The Hole Nine Yards

by Stacia Deutsch, Robin Oliver Boyden (Illustrator)

Overview

Shaker Street residents are finding holes all over their yards. Are animals to blame? Are aliens?! Michael, Liv, and Leo - the Mysterious Makers of Shaker Street - decide to investigate what's behind all the destroyed landscapes. After gathering some clues, the makers put their creativity and building know-how to work with a homemade metal detector. Will the makers' latest projects lead them to a space ship or a sinister neighbor? A glossary and reader questions provide support to the young reader, and when the story's over, readers can become a makers themselves by recreating the gadgets with instructions included at the end of the book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496546838
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/08/2017
Series:	The Mysterious Makers of Shaker Street
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.30(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	570L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Stacia Deutsch is the author of the eight-book, award-winning, chapter book series Blast to the Past. Her resume includes Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, The Boxcar Children, and Mean Ghouls from Scholastic. Stacia has also written junior movie tie in novels for summer blockbuster films, including Batman, The Dark Knight and the New York Times Best Sellers: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and The Smurfs. In 2013, she earned her MFA from Western State where she currently teaches fiction writing.

Interviews

Encourages engineering and other maker-space skills and includes instructions to recreate the gadgets made in the storylines. Author Stacia Deutsch has written several popular series including Blast to the Past. Diverse cast of characters.