The Time Warp Trio #2: The Not-So-Jolly Roger

This month I read The Time Warp Trio #2: The Not-So-Jolly Roger by Jon Scieszka. It was published in 1991. I loved this book as much as the first one.

Joe, Fred, and Sam find themselves on a deserted island after Fred inserts the words “buried treasure” into Sam’s All Purpose Time Warper chant. They encounter non-other-than Blackbeard himself, who is a murderer and hilariously unstable. They have several near death experiences with Blackbeard, but convince him that they are valuable. After being taken aboard Blackbeard’s ship, they inadvertently save the day by turning a canon around. It blasts its cannonball into a ship in the Royal Navy, giving it the deathblow. Blackbeard is grateful and takes the boys to get a buried treasure of their own. Luckily, the treasure is the book they need to return home to their own time because Blackbeard, being terribly unstable, has decided they must die, again. They time-warp home just in time.

The Time Warp Trio is a series of books. I must read #3! I HIGHLY recommend this book to 2th or 3^rd graders. 

List of Recommended Books by Grade:

2^nd grade –

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Miss Holly Is Too Jolly, by Dan Gutman

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

Time Warp Trio #1: Knights of the Kitchen Table by Jon Scieszka

Time Warp Trio #2: The Not-So-Jolly Roger by Jon Scieszka

3^rd grade –

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Among the Impostors by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater

4^th grade –

Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry

Louisiana's Song by Kerry Madden

The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan

The Golly Whopper Games by Jody Feldman

 

5^th grade –

Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos

Benjamin Pratt & The Keeper of the School by Andrew Clements

Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

6^th grade –

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

Dewey, by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter

The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

7^th grade and up –

Holes by Louis Sachar

The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byers

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Pendragon Book One: The Merchant of Death by D.J. MacHale

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Seventeen Second Miracle, by Jason F. Wright