It's time to "Play ball!" 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! Places: Turner Field, Atlanta, GA • National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, NY • Babe Ruth Birth Place Museum, Baltimore, MD • Peter J. McGovern Little League Museum, Williamsport, PA • Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory, Louisville, KY • Fenway Park, Boston, MA • Yankee Stadium, NY • Puerto Rico • Plaza at Turner Field • Adirondack Mountains • The Grandstand Theater • Otsego Lake Educational Items: Rules of Baseball • Negro American League • All-American Girls Professional Baseball League • Delta Airlines • Coca Cola • Atlanta Braves • Boston Braves/Beaneaters • 1996 World Series • 1996 World Series • 1996 Summer Olympics • Baseball Statistics • New York Yankees • The Great Depression • Civil War • Milwaukee Braves People: Babe Ruth • Chipper Jones • Hank Aaron • Abner Doubleday • Jackie Robinson • Roberto ClemeTy Cobb • Honus Wagner • CY Young • Mickey Mantle • Lou Gehrig • Phillip Wrigley Like all of Carole Marsh Mysteries, this mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that will keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, built-in book club and activities. Below is the Reading Levels Guide for this book: Grade Levels: 3-6 Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 4.2 Accelerated Reader Points: 2 Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 150375 Lexile Measure: 600 Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: Q Developmental Assessment Level: 40 Get your FREE Resources!
- Download the Carole Marsh Mysteries Real Kids! Real Places! Correlations to Common Core/State Standards .
- Download the Where Have You Been map .
- Utilize the Real Kids! Real Places! Common Core State Standards Teacher Resource for classroom discussion questions and activities for ELA grades 2-6. This can be used for all 50 mysteries .
- Download additional activities including Fact or Fiction, Fascinating Facts, Book Club Discussions and Book Club Activities .
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Author
Carole Marsh is a children's author and the founder of Gallopade International, a children’s book publishing company headquartered in Peachtree City, GA. Marsh writes mystery fiction in addition to works of non-fiction for children. Initially she self-published under the imprint Gallopade Publishing Group, which she founded in 1979; today Gallopade International is a major small publisher based in Peachtree City, Georgia. In 2007 Marsh received the Georgia Author of the Year award for her contributions to children's literature and to the state of Georgia over the past twenty-seven years.
