Publisher: Random House

Copyright Date: 2014

Edition Date: 2014 Release Date: 02/25/14

Illustrator: Meyers, Mark,

Pages: 105 pages

ISBN: Publisher: 0-307-97782-X Perma-Bound: 0-605-73739-8

ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-0-307-97782-3 Perma-Bound: 978-0-605-73739-6

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 2013008420

Dimensions: 20 cm.

Subject Heading:
Miami Marlins (Baseball team). Fiction.
Fishes. Fiction.
Rare animals. Fiction.
Cousins. Fiction.
Miami (Fla.). Fiction.

Language: English

Word Count: 10,220

Reading Level: 3.8

Interest Level: 1-4

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 3.8 / points: 1.0 / quiz: 164780 / grade: Lower Grades

Reading Counts!: reading level:3.2 / points:5.0 / quiz:Q64300

Lexile: 560L

Guided Reading Level: N

Fountas & Pinnell: N

It's the eighth inning! The Missing Marlin is book #8 in our early chapter book mystery series, where each book is set in a different American ballpark!

Mike and Kate are in Miami visiting Kate's Uncle Oliver—and the Miami Marlins ballpark, of course! Uncle Oliver is in charge of keeping the new fish tanks at the ballpark fully stocked, but strange things keep happening. Kate swears she saw an endangered sea turtle in one of the tanks. Then some of Uncle Oliver's rare fish go missing, including his favorite, Marlin. Something fishy is going on in Miami!

The Missing Marlin includes several pages of "Dugout Notes," fun facts about Miami's recently built ballpark with its homerun statue, fish tanks, and swimming pool.

Cross Ron Roy's A to Z Mystery series with Matt Christopher's sports books and you get the Ballpark Mysteries: fun, puzzling whodunits aimed at the younger brothers and sisters of John Feinstein fans.