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Monster Power : Exploring Renewable Energy: A Branches Book
This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!
Seatbelts, everyone! The Magic School Bus is back and ready to ride again. Professor Frizzle's kid sister Fiona might be the new teacher at Walkerville Elementary, but she's got the same old motto: take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!
She decides to take the class camping, but come night fall their tent grounds are pitch black. But Arnold's been watching a ton of scary movies and has been having trouble going to sleep at night. What will Arnold do without a night light? The class thinks fast and learns a ton about renewable energy.
Seatbelts, everyone! The Magic School Bus is back and ready to ride again. Professor Frizzle's kid sister Fiona might be the new teacher at Walkerville Elementary, but she's got the same old motto: take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!
She decides to take the class camping, but come night fall their tent grounds are pitch black. But Arnold's been watching a ton of scary movies and has been having trouble going to sleep at night. What will Arnold do without a night light? The class thinks fast and learns a ton about renewable energy.
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96 pages, Paperback
First published December 26, 2017
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April 15, 2018
Katschke, Judy Monster Power: Exploring Renewable Energy (The Magic School Bus Rides Again), 96 pages. Branches (Scholastic), 2018. $5. 9781338194449.
Arnold cannot enjoy the class camping trip with his friends in Ms. Frizzle's class because he's absolutely obsessed with protecting everyone from The Blot Monster. The Blot Monster loves pollution and darkness and the only thing that can stop him is light. But how do you power lights in the middle of nowhere? Together with his classmates, Arnold explores alternative energy sources and eventually finds a way to harness natural power to keep the lights going--and the Blot Monster at bay!
This is the novelization of one episode of Netflix's reboot of The Magic School Bus. The book is ridiculously true to the show that streams online, and young readers who are fans of Ms. Frizzle will enjoy reading about their favorite characters; I read it aloud to my preschooler who is a fan of the show and he loved it. New vocabulary words are typed in bold with a glossary available at the back, and illustrations are incorporated throughout. My only complaint is that the book is so exactly like the Netflix episode there is nothing new to discover if you've seen it. The youngest readers might appreciate that, but a lot of kids might find it redundant.
EL(K-3) - ADVISABLE. Reviewer:TC
https://kissthebook.blogspot.com/2018...
Arnold cannot enjoy the class camping trip with his friends in Ms. Frizzle's class because he's absolutely obsessed with protecting everyone from The Blot Monster. The Blot Monster loves pollution and darkness and the only thing that can stop him is light. But how do you power lights in the middle of nowhere? Together with his classmates, Arnold explores alternative energy sources and eventually finds a way to harness natural power to keep the lights going--and the Blot Monster at bay!
This is the novelization of one episode of Netflix's reboot of The Magic School Bus. The book is ridiculously true to the show that streams online, and young readers who are fans of Ms. Frizzle will enjoy reading about their favorite characters; I read it aloud to my preschooler who is a fan of the show and he loved it. New vocabulary words are typed in bold with a glossary available at the back, and illustrations are incorporated throughout. My only complaint is that the book is so exactly like the Netflix episode there is nothing new to discover if you've seen it. The youngest readers might appreciate that, but a lot of kids might find it redundant.
EL(K-3) - ADVISABLE. Reviewer:TC
https://kissthebook.blogspot.com/2018...
January 17, 2018
This time the class goes camping and explores ways to make clean energy to power lights to keep the monsters away.
March 21, 2022
Note: I received an ARC of this book from the publisher at ALA Midwinter 2018.
January 3, 2018
For MSB fans looking for early chapter book level reading.
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