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Merlin has placed a magic spell on Morgan and Jack and Annie need to find four special things to help her. In Night of the Ninjas Jack and Annie go to Japan and run into ninjas who end up helping them find the first special thing.
Read one section at a time, then discuss the questions to review understanding. These questions are a starting place for conversation, not a complete test of the chapter.
Chapter 1
Comprehension questions
How did Jack and Annie feel about the tree house being back?
Page 5 — Happy/excited
5
What did the letter “M” on the floor of the tree house stand for?
Page 7 — Morgan le Fay
7
What ran out from behind a stack of books in the tree house?
Page 8 — A mouse
8
What did Annie name the mouse?
Page 8 — Peanut
8
Chapter 2
Comprehension questions
How many things do Jack and Annie need to find to help Morgan?
Page 10 — 4
10
What was the book that was lying open in the tree house?
Page 12 — A book about ninjas
12
Where did Annie put Peanut after she said, “I wish we could go there”?
Page 13 — sweatshirt pouch
13
Chapter 3
Comprehension questions
What did the ninjas wear?
Page 15 — Black pants and shirts, black scarves around their heads, swords
15
Where did the tree house take Jack and Annie?
Page 16 — Japan
16
What type of animal did the ninjas act like?
Page 18 — Cats
18
Chapter 4
Comprehension questions
Where did Jack want to go after the ninjas crawled out of the tree house?
Page 23 — Pennsylvania
23
What did Annie want to do?
Page 23 — Follow the ninjas to help Morgan
23
Why do you think the ninjas didn’t speak?
To be sneaky and mysterious
How did Jack and Annie get across the icy cold stream?
Page 26 — The ninjas carried them across
26
Chapter 5
Comprehension questions
What was coming from the valley below?
Page 29 — Torches
29
Where did Jack think the ninjas disappeared to?
Page 31 — A cave
31
Was he right?
Page 32 — Yes
32
Chapter 6
Comprehension questions
Who was in the cave sitting on a mat?
Page 33 — Ninja warrior
33
Were Jack and Annie surprised that one of the ninjas is a girl?
Page 36 — Yes
36
Why couldn’t the ninja master help them?
Page 37 — The samurai were close, Jack and Annie had to prove they were worthy of his help
37
Who are the samurai?
Page 37 — Fierce Japanese fighters
37
Chapter 7
Comprehension questions
What were the three things the ninja warrior told Jack and Annie to help them be like ninjas?
Page 40 — Use nature, be nature, follow nature
40
How did the children “use nature”?
Page 43 — Pushed a stick in the ground and looked at its shadow
43
What came down the mountain that scared Jack and Annie?
Page 47 — A samurai warrior
47
Chapter 8
Comprehension questions
How did Jack and Annie act like ninjas when they needed to “be nature”?
Page 48 — like rocks
48
How were the children supposed to “follow nature”?
Page 54 — They needed to follow Peanut
54
How did Peanut get across the icy stream?
Page 54 — She crossed on a fallen branch
54
Chapter 9
Comprehension questions
What instruction did the children follow when they pretended to be mice?
Page 55 — “be nature”
55
Where did Jack and Annie find Peanut after she disappeared?
Page 59 — In the tree house
59
Who else was in the tree house?
Page 59 — The ninja master
59
What did he give Jack?
Page 60 — A moonstone
60
Chapter 10
Comprehension questions
What did Annie use to make a bed for Peanut?
Page 66 — Her sock
66
What did Jack and Annie act like as they went home?
Page 69 — Two shadow warriors
69
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