Mystery/Detective/Crime/Missing Persons
F Abb
Abbott, Tony
The Postcard (also Love story)
3-6
When Jason's grandmother dies, he's sent down to her home in Florida to help his father clean out her things, where he soon
discovers a mystery surrounding his grandmother's murky past. An old, yellowed postcard...a creepy phone call with a raspy
voice at the other end asking, "So how smart are you?"...an entourage of freakish funeral goers....a bizarre magazine story. All
contain clues that will send him on a thrilling journey to uncover family secrets.
F Abr
Abrahams, Peter
Down the Rabbit Hole (First in the Echo Falls series)
5-8
Welcome to Echo Falls. Home of a thousand secrets, where Ingrid Levin-Hill, super sleuth, never knows what will happen next.
Ingrid is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or at least her shoes are. Getting them back means getting involved in a murder
investigation rivaling those solved by her idol, Sherlock Holmes, and Ingrid has enough on her plate with club soccer, school,
and the plum role of Alice in the Echo Falls production of Alice in Wonderland. But much as in Alice's adventures down the
rabbit hole, things in Ingrid's small town keep getting curiouser and curiouser.
F Abr
Abrahams, Peter
Reality Check
YA
After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody's college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small
Montana town, but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the
search.
F All
Allison, Jennifer
Gilda Joyce: the Ladies of the Lake (also Humorous)
5-8
Having earned a scholarship to a private girls' high school, self-proclaimed psychic investigator Gilda Joyce investigates the
circumstances surrounding the drowning death of a student whose ghost supposedly haunts the campus.
F And
Anderson, Janet
The Last Treasure
SLJ*
5-8
Thirteen-year-old Ellsworth leaves his father to visit the relatives he has never met and eventually joins forces with Jess, his
distant cousin, to uncover family secrets and search for their ancestor's hidden treasure.
F And
Anderson, M.T.
The Game of Sunken Places
5-8
When Brian and Gregory receive an invitation to stay at a distant relative's strange manse, they stumble upon The
Game of Sunken Places, a board game that mirrors a greater game for which they have suddenly became players. Soon the boys
are dealing with attitudinal trolls, warring kingdoms, and some very starchy britches. Luckily, they have wit, deadpan
observation, and a keen sense of adventure on their side.
F Arm
Armistead, John
The $66 Summer
5-8
Thirteen-year-old Ellsworth leaves his father to visit the relatives he has never met and eventually joins forces with Jess, his
distant cousin, to uncover family secrets and search for their ancestor's hidden treasure.
F Asa
Asai, Carrie
The Book of the Sword (1st in the Samurai Girl series)
YA
When I was six months old, I dropped from the sky -- the lone survivor of a deadly Japanese plane crash. The newspapers named
me Heaven. I was adopted by a wealthy family in Tokyo, pampered, and protected. For nineteen years, I thought I was lucky.
I'm learning how wrong I was. They say your life begins on your wedding day. Here's what happened on mine: I lost the person
I love most. I learned that everything I knew about my family was a lie. Now I'm being hunted. I must fight back, or die. My life
ended that day. The old Heaven is gone. I AM SAMURAI GIRL.
F Asa
Asai, Carrie
The Book of the Shadow (2nd in the Samurai Girl series)
YA
Heaven Kogo continues her sumurai training in the hopes of learning to defend herself against the people she once trusted.
F Asa
Asai, Carrie
The Book of the Pearl (3rd in the Samurai Girl series)
YA
Nineteen-year-old samurai girl Heaven Kogo decides to take chances and explore Los Angeles, even though she knows danger
could be lurking anywhere.
F Asa
Asai, Carrie
The Book of the Wind (4th in the Samurai Girl series)
YA
Escaping a bad relationship, nineteen-year-old Heaven Kogo starts over in fast-paced Las Vegas and gets caught up in a
dangerous game involving one new friend and one old.
F Asa
Asai, Carrie
The Book of the Flame (5th in the Samurai Girl series)
YA
Samurai trained Heaven Kogo, still on the run from the men who murdered her brother, learns she is better off pursuing her
mission alone after she and her boyfriend are kidnapped and almost killed.
F Asa
Asai, Carrie
The Book of the Heart (6th in the Samurai Girl series)
YA
Samurai Girl, the sole survivor of an airplane crash at the age of six months, returns home to her adoptive family in Tokyo after
months as a runaway in Los Angeles where she hopes to learn the truth about her origins and her future.
F Asi
Asimov, Isaac
The Robots of Dawn (also Science Fiction)
YA
A puzzling case of "roboticide" takes interplanetary detective Elijah Baley from Earth to the planet Aurora where humans are
never far from a host of robot companions and servants. Sequel: Robots and empire.
F Avi
Avi
City of Orphans
(NYC Historical Fiction)
5-8
The streets of 1893 New York are full of life: crowded, filthy, dangerous. If you are a newsboy like thirteen-year- old Maks
Geless, you need to watch out for Bruno, leader of the Plug Ugly Gang whose shadowy, sinister boss is plotting to take control
of all the newsies on the lower East Side. With Bruno’s boys in fierce pursuit, Maks discovers Willa, a strange girl who lives
alone in an alley. It is she, stick in hand, who fights off the Plug Uglies—but further dangers await.Maks must find a way to free
his sister Emma from The Tombs, the city jail where she has been imprisoned for stealing a watch at the glamorous new Waldorf
Hotel. Maks, believing her innocent, has only four days to prove it. Fortunately, there is Bartleby Donck, the eccentric lawyer
(among other employments) to guide Maks and Willa in the art of detection. Against a backdrop alive with the sights and sounds
of tenement New York, Maks, as boy detective, must confront a teeming world of wealth and crime, while struggling against
powerful forces threatening new immigrants and the fabric of family love. (Readingteen)
F Avi
Avi
Murder at Midnight ( Historical Fiction-Renaissance)
5-8
Falsely accused of plotting to overthrow King Claudio, scholarly Mangus the magician, along with his street-smart servant boy,
Fabrizio, face deadly consequences unless they can track down the real traitor by the stroke of midnight.
F Avi
Avi
Who Stole the Wizard of Oz?
3-6
Becky and her brother use some ingenious clues to identify the person who stole five children's books from the town's library.
F Avi
Avi
Windcatcher (also Adventure)
3-6
While learning to sail during a visit to his grandmother's at the Connecticut shore, eleven-year-old Tony becomes excited about
the rumors of sunken treasure in the area and starts following a couple who seem to be making a mysterious search for
something.
F Avi
Avi
Wolf Rider
YA
After receiving an apparently crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, fifteen-year-old Andy finds his close
relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him. Fifteen-year-old Andy Zadinski risks his
own safety to protect a young woman while tracking down her pretended killer, a stranger named Zeke.
F Bab
Babbitt, Natalie
Kneeknock Rise (1971 Newbery Honor)
3-6
From the moment young Egan arrives in Instep, he senses the spell cast over the villagers by the Megrimum--the mysterious
something that lurks on the mist-wreathed peak of Kneeknock Rise and soon he is climbing the peak for answers.
F Bac Baccalario, Pierdomenico
Ring of Fire (#1 Century Quartet) (also Adventure)
5-8
Every hundred years, four kids from four cities--they all have birthdays on February 29, Leap Day--must save the world! Four
seemingly unrelated children are brought together in a Rome hotel where they discover that they are destined to become
involved in a deep and ancient mystery involving a briefcase full of artifacts that exposes them to great danger.
F Bac Baccalario, Pierdomenico
Dragon of seas (#2 Century Quartet) (also Adventure)
5-8
Sheng, Elettra, Harvey, and Mistral meet in Shanghai to find the Pearl of the Sea Dragon relic and complete the pact before
Heremit Devil can stop them.
F Bac Baccalario, Pierdomenico
City of Wind (#3 Century Quartet) (also Adventure)
5-8
In their continuing quest to save the world from evil forces, Mistral, Elettra, Harvey, and Sheng meet again in Paris where they
must search for the mysterious veil of Isis reportedly hidden in the heart of the city.
F Bac Baccalario, Pierdomenico
Star of Stone (#4 Century Quartet) (also Adventure)
5-8
In their continuing adventures, Elettra, Sheng, and Minstral meet Harvey and Ermite in New York City and follow the clues to
find the mysterious Star of Stone.
F Bal
Balliett, Blue
The Calder Game
5-8
When Calder Pillay travels with his father to a remote village in England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery . . . including an
unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Calder is strangely drawn to the sculpture, while other people have
less-than-friendly feelings towards it. Both the boy and the sculpture seem to be out of place . . . and then, on the same night,
they disappear! Calder's friends Petra and Tommy must fly out to help his father find him. But this mystery has more twists and
turns than a Calder mobile . . . with more at stake than first meets the eye.
F Bal
Balliett, Blue
Chasing Vermeer
5-8
When strange and seemingly unrelated events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds
Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
F Bal
Balliett, Blue
The Danger Box
5-8
In small-town Michigan, twelve-year-old Zoomy and his new friend Lorrol investigate the journal found inside a mysterious box
and find family secrets and a more valuable treasure, while a dangerous stranger watches and waits.
F Bal
Balliett, Blue
The Wright 3
5-8
Petra and Calder are drawn into another mystery when unexplained accidents and ghostly happenings occur in Frank Lloyd
Wright's Robie House.
F Bei
Beil, Michael D.
The Ring of Rocamadour (#1 in The Red Blazer Girls)
5-8
Catholic-schooled seventh-graders Sophie, Margaret, Rebecca, and Leigh Ann help an elderly neighbor solve a puzzle her father
left for her estranged daughter twenty years ago.
F Bei
Beil, Michael D.
The Vanishing Violin (#2 in The Red Blazer Girls)
5-8
Seventh-graders Sophie, Margaret, Rebecca, and Leigh Ann follow a trail of cryptic clues to locate a rare violin, catch the person
sneaking into St. Veronica's School for late-night cleaning and redecorating, and outsmart a conniving classmate. When there are
mysteries to be solved, the Red Blazer Girls are on the case! The discovery of the Ring of Rocamadour has secured the girls'
reputation as Upper East Side super-sleuths, bringing many sundry job requests (no mystery too small, right?) and some
unwanted attention from crooks. This time the girls must follow a trail of cryptic clues, involving everything from logic to
literature, to trace a rare violin gone missing. But nothing is as it appears, and just as a solution seems imminent, the girls find
themselves scrambling to save the man who was once their prime suspect. Bowstrings and betrayal, crushes and codes abound.
