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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Gallopade International
Published: Sep 2008
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Mysteries & Detective Stories
Retail Price: $7.99
Ages: 08 - 10 Pages: 160
What is planned as a pleasure trip to the city by the bay (San Francisco), turns out to be a topsy-turvy mystery with new friends helter-skelter through Chinatown, Lombardy, and even Alcatraz Prison one dark, foggy night.
LOOK what's in this mystery - people, places, history, and more!
San Francisco, CA • Golden Gate Bridge • Chinatown • Asian Museum • Alcatraz Island and prison history • Coit Tower, Telegraph Hill • Fisherman's Wharf • Ghirardelli Square • Levi Strauss Headquarters • Lombard Street • United States Mint • Fort Point • Golden Gate Bridge history and facts • Suspension bridge • California Gold Rush history and facts • Earthquakes and tremors • San Andreas fault facts • 1906 San Francisco Earthquake • Skateboarding • Taquiero facts.
This mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that keep kids begging for more! Each mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, Built-In Book Club and activities. Each Carole Marsh Mystery also has an Accelerated Reader quiz, a Lexile Level, and a Fountas & Pinnell guided reading level.