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'''''Treasure Fever! ( La Fievre du Tresor)''''' is the first book of the ''Schooling Around'' series by ]. It was published in April 2008 by ]. |
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'''''Treasure Fever! (La Fievre du Tresor)''''' is the first book of the ''Schooling Around'' series by ]. It was published in April 2008 by ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Big Book Club - Treasure Fever! - ABC (none) - Australian Broadcasting Corporation |url=https://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2008/06/24/2284466.htm |access-date=2023-06-01 |website=www.abc.net.au}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Treasure Fever!: Schooling Around 1 - Pan Macmillan AU |url=https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781742613574 |access-date=2023-06-01 |website=Pan Macmillan Australia |language=en-AU}}</ref> It was published in French in 2009 by ] .<ref>{{Cite book |last=Griffiths |first=Andy |title=La fièvre du trésor |publisher=Scholastic |isbn=9780545987158 |publication-date=3 Feb 2009 |language=fr}}</ref> |
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Henry McThrottle is a student at Northwest Southeast Central School, and discovers there is buried treasure somewhere in the school. As Henry and his friends try to find the treasure, their secret is found out and everyone wants it.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cereal Readers {{!}} Great Book Series for Kids and Teens |url=https://www.cerealreaders.com/index.php?content=bookdetail&id=61 |access-date=2023-06-01 |website=www.cerealreaders.com}}</ref> |
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The story starts out in a classroom called 5B in Northwest Southeast Central School. The class teacher, Mrs Chalkboard, is late. Hardly anyone is worried about it, except for the class captains, David Worthy and Fiona McBrain and Newton Hooton, a kid who is scared of almost anything, and worried that Mrs Chalkboard might have had an accident and got killed. After a few seconds of chaos, involving Henry McThrottle (the main character) and Clive Durkin (a bully who threatens people with his brother) the ], Principal Greenbeard, (who is obsessed with ships and acts as if the school is a large ship) comes in with a substitute teacher, Mr Brainfright, saying that Mrs Chalkboard had to 'take a spot of shore leave'. After Greenbeard leaves, he asks the students what they are going to teach him today, as opposed to ''him'' teaching ''them''. After some confusion the teacher decides to teach the class how to breathe. |
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However while leaning out the window, he then falls out of it, and the classroom is on the second floor. But they can see his toes so after some effort from Henry and Gretel Armstrong (the strongest girl in the school) and the rest of the class, they eventually pull him back in, just as Mrs Cross, the year six teacher comes in to complain about the noise. Later on Brainfright gives the class a maths problem, after Fiona asks to do some problems, which is against Brainfright's wishes. |
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He tells the class that a man has a goat, a wolf and some cabbage, and he needs to cross a river. There's a boat there, but it can only hold two things. If the man takes the wolf, the goat will eat the cabbage, and if the man takes the cabbage, the wolf will eat the goat. The class starts arguing about why he needs the things anyway, and why he needs to cross the river. To get them to try to work it out, he offers a lollipop to whoever gets it right, much to Henry's desire. While trying to work it out, Clive shoots spit balls at him. |
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Although it's annoying, Henry uses the chewed up bits of paper to help him solve the problem, winning him the lollipop. At recess Clive and Fred, Clive's brother, claim that the lollipop is his, because he used Clive's spitballs to help him work it out. Fred and Henry then have a fight, until Mrs Cross stops it. Even though Fred started it, Mrs Cross blames it on Henry, as she and all the other teachers see him as a model student. |
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As a result he gets sent to the principal's office. Expecting the worst, Greenbeard actually understands what he's talking about and tells him of a treasure full of things that he had, buried in a hill that he named "Skull Island", which had been stolen by another pirate! The object left in the chest was a note: |
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Search the Northwest Southeast seas |
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Search upon bended and bloodied knees |
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But your treasure again you will never see |
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Your pirate gang is no match for me. |
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Dig for a thousand nights and a night |
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Dig for your treasure as much as you like |
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But of your riches you will only dream - |
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Greenbeard's pirates are no match for me. |
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Henry McThrottle would go through all lengths just to find the treasure. He finds out that the line "''Dig for a thousand nights and a night''" was a reference to a book named ''The Thousand and One Nights''. He reads it, and discovers that the line "''But of your riches you will only dream''" is a reference to one of the stories in the book. The ending of the story leaves him to conclude that the treasure was put back in Skull Island. |
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He asks another boy at class, Grant Gadget, to borrow his metal-detecting machine. The next day, Henry, his friends and Grant watch as the metal detector (or what he calls the "super charged treasure detector") blow up and reveal a key. |
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Unfortunately, gossip has passed around the school, Fred and Clive pop up again, and outsmart one of Henry's friends, Jack Japes, into revealing that a treasure does indeed exist. |
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Henry double-crosses Fred by providing him with a realistic-looking fake map and get back to work. Unfortunately, they are caught by Mrs Cross, who just happens to be passing. |
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Henry asks Mr Brainfright to conduct an archaeological dig to find the treasure. They do indeed find the top of the treasure box with the help of Mr Brainfright's jackhammer. This annoys Mrs Cross and she leaves to the principal's office to request that Mr Brainfright be fired. |
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Gretel manages to dig out the treasure chest, but Fred snatches it, and opens it up with the key. All that is found is a marble, a rock, a pencil, a yo-yo, a shark's tooth, a rabbit's foot, a black-eye patch, a plastic ring, a water pistol, and a football card. |
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Fred gets angry with Henry when he saw what was inside, and attempts to attack him. Instead, he trips over Newton's foot and falls into the hole where the treasure was found, giving time to grab it and race to Greenbeard's office. |
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Greenbeard gets so happy that his treasure was found, and saw that the bottom of the box had the initials W.S - Mrs Cross' name before she was married! |
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Henry McThrottle is a student at Northwest Southeast Central School, and discovers there is buried treasure somewhere in the school. As Henry and his friends try to find the treasure, their secret is found out and everyone wants it.
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