- 80 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Travel to the North Pole in this first book in a brand-new series about a young elf's merry misadventures, part of the Aladdin QUIX line of fun-to-read, short chapter books that's perfect for emerging readers! Andy Snowden is one of the many North Pole elves who make holiday gifts for children all around the world. But day after day, week after week, Andy starts to grow tired of the same old routine. He knows he's destined for a different path than the other elves. But what else can a North Pole elf be good at? Maybe the Elf Academy Toy Making Contest can help Andy discover a special hidden talent!
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Print ISBN
9781534467880eBook ISBN
9781534467903
1 Helmet High Jinks
The toy-building workshop at Elf Academy is a happy, busy place.
Look around, and you’ll see wheels for trucks, game pieces, guitar strings, bouncy springs, and buttons of all sizes. Those parts will help create exciting toys, thanks to…
Dozens of smiling, hardworking elves.
Every morning, Andy Snowden and his second-grade classmates study math, science, reading, and history. And every afternoon, they snap, paste, and hammer during toy-building lessons. Everyone loves those lessons the most.
Well, almost everyone, that is.
Andy certainly enjoys building toys.
But he is not happy making the same exact ones, day after day after day. Andy is tired of putting together hundreds of:
- yo-yos
- airplanes
- chess sets
- rubber ducks
- royal castles
- teeny-tiny frogs
- lime-green pianos
- rainbow bubble blowers
- shiny superhero capes
- walkie-talkies
Not to mention… lots and lots of creepy-crawly caterpillars.
So this coming holiday season, Andy is itching to build something different. He really wants to use his imagination.
“Watch this, everybody! Twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four…,” Andy said one day as he plopped a stack of outer-space helmets onto his head.
“Andy!” Ms. Dow, his teacher, called out. “Please take off each and every one of those helmets. Right now!”
“I know, I know, Ms. Dow. They are gifts that we built for children around the world,” Andy said. “I’m sorry, but I wanted to set a record for wearing the most helmets. I thought a good laugh would help the other elves make happier toys.”
As Andy removed the giant pile from his head, his best friend, Jay, whispered to him, “I bet you could have reached fifty!”
“Thanks, Jay,” Andy answered as he carefully placed the helmets into gift boxes.
“Now, Andy, laughter is a good thing,” Ms. Dow said. “But this is work time,” she told him.
“Most of all,” she continued, “you must remember the Elf Academy rules: We do not play with the toys we build. We do not wear the helmets we construct.
“And what else, class…?”
“We do not ride the tricycles, bicycles, and especially unicycles that we’ve put together!” everyone said.
(That rule had been added after Andy had taken a speedy ride across the workshop a few weeks before.)
After Andy put the helmets away, Ms. Dow spoke to the class. “I know that you’ve all been working hard for months. But it’s almost Christmas, and we will be busier than ever these last few weeks.”
The elves nodded.
Ms. Dow continued, “Principal Evergreen would like all the second graders to meet at the Snowflake Auditorium this afternoon. She has an important announcement.”
Andy and his classmates were a little nervous. Christmas was near. What could be more important than spending time making toys?
2 Bird Contest
All the second graders filed into the hall. Paintings of snowy mountains and chimney tops, as well as Elf Academy class pictures, lined the walls.
On the way to the auditorium, Andy glanced at one of his favorite photographs: his older brother Craig’s fourth-grade class picture. In it, all the elves were stacked like a pyramid, waving and smiling, and their teacher stood nearby. Andy knew that pose had be...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Chapter 1: Helmet High Jinks
- Chapter 2: Bird Contest
- Chapter 3: Lots of Decisions
- Chapter 4: Time to Build
- Chapter 5: Imagine That
- Chapter 6: The Big Decision
- Chapter 7: GLOP CLOP
- Word List
- Questions
- About the Author and Illustrator
- Copyright