# The Great White Man-Eating Shark

**Author:** Margaret Mahy
**Grade range:** Grades K–3
**Age range:** 5–8
**First published:** 1989
**Page count:** 32
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780803707498`
**ISBN-10:** `0803707495`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-great-white-man-eating-shark
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Greedy to have the cove where he swims all to himself, Norvin, who looks a bit like a shark, pretends to be one, scaring off the other swimmers and leaving him in happy aquatic solitude--until he is discovered by an amorous female shark.

## Themes

- sharks
- greed
- avarice
- selfishness

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1991-1992 winner (Primary)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 1st grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1991-1992 winner (Primary)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1991-1992 winner (Primary)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1991-1992 winner (Primary)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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