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I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916

(I Survived #2)

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Based on true events! It's the summer of 1916 and the Jersey shore is being terrorized by a Great White shark. Can 10-year-old Chet and his friends survive a swim in the local creek?

Chet Roscow is finally feeling at home in Elm Hills, New Jersey. He ... MoreBased on true events! It's the summer of 1916 and the Jersey shore is being terrorized by a Great White shark. Can 10-year-old Chet and his friends survive a swim in the local creek?

Chet Roscow is finally feeling at home in Elm Hills, New Jersey. He has a job with his uncle Jerry at the local diner, three great friends, and the perfect summertime destination: cool, refreshing Matawan Creek.But Chet's summer is interrupted by shocking news. A great white shark has been attacking swimmers along the Jersey shore, not far from Elm Hills. Everyone in town is talking about it. So when Chet sees something in the creek, he's sure it's his imagination. . . until he comes face-to-face with a bloodthirsty shark! Less

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Average rating 4.16  ·  9,614 ratings  ·  876 reviews

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6 months ago

Shelves: shaaaaarks , kiddiwinx , thanks-for-prezzies , nature-will-end-you
TIL there is a graphic novel version of this book available. HERE I COME!

IS IT WRONG TO CHEAT ON SHARK WEEK WITH SHARKFEST??

i also survived a vicious shark attack this shark week:

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shaaaaark!

the wonderful ceridwen sent me this book, because she totally gets my love o ...more

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over 1 year ago

Shelves: the-jersey-shore , kids-read-across-america , in-the-middle , true-stories-or-so-they-say , a-boy-s-life
Did you know that in July of 1916 a small group of people were swimming in a creek sixteen miles from the Atlantic Ocean and were suddenly attacked by a shark?

An 11-year-old boy and a 24-year-old man were killed, and a 12-year-old boy was bitten on the leg but survived.

By a ...more

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over 5 years ago

Shelves: childrens
Wow! Seriously?! I had no idea of (so many facts presented in this book) the threat of shark attack in brackish water. This is going to greatly diminish my comfort factor while boating on the North River for the rest of this summer and probably forever, in the same way that ...more

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over 4 years ago

I am trying to read as many "Who Was," "What Was," and "I Survived" books as I can get my hands on in 2017.

The "I Survived" books are always based on true events! This book is about the summer of 1916 and in the Jersey shore theres a Great White shark that has been killing ...more

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over 1 year ago

Shelves: kindle , historical-fiction , childrens , read-2020
This is book two in the I SURVIVED children's series that combines fact and fiction. Characters are made up, but major events of the shark attacks are true.

Well told and informative summer adventure story set on the New Jersey shore.

FACTS ABOUT SHARK ATTACKS and true events

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over 1 year ago

Chet Roscow is feeling at home in New Jersey. He has 3 great friends this summer. Everyone is talking about something .As Chet goes to the creek and sees something, is it just his imagination? I like this book because the detail and the story was amazing. I would recommend t ...more

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over 3 years ago

Shelves: backlist-read-2018 , read-audiobooks-2018
I love this series of fictionalized eye-witness accounts of historical events written for kids. They focus on a wide variety of events from the destruction of Pompeii in AD 79 to the 9/11 attacks in 2001. The stories mix facts with a fictionalized story told by a child who w ...more

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almost 2 years ago

So not very long after I started this audiobook, I legit went to YouTube to see if there was a video and/or a documentary at least for this event because honestly I've never heard of this event. So I found an old history 42 minute documentary on this and ended up watching ...more

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almost 11 years ago

I Survived the shark attacks of 1916 by Lauren Tarshis is about a kid named Chet and when he plays a prank on his friends the stop trusting him and when Chet spots a shark fin while he is swimming he tries to warn his friends, but when they don't believe him he tries to sav ...more

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Book details

Paperback, 112 pages
Published September 1st 2010 by Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN
0545206952 (ISBN13: 9780545206952)
Edition language
English
Original title
I Survived The Shark Attacks of 1916
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Lauren Tarshis
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Lauren Tarshis often wonders how she came to spend most of her waking moments thinking about disasters, as the author of the children's historical fiction series "I Survived." Each book takes readers into the heart of history's most thrilling and terrifying events, including the sinking of the Titanic, the Shark Attacks of 1916, Hurricane Katrina, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the San Francisco ear ...more

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There’s no room in a small town for grudges.
SHARK KILLS SECOND BATHER IN NEW JERSEY JULY 7, 1916 SPRING LAKE, NEW JERSEY
A person has to face up to things. You never solve anything by running away.
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