| How I Spent My Summer Vacation |  | Author: Mark Teague
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Category: Book
List Price: $17.99
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 2700293
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 9.8 x 0.3
ISBN: 0517599996
EAN: 9780517599990
ASIN: 0517599996
Publication Date: July 10, 1995
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Condition: Ex-Library. May have library markings or stickers. Otherwise, standard used condition.
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Product Description
Illustrated in full color. In a wildly funny twist on the annual "How I spent my summer vacation" school-essay ritual, Mark Teague shakes up a dull classroom with a young student's imaginative account of his adventures in the Wild West. Most kids go to camp, or Grandma's house, or maybe they're stuck at home all summer. Not Wallace Bleff. He was supposed to visit his Aunt Fern. Instead, Wallace insists, he was carried off by cowboys and taught the ways of the West--from riding buckin' broncos to roping cattle. Lucky for Aunt Fern, he showed up at her house just in time to divert a stampede from her barbecue party! Perfect for back-to-school read-alouds, here's a western fantasy with sparkling illustrations and enough action to knock kids' boots off!
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Great lead in for writing. August 31, 2008
L. Meeks
I used this book with my first graders as a lead in to a writing activity at the beginning of the school year. They loved it!
Fantastic! August 26, 2008
Tish (NYC)
My 2 year old son loves this book! The rhymes on each page are very soothing and the pictures are detailed and engaging. I thought it would be too old for him, but he likes it more every time we read it to him. We also pick out unexpected things in the pictures -- the bunny rabbit here, the slice of watermellon at the BBQ, etc. I highly recommend it!
 Great "back to school" book! September 21, 2007
Deborah Riehl (Concrete, WA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a fun "back to school" book with a twist. The main character is asked to write about his summer vacation and he chooses to write something that is obviously fiction. He tells about being kidnapped by cowboys and spends the summer with them instead of with his aunt. I read this book to my second graders on the first day of school and they love it.Part of the way through the book I start hearing comments from them such as "he's not telling the truth", and "he's just kidding". There are many fun activities that can be done using this book as a springboard. I usually have my students write about their summer vacation and it can be the truth or it can be fiction. After their writing is complete they share it with the class and we guess whether it is the truth, or like the boy in the book, fiction.
Good starting school book August 21, 2005
Mary C. Taylor
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed the book. I look forward to sharing this book with my students to start off our school year together. I'm going to use the book to help them get an idea to be creative about his or her own summer vacation to write a great story.
Great fun for back to school August 4, 2005
kikiblue
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'm a teacher and like to read this book to my students in the first week of school. Then I pose a challenge to them. I challenge them to tell me about their own summer vacation, but like Wallace, start out with the truth, and then let their imagination take over. I get completely ridiculous and fun stories about trips to the lake that end up as coronations as supreme master of planet zoorg. I highly recommend it.
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