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Challenge your friends to a reading Olympics! Read as many of these books as you can. After you’re done reading, host a virtual Olympic event. Answer the questions on the next page, and then hold a medal ceremony to reward the winners! Use this interactive checklist to help guide your reading!

Ancient Greece and the #16 Hour of the Olympics Olympics Jack and Annie take an Olympic- Where was the first Olympics? sized adventure! Discover more about ancient Greece and the Olympics!

Baseball #29 A Big Day for Baseball When was baseball invented? Who Play ball! Jack and Annie are up to are some famous baseball players? bat in this baseball adventure! Learn more about this beloved sport!

#24 Soccer on a Sunday Soccer Goal! Jack and Annie have tickets When was soccer invented? What to soccer’s most exciting event— is the World Cup? Find out more the World Cup! about this exciting sport!

Dogsledding and Extreme #26 Balto of the Blue Sports Dawn How do sled dogs race for so long? Jack and Annie travel back to 1925 Learn more about dogsledding and Alaska to help the famous sled dog other extreme sports! Balto!

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ROUND 1: HOUR OF THE OLYMPICS ROUND 3: SOCCER ON A SUNDAY QUESTION 1: How did Annie disguise herself QUESETION 1: What year was the World Cup when she went to the Olympics? that Jack and Annie traveled to? A. In a chariot C. In armor A. 1960 C. 2000 B. In a tunic D. In a soldier’s costume B. 1950 D. 1970 QUESTION 2: Who saved Jack and Annie from QUESTION 2: Which famous soccer player are the guards at the end of the story? Jack and Annie trying to find? A. The magic tree house C. Pegasus A. Cristiano Ronaldo C. Pelé B. Plato D. A soldier B. Lionel Messi D. Diego Maradona

ROUND 2: A BIG DAY FOR BASEBALL ROUND 4: BALTO OF THE BLUE DAWN QUESTION 1: What does Morgan the librarian QUESTION 1: What state do Jack and Annie give Jack and Annie to make them baseball travel back in time to? experts? A. California C. Washington A. Magical caps C. Magical gloves B. Alaska D. New York B. Magical bats D. Magical helmets QUESTION 2: What did Annie think was the best QUESTION 2: Which famous baseball player do part of their mission? Jack and Annie see signing autographs? A. The snow C. The food A. Babe Ruth C. Joe DiMaggio B. The sled D. The dogs B. Jackie Robinson D. Lou Gehrig

ANSWERS 1.B, 2. D 2. 1.B, 1.A, 2. B 2. 1.A, Round 4: Round Round 2: Round

1.D, 2. C 2. 1.D, 1.D, 2. C 2. 1.D, Round 3: Round Round 1: Round

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#1 Dinosaurs Before Dark Dinosaurs #2 The Knight at Dawn Knights and Castles #3 Mummies in the Morning Mummies and Pyramids #4 Pirates Past Noon Pirates #5 Night of the Ninjas Ninjas and Samurai #6 Afternoon on the Amazon Rain Forests #7 Sunset of the Sabertooth Sabertooths and the Ice Age #8 Midnight on the Moon Space #9 Dolphins at Daybreak Dolphins and Sharks #10 Ghost Town at Sundown Polar Bears and the Arctic #11 Lions at Lunchtime Ancient Rome and Pompeii #12 Polar Bears Past Bedtime China: Land of the Emperor’s Great Wall #13 Vacation Under the Volcano Vikings #14 Day of the Dragon King Ancient Greece and the Olympics #15 Viking Ships at Sunrise Titanic #16 Hour of the Olympics American Revolution #17 Tonight on the Titanic Twisters and Other Terrible Storms #18 Buffalo Before Breakfast Pilgrims #19 Tigers at Twilight Tsunamis and Other Natural Disasters #20 Dingoes at Dinnertime Baseball #21 Civil War on Sunday Texas #22 Revolutionary War on Wednesday Warriors #23 Twister on Tuesday Benjamin Franklin #24 Earthquake in the Early Morning Narwhals and Other Whales Coming #25 Stage Fright on a Summer Night Llamas and the Andes 7.7 #26 Good Morning, Gorillas #27 Thanksgiving on Thursday #28 High Tide in Hawaii #29 A Big Day for Baseball VISIT MAGICTREEHOUSE.COM #30 Hurricane Heroes in Texas TO JOIN THE #31 Warriors in Winter KIDS’ ADVENTURE CLUB #32 To the Future, Ben Franklin! #33 Narwhal on a Sunny Night Coming #34 Late Lunch with Llamas 7.7

