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Carole Marsh Mysteries: Real Kids, Real Places #13
The Mystery in the Rocky Mountains
When Christina, Grant and their two friends join their mystery-writing Mimi (and Papa!) on a trip to the "Mile-High City" of Denver, Colorado, they soon find
• Sleeping in a mysterious, haunted palace of a hotel!
• Deciphering mountains of clues to solve a mystery!
• Reading tattered old books to help solve the clues!
• Traveling through tricky tunnels to get to a scary ski slope!
• Meeting an amazing woman who once sailed on the Titanic!
But can the kids have fun, stay warm and solve a mystery all at the same time? Strap on your skis and come along and see!
LOOK what's in this mystery - people, places, history, and more!
Denver winter weather • Rocky Mountain history, facts, and folklore • Mining history and folklore • Old West Santa Fe style buildings and architecture • America the Beautiful song lyrics and author bio • Rocky Mountain Railroads and Old West transportation facts • Anasazi Indian history, lifestyle, and facts • Learning how to ski • Brown Palace Hotel • LoDo (Lower Downtown) • Garden of the Gods • Pikes Peak • Cliff Place at Mesa Verde National Park • Eisenhower Tunnel.
Like all of Carole Marsh Mysteries, this mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that will keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, built-in book club and activities.
Below is the Reading Levels Guide for this
Grade 3-6
Accelerated Reader Reading 4.9
Accelerated Reader 3
Accelerated Reader Quiz 79513
Lexile 760
Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Q
Developmental Assessment 40
Get your FREE Resources!
1. Download the Carole Marsh Mysteries Real Kids! Real Places! Correlations to Common Core/State Standards HERE.
2. Download the Where Have You Been map HERE.
3. Utilize the Real Kids! Real Places! Common Core State Standards Teacher Resource for classroom discussion questions and activities for ELA grades 2-6. This can be used for all 50 mysteries HERE.
4. Download additional activities including Fact or Fiction, Fascinating Facts, Book Club Discussions and Book Club Activities HERE.
5. Want a sneak peak? Read the first three chapters HERE.
• Sleeping in a mysterious, haunted palace of a hotel!
• Deciphering mountains of clues to solve a mystery!
• Reading tattered old books to help solve the clues!
• Traveling through tricky tunnels to get to a scary ski slope!
• Meeting an amazing woman who once sailed on the Titanic!
But can the kids have fun, stay warm and solve a mystery all at the same time? Strap on your skis and come along and see!
LOOK what's in this mystery - people, places, history, and more!
Denver winter weather • Rocky Mountain history, facts, and folklore • Mining history and folklore • Old West Santa Fe style buildings and architecture • America the Beautiful song lyrics and author bio • Rocky Mountain Railroads and Old West transportation facts • Anasazi Indian history, lifestyle, and facts • Learning how to ski • Brown Palace Hotel • LoDo (Lower Downtown) • Garden of the Gods • Pikes Peak • Cliff Place at Mesa Verde National Park • Eisenhower Tunnel.
Like all of Carole Marsh Mysteries, this mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that will keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, built-in book club and activities.
Below is the Reading Levels Guide for this
Grade 3-6
Accelerated Reader Reading 4.9
Accelerated Reader 3
Accelerated Reader Quiz 79513
Lexile 760
Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Q
Developmental Assessment 40
Get your FREE Resources!
1. Download the Carole Marsh Mysteries Real Kids! Real Places! Correlations to Common Core/State Standards HERE.
2. Download the Where Have You Been map HERE.
3. Utilize the Real Kids! Real Places! Common Core State Standards Teacher Resource for classroom discussion questions and activities for ELA grades 2-6. This can be used for all 50 mysteries HERE.
4. Download additional activities including Fact or Fiction, Fascinating Facts, Book Club Discussions and Book Club Activities HERE.
5. Want a sneak peak? Read the first three chapters HERE.
- GenresMystery
160 pages, Unknown Binding
First published April 1, 2001
About the author
Carole Marsh
6,607 books56 followersCarole Marsh is a children's author and the founder of Gallopade International, a children’s book publishing company headquartered in Peachtree City, GA. Marsh writes mystery fiction in addition to works of non-fiction for children. Initially she self-published under the imprint Gallopade Publishing Group, which she founded in 1979; today Gallopade International is a major small publisher based in Peachtree City, Georgia.
In 2007 Marsh received the Georgia Author of the Year award for her contributions to children's literature and to the state of Georgia over the past twenty-seven years.
In 2007 Marsh received the Georgia Author of the Year award for her contributions to children's literature and to the state of Georgia over the past twenty-seven years.
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February 16, 2022
the book is about these two kids Grant and Christina they went on a trip up to the rocky mountains and they were anything in a haunted hotel and they have to find clues to solve this mystery and they have to find and read these books to find the clues and they met a woman who rode on the titanic and they had to also find this scary ski slope and at the end they ski around the rocky mountins having so much fun and the papa and mimi watch them in enjoyment.
May 25, 2015
Travel, Family, Adventure, Mystery - In That Order
This is an entertaining and engaging family travel/adventure story, with just a hint of mystery.
The book description is a bit misleading, since it leaves one with the impression that this will be a junior mystery with clues, suspects, red-herrings, detective work, a solution, and all of the other trappings associated with a mystery. That's not quite right. MILD GENERAL SPOILERS - the family is followed by two suspicious ruffians, but who they are and what they're up to just stays up in the air until the mystery is dispatched at the end of the book with a few sentences. END SPOILERS.
