Christina, Grant, Mimi, and Papa head to the big city of Atlanta, Georgia, to explore the creepy Underground past and the high tech global future, but someone ends up stranded on a giant stone ear-really!-in a mystery that will really blow you away!
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
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: 2-8
Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 4.7
Accelerated Reader Points: 2
Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 150374
Lexile Measure: 690
Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: Q
Developmental Assessment Level: 40
Want a sneak peak? Read the first three chapters
HERE.
For additional resources, go to the Resources Tab. On the Resource Tab, you will find Common Core State Standards for Teachers, Where Have You Been map, additional activities including Fact or Fiction, Fascinating Facts, Book Club Discussion Questions and Book Club Activities, and the Around the World Common Core State Standards Teacher Resource for classroom discussion questions and activities for ELA.
FREE resources for you!
1. Download the Carole Marsh Mysteries
Real Kids! Real Places! Correlations to Common Core/State Standards HERE.
2. Download the
Where Have You Been map
HERE.
3. 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
HERE.
4. Download additional activities including
Fact or Fiction, Fascinating Facts, Book Club Discussions and Book Club Activities HERE.
5. The corresponding
Teacher's Guide is a page-by-page supplementary resource that gives you additional activities to enhance the student's learning opportunities by using cross-curricular materials including discussion questions, reproducible vocabulary, science, geography and math activities. Click
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