Sky Scraper Skate Park----(Mystery Adventure Series: Little Sea Turtle)

Author: Thompson (Australia), Jiang Jieming, Zhang Jun selected and annotated
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Publishing Date: 2003-06-01
Features: This series includes 8 exciting stories, each with a length of 2,500-3,000 words and a vocabulary of approximately 450 words. The young protagonists in each story are selected by the "Secret Global Adventure Team (SWAT)" to be sent to a country or city to complete a special mission, such as saving elephants in Africa, assisting in solving computer game production challenges in Japan, and so on. Readers can experience many unforgettable exotic landscapes and cultural customs as they follow the protagonists on their thrilling missions. The stories extensively showcase the everyday language of teenagers in English-speaking countries, with vivid and realistic plots. Each book in the series opens with a double-page illustration, providing a geographical map of the mysterious adventure destination in the story, along with information on population, currency, and tourist cultural attractions. To help some readers overcome difficulties and increase interest, a Chinese "plot summary" is provided before each story; the questions in "Think Before Reading" help stimulate reading interest; readers who enjoy computers can also choose online paths from "Explore Websites Related to the Story" to learn more interesting facts and broaden their horizons. The "Read the Story, Learn Spoken English" excerpts at the end of the book include popular, vivid, and practical English sentences among teenagers; teachers or parents can guide students in reading activities around the "Reading Reflection Questions." Key vocabulary and language points in the story are listed as footnotes at the bottom of the page, and a detailed "Glossary" is also provided at the end. This series is suitable for students in the sixth grade of primary school and the first grade of junior high school. Skateboarding enthusiasts Eric and Tess receive an urgent mission from the Secret Global Adventure Team (SWAT) to rush to New York to help a skateboarder named TJ and his friends. It turns out that a huge skateboard park built on the rooftop of a skyscraper has been bought by a real estate developer. With the expansion of the building, this world's only skateboard park is about to be demolished. To raise the substantial amount of money needed to the skateboard park, the young skateboarders decide to win the grand prize in the radio station's scenic riddle treasure hunt competition. Thus, this group of teenagers, with their collective wisdom and high-level skateboarding skills, solve three riddles and embark on a race against time to search for clues in three different parts of New York City.