Swamp Monster in Third Grade

Swamp Monsters in the Third Grade #1

by Debbie Dadey, Margeaux Lucas (Illustrator)

A fun engaging school-based adventure from the best-selling author of The Bailey School Kids.

What happens when a young swamp monster becomes human and starts attending the third grade? What about when he turns back into a swamp monster in the middle of class?

Jake always watches the kids playing frisbee in the swamp near the park, he wishes he could play too. But when it actually happens...

Genres: Childrens, Chapter Books, Fantasy

96 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Debbie Dadey is the author and co-author of 162 books for children, including the Mermaid Tales series from Simon and Schuster and the beloved Adventures of The Bailey School Kids from Scholastic. Ms. Dadey is a former teacher and librarian. Please like her at Facebook.com/debbiedadey.

Reviews

[Jaiden · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book taught me about friendship.

[Miguel Martinez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Swamp Monster in The Third Grade recieved a for star rating by me. This story is very funny and gross. This book is type of a fiction book.

This story talks about a kid that is weird and green, so their friends don´t talk to him anymore for the strange that he is. He has a big problem because when he gets nervous he turns like a dinosaur, his mom bought a medecine to calm the skin so he once went to a picnic with his friends and decided to dive in the lagoon. When the friends saw him they went running. The five important events in the story was when he converts in dinosaur. The way that their friends accept and help him hide from the others. His mom was very worried for him because she knew the difficulty of his son. Although he ignored why this things happened to him, he tried to keep safe because he feeled embarrassed, it was a shame that he didn´t knew what maked him bad.

The most striking of the book Jake was a funny kid and has many friend that love him, Cassidy, Emily, and Tommy.

[Jared · Rating 5 out of 5]

in swamp monster in third grade a swamp monster eats carrots and he faints and turns into a human.a couple of people come and take him to a restaurant.he eats about 10 hamburgers.then,Nat invited him over for the night.he thought a sleeping bag was uncomfortable so he put water in his sleeping bag.his sister comes in the middle of the night saying" come back in the swamp with everyone else".then she realized he was a human.the next day he went to school.he started turning back to a swamp monster he asked for some carrots but nobody had any.he ran to the bathroom and someone saw him as a swamp monster.so he ran to the swamp and they all lived happy ever after.

[Johnny Bennett · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm looking for good books for my kids to read. This one was silly and sort of fun but not great by any means. If they are going to read it they will be picking it out on their own because I'm not going to recommend it.

[Leeldoo · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 6 old beginning reader loves this book. He has read it with help more than once. This book is much more advanced than a reader, but with larger font and a story to keep kids (boys too!) interested. Chapters are about 3 pages long and pictures are interspersed within the text.

[Minjun · Rating 2 out of 5]

These are scaley! Just kidding! LOL

[Jill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Its vary funny jake chageis alot in the book you shod read this book

[Kay Kay · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was Ok.

[Kaiden Adams · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked this book because it was unique. The author put a lot of effort into it.

[Tyler · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is a fun book I injoy to read.