His head is missing?" Michele asked. "Whose head?" When the answer turns out to be Blackbeard, fiercest pirate of the all. Four kids set off on a real adventure in North Carolina's real pirate haunt port town of Bath. While struggling to recover a special prop and save an outdoor drama, the kids learn about the Golden Age of Piracy up and down the American coast from Maine to Florida. They also learn a lot of history, solve a mystery, meet a legend and much more! They have a lot of Jolly Roger laughs! But do they find the treasure? Hmm, would they tell? "Avast! This mystery's a treasure trove of fun!"
LOOK what's in this mystery - people, places, history, and more!
Blackbeard's death
• History of Bath, NC
• Bath geography
• History of Ned Teach a.k.a. Blackbeard
• Amphitheaters
• History of the Bonner family and Bonner's Point
• History of the Palmer-Marsh House
• Information on St. Thomas Church
• Lustre
• Pontipool
• Mary Ormond, Blackbeard's wife
• Legend of the Magic Horse Tracks
• Sailors' mirrors
• Erosion
• Bath Creek
• Teach's Hole, Ocracoke Island, NC
• Plum Point, Bath
• Buzzard Inn,
• Bath Public Library
• St. Thomas Cemetery
• Van Der Veer House
• Magic Horse Tracks near Washington, NC.
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, Built-In Book Club and activities. This Carole Marsh Mystery also has an Accelerated Reader quiz, a Lexile Level, a Fountas & Pinnell guided reading level and a Developmental Reading Assessment level.