F Bei
Beil, Michael D.
The Mistaken Masterpiece (#3 in The Red Blazer Girls)
5-8
Red Blazer Girls Sophie, Margaret, Becca, and Leigh Ann are hired by Father Julian who wants them to authenticate a painting,
while Sophie faces off with her arch-rival and takes care of movie-star Nate Etan's dog. In the third installment, Sophie is nose to
fist with her arch-rival, Livvy, all while taking care of movie-star Nate Etan's dog, when Father Julian hires the Blazers to help
him authenticate a painting. Mayhem and mystery follows as the girls attempt to uncover the truth. Oh, and, uh, Sophie's friendwho-is-not-a-boyfriend, Raf, is back. . .
F Bel
Bellairs, John
The Chessmen of Doom (A Johnny Dixon mystery)
5-8
Johnny Dixon, Fergie and Professor Childermass comply with a strange will left by the Professor's brother, which required them
to spend the summer at a desolate estate where they encounter a madman bent on destroying the world.
F Bel
Bellairs, John
The Eyes of the Killer Robot (A Johnny Dixon mystery)(SF) 5-8
At first, Johnny Dixon doesn't believe Professor Childermass's story about Evaristus Sloane, the insane invention of a fiendish,
baseball-pitching robot. Then Johnny sees faces at his window at night and senses he's being followed. Old Sloane has invented
a new, improved robot, and he only needs one thing to bring it to life--Johnny's eyes!
F Bel
Bellairs, John
The Mummy, the Will and the Crypt (A Johnny Dixon mystery) 5-8
When Johnny Dixon searches a deserted mansion to find H. Bagwell Glomus's hidden will, he accidentally stumbles upon a
mysterious and terrifying force.
F Ben
Benjamin, David
Runaway
YA
"Have you seen these teens? They ran away from home, but now they're officially missing. Were they kidnapped? Murdered?
Did something, or someone, cause them to simply vanish--into thin air? Three people believe that the boy with a secret gift-Cole Sear--can solve the mystery."
F Bil
Billingsley, Franny
Chime
(also , Fantasy, Horror)
YA
In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around
their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even
Briony does not know about.
F Bla
Blackwood, Gary
Shakespeare’s Spy ( Historical Fiction-Elizabethan England) 3-6
Widge, an orphan boy who has joined William Shakespeare's acting company, begins some investigative snooping when several
thefts occur backstage.
F Bro
Brouwer, Sigmund
Wired
(Sports skiing)
5-8
Keegan is skiing as fast as he ever has, and has a chance to finish in first place until he sees the black wire stretched between two
trees in his path.
F Bro
Broach, Elise
Masterpiece
5-8
Marvin, who is a beetle, lives with his family under the kitchen sink in the Pompadays' apartment. James Pompaday, an elevenyear-old boy, lives with his family in New York City. After James gets a pen-and-ink set for his birthday, Marvin surprises him
by creating an elaborate miniature drawing. James gets all the credit for the picture and before these unlikely friends know it
they are caught up in a staged art heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that could help recover a famous drawing by Albrecht
Dürer. But James can't go through with the plan without Marvin's help. And that's where things get really complicated (and
interesting!).
F Bro
Brown, Dan
The DaVinci Code
AD
Harvard Professor Robert Langdon, visiting Paris, is called in when the curator of the Louvre is murdered. Alongside the body is
a series of baffling ciphers. Langton and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are amazed to find a trail that leads to the
works of Da Vinci - and beyond. Second in the Robert Langdon series.
F Bro
Brown, Dan
Angels and Demons (also Adventure)
AD
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to Switzerland when the dead body of a physicist turns up bearing the
distinguishing mark of the ancient brotherhood of the "Illuminati." Soon, Langdon suspects this mysterious cult is determined to
destroy Catholicism with an unimaginably powerful new weapon.
F Bro
Brown, Dan
Deception Point (also Adventure)
AD
White House intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton is thrust into a life-or-death situation when she travels to the Arctic to
investigate the discovery of a rare meteorite that might prove the existence of extraterrestrial life, and finds instead evidence of
scientific trickery.
F Bro
Brown, Dan
Digital Fortress (also Adventure)
AD
Cryptographer Susan Fletcher finds herself fighting for her country, her life, and the life of the man she loves when she is called
in by the National Security Agency to decipher a mysterious code and discovers a plot that has the power to cripple U.S.
intelligence.
F Buc
Buckley, Michael
The Usual Suspects (Grimm Sisters#2) (Humor and Fantasy) 3-6
When orphaned sisters, Sabrina and Daphne, are sent to live with their mysterious grandmother, Relda Grimm, who lives in a
strange town in New York state, known for it's extraordinary number of unexplained and unusual crimes, they begin to unravel a
mystery that leads to their ancestors' magical beginnings. Sabrina and Daphne find out they are descendants of the Brothers
Grimm, who were actually detectives of the magical phenomenon perpetrated by the Everafters, a parallel race of magical
beings. They soon learn it is the Grimm family's legacy to keep the Everafters in line and the two sisters are the sole heirs to this
challenge! In the "Sisters Grimm Book Two: The Unusual Suspects," the girls start school with Snow White as their teacher and
soon discover a plot pitting mortal children against immortal parents-they must do everything they can to stop it!
F Buc
Buckley, Michael
Once Upon A Crime (Grimm Sisters#4) (Humor and Fantasy) 3-6
The Grimms take on New York City! Surprises abound for Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, fairy-tale detectives extraordinaire.
When they venture into the big city, they stumble upon a murder, face betrayal by a friend, and discover an amazing secret about
their mother, Veronica. Sabrina just wants to be normal, no detecting, no dangerous escapes, and especially no Everafters.
Unfortunately, New York City is a hiding spot for many famous fairy-tale folk. And there’s a murderer in their midst! The girls
and their friends must figure out who killed Pucks father, King Oberon, while coming to terms with their mother’s secret life.
Will they stop the murderer before he or she can strike again? And will Sabrina ever accept her family’s destiny?
F Buc
Buckley, Michael
Magic and other Misdemeanors (Grimm Sisters#5) (Humor, Fantasy)
3-6
Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are ready to tackle their own case: Who is stealing the magical possessions of the most powerful
Everafters in town? With Granny distracted by Mayor Hearts campaign against human residents, the girl detectives are on their
own. Puss in Boots (now an exterminator), Cinderella (a radio relationship counselor), Sleeping Beauty (owner of a coffee shop),
and their old enemy, Prince Charming, are among the many suspects, and one thing is for certain: The villains plans mean a grim
future for the Grimmstruly!
F Buc
Buckley, Michael
Tales from the Hood (Grimm Sisters#6) (Humor and Fantasy) 3-6
The Grimms defend Mr. Canis in Ferryport Landing's trial of the century! This book sees Mr. Canis, dear friend and protector of
the Grimm family, put on trial for past crimes. Considering that he's really the Big Bad Wolf, he has a lot to answer for. Is there
any truth to the story told by Little Red Riding Hood? What's the deal with all that huffing and puffing? Will Mr. Canis be
forced to answer for his crimes? A kangaroo court of Everafters, led by the cruel Queen of Hearts, is determined to find Canis
guilty and force the Grimms out of Ferryport Landing. Meanwhile, Puck has decided to focus more on his mischievous ways,
making a few new troublemaker friends. So it's up to Sabrina and Daphne to find evidence to save Canisand their investigation
may reveal more than they hoped.
F Buc
Buckley, Michael
The Everafter War (Grimm Sisters#7) (Humor and Fantasy)
3-6
Sabrina and Daphne's prayers are finally answered when their parents awake from their sleeping spell. But their happy reunion is
short-lived, as they are caught in the middle of a war between the Scarlet Hand and Prince Charming's Everafter army. As the
family works to help the prince's ragtag group of rebels and protect their friends, Sabrina comes face-to-face with the family's
deadliest enemythe mysterious Masterwho reveals a secret so shocking it will rock the entire family to its core.
F Buc
Buckley, Michael
The Inside Story (Grimm Sisters#8) (Humor and Fantasy)
3-6
Sabrina, Daphne, and Puck, stuck in the Book of Everafter, set out to save their baby brother and are confronted by the book's
guardian, who threatens them if they do not stick to their stories.
F Buc
Buckley, Michael
The Council of Mirrors (Grimm Sisters#9) (Humor and Fantasy) 3-6
n the final volume in the Sisters Grimm series, Sabrina, Daphne, and the rest of the Grimms and their friends must face off
against the Master to decide the fate of Ferryport Landing—and the world. When Mirror fails to escape the barrier using Granny
Relda's body, he turns to his plan B: killing all the Grimms so that the magical barrier collapses. In the meantime, Sabrina has
gathered the other magic mirrors as advisors on how to deal with their mortal enemy. They tell her to join forces with the Scarlet
Hand against Mirror, in exchange for offering all the citizens of Ferryport Landing their freedom.
F Buf
Buffie, Margaret
The Watcher
(also Horror)
Emma fears for the safety of her family and is haunted by surreal, frightening dreams.
YA
F But
Butler, Dori Hilestad Do You Know the Monkey Man?
5-8
W hile searching for the father who left her and her mother ten years ago, thirteen-year-old Samantha begins to believe that the
twin sister who supposedly died when they were three years old is still alive.
F Bya
Byars, Betsy Cromer Disappearing Acts (A Herculeah Jones mystery)
5-8
When Herculeah Jones's best friend, Meat, decides to take a comedy class, he just expects to get a few laughs. But then he
discovers a dead body in the bathroom, and realizes that there's nothing funny about murder. Things can't get any worse-until the
body disappears! Meat needs Herculeah's help to uncover the clues, but she's busy investigating a case of her own . . . one that
might just change Meat's life forever!
F Bya
Byars, Betsy Cromer Tarot Says Beware
(A Herculeah Jones mystery)
5-8
Madame Rosa, the eccentric local fortune teller, has been murdered, and the only witness is her parrot,Tarot. But he's not
talking. Herculeah Jones thinks she knows who the killer is, but she's not the only one. . . . Someone else knows-someone who
wants to make sure Herculeah won't be around to see the future.
F Bya
Byars, Betsy Cromer Dead Letter
(A Herculeah Jones mystery)
5-8
Herculeah Jones and her best friend Meat set out to crack the case of the mysterious note which she finds in the lining of a
second-hand coat.
F Bya
Byars, Betsy Cromer The Dark Stairs (A Herculeah Jones mystery)
5-8
Mystery is in Herculeah Jones's blood. How could it not be, with a father on the police force and a mother who's a private eye?
