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Three New Mysteries For Kids: Famous Baseball Fields, Cross-Country Train Rides, and an Awesome Big City Adventure!
November 17, 2011
Atlanta, GA – Award-winning author Carole Marsh is releasing three new must-have titles in the popular Real Kids! Real Places! America’s National Mystery Book Series in January 2012: The Baseball Mystery, The Great Train Mystery, and The Awesome Atlanta Mystery. High reader demands drove each of the three smash-hit topics, ensuring that even the most reluctant young reader will enjoy each title. Following suit with the other 45 titles in the reputable children’s mystery series, each new story is overflowing with adventure, mystery, and history.
Young readers “Play ball!” in The Baseball Mystery, when beloved characters Christina, Grant, Mimi, and Papa take a tour of baseball’s most famous places. In the story, the entire gang slides headfirst into a mystery complete with broken bats, blistering fastballs, and a diamond more valuable than a game-winning home run!
The Great Train Mystery takes young imaginations “All aboard!” a borrowed train for a fast-paced adventure across America. History and mystery collide in this lively, educational story that incorporates facts about famous places and people such as Union Station, the Transcontinental Railroad, Washington, D.C., and Lewis and Clark.
In The Awesome Atlanta Mystery, the infamous family heads to the big city of Atlanta, Georgia, to explore the creepy Underground past and the high tech global future. Someone ends up stranded on a giant stone ear in a mystery that will leave kids hanging on every word!
Real Kids! Real Places! America’s National Mystery Book Series includes cliffhanger chapters with real kids in real places around the United States. Each book incorporates history, geography, culture, and more! Plus, each book offers fun activities, SAT words and an online book club, and has assigned Accelerated Reader quizzes, Lexile measures, Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading levels and DRA levels. For more information, please visit www.gallopade.com.
