Books published by publisher Gallopade International

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.

Ding, Dong! Ding, Dong! When Christina discovers that the Liberty Bell hanging in Liberty Center is a fake, she enlists Grand and two Philadelphia friends to help her find the real one. But time in running out! They have to solve this mystery before the Fourth of July! See if you can crack this mystery. Some mysterious historical characters, including Ben Franklin, George Washington, and Betsy Ross, offer them clues. But are they actors… or are they ghosts? Along the way, the kids are chased by Redcoats, cornered in a creepy old ship, and learn about the birth of the United States! So grab your tri-corn - it's time for a trip back in time! LOOK what's in this mystery: Old City • Independence Hall (State House of Pennsylvania) • Assembly Room o Liberty Bell Center • Betsy Ross's home • City Tavern • U. S. Mint • Ben Franklin Parkway • The Museum District • The Mutter Museum • Penn's Landing • Historic Lights of Liberty • Christ Church, Society Hill • The Franklin Institute Science Museum • Electricity Hall • Lancaster County, PA • Clothing of colonial times • History of the Liberty Bell including Whitechapel Foundry, England; The Inscription on the Liberty Bell; and Uses of the Liberty Bell • Amish culture and origins • Declaration of Independence • George Washington • 1787 Constitutional Convention • Betsy Ross • Thomas Jefferson • Benjamin Franklin • Postmaster.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 reading levels, points and quiz numbers, a Lexile Level, and a Fountas & Pinnell guided reading level.

Christina, Grant, Mimi, and Papa head to the big city of Atlanta, Georgia, to explore the creepy Underground past and the high tech global future, but someone ends up stranded on a giant stone ear—really!—in a mystery that will really blow you away!Look What’s Inside This Mystery – people, places, history and more! Places in Atlanta: • Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel • Five Points • Underground Atlanta • The Fox Theatre • Krispy Kreme • Wren’s Nest • CNN Center • Piedmont Park • Atlanta Botanical Gardens • Mary Mac’s Tea Room • Fernbank Museum of Natural History • Cyclorama • Zoo Atlanta • Auburn Avenue • World of Coca-Cola • Stone Mountain • Lenox Mall • The Varsity • Turner Field • Oakland Cemetery • Georgia Tech • Capitol Building • The High Museum of Art • Dahlonega • Pitch Tree Trail • Sandtown Trail • Zero Mile Post and the Western and Atlantic Railroad • Storza WoodsEducational Items: Margaret Mitchell • Gone with the Wind • North Georgia Gold Rush • Atlanta history • Creek Indians • The Civil War • General Sherman • The Battle of Atlanta • Brer Rabbit • Joel Chandler Harris • News production (at CNN) • Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. • 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games • Thrashersville • The Nutcracker • The Arabian Nights • Southern food • Soul food • Atlanta Crackers • Atlanta Braves • Sweet Auburn neighborhood • Periodic table of ElementsPeople: Solomon Luckie • Sherlock Holmes • Robert E. Lee • Jefferson Davis • Stonewall Jackson • Priscilla the Pink Pig • ZorroThis mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, a scavenger hunt and activities. This Carole Marsh Mystery will have Accelerated Reader Reading Levels, Lexile Measures, Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Levels and Developmental Reading Assessments Levels.

Mimi reads an ad and thinks, "Hmm, would this make a great vacation home for a mystery writing grandmother and her family and friends." Soon, Christina and Grant are whisked off aboard the Mystery Girl airplane with Mimi and Papa to Transylvania, Romania where they meet up with a strange real estate agent, tour the famous castle, meet some odd new kid friends, learn about vampires, and meet up with Count dracula himself!More about the Around the World in 80 Mysteries series:Travel around the world with Christina and Grant as they visit famous places in 80 countries. Exciting adventures include history, geography, culture, and more of each country they visit. A fun way to learn about fascinating places around the world! Each book includes a map, inline glossary definitions, and lots more!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.

