Mudshark is known as the guy who has all the answers and solves the problems and mysteries for students and teachers at his school. However, when a “psychic” parrot comes onto the scene, students start to say that it can outthink MudShark. In the end, Mudshark solves several mysteries, including how the parrot got his “psychic” powers and gets his “go-to-guy” status back. One of the biggest strengths is that each chapter opened up with an announcement over the intercom with a weird request or statement by the principal. Some of them included an escaped gerbil, emergencies in the faculty bathroom and erasers disappearing from classrooms. At first all of these announcements seem random, but in the end Paulsen tied everything together. In addition since each chapter was fairly short, it made the book a very quick read. Here is yet another book for young readers by Gary Paulsen.
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