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        There once was a town called Smartsville. It was a 

small town, with a single school smack dab in the center. 

There were houses all alike in shape and size, and a sea at 

the edge of town. On all accounts, Smartsville was a simple, 

ordinary town with simple, ordinary people. Well, everyone 

except Ms. Geraldine. 

         Ms. Geraldine was as complicated and extraordinary 

as one could be. She was, what most of the town called her, 

a Super-Teacher! When problems arose, Super-Teacher was 

there to save the day. Luckily, Smartsville had been calm 

for many months now and Ms. Geraldine was able to put all 

of her focus on her wonderful class of third graders.

        One day, Ms. Geraldine took her class to the library so 

that they could pick out new books to read. When they got 

there, something was very wrong. The library was full of 

books, but the books were NOT full of words! It seemed 

that all of the pages in the books were completely blank!

        "What is going on?!" Ms. Geraldine asked the 

librarian. "The books are all blank! What are we going to 

do?"

        Just then, one of her students noticed something,

        "Look! Peter Pan still has all of the words in it..so does 

Treasure Island and Pirates of the Caribbean!" 

        "It's a clue! Class, if the only books in the library with 

words in them are books about pirates, what does this 

mean?" Ms. Geraldine inquired.

        One little girl had an idea.

        "Maybe the person who did this really likes pirates and 

thinks that their books are not read enough."

        "Or maybe, they ARE a pirate!!" suggested another 

student.

        The class thought and thought, until someone saw a 

scroll underneath one of the tables. There was one simple 

word on it: "Arr". Pirate speak; he must be a pirate (or at 

least he thinks he is).

        "The sea!" Ms. Geraldine suddenly blurted out. "Maybe 

all the letters are on a ship! Can anyone see from that 

window?"

        The whole class crowded around the window to see if 

they could spy a pirate ship on the water.

        "I see a ship! And I think I see the words 'hunt' and 

'cake' floating near it, those must be from the books!" said 

one student.

        The class quickly followed Ms. Geraldine out of the 

school and toward to sea (she told the front office that 

they were going to save the day!). When they reached the 

ship, a squeaky man said to them,

        "You found me! Arr, what am I to do now? I just 

wanted people to learn about pirates instead of princesses 

and werewolves."

        "That's all fine and dandy," Ms. Geraldine said calmly 

"But we need those words back because we want to learn 

about ALL subjects, not just pirates. If you return the 

words to their books, I promise that I will read a pirate 

book of your choice to my class!"

        The man agreed (he picked Treasure Island), but he 

just put the words on the sandy beach before sailing away.

        "Okay class, let's get these words to the library and 

get them back into the correct books!"

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