Dear Parents and Teachers Rourke’s Adventure Chapter Books engage readers immediately by grabbing their 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 Arrested Volcano Busan Fresh Fish Busan Tower Pop Star Seoul Olympic History War Memorial The Palace The Curse Lovebirds
Chapter One Arrested What do you mean We have to wait here for a lawyer Aunt Bernadette frantically cried at the military police officer We’re United States citizens Don’t we have rights The officer gave Aunt Bernadette a cold emotionless stare and turned to walk out of the room He opened the door then turned back toward us and hissed You are not in the United States anymore You will follow our laws The heavy steel door slammed shut behind him Aunt Bernadette paced the room like a panther in a cage Tomas sat in a chair in the corner his knees tucked up to his chin His arms wrapped around his legs and his head rested on his knees I knew he wished we were anywhere but a North Korean military station I sat motionless in the opposite corner of the room It was our fault we were here not Aunt Bernadette’s I felt horrible especially since we were having a great visit to South
Korea until this happened Now we might never make it back home to the US We’d broken the law and crossed from the democratic republic of South Korea into communist North Korea Even worse if we ever saw Mom and Dad again they’d probably ground us forever Marisol stop crying Aunt Bernadette snapped at me It won’t make anything better I didn’t realize I was crying but tears were streaming down my face I’m sorry I blubbered wiping my face with the back of my hand Tomas raised his head worry spread across his round twelve year-old face I walked over and put my arms around him As his twin sometimes I could sense exactly what he was feeling Aunt Bernadette still paced the room Mari what will happen to us Will we see Mom and Dad again I hope so Tomi I hope so It’s all my fault you know he said
