AR Books | I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916

The book is called "I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916", this book is based on a true story. The author’s name is Lauren Tarshis, and this book was first printed in 2010. Before I start reading this book, I saw the cover and it looked scary.

The main characters in the story there are Chet, Dewey, Sid, Monty. They are friends. They find out about shark attack. Chet lives with Uncle Jerry he helps him his diner. The captain who eats there hears them talking and tells them a story about the Killer Shark. The story scared them. The next week they went to the creek and they start to think about sharks. Chet’s friends pretend that they got bite and hide under the water to prank Chet. This reminds me of my friends use to prank me by saying we have test when we don’t. So when I read this part I felt like I was Chet.

Chet was very angry about it, that he doesn’t want to be friends with them anymore. Then he reads an article about shark attack. Chet finds an idea to prank them too. He invites them to Devils Creek he covers self in mud to look like a monster. Now they don’t want to be friend with him. Chet goes to creek by himself and he sees a shark, but no one believes him. But only the captain trust him so when he leaves he have to worn his friends because his friends are playing in the creek. His friends were in the water when Chet got there, but they don’t believe Chet.

But suddenly the shark comes so Chet dived in to help his friends, because of that shark bites his leg. The same shark had been killed 2 other children. When his in the hospital, the friends come to see Chet and basically says that they are sorry about not trusting Chet.

Before this time people believed that sharks aren’t dangerous because they didn’t have any information about the sharks. But when it happened, people started to believe that sharks are a dangerous fish and study them more.