Manga Math Mysteries 3: The Secret Ghost - Distance
By (Author) Melinda Thielbar
Illustrated by Yuko Geneviev Ota
Lerner Publishing Group
Graphic Universe
1st November 2010
United States
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Mathematics and numbers
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Crime, mystery and thrillers
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction
FIC
Paperback
48
Width 152mm, Height 222mm, Spine 3mm
104g
Sam's little sister Michelle thinks there's a ghost in the creepy old house their dad bought. With help from a couple of friends on the soccer team, Sam, Amy, and Michelle use an old ghost story--plus measuring tools and calculations for distance, volume, and perimeters--to figure out the truth behind . . . The Secret Ghost.
Melinda Thielbar is a writer, teacher, statistician, and student of the martial arts. Manga Math Mysteries, including The Kung Fu Puzzle and The Secret Ghost is her first children's series. In 2005, Melinda left SAS to finish a PhD in statistics. She was awarded a VIGRE fellowship at North Carolina State University. This fellowship is awarded to students likely to make a strong contribution to education in the mathematics and statistics field. Again, Melinda earned a fantastic reputation in the classroom. Her statistics lectures and examples were known for their ability to hold her students' interest--no easy task in a statistics for non-majors class that's held at 8:00am. Melinda lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, writer Richard Dansky, and their three cats. She is currently working on the research portion of her PhD. Yuko Ota was born and raised in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. She went to school at the Rochester Institute of Technology and graduated in 2008 with a BS in Sequential Art. She has done comics work for Dark Horse and Oni Press, as well as Graphic Universe. Yuko currently lives in Brooklyn, and likes cats and drawing comics!