Nate the Great and the Stolen Base -- Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, Paperback

Beginning readers are introduced to the detective mystery genre in these chapter books. Perfect for the Common Core, kids can problem-solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve mysteries

Rosamund's baseball team has a very unusual second base--Oliver's gloopy purple plastic octopus. But one morning . . . it's gone Nate the Great must pick up clues so he can find the missing octopus and go up to bat

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Subtle humor sparkles through the young detective's narration and his interactions with his friends. Budding mystery fans will line up for this one.--School Library Journal

Author: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Publisher: Yearling Books
Published: 02/01/1994
Pages: 47
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.30w x 0.22d
ISBN: 9780440409328
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2.9
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 9287 / Nate the Great and the Stolen Base

About the Author
MARJORIE WEINMAN SHARMAT has written more than 130 books for children and young adults, as well as movie and TV novelizations. Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages. The award-winning Nate the Great series, hailed in Booklist as "groundbreaking," has resulted in Nate's real-world appearances in many New York Times crossword puzzles, sporting a milk mustache in magazines and posters, residing on more than 28 million boxes of Cheerios, and touring the country in musical theater. Marjorie Weinman Sharmat and her husband, Mitchell Sharmat, have also coauthored many books, including titles in both the Nate the Great and the Olivia Sharp series.

MARC SIMONT won the Caldecott Medal for his artwork in A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Uldry, as well as a Caldecott Honor for his own book, The Stray Dog. He illustrated the first twenty books in the Nate the Great series.