So when Herculeah notices a man hanging around the "Dead Oaks" mansion, she can't resist doing some investigating of her
own. Legend has it the old estate was the site of a murder, and now it looks like there's something even more nefarious going on.
Can Herculeah crack the case before the mystery man closes in on her?
F Bya
Byars, Betsy Cromer King of Murder (A Herculeah Jones mystery)
5-8
Herculeah meets a murder mystery writer, and has the uneasy feeling that he knows more about murder than he should.
F Bya
Byars, Betsy Cromer The Black Tower (A Herculeah Jones mystery)
5-8
Herculeah Jones gets involved in another dangerous mystery when she goes to visit old Mr. Shivers Hunt, resident of the
forbidding Hunt House.
F Bya
Byars, Betsy Cromer Death’s Door (A Herculeah Jones mystery)
5-8
Herculeah Jones finds herself in the middle of another mystery when her best friend Meat barely escapes a hitman's bullet.
Someone must have mistaken Meat for someone else. But who? Herculeah is determined to solve the mystery, before the
assassin comes after her!
F Cab
Cabot, Meg
Darkest Hour (Mediator #4) (also Horror)
YA
Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon is a mediator, one who communicates with the dead, and she tries to solve the murder of
Jesse, a nineteenth-century ghost she is in love with.
F Car
Carman, Patrick
The Black Circle (5th in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Siblings Amy and Dan Cahill continue their global search for the clues that will unlock the Cahill family's secret power while
also working to evade Irina Spasky.
F Cha
Chandler, Elizabeth Dark Secrets 1
(Also Horror)
YA
Two novels in Elizabeth Chandler's Dark Secrets series, "Legacy of Lies," in which Megan's visit with her grandmother puts her
in the middle of a twisted love triangle, and "Don't Tell," in which Lauren returns to the town where her mother died years
earlier hoping to unlock the secrets of her past.
F Cha
Chandler, Elizabeth Dark Secrets 2
(Also Horror)
YA
Two novels in Elizabeth Chandler's Dark Secrets series, "No Time to Die," in which Jenny is stalked by the same serial killer
who murdered her sister, Liza--who tries to warm Jenny from the grave; and "The Deep End of Fear," in which Kate tutors a boy
living in the estate she used to call home and discovers he is in contact with Ashley, Kate's childhood best friend who drowned
in an icy pond.
F Cha
Chandler, Elizabeth No Time To Die
(Also Horror)
YA
Jenny is stalked by the same serial killer who murdered her sister, Liza--who tries to warm Jenny from the grave.
F Cha
Chandler, Elizabeth The Backdoor of Midnight
(Also Horror)
YA
Anna struggles to maintain a sense of normalcy while staying with her eccentric aunt for the summer, but when her uncle's
charred body is discovered and her aunt's grief exaggerates her psychic abilities, Anna wonders who she can trust and if her
family's supernatural abilities might help her find her uncle's killer.
F Cha
Chandler, Elizabeth Legacy of Lies
(Also Horror)
Megan's visit with her grandmother puts her in the middle of a twisted love triangle.
YA
F Cha
Chandler, Elizabeth The Deep End of Fear (Also Horror)
YA
Kate tutors a boy living in the estate she used to call home and discovers he is in contact with Ashley, Kate's childhood best
friend who drowned in an icy pond.
F Cha
Chapman, Karen B. The Mayan Mission: another country, another mission (1000SAT) YA
Alexa and Jose reunite at the ruins of an ancient Mayan temple and discover a sinister plot to sell priceless Mayan artifacts to the
highest bidder that pulls them into a dangerous jungle adventure.
F Che
Cheaney, J. B.
The True Prince (also Historical Fiction Tudor England)
5-8
Newly apprenticed to Shakespeare's theater company, Richard and Kit are drawn into a series of crimes involving the members
of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the same author: The Playmaker.
F Che
Cheaney, J. B.
The Playmaker (also Historical Fiction Elizabethan England) 5-8
While working as an apprentice in a London theater company in 1597, fourteen-year-old Richard uncovers a mystery involving
the disappearance of his father and a traitorous plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth.
F Chi
Child, Lauren
Utterly Me, Clarice Bean (also Humor)
3-6
When someone steals the winner's trophy for the school book project, Clarice emulates her favorite book heroine, Ruby Redfort
the detective.
F Chr
Christie, Agatha
Many titles (A Hercule Poirot mystery)
YA
F Chr
Christie, Agatha
Many titles (A Jane Marple mystery)
YA
F Chr
Christie, Agatha
At Bertram’s Hotel (A Jane Marple mystery)
YA
Jane Marple takes a holiday at Bertram's hotel in London for a much-needed rest and to relive the happy memories of sojourns
there during her youth. The hotel is famous for fully preserving its Edwardian atmosphere -- from the proper staff to the elderly
guests who frequent the tearoom. The decor is well appointed, and the service is impeccable. Jane's vacation takes a sinister turn
when a hotel maid is found strangled on the roof. Always curious and observant, the intrepid Miss Marple launches her own
investigation, and is soon assisted by another Jane, also a hotel maid. When an attempt is made on the life of hotel guest, the two
Janes work together in an effort to find a motive -- and identify a killer.
F Chr
Christie, Agatha
The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side (A Jane Marple mystery)YA
F Chr
Christie, Agatha
Murder at the Vicarage (A Jane Marple mystery)
YA
F Chr
Christie, Agatha
A Pocket Full of Rye (A Jane Marple mystery)
YA
F Chr
Christie, Agatha
Murder is Announced (A Jane Marple mystery)
YA
F Chr
Christie, Agatha
The 4:50 from Paddingdon (A Jane Marple mystery)
YA
F Chr
Christie, Agatha
The Body in the Library (A Jane Marple mystery)
YA
F Chr
Christie, Agatha
The A.B.C. Murders (A Hercule Poirot mystery)
YA
Hercule Poirot is sent a series of letters by a murderer challenging him to try to stop a crime if he is clever enough. There’s a
serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic.A is for Mrs. Ascher
in Andover, B is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston. With each murder, the killer is getting
more confident—but leaving a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just prove to be the first, and fatal,
mistake.
F Chr
Christie, Agatha
Cat Among the Pigeons (A Hercule Poirot mystery)
YA
Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion while the rest of the school sleeps.
There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of an unpopular games mistress--shot through the heart pointblank. The school is thrown into chaos when the "cat" strikes again. Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much. In
particular, she knows that without Hercule Poirot's help, she will be the next victim....
F Chr
Christie, Agatha
Death on the Nile (A Hercule Poirot mystery)
YA
The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head.
She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything . . . until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier
outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet in this exotic
setting nothing is ever quite what it seems.
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Murder on the Links (A Hercule Poirot mystery)
AD
An urgent cry for help brings Hercule Poirot to France, but he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body
now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course. But why is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat? and who was
the impassioned love letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the
discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse.
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Christie, Agatha
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (A Hercule Poirot mystery)
YA
Roger Ackroyd is found dead in his study shortly after the suicide of the woman he was to have married. The police suspect his
adopted son, but it takes the brilliant and dapper Hercule Poirot and his "little grey cells" to sort out the true state of affairs in
one of the world's most famous mysteries.
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Christie, Agatha
Murder on the Orient Express (A Hercule Poirot mystery)
YA
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel
Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow
passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead
man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.
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Christie, Agatha
Witness for the Prosecution and other stories
YA
A murder trial takes a diabolical turn when the wife of the accused takes a stand...A woman's sixth--and a loaded revolver-signal premonitions of doom...A stranded motorist seeks refuge in a remote mansion, and is greeted with a dire
warning...Detective Hercule Poirot faces his greatest challenge when his services are enlisted--by the victim--in a bizarre lockedroom murder. From the stunning title story (which inspired the classic film thriller) to the rarest gems in detective fiction,
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Christopher, Matt
Skateboard Tough
3-6
When Brett's skateboarding abilities dramatically and inexplicably improve after using the Lizard, a skateboard mysteriously
unearthed in his front yard, his friends start to wonder if the skateboard is haunted.
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Clements, Andrew
Room One: A Mystery or Two
PW*
3-6
Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in
the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out here on the Great Plains in
western Nebraska, everyone understands that if you lose the school, you lose the town. But the mystery that has Ted's full
attention at the moment is about that face, the face he sees in the upper window of the Andersons' house as he rides past on his
paper route. The Andersons moved away two years ago, and their old farmhouse is empty, boarded up tight. At least it's
supposed to be. A shrinking school in a dying town. A face in the window of an empty house. At first these facts don't seem to
be related. But Ted Hammond learns that in a very small town, there's no such thing as an isolated event. And the solution of one
mystery is often the beginning of another.
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Colfer, Eoin
Half-Moon Investigations
3-6
Ever since he can remember, 12 year old Fletcher Moon has had to suffer the nickname Half Moon because of his short stature.
However, what Fletcher lacks in height he makes up for in brains, because Fletcher Moon is the youngest qualified private
detective in the world. To achieve this extraordinary feat, Fletcher changed his age on his birth certificate and signed up for an
internet diploma course. Armed with his prized shield, Fletcher takes on various petty crime cases in his school. Things are
going pretty well until one day his shield is stolen and Fletcher is caught up in an investigation involving the town's biggest
crime family. Fletcher is framed for several crimes he did not commit, and is forced to go on the run from the authorities, with
twelve hours to find the guilty party, or he is the guilty party.
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Cooney, Caroline B. Code Orange
PW*
YA
Mitty Blake loved New York City, and even after 9/11, he always felt safe. Mitty was a carefree guy--he didn't worry about
terrorists or blackouts or grades or anything, which is why he was late getting started on his Advanced Bio report. Mitty does
feel a little pressure to hand something in--if he doesn't, he'll be switched out of Advanced Bio. So he considers it good luck
when he finds some old medical books in his family's weekend house that focus on something he could write about. But when he
discovers an old envelope with two scabs in one of the books, the report is no longer about the grade--it's about life and death.
His own.
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Cooney, Caroline B. The Mummy
YA
Emlyn and friends decide to steal a mummy from the museum as a prank for Mischief Night, never imagining that their plans
could go astray.
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Cooney, Caroline B. The Face on the Milk Carton (Aslo Realistic Fiction)
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
5-8
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Cooney, Caroline B. Whatever Happened to Janie? (Aslo Realistic Fiction)
5-8
The members of two families have their lives disrupted when a teenage girl who had been kidnapped twelve years earlier
discovers that the people who raised her are not her biological parents.
