Courtney Case and the Missing Lemons: Educational Version

By Jeannie Meekins

I never thought my mum’s bad memory would lead me to another case.
It was Friday evening. Mum had spent the afternoon gardening in the front yard and was enjoying a well deserved cup of tea. Dad was helping me with my homework.
I would have been happy to leave it until bedtime Sunday night. Dad was aware of this and decided that we could get it all done tonight. And by “we”, I mean “me”. Dad’s idea of helping was covering the kitchen table in all my books and asking me more questions than my teacher.
Mum didn’t feel like cooking. So she went out for fish and chips.
Half an hour later, Mum was home again. “I’ll just go and get a lemon,” I said.
I went out the back, past the garage and down to the lemon tree in the corner of our yard. Our lemon tree always seems to have lemons on it, no matter what time of year it is.
I stopped, and looked at the lemon tree in surprise. There were hardly any lemons.

Who has stolen the lemons? Can Courtney and her trusty sidekick Laura solve the case?

Ages 7 to 10
Chapter book
Reading level: 3.4
Educational Versions include exercises designed to meet Common Core Standards.

• Language: English
• Publisher: LearningIsland.com
• Release date: Jan 19, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310159985

Jeannie Meekins

Jeannie Meekins is an Australian writer who lives with her children and a couple of cats who think they own the computer. And if her dog could read, he’d be jealous, so it’s lucky that he can’t. Jeannie has also written over 10 books for children, many available through LearningIsland.com

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Courtney Case

and the Missing Lemons

Written by Jeannie Meekins

Illustrated by A.T. Davidson

A LearningIsland.com

Mystery Chapter Book

Editor: Caitlind Alexander

Pictures copyrighted by A.T. Davidson

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(c) Copyright 2013. Jeannie Meekins. All rights reserved.

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Courtney Case and the Missing Lemons / Jeannie Meekins

Summary: The fearless young detective Courtney Case takes on the mystery of the Missing Lemons. Can she find out who the thief is?

1. Mystery. Juvenile Literature. 2. Lemon. Juvenile Literature.

Words: 4966

Reading Level: 3.4

Ages 7 to 12.

Table of Contents

Note

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Activities

Answers

About the Author

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Note to Americans

Hi, this is Courtney Case and I live in Australia. Because of that, the spelling of some words may seem a bit strange to you. Words that end in ize in America often end in ise in Australia (such as fossilise and realise). Tires is spelled tyres, color is spelled colour, and lots of other little things.

We also say some things a bit differently, like Maths instead of math, lounge room instead of living room, and footpath instead of sidewalk. We also say biscuits instead of cookies, and torch instead of flashlight.

On top of that, we use the metric system in Australia, as they do in most of the rest of the world. You Americans have a strange measuring system. To help you out, I've been kind enough to translate most of the measurements for you. Just remember, a metre is about 39 of your inches, so just a little more than three feet. And a kilometre is 1.6 miles.

It shouldn't be too hard for you Americans to understand the differences in words and changes. Just give it a try!

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Chapter One

I never thought my mum’s bad memory would lead me to another case.

It was Friday evening. Mum had spent the afternoon gardening in the front yard and was enjoying a well deserved cup of tea. Dad was helping