Venice on the plane to solve the mystery. On the plane, Geronimo meets a strange lady mouse, who starts to have a crush on him when they land in Venice. He tries to get away from this strange mouse lady by going on the canals in gondolas. The owner of the crystal gondola store forces Geronimo to work for him because he wants money to fix his gondola so he can compete in races, so Geronimo calls his family to help fix the gondola. My favorite part is when Geronimo and his friends fix the gondola.

Jack and his family are moving to a planet called, Nebulon. Jack is scared about his new school and making new friends. While they are moving, Jack dreams that his new school in Nebulon is filled with aliens with slimy tentacles. When they move, he finds out that his new house is very cool. There is an elevator in each room, a robotic computer called Ira, and his room is his favorite color green. My favorite part is when Jack and his family arrive at their new house, they have a green and red car.

Thank you to Sunita-kaki, Vidya-aaji & Villachha for your donations!

I have been trying to keep up with my reading. Please see my updates for all the books I have read so far.

love,
Raheel

Hardy Boys, Joe and Frank go to the museum with their Science Club. They all do a dinosaur dig with their friends. During the field trip, they find out that a dinosaur tooth has gone missing. Joe and Frank begin searching for the tooth by asking questions to everyone. They help find “suspects” who may have taken the dinosaur tooth. It turns out that the dinosaur tooth was just misplaced in Isabel’s bag by mistake. My favorite part is when Joe and Frank find out that the dinosaur tooth is real.

Geronimo goes to Arizona to get a new cowboy hat for his grandfather. His cousin, Trapp goes with him. Geronimo finds out that his grandfather and a mouse called, Red Bandit are friends. The Red Bandit has the hat that Geronimo wants to get for his grandfather. Geronimo gives the Red Bandit an enormous jar of mixed chocolate as a gift in exchange for the cowboy hat. My favorite part is when Geronimo does mountain climbing with the jar of chocolates on his back.

It’s about Geronimo Stillton, who is a mouse newspaper writer. He has a dream about a quest for paradise with his helpers are Boils, Dragon the of Rainbow, Goose BlahBlah Snowy Dawn. They all try to find a map to bring back the “Heart of Happiness.” My favorite adventure was when they go to the Land of Toys. All the friends help Lightning, who is a broken rocking horse. They fix Lightning by fixing his rocker, painted his saddle and polished his mane and tail.

The Magic Tree House takes Jack and Annie to the prairie. And experience a twister. Jack was very scared of the twister. My favorite part is when they go home.

The Magic Tree House takes Jack and Annie to the Titanic. When the Titanic starts to sink, they help two kids escape on lifeboats. They get a gift from the kids’s father a watch for helping save his children. My favorite part is when they get the watch.

Jack and Annie are taken back to the days of the pirates. They get captured by the pirates and have to help them find a hidden treasure. After they find the treasure, a parrot named Polly helps them get away and back to the tree house. My favorite part was when one of the pirates say that he doesn’t know how to read.

I want to thank Moni-aunty, Razi-uncle, Aajoba, Yogee- kaka, Mommy and Daddy for helping me raise money for kids in India.

love,
Raheel

The Magic Tree House takes Jack and Annie to the pyramids in Egypt. They see palm trees, a giant pyramid and an Egyptian funeral. The coffin is called a sarcophagus. My favorite part is when Jack and Annie are trapped in the pyramid, a black cat shows them the way out.

Jack and Annie travel in the Magic Tree House to a castle. They saw a feast in the castle and discovered an armor room. My favorite part was to find out that a helmet can weigh up to 40 pounds (as much as I weigh). Jack and Annie get captured by castle guards and use a flashlight to scare the guards by pretending it is magic. They use a secret passage to the moat. A knight helps them get back to the Magic Tree House, where they take the Pennsylvania book to get back home.

Brother (Jack) and sister (Annie) discover a magic tree house in the woods on the tallest oak tree. For their first adventure, the Magic Tree House goes back in time to the Dinosaurs. They find dinosaur eggs, a triceratops, and a gold medallion with a M on it. Jack and Annie become friends with a Anatosaurus mommy dinosaur. My favorite part is when a T-Rex chases Jack and Annie back to the Magic Tree House and they get rescued by a Pteranodon dinosaur.

Magic Tree House takes brother (Jack) and sister (Annie) to San Francisco, where they experience an earthquake. They try to help many people save things that are important to them. My favorite part was when the mayor tries to use dynamite to blow up buildings to stop a wildfire but it doesn’t work.

Brother (Jack) and sister (Annie) go to the Amazon rainforest. My favorite part is when the army ants come and Jack and Annie had to use a log as canoe in the river to get away from them.

I have read my first book in this Readathon. This story is about a brother (Jack) and sister (Annie) who travel in the Magic Tree House to solve a riddle. They have an underwater adventure where they have to swim away from a shark, and ride on dolphins to get to safety. My favorite part is the riddle they have to solve:

Rough and gray as rock,
I’m plain as plain can be.
But hidden deep inside
There’s great beauty in me.
What am I?

Answer: Oyster

Raheel Mantry

We are very proud of you Raheel for making this commitment to help children who are in need of our help! love, Mommy & Daddy