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Cooney, Caroline B.
What Janie Found
(Aslo Realistic Fiction)
YA
While still adjusting to the reality of having two families, her birth family and the family into which she was kidnapped as a
small child, seventeen-year-old Janie makes a shocking discovery about her long-gone kidnapper. Voice on the Radio is not a
mystery buy concludes the story of Janie.
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Cooney, Caroline B. The Terrorist
YA
Sixteen-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the person responsible for the death of her younger brother
Billy, who has been killed by a terrorist bomb.
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Cooney, Caroline B. They Never Came Back
YA
When fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tiny Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school,
she does not expect the shocking events that occurred five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled
life.
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Cooper, Molly
Classic Mysteries: A Collection of Mind-Bending Masterpieces YA
The adventure of the veiled lodger/Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. --The safety match/Anton Chekhov. --The stir outside the Cafe
Royal : a story of Miss Van Snoop, detective/Clarence Rook. --The ruby and the caldron/Anna Katharine Green. --A curious
experience/Mark Twain. --The oblong box/Edgar Allen Poe.
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Corbett, Sue
12 Again
5-8
Seventh grader Patrick McBride searches desperately for his missing mother, who vanished on the evening before her fortieth
birthday and is now, unbeknownst to Patrick, a twelve-year-old student at his school.
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Cross, Gillian
Tightrope
YA
When she begins receiving bizarre threatening messages from someone who seems to know her every move, teenage Ashley,
after seeking help from the neighborhood tough guy, comes to realize that she alone can end the stalker's reign of terror.
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Cross, Gillian
Phoning a Dead Man
YA
When John, a British demolitions expert, is supposedly killed blowing up a building in Siberia, his fiancée Annie insists on
investigating, despite being in a wheelchair, and John's teenage sister Hayley goes along and finds that the Russian Mafia is
involved.
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Curtis, Christopher Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money
3-6
Mr. Chickee, the genial blind man in the neighborhood, gives 9-year-old Steven a mysterious bill with 15 zeros on it and the
image of a familiar but startling face. Could it be a quadrillion dollar bill? Could it be real? Well, Agent Fondoo of the U.S.
Treasury Department and his team of Secret Government Agents are determined to get that money back! But Steven and his best
friends, Russell and Zoopy the giant dog, are more than a match for the Feds. First in the Flint
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Dahl, Michael
The Worm Tunnel A Finnegan Zwake Mystery
5-8
Thirteen-year-old Finnegan Zwake, his uncle Stoppard -- a bestselling mystery writer -- and their friend Jared are off to an
archaeological dig in sunny Agualar, land of giant cacti, jungles, and dinosaurs. Dead ones.
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Dahl, Michael
The Ruby Raven
A Finnegan Zwake Mystery
5-8
Finnegan Zwake investigates murder attempts on his uncle, who has been nominated for the Ruby Raven award.
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Dahl, Michael
The Coral Coffin
A Finnegan Zwake Mystery
5-8
Finn and his famous mystery-writer uncle, rescued by a ship of modern-day pirates after an accident at sea, are given twentyfour hours to find the culprit who is poisoning crew members or else be fed to two man-killing octopuses.
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My Favorite Suspense Stories
Souffle surprise, by V. McConnor.--The spy who came to the brink, by E. D. Hoch.--The turn of the tide, by C. S. Forester.-Dead man, by J. M. Cain.--The three strangers, by T. Hardy.--Just the lady we're looking for, by D. E. Westlake.--Silver Blaze,
by Sir A. C. Doyle.--Aunt Minnie and the accessory after the fact, by S. H. Adams.--The inspiration of Mr. Budd, by D. L.
Sayers.--The last analysis, by J. Y. Cabot.--The open window, by Saki (H. H. Munro)--Bella Fleace gave a party, by E. Waugh.-The smarter they come, by P. Sharp.--Strolling in the square one day, by J. Symons.--Fox in the Pennine Hills, by M. Procter.-The problem solver and the spy, by C. Anvil.--Don't do that to poor Harriet, by M. Daly.--The old barn on the pond, by U.
Curtiss.
By the same author: My Favorite Mystery Stories.
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The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs
3-6
Hindered by a fight with her friend Dub and a series of mysterious fires, eleven-year-old Allie investigates the fire seventeen
years earlier which claimed the lives of the husband and infant son of a school cafeteria worker, as well as the handsome young
man whose ghost asks Allie for help.
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The Missing Manatee
3-6
While coping with his parents' separation, eleven-year-old Skeet spends most of Spring Break in his skiff on a Florida river,
where he finds a manatee shot to death and begins looking for the killer.
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Delaney, Mark
The Vanishing Chip
YA
When Mattie's grandfather becomes a suspect in the theft of a valuable computer chip, Peter, Byte, Jake, and Mattie, four high
school students who consider themselves misfits, pool their talents to try to discover who really stole the chip and how.
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Delaney, Mark
The Kingfisher’s Tale
YA
The discovery of dead birds in a national forest leads the four teenaged members of Misfits, Inc. to investigate a mystery
involving logging, militant environmental groups, congressional campaign contributions, and revenge.
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Pullman, Philip
Detective Stories Chosen by Philip Pullman
5-8
Contains sixteen short detective stories, featuring selections by Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Isaac Asimov, and
others, and includes seven mini-mysteries for the reader to solve.
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Dickinson, Susan
Drugged Cornet and Other Mystery Stories
McLean, A. C. The case of the vanishing spinster.--Bell, J. J. The message on the sundial.--Sayers, D. L. The inspiration of Mr.
Budd.--Chesterton, G. K. The invisible man.--Bramah, E. Who killed Charlie Winpole?--Doyle, Sir A. C. The speckled band.-Jepson, E. and Eustace, R. The tea-leaf.--Kennedy, M. Death in the kitchen.--Symons, J. The impossible theft.--Ferguson, J. The
white line.--Fletcher, J. S. The convict and the clerics.--Beresford, E. Portrait of Henry.--Marsh, N. The cupid mirror.--Verney, J.
The drugged cornet.--Aiken, J. What sort of person is this Amanda Jones anyway?
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Dillon, Ellis
The Lost Island
5-8
Folks in young Michael Farrell's town have been speculating about the lost island of Inishmanann for generations. Some say that
the island is the last stronghold of the old god of the sea; others, that no on who has gone in search of it has returned to tell the
tale. But everyone agrees that for a brave and enterprising spirit the island holds out the promise of things "rare and valuable."
Four years ago, Michael's father became obsessed with tracking down the elusive island. He bought a fishing boat and set sail.
No one has heard from him since. Then a shifty beggar turns up in town with a message for Michael Farrell: his father is on the
island, and Michael must join him there.
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Dixon, Franklin W
The Hardy Boys Mysteries (from 1927)
There were 58 original books beginning in 1927. The Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional characters who appear in
various mystery series for children and teens. The characters were created by Edward Stratemeyer and the books have been
written by many different ghostwriters over the years. The books are published under the collective pseudonym Franklin W.
Dixon. The Hardy Boys have evolved in various ways since their first appearance in 1927. Beginning in 1959, the books were
extensively revised, largely to eliminate racial stereotypes. The books were also written in a simpler style in an attempt to
compete with television. Some critics argue that in the process the Hardy Boys changed, becoming more respectful of the law
and richer rather than characters who aided the poor. Only the first few are considered classics. #1 The Tower Treasure.
After a dying criminal confesses that his loot has been stashed in a tower, the Hardy boys make an astonishing
discovery.
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Hunting for Hidden Gold
(The Hardy Boys Mysteries#5) 5-8
The Mystery of the Hidden Junk (The Hardy Boys Mysteries) 5-8
The Disappearing Floor
(The Hardy Boys Mysteries#19) 5-8
The Missing Chums
(The Hardy Boys Mysteries#4) 5-8
The Secret of Wildcat Swamp (The Hardy Boys Mysteries#31) 5-8
The Sign of the Crooked Arrow (The Hardy Boys Mysteries#28) 5-8
The Hidden Harbor Mystery (The Hardy Boys Mysteries#14) 5-8
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Dixon, Franklin W
The Mark on the Door
(The Hardy Boys Mysteries#13) 5-8
In their motorboat Frank and Joe Hardy, sons of a famous detective, search for a dangerous stranger who has stolen a valuable
boat. Suddenly, in the eerie fog, they spot the craft drifting aimlessly out to sea. What happens next starts the young detectives
on an adventure that takes them to Mexico and the unexplored desert of Baja California.
By the same author: The Crimson Flame, Sky Sabotage.
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The London Eye Mystery SLJ*
3-6
Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air?
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Complete Sherlock Holmes (2v)
5-8
Presents all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes, including fifty-six short stories and four
novellas, and includes Christopher Morley's well-known preface.
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
5-8
The solitary cyclist -- Charles Augustus Milverton -- Black Peter -- The golden pince-nez -- The Priory School -- The beryl
coronet -- The engineer's thumb -- The red-headed league.
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holmes
5-8
The adventure of the speckled band -- The adventure of the blue carbuncle -- The Musgrave ritual -- The reigate puzzle -- Silver
blaze -- The adventure of the dancing men -- The adventure of the six Napoleons -- The missing three-quarter.
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Hound of the Baskervilles (Holmes)
5-8
Sherlock Holmes is asked to investigate the tale of a hound that haunts the lonely moors around the Baskervilles' ancestral home.
SC DoyDoyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes (One of the classic Sherlock Holmes) YA
Two of the most famous cases of the Baker Street detective, A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles, plus a
selection of some of the best short stories make up this exciting casebook. Marginal notes on footprints and magnifying lenses,
on English money and policemen, and even on helpful definitions and translations of French phrases will add to your enjoyment
and understanding of the complex and fascinating Sherlock Holmes.
By the same author: The Hound of the Baskervilles, The complete Sherlock Holmes.
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
The Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
5-8
The Greek interpreter -- The Gloria Scott -- The resident patient -- The Boscombe Valley mystery -- The three students -- The
noble bachelor -- The crooked man -- The five orange pips.
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (intro Eoin Colfer) 5-8
A scandal in Bohemia -- The red-headed league -- A case of identity -- The boscombe valley mystery -- The five orange pips -The man with the twisted lip -- The blue carbuncle -- The speckled band -- The engineer's thumb -- The noble bachelor -- The
beryl coronet -- The copper beeches.
