Appleville Elementary Book 2 Fire Alarm! Review

TITLE: Appleville Elementary Book 2 Fire Alarm!
AUTHOR: Nancy Krulik
PUB DATE: August 2009

From the Publisher
In this book, Miss Popper’s first grade class is taking a field trip to the firehouse. Carlos wants to play a trick on his classmates, so he hides in the back of the fire truck. But the joke is on Carlos when the alarm rings, and the firefighters are called to an emergency. Lucky for Carlos, it’s not a fire it’s a cat stuck in a tree. The firefighters are too heavy to climb the tree, so it’s up to Carlos to save the day!

MICHAEL’S THOUGHTS
I think we found another series that Michael really enjoys. The only down side is that we got these books in September and discovered that Book 3 The 100th Day is only being released December 1, 2009 and Book 4 Fooled You is only coming out March 1, 2010. So needless to say these are being read all the time.

All kids love playing hide and seek. That is the one game I noticed that they love playing. Michael is like Carlo’s because he always gets upset when he is found, although Michael is getting much better at the game now.

Mrs Popper is teaching the kids about fire safety and what to do. Stop, droop and roll. After school that day they kids all go to J.B’s house to play where they decide to play fire fighters.

The next day at school the kids are excited because they are going on a field trip. Can you guess where they are going? If you guessed the Fire Station you guessed right. How many of our kids have gone on a tour of the fire station? Michael’s school never went which is too bad because I think they kids would have enjoyed it.

Thankfully we live down the street from the fire station and the fire men have been really nice and gave him the tour when we have walked by when he was younger. So he got to see it and was always intriqued by fire men and fire trucks.

The fire man talks to the kids about fire safety and shows them around. This is the time Carlo’s thinks it would be a good idea to play a trick on everyone and goes off to hide. Shortly after that there is an alarm and the fire men leave.

When they are ready to go back to the school they realize that Carlo’s is gone and he is no where in the fire station. Where is Carlo’s? Is he the best hidder after all?

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