The Pirate's Coin (Sixty Eight Rooms #3)

by Marianne Malone (Author) Greg Call (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade

Sixth Graders Ruthie and Jack return to the Art Institute of Chicago's magical Thorne Rooms. During a school presentation, Ruthie and Jack discover that their classmate Kendra is descended from Phoebe Monroe, the young slave they befriended when they traveled to 19th-century South Carolina. Kendra tells them that long ago her family lost their good name and their business selling herbal remedies when mobsters accused them of stealing the recipes!

Only Ruthie and Jack know the truth--because only they know about the secret ledger that Phoebe wrote the recipes in long ago! Ruthie and Jack's mission to clear Kendra's name takes them back to the Thorne Rooms, where a mysterious old coin leads them to 1753 Cape Cod and to Jack's own ancestor . . . the pirate Jack Norfleet! But playing with history can be dangerous! Suddenly, Jack's very existence is in jeopardy!

Can Ruthie and Jack find the proof they need to help Kendra? And can they fix the past and save Jack's future . . . before it's too late?

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The Sixty-Eight Rooms Adventure series blends multiple topics of fascination to many a reader: miniaturization (think The Borrowers), time travel (think the Magic Tree House), mystery (think Hardy Boys), and secretly trawling a museum behind the scenes (think From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler)...Intriguing. —Booklist
Marianne Malone
MARIANNE MALONE is the mother of three grown children, a former art teacher, cofounder of the Campus School Middle School for Girls in Urbana, Illinois and popular speaker in schools. Marianne says, Writing is a kind of conjuring. I write because I believe in the magic of art to transport . . . to give a of glimpse another's world. For Teachers Guides (including common core tie-ins) and more, visit MarianneMalone.com.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307977205
Lexile Measure
740
Guided Reading Level
Q
Publisher
Yearling Books
Publication date
May 20, 2014
Series
Sixty Eight Rooms
BISAC categories
JUV028000 - Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories
Library of Congress categories
Time travel
African Americans
Magic
Genealogy
Art Institute of Chicago
Miniature rooms

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