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Duncan, Lois
Third Eye
YA
High school senior Karen, who worries that her psychic powers will make her seem different from other people, is frightened at
first when a young policeman asks her to use her gift to help the police locate missing children.
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Duncan, Lois
Ransom
YA
Five high school students from a wealthy neighborhood are kidnapped while on their way home in the school bus and try to find
a way to escape their captors while their parents scrape to meet the ransom demands.
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Duncan, Lois
I Know What You Did Last Summer
YA
Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery
figure seeking revenge.
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Duncan, Lois
Don’t Look Behind You
YA
Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case,
force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.
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Duncan, Lois
Daughters of Eve
YA
The girls at Modesta High School feel like they're stuck in some antifeminist time warp-and they've had enough. They are
members the Daughters of Eve. It's more than a school club-it's a secret society, a sisterhood led by their art teacher Ms. Stark.
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Duncan, Lois
Killing Mr. Griffin
YA
Susan, a straight-A student, cannot believe how mean Mr. Griffin is to her crush Dave, so she agrees to go along when Dave
asks her and other students to help play a prank on the teacher, but when people start to die, she realizes one of them is a killer.
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Ecke, Wolfgang
Face At The Window
A collection of detective stories in which the reader determines the culprit. Solutions to the mysteries are included.
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Elster, Charles
Tooth and Nail :A Novel Approach to SAT
YA
Using a mystery novel, presents an innovative approach to improving vocabulary and comprehension skills needed for the
Scholastic Aptitude Test.
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Ernst, John
Favorite Sleuths
In this collection of famous detective stories, Ellery Queen solves a theft in Room 109 of the Henry Hudson High School and
Doctor Alcazar uses his crystal ball to advantage in the mysterious death of Lily. Also featured are Lord Peter Wimsey, whose
cynical gray eyes and slightly foolish smile make him look deceptively unlike the astute sleuth he really is; Nero Wolfe, the
beer-drinking orchid fancier with a mind like a well-stocked file cabinet; as well as Miss Marple, The Saint, Mr. Campion, and
Perry Mason.
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Feinstein, John
Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery
5-8
After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament,
where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.
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Feinstein, John
Change-up: Mystery at the World Series
5-8
While covering the World Series, teen reporters Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol uncover some inconsistencies in the life story of
a popular, new pitcher and begin to investigate.
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Feinstein, John
The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game
5-8
Teen sportswriters Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson are assigned to cover the football game between long ime rivalries
Army and Navy, and, after noticing the actions of secret service agents, they begin to suspect that the president, who is going to
attend the event, is in danger.
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The Big Splash
(Also Humor)
5-8
Matt Stevens, an average middle schooler with a glib tongue and a knack for solving crimes, uncovers a mystery while working
with "the organization," a mafia-like syndicate run by seventh-grader Vincent "Mr. Biggs" Biggio, specializing in forged hall
passes, test-copying rings, black market candy selling, and taking out hits with water guns.
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Finney, Patricia (writing as Grace Cavendish) Assassin (Also Historical Fiction)
5-8
It's the spring of 1569 and 13-year-old Lady Grace, the youngest lady-in-waiting to the Queen, finds herself at a glittering ball
choosing amongst three suitors. But the Queen's generosity turns deadly as threats, dark secrets, and even murder descend on the
Tudor court. It is up to Grace to use her intelligence, stealth, and curious nature to solve the mystery that threatens the very
lifeblood of England. First in the Lady Grace series.
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Funke, Cornelia
The Thief Lord
5-8
Orphaned brothers Prosper and Bo, having run away from their cruel aunt and uncle, decide to hide out in Venice where they fall
in with the Thief Lord, a thirteen-year-old boy who leads a crime ring of street children.
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George, Jean Craighead
The Fire Bug Connection :An Eco Mystery
5-8
Twelve-year-old Maggie receives European fire bugs for her birthday, but when they fail to metamorphose and explode instead,
she uses scientific reasoning to determine the cause of their strange deaths.
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George, Jean Craighead
The Missing ‘Gator of Gumbo Limbo :An Eco Mystery 5-8
Sixth-grader Liza K., one of five homeless people living in an unspoiled forest in southern Florida, searches for a missing
alligator destined for official extermination and studies the delicate ecological balance keeping her outdoor home beautiful.
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Gerber, Linda
Death by Bikini
YA
Sixteen-year-old Aphra Behn Connolly investigates why her father let an unknown family stay at their exclusive tropical island
resort, who strangled a famous rock star's girlfriend with her own bikini top, and what a smoldering teenaged guest is hiding.
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Gerber, Linda
Death by Latte
YA
When sixteen-year-old Aphra sneaks away from the island resort where she lives with her father, and travels to Seattle to find
the mother she has not seen for four years, she does not anticipate getting involved in a CIA plot that threatens not only her life,
but that of her boyfriend and her mother as well.
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Gerber, Linda
Death by Denim
YA
Sixteen-year-old Aphra and her mother, a CIA agent, are hiding in France under new identities, but they must go on the run
again when their location is discovered by a dangerous criminal.
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Gilligan, Shanon
Cup of Death (Choose Your Own Adventure #13)
3-6
Asks the reader to choose the path of the plot in a story about a valuable tea bowl that is stolen in Japan.
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Graham, Harriet
The Chinese Puzzle
5-8
In London of the 1890s, two children set out to find their guardian who has disappeared along with his friend, a master magician,
and find themselves captive in an opium den with very dangerous characters.
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Green, John
Paper Towns
YA
When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night-dressed like a ninja and plotting an
ingenious campaign of revenge-he follows her. Margo's always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she's always planned solo.
After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q . . . until day breaks and she has vanished. Always
an enigma, Margo has now become a mystery. But there are clues.
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Grisham, John
Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer (Theodore Boone #1)
5-8
Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone, who knows every judge, police officer, and court clerk in the small town of Strattenburg,
finds himself involved in a murder trial because of knowledge he might have about a cold-blooded killer.
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Grisham, John
Theodore Boone: The Abduction (Theodore Boone #2)
5-8
Theodore Boone uses his knowledge and skills to investigate the disappearance of his best friend, April, after police hit dead
ends.
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Grisham, John
Theodore Boone: The Accused (Theodore Boone #3)
5-8
Theo Boone might only be thirteen, but he's already uncovered key evidence in a groundbreaking murder trial and discovered
the truth behind his best friend's abduction. Now with the latest unfolding of events in Strattenburg, Theo will face his biggest
challenge yet.
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Grisham, John
The Pelican Brief
YA
A bright young law student and an investigative reporter go underground while trying to expose a cover-up about the killings of
two Supreme Court Justices.
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Gutman, Dan
The Million Dollar Strike
(Also Horror)
3-6
Best friends Ouchie and Squishy, who love bowling and horror movies respectively, meet the eccentric owner of a local bowling
alley and try to help him save Bowl-A-Rama from the wrecking ball and a destructive psychotic lunatic.
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Haddix, Margaret Pterson Into the Gauntlet (10th in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Amy and Dan Cahill face their greatest challenge on their quest to find the thirty-nine clues, but in order to discover the secrets
of their lineage they will have to make a choice that could impact the world's future.
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Haddix, Margaret Petterson The House On the Gulf
5-8
If only] Bran would stop acting weird....Probably he had a perfectly reasonable explanation for everything. I just couldn't
imagine what it would be. When Britt's older brother, Bran, lands a summer job house-sitting for the Marquises, an elderly
couple, it seems like a great opportunity. Britt and Bran have moved to Florida so their mother can finish college, and the housesitting income will allow their mom to quit her job and take classes full-time. Having never lived in a real house before, Britt is
thrilled. There's only one problem: Britt starts to suspect her family isn't supposed to be there. She's been noticing that Bran is
acting weird and defensive -- he hides the Marquises' mail, won't let anyone touch the thermostat, and discourages Britt from
meeting any of the neighbors. Determined to get to the bottom of things, Britt starts investigating and makes a startling
discovery -- the Marquises aren't who Bran has led her and their mom to believe. So whose house are they staying in, and why
has Bran brought them there?
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Hamilton, Virginia
The House of Dies Drear
5-8
An African-American family moves into a house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves and soon come to believe that
their new home is possessed by the spirit of a murdered abolitionist, Dies Drear.
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Harper, Karen
The Poyson Garden
(Also Historical Fiction ElizI England) YA
The letter came in secret, with a pearl eardrop from an aunt long thought dead, resurrecting the forbidden past. Banished by her
spiteful half sister, Queen Mary, to Hatfield House in the English countryside, twenty-five-year-old Princess Elizabeth cannot
refuse the summons. The Boleyns are in grave danger. And Elizabeth, daughter of Anne Boleyn, is marked for death by a master
poisoner whose reign of terror may have royal sanction. With her few loyal retainers, Elizabeth escapes to Kent. Here, in her
ancestral Hever Castle, now held by the Queen's loyalists, Elizabeth seeks to unravel the plot against her. And here, in the
embrace of intrigue and betrayal, the princess must find a brilliant, powerfully connected killer--before the killer finds her....
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Harrison, Michael
Facing the Dark
5-8
When his father is arrested for the murder of a rival cab driver, Simon joins forces with the victim's daughter Charley to find out
what really happened.
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Harrison, Michelle
13 Treasures
5-8
Bedeviled by evil fairies that only she can see, thirteen-year-old Tanya is sent to stay with her cold and distant grandmother at
Elvesden Manor, where she and the caretaker's son solve a disturbing mystery that leads them to the discovery that Tanya's life
is in danger.
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Hart, Alison
Shadow Horse
5-8
Thirteen-year-old Jas tries to prove that the owner of the farm where she works has killed her favorite horse, Whirlwind.
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Hart, Alison
Return of the Gypsy Witch
5-8
Twelve-year-old Allie, kid sister of a private eye and hungry for a real mystery of her own, suspects foul play in an alleged hitand-run after opening the deceased's briefcase and finding five extremely valuable issues of the comic book "Gypsy Witch."
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Hautman, Pete and Logue, Mary
Snatched
(Bloodwater Mystery #1)
5-8
When high school student Alicia Camden suddenly disappears, the small town of bloodwater is in shock. And its up to roni
Delicata, reporter for the schools Bloodwater Pump, and her brilliant sidekick, brian bain, to figure out whats going on. with
suspects all around them and suspicions high, roni and brian risk their livesand a few groundings from their parentsto get to the
bottom of things. but can they find Alicia and solve the mystery before its too late?
