Magic 2 Cover art by Dean McCready
Mar 28, 2016
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Magic
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Cover art by Dean McCready
Meet Magic, an amazing horse who can toss
a Frisbee, kick a soccer ball, and save the
Robbins family from a scary forest fire. Magic,
the second book in the Tales of Mystery Series,
will captivate even your most reluctant readers.
This book covers F.A.S.T. Reading System
concept 8, multi-syllable words, which can be
divided into closed syllables. It also reviews
F.A.S.T. Reading concepts 1-7, which were
introduced in Book One, Enchanted Rock.
ISBN 1-597-92022-3
F.A.S.T. Readers
High Interest/Low Reading Level Storybooks
Chapter 3
Closed
next check patch soft grass lunch crumb
pants flick block knelt front champ nudge
edge cliff splash spring calm blast dust
Breaking
Picnic yellow chicken salad Frisbee fantastic
dizzy lucky napkins thunder Listen behind
Suffixes
helping added jumped chuckled crunched
galloped kidding tossed twisted limped
whistled trotted swimming biggest quickly
Phrases
baked a cake a good day above the river
caught the Frisbee played soccer Whoever scores
much calmer clap of thunder wind whipped up
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Chapter 3
The Picnic
The next day, we went up to the ranch to check on
the horses. We met Kingfish and Mike. Mom grabbed
Mike’s hand and said, ‘Thank you for helping Tammy
the other day. I baked a cake for you and Kingfish. I
packed us a lunch, too.’
Mike said, ‘Yum. I like cake.’
Kingfish laughed at his friend. He said, ‘Mike likes
all cakes. He likes white cakes, yellow cakes, cupcakes
and pancakes.’ Then Kingfish added, ‘It is a good day
for a picnic. We can ride the horses to a patch of soft
grass next to the river. We can have the cake there.’
Ben jumped up and grabbed Mike’s hand. ‘Mike,
are there any wolves by this picnic spot?’
Mike chuckled and said, ‘No, Ben. But after lunch,
let’s check out the cliff above the river.’
Ben nodded. He felt brave next to Mike.
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It was a quick trip on horseback to the picnic spot.
We got off the horses and sat on some blankets. Mom
pulled out a chicken salad and some carrots from the
picnic basket.
Ben crunched on a carrot. He said, ‘Thanks, Mom.
You make the best picnic lunch. Can we play some
Frisbee now?’
Kidding, Mom said, ‘Ben, are you sick? What about
the cake?’ We chuckled.
Ben jumped up and brushed off a crumb from his
pants. He grabbed the Frisbee. Ben tossed the Frisbee to
Kingfish, and Kingfish tossed it to Mike.
Mike tossed the Frisbee as far up he could. Magic
ran and caught the Frisbee. We were shocked.
Suddenly, with a flick of his nose, Magic tossed the
Frisbee back to Ben.
Next, we played soccer. Mom picked Ben and
Kingfish to play with her. I picked Tammy and Mike. It
was fun, but the sun was hot. The score was six to six…
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