Narrow Escapes: Advernturous Tales of Escapes and Rescues

Book excerpt: Two young boys are skating on a frozen pond when they are attacked by a pack of hungry wolves! A sea captain and his mate see two young children on a frozen iceberg that is floating out to sea! A balloonist finds that he has a young boy hanging by a rope from his balloon, 100 feet off the ground! A couple with a baby wakes in the early morning to find a forest fire headed their way! A young Sioux girl tries to help a white family when hostile members of her tribe attack! Two baker boys peer over the edge of the castle wall to see the approach of an attacking army! Two boys jump from their ship to have a race in the ocean, only to discover that a shark has them racing for their lives! Read these seven exciting 15-minute stories of narrow escapes and rescues. Ages 8 and up. Educational Versions have exercises designed to meet Common Core standards. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books also work well as hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.