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Hautman, Pete and Logue, Mary
Skullduggery (Bloodwater Mystery #2)
5-8
During a field trip in the local woods, Roni and Brian find the local archaeology professor, Andrew Dart, knocked unconscious
in a cave, which leads them to investigate a land development scheme.
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Hautman, Pete and Logue, Mary
Doppelganger (Bloodwater Mystery #3)
5-8
Brian and Roni are looking for another case to crack when Roni finds an age-progressed picture of a boy who looks alarmingly
like Brian on a missing children website. Brian is sure it is only a coincidence after all, he's lived happily with his adoptive
parents for as long as he can remember. But then again, his parents have never reallytold him about his adoption . . . Could there
be more to his family history than he knows? As Roni and Brian piece together the clues, other people emerge from the shadows
of the past and suddenly Brian isn't just a detective on the case he's the key to a mystery that everyone is after. Can he and Roni
uncover the truth before it's too late?
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Hayes, Daniel
The Trouble with Lemons
5-8
Tyler and Lymie, eighth grade misfits, discover a dead body in a quarry and work to uncover the mystery behind it.
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Hess, Joan
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To the quirky and colorful residents of Maggody, Arkansas, population 755, "going online" is something one does at the DMV.
So when the high school's new computer lab gains access to the Internet, the town is plunged into virtual chaos. Now, as cyber
crime strikes Maggody, police chief Arly Hanks has to use all her low-tech resourcefulness to pull the plug on a murderer. Part
of the Arly Hanks series.
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Hiaasen, Carl
Scat
5-8
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular
teacher goes missing.
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Hiaasen, Carl
Chomp
5-8
The difficult star of the reality television show, "Expedition Survival," disappears on location in the Florida Everglades, where
they were filming animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, and Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set
out to find him, but they must avoid Tuna's gun-happy father.
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Higson, Charles
Silver Fin
(Young Bond #1) (Also Adventure)
5-8
It's the 1930's and memories of World War I intrude often as James finds a place among friends but attracts the unwanted
attention of an older American boy and his very rich father, a Scots lord. Lord Hellebore and his son are bullies with over-thetop ambition for success at all costs. When the term ends, James heads north to his Uncle Max's cottage in Scotland where his
Aunt, who has raised him since his parents' death in a climbing accident, has gone to care for her dying brother. The discovery
that the frightening Lord Hellbore is the local laird comes just as James meets a cockney boy named Red Kelly who has stowed
away on the train, off to help locate his young cousin, Alfie, who has gone missing near the laird's estate at Loch Silver Fin.
James and Red team up to solve the mystery of Alfie's disappearance. James's leadership skills are apparent as he recruits a local
girl and even young George Hellebore in his quest to undo the vile experiments occurring at the laird's castle.
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Higson, Charles
Blood Fever (Young Bond #2) (Also Adventure)
5-8
Young James Bond is back at Eton, where he has joined the risk-taking Danger Society. Summer vacation is on the horizon and
James is looking forward to the school trip to the beautiful Italian island of Sardinia, and the opportunity to spend some time
with his reclusive cousin Victor. But James soon discovers that the seemingly peaceful island harbors some strange secrets.
Before long, Victor's house has been ransacked and important pieces of artwork have been stolen. James learns that the
Millennaria--a ruthless Roman society long thought to be extinguished--is still active. He suspects the millionaire Count Ugo
Carnifex may be behind it. But one of his teachers has been acting strangely as well… As a young girl's life hangs in the
balance, it's up to James to uncover an intricate conspiracy that will take him head-to-head with enemies more ruthless than he
could have ever imagined. Part of the Young Bond series.
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Higson, Charles
Double or Die (Young Bond #3) (Also Adventure)
5-8
Teenage James Bond is on the case when a professor is kidnapped in a north London cemetery, and an encoded letter arrives
which, once deciphered, leaves James with just forty-eight hours to rescue the captured scholar and save the world.
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Higson, Charles
Hurricane Gold (Young Bond #4) (Also Adventure)
5-8
James Bond, vacationing in Mexico at the home of ex-flying ace Jack Stone, is called to duty when thieves rob Stone's safe and
kidnap his children in the midst of a hurricane, forcing James into a perilous chase through the jungle in pursuit of the criminals.
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Higson, Charles
By Royal Command (Young Bond #5) (Also Adventure)
5-8
Piecing together information gained while skiing in the Alps, teenaged James Bond returns to Eton College and foils an
assassination attempt, then goes on the run across Europe with a beautiful and dangerous Irish girl, Roan.
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Hitchcock, Alfred
Alfred Hitchcock’s Monster Museum (Also Horror)
YA
The day of the dragon / G. Endore -- The king of the cats / S.V. Benet -- Slime / J.P. Brennan -- The man who sold rope to the
gnoles / I. Seabright -- Henry Martindale, great Dane / M.A. DeFord -- The microscopic giants / P. Ernst -- The young one / J.
Bixby -- Doomsday deferred / W.F. Jenkins -- Shadow, shadow on the wall / T. Sturgeon -- The desrick on Yandro / M.
Wellman -- The wheelbarrow boy / R. Paker -- Homecoming / R. Bradbury.
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Hoeye, Michael
No Time Like Show Time: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure 5-8
Watchmaker-mouse Hermux Tantamoq enters the exciting and somewhat shady world of show business to investigate a
mysterious blackmailer at the Varmint Theater.
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Hoeye, Michael
Time Stops for No Mouse (A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure)
5-8
When Linka Perflinger, a jaunty mouse, brings a watch into his shop to be repaired and then disappears, Hermux Tantamoq is
caught up in a world of dangerous search for eternal youth as he tries to find out what happened to her.
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Hoeye, Michael
Sands of Time
(A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure)
5-8
Despite fierce opposition from mouse supremacists and other residents of Pinchester, three mice team up with an old chipmunk
to prove that there existed, long before the time of mice, a Cat Kingdom.
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Hoobler, Dorothy
The Demon in the Teahouse (Also Historical Fiction)
5-8
In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a
series of murders and arson in the capital city of Edo. Each of the murders is associated in some way with a popular geisha.
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Horowitz, Anthony
The Falcon’s Malteser A Diamond Brothers Mystery
3-6
Tim Diamond, a poor-minded detective, is entrusted with a package worth five million dollars, until the owner of the package is
murdered, and it is up to Tim and his brother, Nick, to outwit every crook in town who is trying to get the money.
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Horowitz, Anthony
Public Enemy Number Two: A Diamond Brothers Mystery
3-6
When thirteen-year-old Nick is framed for a jewel robbery, he and his brother, the bumbling detective Tim Diamond, attempt to
clear his name by capturing the master criminal known as the Fence.
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Horowitz, Anthony
The Greek Who Stole Christmas: A Diamond Brothers Mystery 3-6
Tim and Nick, needing to raise money for Christmas gifts, take on a job to protect a Greek pop singer and movie star who has
made a lot of enemies, and once again thirteen-year-old Nick is left to do the job on his own while his brother is busy dealing
with the woman's advances.
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Horowitz, Anthony
South by Southeast: A Diamond Brothers Mystery
3-6
Fourteen-year-old Nick and his bumbling detective brother Tim Diamond investigate a mystery involving international spies and
assassins.
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Howe, Deborah
Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery
3-6
Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a
vampire.
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Howe, James
Eat Your Poison, Dear
(A Sebastian Barth mystery)
3-6
When Milo collapses on the cafeteria floor, Sebastian Barth suspects poisoning right from the start. And when dozens of other
students come down with the mysterious illness, it looks like Sebastian might be right. But even Sebastian can be wrong when
he announces his solution to the food-poisoning mystery before he has all the ingredients.
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Karbo, Karen
Minerva Clark Gets a Clue
5-8
Minerva Clark is a typical thirteen-year-old girl: she hates her hair, she hates her legs, and don't get her started on her gigantor
bootie. But when a fateful encounter with a lightning storm rewires her sense of self, Minerva Clark becomes anything but a
typical teen. With a brazen new attitude and a nose for trouble, Minerva soon finds herself drawn inexplicably to the scene of a
murder and determined to track down the killer. If only all the clues weren't pointing so close to someone she knows. First in the
Minerva Clark Mystery series.
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Karr, Kathleen
The 7th Knot (Also Historical Fiction)
5-8
Two brothers touring Europe in the 19th century become embroiled in a mystery involving Albrecht Durer's knot woodcuts and
a secret German society when they go in search of their uncle's enigmatic missing valet.
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Keene, Carolyn
Nancy Drew Mysteries (141 Mysteries some from 1930)
5-8
The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories were first published in 1930 by Grosset and Dunlap. The original 56 stories were written by
various people under the pseudonym of Carolyn Keene:
#1-7,11-25, and 30 by Mildred Wirt Benson
#8, 9, and 10 by Walter Karig
#26 by George Waller, Jr.
#27 by Margaret Scherf
#28 by Wilhelmina Rankin
#29 by Alma Sasse
#31, 33-56, and revised #1-34 by Harriet Adams
#32 by Charles Strong
The writers were hired by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and followed outlines that were provided by the Syndicate. Mildred Wirt
Benson and Harriet Adams are considered the two most important Nancy Drew authors, and both women had a profound effect
on the Nancy Drew series. However, Walter Karig is also considered important because the three volumes he wrote are favorites
with many readers.
Nancy Through The Years
Nancy Drew #1-34
The first 34 Nancy Drew books in the original texts published from 1930 to 1956 contain 25 chapters and around
210 to 225 pages each. The early Nancy Drew is smart, adventurous, flippant, and daring. Nancy has blond hair
and drives a smart blue roadster. Helen Corning is Nancy's friend in the earliest books, but by volume 5, Bess
Marvin and George Fayne are Nancy's closest friends, and Helen only appears occasionally. Ned Nickerson
meets Nancy in volume 7, and the attraction is mutual. Burt Eddleton and Dave Evans are not present in the
earliest texts and are not mentioned until volume 20. Burt and Dave do appear in the revised versions of several
of the early texts.
Nancy Drew #35-56
Volumes 35 through 56 and the revised versions of volumes 1 through 34 are 20 chapters and around 180 pages
each. In these books, Nancy becomes more sedate and is nearly always calm, cool, and collected. Nancy is still
smart and daring, but she is no longer flippant or excitable. One cannot imagine this Nancy ever having a hair out
of place. It is this Nancy Drew that people refer to when they say that Nancy Drew is 'perfect.' The original Nancy
Drew is not perfect, but this one is perfect, or at least very close to perfect. Nancy now has reddish-blond hair and
drives a blue convertible. Nancy is often accompanied by her friends Bess, George, Ned, Burt, and Dave while she
solves her mysteries.
