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Strange Museum #1
The Midnight Ride
hooked on phonics Master Reader
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66 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2003
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January 31, 2023
The Midnight Ride (Book 1): Jake and Mandy Strange live with their parents in an old mansion that is now open for public tours. The Strange Museum houses unique antiquities. The bottom two floors are filled with lost and found objects from around the world. They live on the top floor. Would you enjoy living above an odd collection of objects? Would you dare to go into the museum after hours? Would it make a difference if your parents remind you to never go into the museum after hours, and never touch any of the objects? Would your insides do "flip-flops?"
Even though Jake and Mandy had their favorite rooms, there was this one item that "called" to them. They knew that they were not allowed to touch the 1775 map. They just wanted a closer look at the corner of the map, or where the corner of the map should be. Once they opened the lid of the case where the map is housed... Jake notices a handprint at the corner, a handprint that was made over 200 years ago. All of a sudden..." the room began to spin... lights flashed..."
Enjoy... MrsK https://mrskbookstogo.blogspot.com/
Even though Jake and Mandy had their favorite rooms, there was this one item that "called" to them. They knew that they were not allowed to touch the 1775 map. They just wanted a closer look at the corner of the map, or where the corner of the map should be. Once they opened the lid of the case where the map is housed... Jake notices a handprint at the corner, a handprint that was made over 200 years ago. All of a sudden..." the room began to spin... lights flashed..."
Enjoy... MrsK https://mrskbookstogo.blogspot.com/
November 15, 2020
My all-time favorite authors and by far one of their best series I learned how to read with these books
September 5, 2017
I have to admit to constantly underestimating this series. When we get to them in the Hooked on Phonics reading program I always come in with a ho-hum. But then i read the first Chapter, which starts out like this....
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Jake and Mandy hated their last name. Strange. They were normal kids, but people always called them "those Strange children" from "that Strange family."
"We might as well be called the Weirdos," Jake said. "Because that's what all the guys in the 6th grade call us."
Mandy agreed. Friends at school had always made fun of her last name. Now that she was in the 8th grade, the teasing seemed to be worse. "I wish Mom and Dad had normal jobs," she said. "Why did they have to open a museum?"
"That would be fine with me," Jake said. "But did they have to call it the Strange Museum? Bad idea!"
Their parents, Kate and Ben Strange, use to work at an arts and science museum. That was how they met. They had always dreamed of owning their own museum. Not a big museum. A small one, with very rare objects in it.
(page 1-2)
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....and my readers are excited to be reading it aloud and interested in Jake and Mandy Strange.
This is a fun series that is part of the Hooked on Phonics program. The reads were interesting, though they do bog down on occasion, particularly the longer chapters. The concept is clever and the book was a good fit with the program, both as a reward (when you finish the lessons, you can read the next book) and as an appropriate title for the child's reading level.
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Jake and Mandy hated their last name. Strange. They were normal kids, but people always called them "those Strange children" from "that Strange family."
"We might as well be called the Weirdos," Jake said. "Because that's what all the guys in the 6th grade call us."
Mandy agreed. Friends at school had always made fun of her last name. Now that she was in the 8th grade, the teasing seemed to be worse. "I wish Mom and Dad had normal jobs," she said. "Why did they have to open a museum?"
"That would be fine with me," Jake said. "But did they have to call it the Strange Museum? Bad idea!"
Their parents, Kate and Ben Strange, use to work at an arts and science museum. That was how they met. They had always dreamed of owning their own museum. Not a big museum. A small one, with very rare objects in it.
(page 1-2)
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....and my readers are excited to be reading it aloud and interested in Jake and Mandy Strange.
This is a fun series that is part of the Hooked on Phonics program. The reads were interesting, though they do bog down on occasion, particularly the longer chapters. The concept is clever and the book was a good fit with the program, both as a reward (when you finish the lessons, you can read the next book) and as an appropriate title for the child's reading level.
December 24, 2014
This came with the Hooked on Phonics Master Reader program my third grader is currently using for extra practice at home, and it is the first chapter book he has read entirely by himself from beginning to end. (We usually alternate pages because he is dyslexic and quickly becomes wearied and frustrated with reading.) I think the HOP program prepared him well to be able to read this particular book, because he did not struggle as much as he often does when tackling chapter books. There were some words he needed help with (he can often sound out long words and will then turn around and struggle with a sight word, and that was still the case with this book, but he read more smoothly than usual). He also enjoyed the story (which was somewhat like The Magic Tree House, but, I think, more appealing to him than those books) and asked to read it to me several times without me having to make him read it. The American history theme, I believe, made it more interesting to him.
A truly good children's book should appeal to adults as well as kids, and this did not appeal to me, so I wouldn't give it five stars. However, I give it four because it worked for my son, who needs all the reading encouragement he can get, and it gave him a real boost of confidence to complete his first chapter book on his own.
Hooked on Phonics does an amazing job of matching the texts to the phonics level of the reader, and preparing them to tackle those specific texts. It may not get to the root of the reading problems of a dyslexic, which go beyond phonics, but it does wonders for confidence.
A truly good children's book should appeal to adults as well as kids, and this did not appeal to me, so I wouldn't give it five stars. However, I give it four because it worked for my son, who needs all the reading encouragement he can get, and it gave him a real boost of confidence to complete his first chapter book on his own.
Hooked on Phonics does an amazing job of matching the texts to the phonics level of the reader, and preparing them to tackle those specific texts. It may not get to the root of the reading problems of a dyslexic, which go beyond phonics, but it does wonders for confidence.
February 8, 2012
This book is full of mystery from the families name to going back in time. As you read about the Strange family and the Strange kids you go through a mystery of things as the Strange kids travel back in time to Tom Sawyer and his journey to tell the U.S. that the British are coming.
April 22, 2014
This is a fun series. Sending it along to my niece, Margaux, to start her American history lessons.
March 2, 2008
it is preety good!
April 24, 2013
Good Book!
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