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The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet By Eleanor Cameron
This book, written in 1954, follows two boys who respond to a newspaper advertisement looking for a homebuilt spaceship. They build one out of tin and scrap wood and bring it to the advertiser. He makes a few modifications, gives them special fuel, and tells them they must visit the mushroom planet.
They must have a mascot to be successful, he warns, so they grab a chicken and blast off into space! This book is science ction because it: Takes place in the future. Takes place in another world. Features technology that didn’t exist when this
book was written. Has alien creatures.
UNIVERSE SCIENCE FICTION STORIES CAPSULE AUTHORS LAUNCH FLIGHT FUTURE
Giggle Grid
Find the words by looking up, down, backwards, forwards, sideways, and diagonally.
To reveal the punchline to this riddle, fill in the blanks using the letters found on this robot’s data screen.
E I F U T U R E N
U S C I E N C E O
L R R R E A D T I
A O A E P F A S C
U G L S V L E I A
N O I T C I F X P
C H E A R G N E S
H T N O N H N U U
N I T M G T I
A S R O H T U A E
Q:
What kind of books do planets like to read?
SPACE ALIEN EXIST GIANT READ TIN
B, 2
G, 5 D, 6 B, 5 F, 2
T L
E, 3 G, 5 G, 5 C, 4 D, 1
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
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