High Tide in Hawaii

High Tide in Hawaii

Title: High Tide in Hawaii

Genre: Audio Book

Author: Mary Pope Osborne

Awards: None

Age group: 6-10 year olds

I enjoyed this audiobook because the reader did voices for each character and there was music every once in a while to go with the book. I would definitely recommend this audiobook for students.

Summary:

Jack and Annie were reading when the Magic tree house came back, so they went to go check it out. They were given a new task for this times adventure in the magic treehouse; they were to build some kind of ship in Hawaii. So then they touched the cover of a book and they were off. From the book they learned a little bit about Hawaii and how it was formed. Then they noticed a village so they went to go check it out. They meet some of the villagers who welcomed them, one was named Kama and the other Boka. Kama then invited Annie and Jack to stay at their house. Kama told them they would go surfing tomorrow. In the morning they got breakfast from a tree and then they learned how to surf, Jack was having some difficulty though and ended up crashing and having to swim to shore. Jack decided to stop and just read about surfing instead. Then he felt the earth shake for a second, so he looked up in his book earth quakes and it says they are known to cause tsunamis so he got worried. So he paddled out to them to warn them, so they all rushed to came back in but suddenly the water around Annie began to pull away so they ran up the cliff. Then they witnessed the tsunami occur and were grateful that had missed it. They then danced the hula to tell their story of the tsunami. After Kama mentioned that they were friends now and mentioned friendship is like riding a wave. That is when Annie realized the task was not to build a literal ship, but a friendship which they had done. Then they learned that Aloha meant goodbye so they said aloha and went back to the magic tree house to go home. Morgan was waiting in the treehouse when they got back and was proud that they now had found 4 special kinds of magic, and then she explained their most exciting adventures are yet to come. In the end when Jack saw his parents waiting at home he thought that he had already had the best magic of all here, the magic of family.

I believe I could use this audio book in my classroom because it is a short, but a very immersive version of the book. This book is a part of a huge series called the Magic Tree House books.

I believe the appropriate grade level for this book is 1st-4th grade. This book does not have too complex of vocabulary, but is sort of short for a chapter book which is why I might recommend for lower grades.

A way to use this audio book in the classroom is after listening to the book out loud the students will try to write their own story about an adventure they went on, and then they will record themselves making an audio book version of their story. Another way to use this book in the classroom could be making a storyline chart that shows the beginning, middle, and end of the book and what the climax was.

HAVE FUN READING!💙-Lacy