Mudshark (2009)

Very funny. Kids will love this and teachers reading it aloud will laugh as well. ( )

read by a classmate - easy fun read but still has good plot and vocabulary
83 pages long.

Fast and entertaining. ( )

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This book is about a boy named Mudshark. He's called Mudshark because of his skill in a sport called "Death Ball." It's like a mixture of football, soccer, and wrestling. Whenever someone loses or misplaces something, they go to Mudshark. He has such a good memory, that he remembers exactly where people lose things. When erasers in the school start going missing, Mudshark is asked to help out. But it's going to take more than a few seconds to solve this mystery.

I thought this book was really cool. The school librarian likes animals, so she gets some school pets. The first one is an armadillo, but it never comes out of it's ball form. Mudshark knows that it's actually a purse, but he doesn't tell the librarian because he thinks her feelings will be hurt. Then the librarian gets a talking parrot, and like Mudshark, he has a good memory too. People start to think that a bird can outsmart Mudshark, but he knows what the bird knows because people are telling the bird where their things are and then walking away from them. They make a good team, and their teamwork is the key to solving the school's mystery. ( )