And that should not detract at all from the real appeal of this book. There's an interesting sort of sub-genre of young reader fiction that falls into the realistic-travel-fiction category. You take characters who are represented to be real kids who are part of a real family. (Here, we get actual photos of the two kids, their cousins, and the grandparents who shepard them about. Readers are invited to visit the book series web site to apply to become characters in later books.) That family then visits actual places and they have the types of realistic adventures that one would find in those places.
Here, we arrive in Denver, see the sights, visit Colorado Springs, head out to Durango and then end up in Breckenridge. We admire the unique design of the Denver Airport, visit the Brown Palace Hotel for tea, hear the tale of Unsinkable Molly Brown, wander around LoDo and the famous Tattered Cover bookstore, and even listen to the traditional Christmas tuba concert. We visit Native American ruins, ski in Breckenridge, attend a Snow Ball, drive through the Eisenhower Tunnel, and so on. In short, we have an exciting and adventurous vacation in what feels like, and is, a selection of real and faithfully well described places.
As part of the overall good humor of the story, we have two siblings and their two cousins who appear to like each other and to get along well. These kids are well enough developed as characters given the brevity of the book and its action orientation. The grandparents are patient and mellow, but not overly idealized. The whole project seems very real. In that regard I was reminded of the old Disney Spin and Marty TV episodes that had some drama but were mostly just fun dude ranch adventure stories. Older readers can get this same sort of reading experience from the "Gannon & Wyatt" books, in which twin teenage brothers have adventures with their parents in places like Botswana, Egypt, Iceland and the Great Bear Rainforest.
So, this book really presents a very interesting and appealing option - you get a real travel sense and you learn a great deal about real places. The adventure emphasis keeps the book zipping along and adds energy. The bit of mystery adds some suspense, (who are those guys?), and a plot to tie the book together. The whole project has an air of generous good humor, which keeps the book upbeat and fun. The writing style is unexceptional. It's written clearly and directly, but at a vocabulary and sentence structure level that suits a reader just moving beyond simple chapter books. All in all, a nice find. (And, a wonderful book for a Colorado gift shop, which is where I bought my copy.)
This is an entertaining and engaging family travel/adventure story, with just a hint of mystery.
The book description is a bit misleading, since it leaves one with the impression that this will be a junior mystery with clues, suspects, red-herrings, detective work, a solution, and all of the other trappings associated with a mystery. That's not quite right. MILD GENERAL SPOILERS - the family is followed by two suspicious ruffians, but who they are and what they're up to just stays up in the air until the mystery is dispatched at the end of the book with a few sentences. END SPOILERS.
And that should not detract at all from the real appeal of this book. There's an interesting sort of sub-genre of young reader fiction that falls into the realistic-travel-fiction category. You take characters who are represented to be real kids who are part of a real family. (Here, we get actual photos of the two kids, their cousins, and the grandparents who shepard them about. Readers are invited to visit the book series web site to apply to become characters in later books.) That family then visits actual places and they have the types of realistic adventures that one would find in those places.
Here, we arrive in Denver, see the sights, visit Colorado Springs, head out to Durango and then end up in Breckenridge. We admire the unique design of the Denver Airport, visit the Brown Palace Hotel for tea, hear the tale of Unsinkable Molly Brown, wander around LoDo and the famous Tattered Cover bookstore, and even listen to the traditional Christmas tuba concert. We visit Native American ruins, ski in Breckenridge, attend a Snow Ball, drive through the Eisenhower Tunnel, and so on. In short, we have an exciting and adventurous vacation in what feels like, and is, a selection of real and faithfully well described places.
As part of the overall good humor of the story, we have two siblings and their two cousins who appear to like each other and to get along well. These kids are well enough developed as characters given the brevity of the book and its action orientation. The grandparents are patient and mellow, but not overly idealized. The whole project seems very real. In that regard I was reminded of the old Disney Spin and Marty TV episodes that had some drama but were mostly just fun dude ranch adventure stories. Older readers can get this same sort of reading experience from the "Gannon & Wyatt" books, in which twin teenage brothers have adventures with their parents in places like Botswana, Egypt, Iceland and the Great Bear Rainforest.
So, this book really presents a very interesting and appealing option - you get a real travel sense and you learn a great deal about real places. The adventure emphasis keeps the book zipping along and adds energy. The bit of mystery adds some suspense, (who are those guys?), and a plot to tie the book together. The whole project has an air of generous good humor, which keeps the book upbeat and fun. The writing style is unexceptional. It's written clearly and directly, but at a vocabulary and sentence structure level that suits a reader just moving beyond simple chapter books. All in all, a nice find. (And, a wonderful book for a Colorado gift shop, which is where I bought my copy.)
October 20, 2011
These books are simply awful. My daughter and I have kept reading them just to entertain ourselves with just how bad they are. In this particular book's case, the description on the back has nearly nothing to do with what actually happens in the book. They allegedly "decipher mountains of clues to solve a mystery" and "read tattered old books to help solve the clues". These things do not happen. The big mystery is they are being followed by two black trench-coated men (what is it with her and people dressed in black trench coats?) and eventually they confront them and find out what's up. And it's ... just ... nothing. Gah.
Want to Read
August 6, 2011Started reading it, then put it down. The writing style is ordinary.
December 17, 2012
The series won't win an award for best writing, but I think it's an easy read for reluctant readers and has just enough historical information to get kids to learn something.
February 22, 2011
it was pretty good and kept me on the edge of my seat!!!
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