Nancy Drew #57-175
Some people say that Nancy Drew is dramatically different in the paperbacks and that she is not the real Nancy
Drew. However, when read in order right after the original 56, Nancy Drew is not much different at all. #57 and
#59 through about #70 are very much like the higher-numbered volumes of the original 56, and the only real
difference is that they are paperback books rather than hardcover books. Many people avoid the paperbacks simply
because they are paperbacks and would collect the paperbacks if the books had been issued in the Grosset and
Dunlap hardcover editions. It was my quest to acquire hardcover versions of the paperback titles that led me to the
different library bindings.
After the early group of paperbacks, the series does slowly change with Burt Eddleton and Dave Evans disappearing from the
series, never to reappear. Ned Nickerson does stick around but appears only sporadically. Bess Marvin and George Fayne are in
most of the books; that is, at least one of the two girls is present. They tend to take turns being with Nancy with the other being
unavailable, which actually makes a lot more sense than in the original 56 when not only Bess and George, but Ned, Burt, and
Dave are able to drop everything and join Nancy at a moment's notice anywhere on the planet.
These books have Nancy driving a blue Mustang convertible. Sometimes Nancy's hair is blond and sometimes it is reddishblond.
The Nancy Drew Files #1-124
This spin-off series which was published from 1986 to 1997 has Nancy Drew dressing in trendy clothes and
sometimes interested in guys other than Ned. Ned Nickerson is still Nancy's boyfriend, but Nancy and Ned frequently
argue. Ned sulks about Nancy spending too much time on her cases, and Nancy feels that her cases come first and
that Ned should support her work even if he can never spend time with her. They break up several times during the
course of the series and always get back together. In this series, Nancy and Ned are a dysfunctional couple that seems
to thrive upon the abnormality of the relationship. In the middle of the melodrama, Nancy continues to solve
mysteries that in these books usually involve murders.
Nancy Drew, Girl Detective
This new series began in early 2004 after the end of the original series at volume 175 in late 2003. Nancy Drew is
once again impulsive and flippant just as she is in the early books from the 1930s. However, this series takes a totally
different approach as it is written in the first person rather than in the third person, making Nancy much more real.
Additionally, Nancy becomes so obsessed with her mysteries that she often forgets to complete ordinary tasks. Ned
Nickerson is once again present, and he and Nancy get along well. Nancy's friends Bess and George take a more
active role in helping Nancy; Bess is now a skilled mechanic, and George is a technology wiz.
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Keene, Carolyn
The Secret of the Old Clock (A Nancy Drew Mystery#1)
5-8
Witnessing a near tragedy sets Nancy Drew on the trail of Josiah Crowley's missing will. A vital clue may be hidden in the
Crowley family clock, but it has been stolen. Can Nancy find it in time?
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Keene, Carolyn
The Hidden Staircase (A Nancy Drew Mystery#2)
5-8
Teenage detective Nancy Drew uses her courage and powers of deduction to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone
mansion. Strange things happen when Nancy investigates threats against her father and an old house said to be haunted.
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Keene, Carolyn
The Bungalow Mystery (A Nancy Drew Mystery#3)
5-8
While trying to help a friend out of a difficulty, Nancy has a perilous experience in and around a deserted bungalow, from which
only her bravery and quick thinking saved her.
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Keene, Carolyn
The Mystery of Lilac Inn (A Nancy Drew Mystery#4)
5-8
Nancy finds herself in danger when she tries to solve the mystery of an old inn which seems to be jinxed.
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Keene, Carolyn
The Sign of the Twisted Candles (A Nancy Drew Mystery#9) 5-8
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Keene, Carolyn
The Clue of the Broken Locket (A Nancy Drew Mystery#11) 5-8
Braving a series of dangerous situations, Nancy attempts to solve the mysteries of a singer being cheated out of royalty payments
and a buried treasure to which the only clue is half of a locket. Nancy Drew's sympathy for adopted twin babies leads her into a
surprising mystery. Originally published 1934.
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Keene, Carolyn
Trade Wind Danger (A Nancy Drew Mystery#13)
5-8
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Keene, Carolyn
The Whispering Statue (A Nancy Drew Mystery#14)
5-8
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Keene, Carolyn
Pit of Vipers (A Nancy Drew Mystery#18)
5-8
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Keene, Carolyn
The Clue in the Jewel Box (A Nancy Drew Mystery#20)
Nancy and her friends help a woman search for her missing grandson.
5-8
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Keene, Carolyn
The Clue in the Old Album (A Nancy Drew Mystery#24)
5-8
Nancy Drew witnesses a purse snatching and runs after the thief. She rescues the purse, but not its contents, then is asked by the
owner, a doll collector, to do some detective work. Fans will enjoy Nancy's clever ways of finding all she seeks, and bringing
happiness to a misunderstood child and her lonely grandmother.
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Keene, Carolyn
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The Black Widow (A Nancy Drew Mystery#28)
5-8
The Vanishing Act (A Nancy Drew Mystery#34 )
5-8
The Secret in the Old Lace (A Nancy Drew Mystery#59)
5-8
The Swami’s Ring (A Nancy Drew Mystery#61)
5-8
The Kachina Doll Mystery (A Nancy Drew Mystery#62)
5-8
The Joker’s Revenge (A Nancy Drew Mystery#84)
5-8
The Secret of Shady Glen (A Nancy Drew Mystery#85)
5-8
The Clue in the Antique Trunk (A Nancy Drew Mystery#105) 5-8
The Secret of the Tibetan Treasure (A Nancy Drew Mystery#108)5-8
The Mystery of the Missing Mascot (A Nancy Drew Mystery#119)5-8
The Secret of the Scarlet Hand (A Nancy Drew Mystery#124 ) 5-8
The Wild Cat Crime (A Nancy Drew Mystery# 141)
5-8
The Wind Danger (A Nancy Drew Mystery# )
5-8
The Mardi Gras Mystery (A Nancy Drew Mystery#)
5-8
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Kidd, Ronald
Sizzle & Splat
5-8
Two high school students, members of a prestigious youth orchestra, investigate the sabotage of an important benefit concert and
the kidnapping of the orchestra association president.
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Klause, Annette Curtis Alien Secrets (Also SF)
5-8
On her journey to the distant planet where her parents are working, twelve-year-old Puck be-friends a troubled alien and gets
involved in a dangerous mystery involving a precious artifact.
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Klise, Kate
Letters from Camp
5-8
Sent to Camp Happy Harmony to learn how to get along with each other, pairs of brothers and sisters chronicle in letters home
how they come to suspect the intentions of the singing family running the camp.
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Konigsburg, E. L.
The Dragon in the Ghetto Caper
3-6
Determined to be a famous detective, Andy goes to the ghetto where he encounters crime for the first time, only to discover he is
on the wrong side in the case.
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Korman, Gordon
One False Note (2nd in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Amy and Dan Cahill are in the lead to find thirty-nine clues that safeguard a great power, and are in possession of a coded sheet
of Mozart's music that will help them find the next clue while their relatives follow in close pursuit.
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Korman, Gordon
The Emperor’s Code (8th in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Amy and Dan are separated while trying to retrieve a clue which is guarded by thousands of soldiers and worry they cannot
succeed apart.
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Kropp, Paul
The Countess and Me
5-8
When he first meets Countess von Loewen, Jordan finds himself obliging her by burying a quartz skull she claims is cursed. She
is not your typical neighbor, but soon she employs him as her gardener and believes in him as nobody ever has. Jordan must now
confront his own self-worth and value.
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Lawrence, Caroline
The Thieves of Ostia (Roman Mysteries #1)(Historical Fiction) 5-8
The year is 79 AD. The place is Ostia, the port of Rome. Flavia Gemina, a Roman sea captains daughter, is about to embark on a
thrilling adventure. - - Set in the graveyard, marketplace, and courtyards of a Roman city, this fast-paced mystery paints a vivid
picture of life in ancient times. - - When the dogs on Flavias street start dying, she is determined to find out who is killing them
and why. Her investigation leads her to three extraordinary people: Jonathan, her new neighbor; Nubia, and African slave-girl;
and Lupus, a mute beggar boy. They become firm friends as they search for the killer, narrowly escape being kidnapped by a
slave dealer, and uncover a series of burglaries.
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Lawrence, Caroline
The Secrets of Vesuvius (Roman Mysteries #2)(Historical Fiction) 5-8
This second in a series of Roman mysteries follows the children as they travel by sailboat, explore vineyards, and celebrate a
Roman festival on the beach at Herculaneum in A.D. 79not realizing they are in terrible danger. Will they solve their riddle?
And more importantly, will they survive the volcanic eruption that buried Pompeii?
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Lawrence, Caroline
The Pirates of Pompeii (Roman Mysteries #3 )(Historical Fiction) 5-8
At a refugee camp following the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius which buried Pompeii, Flavia and her friends discover that children
are disappearing and a very powerful citizen might be involved.
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Lawrence, Caroline
The Assassins of Rome (Roman Mysteries #4 )(Historical Fiction) 5-8
Amateur sleuth Flavia Gemina and her friends Nubia, Lupus, and Jonathan return in the fourth book (Roaring Brook, 2003) in
Caroline Lawrence's Roman Mysteries series. They are celebrating Jonathan's birthday and are told that Jonathan's uncle Simeon
has just arrived for a visit and is telling tales of assassins hired to kill Emperor Titus. Simeon is on his way to Rome and
Jonathan begs to go along with him, believing that his mother may be one of the Jewish women that Titus is holding captive in
his palace in Rome. The pair leave Ostia for Rome, secretly followed by their friends. Jonathan eventually finds his mother, and
Flavia, Nubia, and Lupus solve the mystery surrounding the assassins and discover that many rumors about Titus are false. Each
chapter alternates between the two adventures, which converge at the end of the book.
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Lawrence, Caroline
The Dolphins of Laurentum (Roman Mysteries #5)(Historical Fiction) 5-8
A ragged stranger and the prospect of losing her family's fortune lead Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan, Lupus, and
Nubia to a seaside villa where possible danger and treasure are close at hand.
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Lawrence, Caroline
The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina (Roman Mysteries #6)(HF) 5-8
It is December AD 79. In the Roman port of Ostia braziers are lit, hot spiced wine is brewed, and soft fur covers are brought out
from cedarwood storage chests. It's the season of Saturnalia, a pagan festival where anything can happen. When a Roman widow
begins to show a keen interest in Captain Geminus, his daughter Flavia and her friends have to find out if she really loves him or
is just after his money. To do that, Flavia has to undertake the twelve labors of Hercules. And there is a lion on the loose!