Blast off with Christina and Grant as they try to solve a mystery bigger than the state of Texas! On a trip with Mimi and Papa to Space Center Houston, the kids learn that a valuable moon rock has been stolen! Houston, we have a problem. Could a cowboy or an astronaut (or both) be involved? Kids will learn about the history of the space program, famous astronauts, different spacecraft, zero gravity, moon rocks, and even how astronauts go to the bathroom (very carefully!) This cliff-hanging adventure by award-winning author Carole Marsh, explores the Space Center Houston, TX, the Walking W. Ranch in Austin, TX, Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL and more. Buckle your seat belts - this mystery is out of the world! LOOK what’s in this mystery - people, places, history, and more! Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas • Blast Off Theater at Space Center Houston • Simulation Ride Take-off of the Space Shuttle • Moon Rock display • Astronaut Gallery • Gallery of Planets • Kids Space Place • Zero G Diner • Mission Control Room • Shuttle Flight Control Room • Rocket Park • Neutral Buoyancy Lab • Walking W Ranch in Austin, Texas • Cape Canaveral Space Center, Florida • Neil Armstrong • Buzz Aldrin • Alan Shepard • Freedom 7 • Gordon Cooper • Faith 7 • John Glenn • Apollo 11 • Gemini Mission • Edward White • Mercury • Ham, the first Chimpanzee in space • Early Space capsules • NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration • Moon Rocks • Zero Gravity • Saturn V rocket • Planets – Jupiter, Saturn • Astroturf • Tumbleweeds • Oil Discovery • Houston History • General Sam Houston • The space race between Russian and the United States (Gemini Mission; Mercury; Apollo) • Space food and water • Everyday living on the space station • Tiles on the space shuttle • Items improved because of the space program (tennis shoes; cordless tools) • Astronaut lingo • Texas history.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

Christina and Grant are shocked when Mimi decides to open a new bookstore in the former Manse Funeral Home in Peachtree City, GA! Is it really haunted? If not, what’s with all the clues and mysterious happenings? Read the book – visit the store online.This mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, a scavenger hunt and activities. This Carole Marsh Mystery will have Accelerated Reader Reading Levels, Lexile Measures, Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Levels and Developmental Reading Assessments Levels

Document-based questions teach students to think like historians! Students learn to analyze and interpret a variety of sources, make connections between sources, bring in their own outside knowledge, and communicate their findings. Incorporates ELA/literacy requirements into social studies!Gallopade's Document-Based Questions series breaks down the DBQ process into smaller, scaffolded steps: 1. First, students learn to analyze individual primary and secondary sources using guided text-based and primary source-based questions. 2. Next, students apply higher-order thinking skills to read for information, compare and contrast, identify causes and effects, categorize information, arrange events into chronological order, identify point of view and purpose, and much more! 3. As students complete the critical-thinking activities on each individual page, they develop a deeper understanding of the social studies topic being covered. 4. Finally, students use these same sources to answer a big-picture DBQ question! How this book helps: Students learn about a variety of social studies topics! Students build their inquiry and critical-thinking skills! Students improve their writing skills! Students learn to make conclusions and form opinions! Students learn to cite evidence to support their conclusions! Students learn to effectively communicate their conclusions to others! Reproducible pages! Adds rigor to instruction! Table of ContentsTHE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD The Underground RailroadFriends of the Underground RailroadSurprising EscapesNarrative of Henry BibbA Difficult DecisionEscape QuotationsThe Fugitive Slave ActCaptured! The North ChangesThe Power of the PenSong of the FreeROAD TO THE CIVIL WARFugitive Slave Act of 1850Compromise of 1850Henry Clay QuotationsFugitive Slave Act of 1850Culture & EconomicsThe Life of Josiah Henson & Uncle Tom s CabinKansas-Nebraska ActBleeding KansasRaid on Harpers FerryLincoln/Douglas DebatesElection of 1860THE CIVIL WAR: KEY BATTLES AND EVENTSThe 1860 ElectionGeneral Robert E. LeeFirst Shots of the Civil WarTelegram from Fort SumterFighting for a CauseCivil War QuotationsEmancipation ProclamationBattle StrategiesBattle of GettysburgSherman s Total War StrategySherman s Christmas GiftSurrender at AppomattoxAngel of the Battlefield

One kooky cookie factory! One delivery truck! One slimy rat! And lots of cookies! Equals one delicious adventure! It’s Girl Scout Cookie sale time for Avery, Ella and their friends Kate and Annie. The girls even get a chance to tour a new bakery where cookies are made! But when the girls see a mysterious mix-up at the cookie factory… and notice some of their cookie boxes are missing… and get caught in a dark delivery truck… a mystery really starts cooking! Who is the cookie thief, anyway? And why?? Tag along with foursome as they try to make sense of this tasty cookie case! This mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and more! Fun activities, built-in book club and SAT words are in each book. This Carole Marsh Mysteries will be assigned an Accelerated Reader reading levels, points and quiz numbers, Lexile Measures, Fountas & Pinnell levels and a Developmental Reading Assessment.

