- Title: The Guide Dog Mystery
- Author: Gertrude Chandler Warner
- Main Characters: Henry 14 , Jessie 12 , Violet 10, Benny 6
- Story takes place at a guide dog school
- Jason works with Ginger to do one more exam with Ginger the dog before becoming a guide dog
- The children are invited to spend a week at the guide dog school to help out
- Mrs Carter, the owner of the dog school,
- Children take phone calls and organize files
- A man tells the children he wants to buy Ginger for his shows
- Annie is 17 year old and is a blind girl who is looking for a guide dog
- Children watch Annie training with Ginger
- Children see a light flickering at night in the guide dog school
- Jason can't find his key to the kennel
- Benny finds notes in Jason's trash can that say "meet me at 11 o'clok tonight at Joe's restaurant...it's important"
- Charlotte Davis is the former owner of Ginger who sent the note to Jason
- Charlotte Davis never showed up to the restaurant to meet Jason
- Children think that Charlotte Davis must have got the kennel key from Jason's room when Jason was at the restaurant waiting for her
- Someone was following them when they went shopping with the guide dog
- Annie can hear other footsteps following her and smells special shaving scent
- Picnic in the park with the man watching them from the bushes
- Ginger sleeps in Annie's room because scared that dog will be taken
- Annie says Ginger was not in her room. Somebody whispered "Ginger" and smelled like the shaving scent earlier
- Old dog collar from before has a hidden diamond necklace
- Benny recognized the driver of Mrs Carter as being the mysterious man
- Ginger comes into the room with the man
- The man says he wanted the diamond necklace he stole from Mrs Davis
- Police came and arrested the thief whose name is Glenn
Coyote Peterson is in Japan. He is trying to find a praying mantis. He found one!
Coyote Peterson said the females grow bigger than the males. He also said when the female and a male breed, afterwords the females bite the heads of the males and eat the body! That is really gross and weird!
Coyote Peterson said when the females have their eggs, the females will start dying. That is really sad.
He also said the reason he loves praying mantis is that they look so alien-like. And they have a really good eye-sight.
Coyote Peterson said birds and different reptiles and even mammals will try and eat the praying mantis. He also said the praying mantis will come out at night and during the day. Coyote Peterson said the praying mantis will try to eat small frogs, lizards, and even small snakes! Wow! That is a pretty cool praying mantis!
I kind of like praying mantis. It's just that they look so creepy with the big eyes and how they eat too. But they are also pretty cool how they can eat big animals.
It started to rain and Coyote Peterson said he better let the praying mantis go.
Coyote Peterson is in Arizona. He is going to be talking about two big lizards called, The Beaded Lizard, and, The Gila Monster!
Coyote Peterson said that the Beaded lizard and the Gila Monster happens to be the only two venomous lizards in the Western hemisphere. Mario said the Beaded lizard and the Gila Monster both belong to the genus Heloderma, which means they both have studded skin.
Do you see those bumps on the lizard? Well, they are actually little bones covered with skin and scale., which makes them look beaded or armored.
The Beaded lizard can grow up to about three feet! Wow! That is a big lizard! The Beaded lizard looks really cool because it looks like it has really strong armor.
Mario said you will find the Beaded lizards in Mexico down to Guatemala. And the Gila Monster overlaps in certain ranges as the Beaded lizard. He also said the Beaded lizard and the Gila Monster have very pore eyesight, that they use their tongue and their sense of hearing and sense of smell to detect prey and predators.
The Gila Monster and the Beaded lizard eats bird nests, other eggs, or other young, because of how slow they are.
The Beaded lizard has more venom than the Gila Monster because the Beaded lizard is bigger so that means it has a little bit more venom than the Gila Monster.
Coyote Peterson is at Bell Creek. He is trying to find a rainbow trout. Coyote Peterson said normally people would be fly fishing to catch the rainbow trout but he is going to make his own net that is made of, a long stick, rope, and his shirt. He also said that Mark and Mario don't believe that he is going to catch the rainbow trout, But Coyote Peterson does think that he is going to catch the fish.
Coyote Peterson sees a whole pocket of trout fish, but the fish are in deep water so Coyote Peterson said he is going to move upstream and find a narrow pocket of water where he can go knee-deep and try to catch a rainbow trout. Coyote Peterson found a really big pond! He said it's actually a really great chance for him to catch one because the fish are not in deep water. The fish do not like the light because there could be predators so they go under big rocks. Mark got a stick and started poking under the rocks a little to get the fish to come out and then Coyote Peterson can try and catch the fish. On their tenth try, they finally got the rainbow trout!
Coyote Peterson said if the rainbow trout is out of water for a little bit it will get stressed out! He also said to identify the rainbow trout is to see if the fish has a green line and a pretty pinkish stripe. if it does then that means it's a rainbow trout!
The rainbow trout eats little fish, crustaceans, other fish eggs. A group of trout is called a hover. The reason why it's called a hover is that when they swim they go back and forth very slowly keeping their balance, the water is just flowing, and then in a burst of speed, they go in the darker and deeper water of pockets.
Coyote Peterson said it took them three hours to catch the rainbow trout!
My sister Noelle got a horse!
The horse that Noelle got is all brown with black on its legs. It looks really pretty! She is getting the horse this Saturday.
Here is a picture of the horse that Noelle got:
Horses can run up to about 55 mph. The horse that Noelle is getting is not trained at all. She is really excited to train it. She said it's a bare mare. She also said she needs a name for the horse. I was thinking of Joelle or something because her name is Noelle and my name is Johanna so she could name it Joelle. She texted me and said she was thinking of that too!
My friends said she should name it Riley or Sterling. I think Sterling is a great name for it! This Saturday Noelle wanted me to go with her and see the horse and then see the fireworks! But she said if the horse is starting to act up in the trailer then she can't take me. So I am really hoping I get to go with her and see the horse!
A young male horse is called a colt. A young female horse is called fillies.
I wish I could have a painted horse! Painted horses are my favorite! When I say painted horses I don't mean like literally people painting horses I just mean the type of breed they are.
Here is a picture of a painted horse:
