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Space Taxi: Archie Takes Flight 

by Wendy Mass and Michael Brawer 
Summary 

Archie Morningstar learns a big family secret and helps save the universe. All before breakfast! It's not every day a regular kid like Archie gets to wake up at midnight. But today is Take Your Kid to Work Day, and Archie is finally allowed to ride along in his dad's taxi cab. He has been waiting eight years, eight months, and eight days for this moment to arrive. But he's about to discover his dad is no ordinary cab driver...In fact, he drives an intergalactic space taxi! All night long, he shuttles aliens from one corner of the universe to another. And being a space taxi copilot is no easy task: Archie must steer them into wormholes, keep them from crashing into planets, deal with a very unusual cat...and save the universe from an evil mastermind!

Original Review
Lesson Plan Ideas:
Audiobook Excerpt 

Eight year old Archie Morningstar is finnaly ready to join his dad for "take your kid to work day", except he will be joining his dad for the midnight taxi shift. He soon discovers that his dad is no ordinary New York taxi driver when they transport aliens from one galaxy to another. Archie acts as his copiolt as this adventurous book takes you on an unreal journey with lots of twists and turns. This entertaining science fiction book is great to expand imagination while containing factual information about space. This book is great for young readers as a first chapter book to build their reading stamana. Ages 6-9      

Helpful Vocabulary

This lesson plan includes a disgussion guide, activites that relate the book to comprehension, summarizing and writing. I also includes activites that relate the book back to science and social studies by conducting experiments and creating and understand maps.

Citations: Summary from Google Books, Lesson Plan from Teachingbooks.net 

Audiobook Excerpt-http://www.audible.com/pd/Kids/Space-Taxi-Audiobook/B00JEFROME/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1397365164&sr=1-1

Vocabulary- http://www.spacetaxibooks.com

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