#1 Christmas in Camelot Leonardo da Vinci #2 Haunted Castle on Hollow’s Eve Sea Monsters #3 Summer of the Sea Serpent Penguins and Antarctica #4 Winter of the Ice Wizard Ghosts #5 Carnival at Candlelight Leprechauns and Irish Folklore #6 Season of the Sandstorms Rags and Riches: Kids in the Time of #7 Night of the New Magicians Charles Dickens #8 Blizzard of the Blue Moon Snakes and Other Reptiles #9 Dragon of the Red Dawn Dog Heroes #10 Monday with a Mad Genius Abraham Lincoln #11 Dark Day in the Deep Sea Pandas and Other Endangered Species #12 Eve of the Emperor Penguin Horse Heroes #13 Moonlight on the Magic Flute Heroes for All Times #14 A Good Night for Ghosts Soccer #15 Leprechaun in Late Winter Sharks and Other Predators #16 A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time Dogsledding and Extreme Sports #17 A Crazy Day with Cobras Dragons and Mythical Creatures #18 Dogs in the Dead of Night #19 Abe Lincoln at Last! #20 A Perfect Time for Pandas #21 Stallion by Starlight #22 Hurry Up, Houdini! VISIT MAGICTREEHOUSE.COM #23 High Time for Heroes TO JOIN THE #24 Soccer on Sunday KIDS’ ADVENTURE CLUB #25 Shadow of the Shark #26 Balto of the Blue Dawn #27 Night of the Ninth Dragon Go on more adventures with Jack and Annie in any order you choose!

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WHAT YOU’LL NEED: STEP 1: STEP 2: • Green construction paper With your brown construction Decide what your reading goal will (or plain white paper) paper and drawing utensils, draw be this week, and write that on a tree trunk and tree branches for one of your tree branches. Most • Brown construction paper your leaves to sprout from. If you important, start reading! (or plain white paper) don’t have construction paper, just • Scissors use plain white paper that you can STEP 3: • Glue color in. With your parent’s help, Once you’ve completed your first cut out these items and tape them reading goal, make a leaf out • Colored pens, markers, to a window, wall, or other hard of green paper (or white paper or crayons surface, like your bedroom door. colored green). Write the name • Tape You can also cut out the Jack and of the book that you’re reading Annie adventure art below, or draw and the chapter(s) that you’ve just art of your own! completed on your newly created leaf. Tape the leaf to your tree trunk—your tree is now taking shape!

Add a new leaf every time you complete a reading goal. The more books you read, the more your tree will grow! Before you know it, you will have a fully formed tree that Jack and Annie would be proud to have their tree house in!

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WHAT YOU’LL NEED: • White paper • Crayons, colored pencils, or markers • String or ribbon • Scissors

STEP 1: STEP 3: Take a white piece of paper With your parent’s help, and draw three equal-sized cut out the medals. Poke a circles. Color one circle in hole into the top of all three gold, one circle in silver, and medals. one circle in bronze (or as close to those colors as STEP 4: Measure a piece of string or Learn more about the Olympics you can). ribbon around your neck. Cut with Jack and Annie! STEP 2: it at the length you prefer. On the gold medal, draw a 1. Then thread the string or On the silver medal, draw a 2. ribbon through the medal. On the bronze medal, draw Tie the ends together. Now a 3. Decorate the medals you can host an Olympic with fun stickers, doodles, competition! and colors!

Craft activity for Hour of the Olympics and Ancient Greece and the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne

WHAT YOU’LL NEED: • White coffee ﬁ lter • Pencil • Colored pencils, markers, or crayons • Construction Paper • Glue

STEP 1: a baseball (slightly curved). Take a coffee fi lter and fl atten Once you have drawn the it out into a circle. If you do lines, take a red pencil and not have a coffee fi lter, you draw the stitching on both can draw a circle on a white lines. You can create the piece of paper and cut it out stitches by drawing lots of with your parent’s help. Glue small V shapes over the lines. the coffee fi lter to a piece of construction paper. STEP 3: Who was Jackie Robinson? Now decorate the Find out with Jack and Annie! STEP 2: construction paper! Draw With a pencil, draw two grass, bases, or baseball bats lines on the coffee fi lter to create a scene that’s sure that resemble the lines on to be a home run!

