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The mystery of Biltmore House / written and photographed by Carole Marsh.

Marsh, Carole, (author.).

Summary:

Set at America's largest private residence-250 rooms-with real secret passages! Readers learn about the Victorian era when electricity & other "newfangled" things kids take for granted today first came to be. Napoleon, the Vanderbilts, & some of America's greatest writers figure into the plot, as does natural resource conservation.

Record details

ISBN: 0635013479
ISBN: 9780635013477
ISBN: 063506989X
ISBN: 9780635069894
Physical Description: 150 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Edition: 20th anniversary edition.
Publisher: Peachtree City, Georgia : Gallopade, [2002]
Copyright: ©2002

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	1 Four Hot, Sweaty, Crazy, Mad Kids 1 -- 2 Four Friends, Four Surprises, One Mystery 9 -- 3 One Creepy Castle, One Scary Question 15 -- 4 Two Spooky Places to Spend the Night 21 -- 5 Lots of Weird People 27 -- 6 No Pieces to Play With 33 -- 7 Hundreds of Doors, But No Way Out 39 -- 8 One Watching Eye 49 -- 9 Zero Clues 57 -- 10 What's A Section 6? 63 -- 11 No Michael 69 -- 12 Thomas Wolfe's House 75 -- 13 You Can't Even Go to Biltmore Again 81 -- 14 One More Suspect 89 -- 15 Blood 95 -- 16 35 Secret Hiding Places 99 -- 17 Ten Second Search 105 -- 18 One Less Kid 109 -- 19 One Last Chance 115 -- 20 Check and Mate 123.
Target Audience Note:	Ages 7-14. RL: 3-5 640L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 4.4 3.0 74562. Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.4 3 74562.