Team Info:

Cape Hatteras Elementary School, 2nd Grade in Buxton, NC. 

• Sponsor Teacher – Ms. Kristin Gray

Summary of Novel:

Afternoon on the Amazon- Summary

By Mary Pope Osborne

Jack and Annie are a brother and sister that go on adventures and solve riddles.  In this book, they use the tree house to go to the Amazon Rain Forest.  Morgan le Fay is under a spell.  Jack and Annie must find the second object to break the spell.  They encounter giant ants.  They travel by boat down the Amazon and learn facts about the rain forest.  They see all sorts of other animals like a snake, a monkey, and a jaguar.  They get a mango from the monkey and it is what they are supposed to take back to Frog Creek.  After reading this book we wanted to know how climate change affects the rain forest.

Polar Bears Past Bedtime- Summary

By Mary Pope Osborne

Jack and Annie are led to the tree house by an owl.  Morgan le Fay challenges to solve an ancient riddle written in a scroll.  This story takes them to the Arctic.  They meet a seal hunter. The seal hunter gives them polar bear masks. Jack uses the Arctic book to learn facts about the Arctic.  Along the way, they stay in an igloo and travel by dogsled.  They meet polar bears, too.  The masks are the solution to the riddle.  Climate change causes problems in the Arctic.  After reading this book, we read nonfiction to find out how the increase in temperature harms the Arctic habitat.