Buried Treasure: Funny Animals/The Pancake Heist (S4E7)
Story Pirates

Buried Treasure: Funny Animals/The Pancake Heist (S4E7)

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 13, 202641 min

Today we revisit an episode from season 4 where the Story Pirates try out a new, complicated and possibly evil board game. Featuring two stories: “Funny Animals,” a story about going to the circus that is also about NOT going to the circus, written by Corinne, an 8 year old from Ohio, and “The Pancake Heist,” the tale of a team of squirrels trying to pull of the greatest score of their careers, written by a 10 year old from Pennsylvania named Fiona. Originally aired November 19, 2020. The WINNERS of the Summer Story Challenge will be officially announced on Thursday August 20th which...

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Summer Story Challenge will be officially announced on Thursday, August 20th,

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Lemonado. Summer Story Challenge will be officially announced on Thursday, August 20th, which means that kids need to get their final stories in by end of day, Tuesday, August 18th. So yeah, we are in the home stretch,

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but there's still time for lots of movement on the leaderboard in the last week of this thing. Let's get into today's leaderboard. On the individual leaderboard at number 10, We've got Adelaide, age 9 in Texas, and Nora, age 12 in Massachusetts.

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At number 9, we've got Alessandro, an 8-year-old in Spain, Huxley, a 9-year-old in California, and Kurt, an 11-year-old in Pennsylvania. At number 8, Adrian, a 10-year-old in Georgia. And at number 7, Maya, a 7-year-old in Colorado, and Ziva, a 5-year-old in Arizona.

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