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The Ghost in the First Row
Contributor(s): Warner, Gertrude Chandler (Created by)

ISBN: 0807555665 ISBN-13: 9780807555668
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

OUR PRICE: $14.24

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2007
Annotation: The Aldens are visiting Aunt Jane in Elmford. She tells the children that she has tickets for them to see a mystery play at the Trap-Door Theater. A theater patron who loved mysteries left her life savings to improve the theater and to hold a yearly contest with a cash prize awarded to the best mystery playwright in town. The Aldens can?t wait to find out everything there is to know about the old Trap-Door Theater. But there is more than one mystery going on. Each day at rehearsal something strange has happened to the front-row seat once occupied by the benefactor?popcorn all over the floor, an old costume laid out, a spotlight shining on her empty seat. Is the benefactor's ghost haunting the theater, or is one of Elmford's living residents up to no good? There is only one thing the Aldens like better than a mystery?two mysteries for the price of one!

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Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories
- Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General
- Juvenile Fiction | Ghost Stories

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 2009417990

Age Level: 7-10

Grade Level: 2-5

Lexile Measure: 540(Not Available)

Series: Boxcar Children

Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.82" W x 8.34" L (0.59 lbs) 128 pages

Features: Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 117714
Reading Level: 3.9 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 2.0

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Publisher Description:

The Aldens are visiting Aunt Jane in Elmford. She tells the children that she has tickets for them to see a mystery play at the Trap-Door Theater. A theater patron who loved mysteries left her life savings to improve the theater and to hold a yearly contest with a cash prize awarded to the best mystery playwright in town. The Aldens can't wait to find out everything there is to know about the old Trap-Door Theater. But there is more than one mystery going on. Each day at rehearsal something strange has happened to the front-row seat once occupied by the benefactor--popcorn all over the floor, an old costume laid out, a spotlight shining on her empty seat. Is the benefactor's ghost haunting the theater, or is one of Elmford's living residents up to no good? There is only one thing the Aldens like better than a mystery--two mysteries for the price of one!

Contributor Bio(s): Warner, Gertrude Chandler: - Gertrude Chandler Warner was born in 1890 in Putnam, Connecticut, where she taught school and wrote The Boxcar Children because she had often imagined how delightful it would be to live in a caboose or freight car. Encouraged by the book's success, she went on to write eighteen more stories about the Alden children.

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