The Secret Shortcut

By Mark Teague

Book Overview

Wendell and Floyd have a problem. Hard as they try, they can't seem to get to school on time. So one morning Wendell comes up with a solution--a shortcut so secret that only he knows about it. At... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590677144
• ISBN13: 9780590677141
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Third Graders in Room 205 at Burnt Bridge Creek Elementary

Wendell and Floyd were always late for school. Their teacher was always furious about that. She didn't believe their crazy stories. They decided they were going to take a shortcut to school. The shortcut turned out to be a jungle in their wildest dreams and one of the biggest risks of their lives. Will they make it out of the jungle alive? Will they get to school on time? We think that people of all ages would enjoy this story. Students who are always late for school would REALLY enjoy this story. What are you waiting for? Read it!!!

Wonderful Pictures

I buy all of Teague's books due to the WONDERFUL pictures! The children in my church are spellbound when I read them at Children's time. The pictures go from edge to edge of each page causing much wide eyed wonder on the part of both adult and children alike!This one is a very cute tale of imagination.

If you are always late for school you need a secret shortcut

If your child has a habit of being late for school, or if you find yourself running behind morning after morning, then Mark Teague's "The Secret Shortcut" may well prove helpful. The tale being told here is of Wendell and Floyd, two young friends who are always late for class. For some reason their teacher, Mrs. Gernsblatt, does not believe their stories about being late because of encounters with space creatures, pirates, and a plague of frogs. They try leaving earlier for school one morning, but that does not work and Wendell decides they are going to have to use his secret shortcut. The result is a real bungle through the jungle, aided and abetted by Teague's lush illustrations. Getting to school might never be so much fun ever again, although I could really use a story like this about a young girl who is always late, because I certainly have one of those.

Cool Way To School

" The part of this book that I like is went Wendell and Floyd got stuck by the aleanse. Went they found a shortcut and they thought it would not work but it did they were amased went the teacher said that she did not want to now how they got so muddy. I think the pictures in this book are very very good and exciting. Thank you for your time, corporation, and good sportsmans- hip. Especially the people how made this book. Realy. I mean it. goobye

What an imagination!

This is a fun book to read aloud to young children. They will enjoy both the story and the illustrations. Working in a school library I have learned that children are motivated to read by the pictures. This will be a popular book in our school library!