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The Basketball Mystery

Series: Boxcar Children (Book #68)

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Boxcar Children have joined a community basketball league and are thrilled when they find out that Buzz and Tipper Nettleton are coaching their team. But when Tipper's "Most Valuable Player" trophy goes missing, it's up to the Alden children to find out who's behind the trouble.

Ages: 8, 9, 10
Interest Level: Grades 3 - 5
Grade Level Equivalent: 3.2
Lexile Measure: 540L
DRA: 38
Guided Reading: O
Publisher: Tandem Library
Genre: Adventure, Mystery and Suspense, Realistic Fiction, Dictionaries, Reference, Series