One Candy Stripe Lighthouse. Two Gators A’galivanting. Four Fairly Frightened Friends. Six Dancing Dolphins. Twelve Salty dogs A’barking. The Mystery at Hilton Head Island tells the story of Mimi, the mystery book writing grandmother, and four of her grandchildren as they boat over to Hilton Head Island, and discover a mystery connected to the Sea Pines lighthouse. As always, the kids are eager to keep their grandmother busy writing so that they can go and solve the mystery on their own. A helpful Island Packet reporter works just fine in this tale. As usual, things are not quite what they seem, there are twists and turns, red herrings, lots of clues, and a convoluted chase or two before the kids actually discover Harbour Town Lighthouse which might be haunted… end up in the middle of a Plaid Attack… befriend a Marsh Tacky… and go on a scavenger hunt of clues to solve a mystery by the light of the full moon!Like all of Carole Marsh Mysteries, The Mystery on Hilton Head Island 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.The Mystery at Hilton Head Island will also have Lexile Levels, Accelerated Reading Level, Points and Quizzes, Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level and Developmental Assessment Reading Level.

When Avery, Ella, and Evan visit Yellowstone National Park, they just assume grizzlies are big bad bears. However, after a trip to a center that rescues orphaned grizzly cubs, where they learn how humans don’t always play fair with wildlife, they begin to see a different side of the story. Mystery ensues, and the kids use high-tech STEM skills and high-tech gear to try to discover who or what is breaking into cabins across the region. Can they help without getting entangled in terrifying bear teeth?! Before they know it, the kids are mixed up in an adventurous mystery where clues require them to use their best science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills to find the answers! Mystery books have always been a great higher-order, critical –thinking genre, and the “real Kid characters” in this series eagerly get into using high-demand STEM skills to solve each mystery!In this mystery, there are additional pages filled with STEM materials you can use to learn about and solve problems such as: 1. Impress your friends with your knowledge of Grizzly Facts2. Learn what to do when you are in bear country3. Explore the grizzly etymology4. Learn how to convert square miles into acres and how to convert acres to square miles5. Explore carnivores, herbivores and omnivores6. Discover the bears in the U.S. 7. Learn about composting8. Investigate bear hibernation9. Examine Old Faithful in Yellowstone ParkThis mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that keep kids begging for more! The Wildlife Mysteries will have an assigned Accelerated Reader reading levels, points and quiz numbers, Lexile Measures, Fountas & Pinnell level and a Developmental Reading Assessment.This mystery is geared for boys and girls ages 7-14 and features bother and sister, Avery and Evan, who help their mystery book writer grandmother solve wildlife related mysteries. The Wildlife Mystery series has a strong focus on STEM. This mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that keep kids begging for more! The Wildlife Mysteries will have an assigned Accelerated Reader reading levels, points and quiz numbers, Lexile Measures, Fountas & Pinnell level and a Developmental Reading Assessment.

An ordinary trip to see the dinosaurs at Chicago's Field Museums turns into a riot of mystery and laughs as four real kids gallivant all over town trying to learn about Chicago's past in order to solve the mystery and save the dinos. LOOK what’s in this mystery - people, places, history, and more! “Sue,” the Tyrannosaurus Rex on display at the Field Museum • Al Capone, Chicago gangsters, and the Roaring 20s • History of and facts about Navy Pier • History of the Field Museum of Natural History, and exhibits found therein • Bat facts • Berghoff Restaurant • Grant Park, Chicago • Magnificent Mile • Navy Pier, Chicago • Printer’s Row • Sears Tower. 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.