It’s time to ìPlay ball!î when Christina, Grant, Mimi, and Papa take a tour of baseball’s most famous places and slide head-first into a mystery complete with broken bats, blistering fastballs, and a diamond more valuable than a game-winning home run!
Look What’s Inside This Mystery –people, places, history and more! Places in Atlanta: Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel • Five Points • Underground Atlanta • The Fox Theatre • Krispy Kreme • Wren’s Nest • CNN Center • Piedmont Park • Atlanta Botanical Gardens • Mary Mac’s Tea Room • Fernbank Museum of Natural History • Cyclorama • Zoo Atlanta • Auburn Avenue • World of Coca-Cola • Stone Mountain • Lenox Mall • The Varsity • Turner Field • Oakland Cemetery • Georgia Tech • Capitol Building • The High Museum of Art • Dahlonega • Pitch Tree Trail • Sandtown Trail • Zero Mile Post and the Western and Atlantic Railroad • Storza Woods
Educational Items: Margaret Mitchell • Gone with the Wind • North Georgia Gold Rush • Atlanta history • Creek Indians • The Civil War • General Sherman • The Battle of Atlanta • Brer Rabbit • Joel Chandler Harris • News production (at CNN) • Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. • 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games • Thrashersville • The Nutcracker • The Arabian Nights • Southern food • Soul food • Atlanta Crackers • Atlanta Braves • Sweet Auburn neighborhood • Periodic table of Elements
People: Solomon Luckie • Sherlock Holmes • Robert E. Lee • Jefferson Davis • Stonewall Jackson • Priscilla the Pink Pig • Zorro
This mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that keep kids begging for more! Each mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, a scavenger hunt and activities.This Carole Marsh Mystery has Accelerated Reader Reading Levels, Lexile Measures, Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Levels and Developmental Reading Assessments Levels.
