book cover of The Mystery of the Haunted Ghost Town
 

The Mystery of the Haunted Ghost Town

(2008)
(Book 21 in the Real Kids Real Places series)
A novel by

 
 
One Dead Eye Dick, one wild west woman, one ghost town, one, no two, no 20 ghhhoooosssstttssss, and four kids tumbleweeding their way through a frightening mystery! When the Mystery Girl puts down in Boot Hill, the die is cast! New friends - and enemies: some real, some perhaps not, foil the kids attempts to solve the mystery of why living, breathing towns become ghost towns.

LOOK what's in this mystery - people, places, history, and more! Cowboy attire . General cowboy lifestyle . Boot Hill Cemetery history . Tombstone, AR history . Old West history . Navajo symbols . Mining facts . Hendersonville history . Pollution from mining . Branding cattle . Camping materials . Tombstone Courthouse Museum . OK Corral . Sunshine Gap, Arizona . Eureka Gulch, Arizona . Bisbee, Arizona . Hendersonville, Arizona . Rose Tree Inn.

Each 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.


Genre: Children's Fiction

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