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11/21/13

Heroes of the Surf


AUTHOR: Eliza Carbone                           ILLUSTRATOR: Nancy Carpenter
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group Inc              PUBLICATION DATE: 2012
GENRE: Contemporary                              READING LEVEL: 3rd grade
BRIEF OVERVIEW: Anthony and Pedro are traveling by boat from South America to New York. They enjoy playing pirates on the boat. They experienced a bad storm on their travel and were rescued by some surfer men.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: In the story, the boys like to pretend they were pirates. The students would pretend they were characters in the story and act out what would happen after the story ended.
REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Haley Thornhill- VSU
LABELS: Fiction, Imagination, Contemporary