The Great Train Mystery

Christina, Grant, Mimi, and Papa go "All aboard!" the train Papa's borrowed train for a fast-adventure across America - and try to keep from being "Derailed" by mysterious mishaps, spooky surprises, and - oh, it's so dark in here! - those treacherous tunnels! Look What's Inside This Mystery - people, places, history and more! Places: Washington, D.C. - Union Station Š The National Mall Š Washington Monument Š Lincoln Memorial; Nebraska - Union Station Š Union Pacific Railroad Historical Museum Š Chimney Rock; Missouri - Museum of Westward Expansion Š Independence Š Eads Bridge, St. Louis; Colorado - Union Station; Utah - Salt Lake City Š Promontory Summit; and Mississippi River and Sierra Nevada Mountains People: Lewis and Clark Š Harry S. Truman Š Shakespeare Š Abraham Lincoln Š Pioneers Educational Items: Cattle drives Š Union Station's history Š Steam Engines Š Louisiana Purchase Š Transcontinental Railroad Š Westward Expansion Š Oregon Trail Š Manifest Destiny Š Golden Spike ceremony Š The Old West Š Bethel Granite Š Sierra No. 3 Š The Gateway Arch Š California Trail Š California Gold Rush Š Kerosene Š Coal Š Oil Š The Pony Express Š Pinto horses Š Historic trains: No. 119 and Jupiter 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 book: Grade Levels: 3-6 Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 3.6 Accelerated Reader Points: 2 Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 150376 Lexile Measure: 610 Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: Q Developmental Assessment Level: 40

"Based on the screenplay 'Krabby Patty no more' by Casey Alexander, Zeus Cervas, Steven Banks, and Dani Michaeli."

From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an enthralling novel about Victorian London’s most notorious gold heist. London, 1855, when lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of his century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England’s industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, but studded with all the suspense and style of fiction, here is a classic historical thriller, set a decade before the age of dynamite—yet nonetheless explosive…

Join your favorite engines in a fun searching adventure, with over 50 flaps to lift! Sir Topham Hatt is missing five cargo crates that came in a recent shipment, and only Thomas, Percy, and the really useful engines can help him find them! Join your favorite friends as they search Sodor for the missing crates. Learn as you read with over 50 flaps to lift and early learning concepts like colors, opposites, counting, and more.

The Teacher's Guide is a page-by-page guide that gives you additional activities to enhance the student's learning opportunities by using cross-curricular materials. The Teacher's Guide includes a page-by-page guide filled with vocabulary, science, geography, math culture and more. You become the expert and we have done all the research.

In May 1855, the citizens of Victorian Great Britain were shocked to read in their morning edition of The Times that 12,000 pounds worth of gold bars and other valuables had been stolen from a train travelling between London and Paris--without explosives or violence! Who did it and how was a great mystery which was finally solved.

Ashley meets her great-uncle by the old train tracks near their community in Nova Scotia. Ashley sees his sadness, and Uncle tells her of the day years ago when he and the other children from their community were told to board the train before being taken to residential school where their lives were changed forever. They weren't allowed to speak Mi'gmaq and were punished if they did. There was no one to give them love and hugs and comfort. Uncle also tells Ashley how happy she and her sister make him. They are what give him hope. Ashley promises to wait with her uncle by the train tracks, in remembrance of what was lost.