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 View from the Top Hidden Treasure Worth a Fortune Tales of Death and Danger A Suspicious Expert Too Many Riches More Mysteries Creepy Weeping Women Trapped Among the Tombs To the Rescue Memories
1 View from the Top Hello monsieur Jaden bowed to the statue Grace shook her head at her younger brother But she smiled and snapped a picture as he talked to the figure carved from wax The white-haired bearded man in a suit looked like a real person In the scene Gustave Eiffel was seated gesturing to another man The second statue was of the American inventor Thomas Edison A woman in a long dark red dress and fancy hat watched them She was Eiffel’s adult daughter forever standing and watching the two men The scene commemorated Edison’s visit to the Eiffel Tower in Paris They were in a small office at the top of the tower Jaden turned Come on let’s go outside Grace followed her brother and their friend and neighbor Sophie Sophie was fifteen five years older than Grace and seven years older than Jaden She was hired to look after them that summer Sophie lived her whole life in Paris France