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WHAT YOU’LL NEED: • Paper plate • Construction paper • Colored pencils, markers, or crayons • Scissors • Glue or tape • Wooden stick STEP 1: This can be a squiggly line from Take a paper plate and draw a one goal to the other. rectangle on it. The rectangle should be about the size of the STEP 4: middle of the paper plate. Draw Draw other players on the soccer goal lines and midfi eld lines to fi eld. Color in the players and the make it look like a soccer fi eld. soccer fi eld.

STEP 2: STEP 5: On a piece of paper, draw a Glue or tape a wooden stick soccer player with a soccer ball. (such as a Popsicle stick or You can make the player look like skewer) onto the back of your When did the World Cup begin? you! Color the player and soccer cutout of a soccer player. If you Learn more with Jack and Annie! ball. With your parent’s help, cut used glue, let it dry. Then insert the player and soccer ball out. the player through the cut in the paper plate. You can move the STEP 3: stick so the player moves across Use your parent’s help for this the ﬁ eld. Now you have a ﬁ eld step! On your paper plate, cut ready for a soccer match! out a path for your soccer player.

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Craft activity for Hour of the Olympics and Ancient Greece and

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WHAT YOU’LL NEED: • Paper plate • Crayons, colored pencils, or markers • Scissors • Elastic or string

STEP 1: STEP 3: Take a paper plate and draw With your parent’s help, punch a half-moon shape to create holes with scissors near the the brim of the visor. With your points of the visor. Measure parent’s help, cut out the shape. elastic or string around your head. Cut it to your preferred STEP 2: length. Thread the elastic or Decorate the visor however string through the holes and you wish! Add colors, shapes, knot the ends. Now you have a stickers, and designs! Do you visor perfect for a sports fan! want it to have soccer balls or baseballs on it? Or what about ﬁ rst-place ribbons? Be creative!

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QUESTION 1: QUESTION 6: In what Greek city were the first Olympics held? Which baseball position stands between second A. Athens C. Corinth and third base? B. Olympia D. Rhodes A. Pitcher C. Second baseman B. Shortstop D. Left fielder QUESTION 2: What Olympic event involves throwing a long QUESTION 7: spear? Who was the first black man to play Major League A. Javelin C. Boxing Baseball in the twentieth century? B. Running D. Equestrian A. Jackie Robinson C. Willie Mays B. Babe Ruth D. Lou Gehrig QUESTION 3: What was the horse racing track called at the QUESTION 8: ancient Olympics? True or False: Babe Ruth was the last player to A. Speedway C. Raceway average four hits for every ten pitches he faced. B. Circuit D. Hippodrome A. True B. False

QUESTION 4: QUESTION 9: True or False: Women could not compete in the True or False: Hall of Fame pitcher Pedro Martinez ancient Greek Olympics. used to practice with oranges. A. True B. False A. True B. False

QUESTION 5: QUESTION 10: Which of the following is NOT a way for a batter to Which organization runs the soccer World Cup? get out? A. NFL C. MLB A. Three strikes C. Flyout B. FIFA D. NBA

B. Force at first base D. Base hit ANSWERS 17. C, 18. B, 19. B, 20. A 20. B, 19. B, 18. C, 17.

10. B, 11. C, 12. D, 13. A, 14. A, 15. A, 16. B, B, 16. A, 15. A, 14. A, 13. D, 12. C, 11. B, 10. 1. B, 2. A, 3. D, 4. A, 5. D, 6. B, 7. A, 8. B, 9. A, A, 9. B, 8. A, 7. B, 6. D, 5. A, 4. D, 3. A, 2. B, 1.

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QUESTION 11: QUESTION 16: Who can touch the ball with their hands in a What is the word for a sled dog driver? soccer game? A. Leader C. Captain A. Fullback C. Goalkeeper B. Musher D. Racer B. Midfielder D. Center back QUESTION 17: QUESTION 12: Which extreme swimmer swam all the way from During a soccer game, what does the referee hold Cuba to Florida? up when a player is ejected from the game? A. Michael Phelps C. Diana Nyad A. A white card C. A yellow card B. Mark Spitz D. Katie Ledecky B. A blue card D. A red card QUESTION 18: QUESTION 13: Which snowboarder won a silver medal at the Which soccer player made the bicycle kick X Games at the age of thirteen? famous? A. Shaun White C. Gretchen Bleiler A. Pelé C. David Beckham B. Chloe Kim D. Danny Kass B. Cristiano Ronaldo D. Lionel Messi QUESTION 19: QUESTION 14: True or False: Nobody has ever jumped over the True or False: Mia Hamm has played in three Great Wall of China on a skateboard. Olympics and four World Cups. A. True B. False A. True B. False QUESTION 20: QUESTION 15: True or False: Shaun White’s nickname is the What is the name of the sled dog race from Flying Tomato. Anchorage to Nome, Alaska? A. True B. False

