The Mystery in Las Vegas (Real Kids, Real Places)

What seems like a city for adults only turns out to be an exciting town for kids who love neon, cactus, gigantic dams, rollercoasters atop tall hotels, chocolate, swimming pools and vampires. Vampires? Well, it seems so, but who knows in Las Vegas, a place where magic can be fake...yet the pretend be alllll too real!

LOOK what’s in this mystery - people, places, history, and more! Casinos • Las Vegas facts and history • Spiders and Scorpions • Mojave Desert history • Neon lights • Elvis Presley impersonators • “The Las Vegas Strip” history • White Bengal Tigers • Information on the hotels on the strip • Rides in the Stratosphere Hotel • Hoover Dam history• Nellis Air Force Base• Mojave Desert • Fremont Street, “Glitter Gulch,” “The Strip” • Hoover Dam, Black Canyon • Secret Garden of Siegfried and Roy • Madame Tussauds Wax Museum • Ethel M. Chocolate Factory • Luxor Hotel • Las Vegas Natural History Museum • Flamingo Hotel • Ice Canyon.

Each mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, Built-In Book Club and activities. Each Carole Marsh Mystery also has an Accelerated Reader quiz, a Lexile Level, and a Fountas & Pinnell guided reading level.