Dear Parents and Teachers Rourke’s Adventure Chapter Books engage readers immediately by grabbing readers attention with exciting plots and adventurous characters Our Adventure Chapter Books offer longer more complex sentences and chapters With minimal illustrations readers must rely on the descriptive text to understand the setting characters and plot of the book Each book contains several detailed episodes all centered on a single plot that will challenge the reader Each adventure book dives into a country Readers are not only invited to tag along for the adventure but will encounter the most memorable monuments and places culture and history As the characters venture throughout the country they address topics of family friendship and growing up in a way that the reader can relate to Whether readers are reading the books independently or you are reading with them engaging with them after they have read the book is still important We’ve included several activities at the end of each book to make this both fun and educational Are you ready for this adventure Enjoy Rourke Educational Media
Table of Contents Pack Your Bags The Plan San Juan Arecibo Observatory El Morro Caves El Yunque Mongoose Bio Bay Home
Pack Your Bags My brother and I never stay home for long Even though we’re both 12 years old I bet we’ve slept in our own rooms in our own beds maybe ten or 15 times Okay maybe I over exaggerate a bit We’re always bounding around the world following our parents on their research trips Our mom is a bird biologist Our dad is a historian Most of the time it’s pretty sweet While Mom and Dad work Tomas and I log onto our laptops and do our homeschool assignments even though we’re thousands of miles from home Sometimes we go on field trips Sometimes we help with the research Sometimes we help with camp Yeah camp For the research trips we travel in groups with other professors and their families We usually sleep in tents Once in a while we’re lucky enough to travel in motorhomes Those are nice They have full kitchens an indoor shower and real mattresses to sleep on instead of foam pads that go under a sleeping bag Tomas says we look like a band of gypsies with
