Chase Against Time (Chase Manning Mystery #1) (Chase Manning Mysteries) - Hardcover

Steve Reifman

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9781612540313: Chase Against Time (Chase Manning Mystery #1) (Chase Manning Mysteries)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1612540317 ISBN 13: 9781612540313

Publisher: Brown Books Publishing Group, 2012

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Encyclopedia Brown and Jack Bauer have passed the torch to Chase Manning.

In a last-ditch effort to save Apple Valley Elementary's award-winning music program from looming budget cuts, the PTA plans to auction off a recently donated, handcrafted cello at the school's annual fund-raising dinner. Confidence is high until the cello turns up missing the morning of the event. The school principal charges Chase Manning, a fifth grader who has dreamed of playing in the Sixth Grade Honors Orchestra his whole life, with finding the cello by three o'clock. Each hour of the school day involves surprising and suspense-filled plot turns as Chase pursues the elusive cello. This single-day, real-time mystery thriller truly is a chase against time!

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Note for Elementary School Teachers and Parents:
Chase Against Time and its sequel Chase for Home are Level Q on the Fountas & Pinnell scale. Both books are ideally suited to be used as read alouds and mentor texts during Reading Workshop units on mystery and "edge-of-seat" fiction because they include numerous examples of end-of-chapter cliffhangers, red herrings, suspects, motives, and other important mystery elements. If you are interested in teaching children how to craft their own mysteries, check out Steve's e-book, The Ultimate Mystery Writing Guide for Kids.

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In a last-ditch effort to save Apple Valley Elementary's awardwinning music program from looming budget cuts, the PTA plans to auction off a recently donated, handcrafted cello at the school's annual fund-raising dinner. Confidence is high—until the cello turns up missing the morning of the event. The school principal charges Chase Manning, a fifth grader who has dreamed of playing in the Sixth Grade Honors Orchestra his whole life, with finding the cello by three o'clock. Each hour of the school day involves surprising and suspense-filled plot turns as Chase pursues the elusive cello. This single-day, realtime mystery thriller truly is a chase against time!

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