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Rickety and Rackety are setting fires in an abandoned house, and it’s up to you to keep them from burning the place down.

Do you know how to put out a grease fire? What do you do when your parents smell smoke and you don’t want them to see you playing with fire?

This book requires you to make choices that change the story. Each of its four endings will teach you something different about how to stop a fire.

Are you ready to keep two talking raccoons destroying the neighborhood?

AUTHORS’ NOTE

We worked with a firefighter with twenty years of experience putting out house fires to plot the Rickety and Rackety books. They cover the most common accidents he has seen children have with fire.

This book covers the following topics:

– Not putting water on a grease fire
– How to smother a fire
– Not trying to hide fires from adults
– What to do when your clothing catches on fire

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All five of the Math Pirates books are in this complete collection!

Will you help Patrick find the treasure and win the infamous pirate ship, The Pickled Pearl?
Patrick Pirate is a lowly cabin boy. Grandpa Pirate is the most fearsome pirate in all the seven seas. When Grandpa Pirate is ready to retire, he gives Patrick a quest to prove that he’s ready to captain the infamous pirate ship, the Pickled Pearl.

How will Patrick complete the quest? By using math, that’s how!

The Math Pirates series shows characters using math in practical (and piratical) ways. It uses exciting stories to teach kids cool math concepts.

The math skills in this book are multiplication, division, fractions, estimation, collecting and analyzing data, math skills, and beginning geometry.

So, all aboard mateys! Get ready for a fun and educational adventure!

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Will you help Patrick find the treasure and win the infamous pirate ship, The Pickled Pearl?
This collection includes the five previously published Math Pirates stories.

Patrick Pirate is a lowly cabin boy. Grandpa Pirate is the most fearsome pirate in all the seven seas. When Grandpa Pirate is ready to retire, he gives Patrick a quest to prove that he’s ready to captain the infamous pirate ship, the Pickled Pearl.

How will Patrick complete the quest? By using math, that’s how!

The Pirate Math series shows characters using math in practical (and piratical) ways. It uses exciting stories to teach kids cool math concepts.

So, all aboard mateys! Get ready for a fun and educational adventure!

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Will you help Patrick find the treasure and win the infamous pirate ship, The Pickled Pearl?

Patrick Pirate is a lowly cabin boy. Grandpa Pirate is the most fearsome pirate in all the seven seas. When Grandpa Pirate is ready to retire, he gives Patrick a quest to prove that he’s ready to captain the infamous pirate ship, the Pickled Pearl.

How will Patrick complete the quest? By using math, that’s how!

The Pirate Math series shows characters using math in practical (and piratical) ways. It uses exciting stories to teach kids cool math concepts.

So, all aboard mateys! Get ready for a fun and educational adventure!

The math skill this book teaches is collecting and analyzing data.

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A ruckus in the night scares your cousin into thinking that something’s gotten her mother, your Aunt Vivian. Thus begins your latest mystery, because even when your aunt returns, her story doesn’t quite add up.

Add some mysterious footprints and the legend of a curse on your family, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

You choose the order to investigate the clues. See if you can solve the mystery before Pippa does!

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“Atlantis calling; can you hear us?”

This collection contains all of the Merfriends water safety books, including:

Water Safety at Home
Water Safety at the Swimming Pool
Water Safety on the Lake
Water Safety on the River
Water Safety in the Ocean

These include every lesson the Merfriends teach about how to be safe around water, whether it is a big body of water like the ocean, or a small amount of very hot water in a cup.
Each story will ask you to make choices about what to do in a dangerous situation. Every time you pick the best choice, you are awarded a starfish. But there are no “bad” choices with the Merfriends around. They have advanced, Atlantean technology to save you from any situation.

Grab your copy and see how many starfish you can collect!

These books teach the safety standards set by the American Red Cross, U.K. Royal National Lifeboat institution, and U.S. National Parks Service.

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A mysterious disease is killing trees in the forest, and this case is going to require the help of a scientist. The good news is that your Aunt Vivian is a scientist, but she can’t discover what is killing the trees if you don’t tell her where to look and what to look for.

If you cannot solve this mystery, the entire forest could be in danger. You and Pippa have always solved your mysteries on your own, so this is a new kind of investigation for you. See if you can uncover enough clues to help Aunt Vivian discover whether the disease that is killing the trees is a natural part of the forest, or something much more sinister.

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We’re super excited to announce that S.E. Burr will be writing a series of Little Books of BIG Choices. Math Pirates: The Complete Quest for the Pickled Pearl is a hilarious adventure with swashbuckling pirates, clever mermaids, majestic ships, and of course livestock.

In order to win the day, Patrick Pirate must use math in practical (and piratical) ways. Help him estimate the size of a sail, or collect data to find a first mate. Each book covers basic math concepts in an entertaining and often absurd way.

Joel is a powerful water mage, but can he end a drought? That is is his trial, to bring water to a land that is dying without it. You are his dragonlet familiar, and he needs your help. Will you tell him to call down a great rainstorm, or will you suggest he talk to his friend Anya, the air mage, for help?

Each trial you face is tougher than the last, and this is your toughest yet. This time, there is more than one way Joel can fail. The proctors will have you do the trial four times; each time you will make different choices and see a different ending. You want Joel to pass the trial, but what the Mage Academy wants is for you to learn. Which choices are the best choices and why?

Come find the best way to help Joel, so that he can save a dying land!

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Louisa and Sissy are the best of friends. Or… they were… Now Sissy won’t so much as look at Louisa and Louisa has no idea why.

It’s another mystery for you and your cousin, Pippa, to solve. Will you interview Sissy’s brother or will you snoop around her back garden to spy on her? You decide what order to collect the clues, and once you have them all, see if you can solve the mystery before Pippa does!

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