Kids Go Dino-Nuts for UNDER MY TEACHER'S DESK!
By Arnold Ytreeide
That's the secret of my new book, Under My Teacher's Desk, and it's a secret kids love to discover. It all starts when five fourth-graders come to school one day and everything is different. Instead of rules and lessons and homework, all they do is draw and have recess all day. But more strange than that, their teachers all stand around smiling and clapping their hands together lightly as if applauding some very tiny and very quiet opera. What's going on here, Thomas, Jeremy, Jasmine, Tracy, and Adam wonder? But before the kids can find out, they start disappearing. First it's Jasmine that doesn't come to class. Next Adam goes missing, then Jeremy. Finally Adam and Tracy come to the rescue. Using things like the "process of elimination" Mrs. Winfred, their teacher, had taught them, the two friends free the other three. But that's just the beginning. In the process of figuring out what's wrong with all the adults, the students stumble on a secret: their teacher's desk is hiding a stairway to a strange world below the earth. Once underground, the five friends face perils and obstacles as they work to free their teachers, their school, and the whole world from being taken over by dinosaurs. Especially those pesky talking T-Rexes. It's an adventure that leads kids to discover the benefits of being selfless, accepting others, and believing in themselves. I wrote Under My Teacher's Desk for my wife's fourth grade class, and the book is designed to teach as well as entertain. It's been used in classrooms and read alone by individual kids with great response, and is now available to kids and teachers everywhere. So get it for your kids or your classroom, but please: Shhhhh! Let them discover for themselves what's living . . . under their teacher's desk!
About the Author
A writer, producer, and director of films, as well as a university professor and author of books. Author of the best-selling "Jotham's Journey" trilogy of Christmas stories.
Homepage http://www.JerichoQuill.com
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