Hour Of The Olympics (Magic Tree House 16, paper)

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Summary: Fantastic in more ways than imaginable
Review: "Hour Of The Olympics" is good because of the ways you learn about the Olympics, and the Olympic events, plus the legend of Pegasus, the flying horse. So amazing, I almost applauded so loud my neighborhood could hear me! Trust me, you can't miss out on this one.

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Summary: Take An Hour And Read This Book
Review: "Hour Of The Olympics" is good because of the ways you learn about the Olympics, and the Olympic events, plus the legend of Pegasus, the flying horse. So amazing, I almost applauded so loud my neighborhood could hear me! Trust me, you can't miss out on this one.

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Summary: Fantastic in more ways than imaginable
Review: "Hour Of The Olympics" is good because of the ways you learn about the Olympics, and the Olympic events, plus the legend of Pegasus, the flying horse. So amazing, I almost applauded so loud my neighborhood could hear me! Trust me, you can't miss out on this one.

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Summary: NOT historical fiction!
Review: As a parent and future Elem. teacher I read this book with my son for a book club that he and I run at his school for 3rd and 4th graders. My son and I enjoyed reading this book...the chapters flow quickly and the subject matter was interesting. However, I was VERY disappointed, when after a quick internet search on the ancient olympics to find out that a major premise of this story is NOT true! Girls WERE permitted to attend the ancient olympic games -- yet in this story we are taught that they were not. This is a major theme in this story and I am baffled as to how the author and publisher could have produced such a book with out checking such a simple fact! I feel that I can no longer trust the Magic Tree House books to provide accurate historical information to my son. I'd rather him not read these book if he's going to learn erroneous information from them.

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Summary: Hour of BOREDOM
Review: I did not like this book because it had the most boring mysteries I have ever read.Like most boring books,the kids go somewhere, find what there looking for and, in the case of this book, fly back on a horse with wings.They say boring things along the lines of "how did you learn to read and write?My opinion is that it is a very boring book.

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Summary: Magic Tree House #16: Hour of the Olympics
Review: Magic Tree House is the Harry Potter for the ages 6-9 crowd. The stories are always delightful, and they always have action in it. This is a very good book. I recommend to all kids from the ages 6-9. Kids younger than that can have parents read it to them.

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Summary: Shannon's Review!
Review: My Daughter loved this book. She has read most of Mary Pope Osbournes books she really has started taking off reading from this series. Nae

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Summary: Night on the titanic
Review: My Daughter loved this book. She has read most of Mary Pope Osbournes books she really has started taking off reading from this series. Nae

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Summary: Take An Hour And Read This Book
Review: The book you are going to read about is called Hour of the Olympics. Mary Pope Osborne wrote it and she is a great writer. This story is about the first Olympic game. The two main characters are named Jack and Annie. This book comes from a series of books, so this is only one adventure. The problem in this story is that Jack and Annie are at the first Olympics and no girls are allowed. Annie sneaks in and gets caught. Can Jack get her out of this mess? To find out you will have to read Hour of the Olympics.

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Summary: In defense of the historical information included...
Review: The first person to review this book said that it included an erroneous fact that women were indeed allowed to participate in the ancient Olympics. Actually, at first women were not permitted to participate, nor were they allowed to be spectators until the 2nd century A.D. They did, however, have their own festival at Olympia called the Heraia with the only sporting event being a short race. In Sparta, a state in southern ancient Greece, girls were encouraged to take part in sports and games (Olympics, Oxlade and Ballheimer; Eyewitness Books, 1999). So, the information provided in this book is actually factual.