A. Iditarod C. Caledonia Classic ANSWERS

17. C, 18. B, 19. B, 20. A 20. B, 19. B, 18. C, 17.

B. American Dog Derby D. Big Land Challenge B, 16. A, 15. A, 14. A, 13. D, 12. C, 11. B, 10. 1. B, 2. A, 3. D, 4. A, 5. D, 6. B, 7. A, 8. B, 9. A, A, 9. B, 8. A, 7. B, 6. D, 5. A, 4. D, 3. A, 2. B, 1.

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WHAT YOU’LL NEED: • 1 cup of milk of choice • 1 cup of frozen fruit of choice • ½ cup of Greek yogurt • 1 scoop of protein powder (optional) • Blender

STEP 1: STEP 2: Pour the milk, yogurt, frozen Pour the smoothie into a cup, fruit, and protein powder into and enjoy your tasty snack! a blender. Make sure the lid is on properly, and turn the blender on. Some yummy fruit ideas are strawberries, bananas, blueberries, and mangoes! Add more of one kind of fruit to make that ﬂ avor stand out.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED: • 9 cups of crispy rice cereal squares • 1/2 cup of peanut butter (If you have a nut allergy, try this recipe with your favorite flavored icing!) • 1 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips • 1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar

STEP 1: STEP 2: STEP 3: In a saucepan over low heat, Remove the saucepan from the Pour the powdered sugar into melt the chocolate chips. heat. Add your cereal and stir a large resealable bag. Add the Add the peanut butter (or until the cereal is coated. coated cereal to the bag and substitute) and mix until shake until the sugar covers smooth. the cereal. Enjoy your sled dog treat! Learn more about dogsledding and extreme sports with Jack and Annie!

Recipe for Balto of the Blue Dawn and Dogsledding and Extreme

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OHT GDO ______

TRLZEPE ______

NPUAETS ______

PPRNOCO ______

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ANSWER Hot dog, pretzel, peanuts, popcorn peanuts, pretzel, dog, Hot

Activity for A Big Day for Baseball and Baseball

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Learn more about the history of ANSWER baseball with Jack and Annie!

Activity for A Big Day for Baseball and Baseball

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Jack and Annie are on a mission to help Balto. Can you help them get through this maze?

START

FINISH

Who was Balto? Find out with ANSWER

Jack and Annie! FINISH START

Activity for Balto of the Blue Dawn and Dogsledding and Extreme

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Bicycle Race track Olympic medals

Swimming pool Basketball Volleyball

Hockey stick Skateboard Skis

STEP 1: STEP 3: First, print out the words above Choose a player to start the Do you want to come up with and cut them out. If you do not game. The player will pick out more words and phrases for have a printer, you can write a word. Without speaking, the your next game? Read these the words down on scraps of player will begin to draw a Fact Trackers! paper. Then shufﬂ e the words picture of the object. The ﬁ rst and lay them facedown or put player to guess correctly gets a them into a bowl. point. Then have a new player draw. Continue until all words STEP 2: have been chosen. You will need a pencil (or other writing utensil) and pieces STEP 4: of paper to play. Display the Keep track of the number of paper so all players can see. points each player receives. The player with the most points at the end wins!

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SHORT-TERM GOALS LONG-TERM GOALS

1. ______1. ______

2. ______2. ______

3. ______3. ______

4. ______4. ______

5. ______5. ______

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1. WARM UP 3. COOL DOWN Warm your body up to make sure it is ready to get To end the workout, it is important to stretch your moving! Start by doing the three below exercises. body. Stretching helps improve flexibility and keeps Repeat this circuit two times. your muscles healthy.

Circle your arms for 20 seconds Reach for the sky for 15 seconds

Hop on one foot 5 times (repeat with other foot) Touch your toes for 20 seconds

10 squats Lie on your back and hug your knees to your chest for 20 seconds 2. GET MOVING Now that your body is warmed up, it is time to get GOOD JOB! your heart rate up, too! These exercises will help You have completed your workout! Give yourself you build strength and endurance. Repeat this a pat on the back for a job well done. Go back circuit three times. and check off any goals that you may have accomplished! 10 jumping jacks

10 push ups Ask your parents for best Run in place for 30 seconds practices before starting any 8 frog jumps workout! Make sure to drink plenty of water and eat a healthy snack.

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