Pirate Week in September

In September, Bella Vista students sailed through an adventurous Pirate Week in the Library. Mrs. Wadsworth and Mrs. Allison talk the pirate talk almost too well as they welcomed all the young Bella Vista mateys into the library donned with eye patches, swashbuckling stories, and a treasure hunt for pirate books. It makes you wonder if they've ever sailed the seven seas as pirates themselves! Kidding aside, the pirate books were a treasure and here they "ARRRRRR":

K-2nd grade

Shiver me Letters, A Pirate ABC by June Sobel and Henry Cole

The crew on this pirate ship must find all the letters of the alphabet. Will they make it before

the captain makes them walk the plank?

3rd grade

Edward and the Pirates by David McPhail

Edward loves to read. He reads everything from books to cereal boxes. He discovers a book that pirates want so much they ambush his house to get it! He finds out his parents are much more than the typical father and mother. What will they do to help him?

4th-6th grade

Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson

Mr. Stevenson wrote this book for his 12 year old step son. Fifteen chapters of the book were penned in 15 days. The story was published as a book in 1883. This classic novel is about a boy named Jim Hawkins who meets several plundering pirates. After discovering a treasure map from a dead buccaneer's box at the Benbow Inn, he takes off for an adventure of a lifetime searching for treasure with a rough lot of buccaneers including, Long John Silver!