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Lawrence, Caroline
The Enemies of Jupiter (Roman Mysteries #7)(Historical Fiction) 5-8
Jonathan and his friends are called to Rome by the emperor in the winter of 80 A.D. to find the new Prometheus believed to have
brought an epidemic to the city, but Jonathan, obsessed with reuniting his parents, makes some unwise--and life-threatening-choices.
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Lawrence, Caroline
The Gladiators from Capua (Roman Mysteries #8)(Historical Fiction) 5-8
March, AD 80. In Rome the Emperor Titus has announced that there will be a hundred days of games to open the new Flavian
amphitheatre (now known as the Colosseum). Suspecting that their friend Jonathan is not dead, as they had thought, Flavia,
Nubia, and Lupus organie an invitation to Rome on the pretence of witnessing this historic event. Their search for Jonathan leads
them straight to the games, where they must face wild beasts, criminals, conspirators, and gladiators. It's Nubia's turn to employ
all of ther courage and talens, and before the end of the story she is called upon to make the most terrible choice. A heartpounding behind-the-scenes account of gladiator fights, executions and beast fights makes this one of the most exciting Roman
Mysteries yet.
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Lawrence, Caroline
The Colossus of Rhodes (Roman Mysteries #9)(Historical Fiction) 5-8
In 80 A.D., ten-year-old Roman sleuth Flavia and her friends sail from Corinth to Rhodes to try to stop a mysterious man who is
kidnapping children and selling them into slavery.
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Lawrence, Caroline
The Fugitive from Corinth (Roman Mysteries #10)(Historical Fiction) 5-8
When Flavia's tutor, Aristo, escapes after committing a violent crime, she and her friends Jonathan, Nubia and Lupus track him
across Greece. Why did Aristo do it? And where is he going? As she did with Ancient Rome, Caroline Lawrence brings Greece
to life with vivid detail and great excitement.
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Lawrence, Caroline
The Sirens of Surrentum (Roman Mysteries #11)(Historical Fiction) 5-8
Eleven-year-old Flavia and her friends Jonathan, Lupus, and Nubia are invited to visit Pulchra, who asks them to uncover who is
trying to poison her mother.
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Lawrence, Caroline
The Charioteer of Delphi (Roman Mysteries #12)(Historical Fiction) 5-8
Flavia and her friends go to Rome to celebrate the Festival of Jupiter at Senator Cornix's town house, where they befriend the
young charioteer, Scopas, and quickly find themselves embroiled in a campaign to sabotage one of the rival racing factions.
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Lawrence, Caroline
The Slave Girl from Jerusalem (Roman Mysteries #13)(Historical Fict) 5-8
Flavia, Jonathan, Nubia, and Lupus work together within the rules of the ancient Roman legal system to prove the innocence of
Hephzibah, a slave in a wealthy household who has been accused of murder, but the witnesses are killed before they can testify
before the magistrate.
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Lawrence, Caroline
The Beggar of Volubilis (Roman Mysteries #14)(Historical Fiction) 5-8
Flavia and her friends embark on a quest across Mauretania to Volubilis to steal Nero's Eye, a gemstone that bestows the power
of rule upon its owner, according to the prophecy of the Delphic Oracle, and they encounter various dangers along the way.
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Lawrence, Caroline
The Scribes from Alexandria (Roman Mysteries #15)(Historical Fiction) 5-8
A detective goes missing when the ship carrying Flavia and her friends from North Africa to Ostia is wrecked, and the other
detectives take on a quest that brings them to the port of Alexandria where they must decipher codes, travel down the Nile River,
and enter tombs to solve the mystery.
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Lawrence, Caroline
The Prophet from Ephesus (Roman Mysteries #16) (H F)
5-8
Flavia and her friends, presumed dead by their families, hear of more kidnappings in Italia, and when they learn that one of
Miriam's twins is missing, they journey to Halicarnassus, where they find a variety of dubious people claiming to be prophets
who can heal the sick.
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Lawrence, Caroline
From Ostia to Alexandria with Flavia Gemina (Roman Mys #17)(HF) 3-6
A guide to visiting the locations featured in the Flavia Gemina novels of Caroline Lawrence, covering Italy, Greece, and Africa
and including insider tips and advice.
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Lawrence, Caroline
The Man from Pomegranate Street (Roman Mysteries #18)(H F) 5-8
Flavia and her friends return to Rome from Ephesus in the year 81, and when they learn about the mysterious death of Emperor
Titus, they investigate, leading to many changes for Italia and for themselves.
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Lerangis, Peter
The Sword Thief (3rd in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Orphans Amy and Dan Cahill, continuing their worldwide quest to track down the thirty-nine clues that will reveal the secret of
the Cahill family's power, follow a link to one of the planet's strongest fighters, and have a run-in with the unreliable Alistair.
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Lerangis, Peter
The Viper’s Nest (7th in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Amy and Dan travel to a distant land to follow in the footsteps of their most formidable ancestor yet, a military leader who
teaches them the art of ancient warfare.
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Lerangis, Peter
The Dead of Night (3rdin the Cahills vs. Vespers series)
3-6
Siblings Amy and Dan must find another way to outwit the Vespers when they target and kidnap Dan's only friend, eleven-yearold Atticus.
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Levine, Gail Carson A Tale of Two Castles
(Also Fantasy)
5-8
Twelve-year-old Elodie journeys to Two Castles in hopes of studying acting but instead becomes apprentice to a dragon, who
teaches her to be observant and use reasoning, thus helping her to uncover who is poisoning the king.
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Littke, Lael
Lake Of Secrets
YA
Having arrived in her mother's home town to try to find her long-missing brother, who disappeared three years before she was
born, fifteen-year-old Carlene finds herself haunted by memories from a past life.
F L’En
L’Engle, Madeleine
Troubling A Star
5-8
As she tries to stay alive after being left on an iceberg in the Antarctic, sixteen-year-old Vicky Austin recalls the series of events
that brought her to the bottom of the world and involved her in a dangerous mystery.
F Lup
Lupica, Mike
Too Far
(also Basketball Sports)
YA
High school reporter Sam Perry turns to famed journalist Ben Mitchell for help when he finds himself on the trail of a
sensational story related to the death of the basketball coach at South Fork High in Long Island, and the brutalization of some of
the winning team's players.
378.1 Mar
Marantz, Robert
The Ring of McAllister
(SAT raising)
YA
Incorporates key SAT vocabulary into a story in which seventeen-year-old Will Lassiter discovers a deadly, decades-old secret
while investigating the disappearance of his neighbor, Dr. Octavio Perez.
F Mac
MacGregor, Rob
Hawk Moon
YA
Will faces a mystery involving drugs at his high school, while being framed for the disappearance and possible murder of his
girlfriend.
F Mes
Messner, Kate
Eye of the Storm (also Science Fiction)
In the not-too-distant future, huge tornadoes and monster storms have become a part of everyday life. Sent to spend the summer
in the heart of storm country with her meteorological engineer father, Jaden Meggs is surprised at the strides her father's
company StormSafe, has made with custom shelters that keep her family safe in even the worst of storms. At her exclusive
summer science camp, Eye On Tomorrow, Jaden meets Alex, a boy whose passion for science matches hers. Together, they
discover that her father's company is steering storms away from the expensive neighborhoods and toward the organic farming
communities that are in competition with his bio-engineered food company, NatureMade. Jaden must confront her father, but
when she does, she uncovers a terrifying family secret and must call on both her scientific knowledge and her faith to save the
people she loves most from one of her father's monster storms
F Mul
Mulligan, Andy
Trash
YA
Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael
finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country's dump.
F Nam
Namioka, Lensey
Den of the White Fox (Historical Fiction Feudal Japan)
5-8
In medieval Japan, two out-of-work samurai warriors must use their fighting skills when they join a group of local boys, led by
the mysterious White Fox, in resistance to a cruel occupying force.
F Nay
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Bernie Magruder & the Pirate’s Treasure (Humor)
5-8
Convinced that the strange things happening at the funeral parlor next door to his family's hotel are somehow connected to a
recent robbery, Bernie determines to become famous by proving his theory and catching the thief.
F Nay
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Bernie Magruder & the Drive-Thru Funeral Parlor (Humor)5-8
Convinced that the strange things happening at the funeral parlor next door to his family's hotel are somehow connected to a
recent robbery, Bernie determines to become famous by proving his theory and catching the thief.
F Nay
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Bernie Magruder & the Haunted Hotel (Humor)
he people of Middleburg search for buried treasure around Bessledorf Hill and the Bessledorf Hotel.
5-8
F Nay
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Bernie Magruder & the Case of the Big Stink (Humor)
5-8
Sam suspects the culprit who is gassing assembly line workers in the parachute factory lives in the hotel his family manages.
F Nay
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds The Bomb in the Bessledorf Bus Depot
(Humor)
5-8
After several bombs go off around town, eleven-year-old Bernie Magruder becomes suspicious of various members of his
family, causing confusion in Officer Feeney's investigation and around the hotel that his parents run.
F Nay
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Bernie Magruder & the Disappearing Bodies (Humor)
5-8
Dead bodies which appear and disappear mysteriously are threatening to lose Sam's father his job as manager of the Besseldorf
Hotel. What can be done? How do you find a ghost?
F Nay
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry (Humor)
5-8
Many residents of Middleburg, Indiana, are already going crazy from the ever-ringing church bells and now, after a bat is
spotted in the hotel run by Bernie's family, they worry that the dangerous Indiana Aztec bat has finally arrived.
F Nix
Nixon, Joan Lowery The Name of the Game Was Murder
5-8
When she visits her great-uncle, a successful and self-centered author, at his fortress-like home on Catalina Island, fifteen-yearold Samantha becomes involved in his manipulative game that leads to murder.
F Nix
Nixon, Joan Lowery Nobody’s There
YA
Following an act of vandalism against her father's girlfriend, a seventeen-year-old girl is paired by the court with an eccentric
senior citizen whose hobby as a sleuth turns deadly.
F Nix
Nixon, Joan Lowery Playing for Keeps
YA
On a Caribbean cruise, sixteen-year-old Rosie meets a teenage Cuban baseball player seeking political asylum in the United
States and tries to help him escape a charge of murder.
F Nix
Nixon, Joan Lowery Spirit Seeker
To prove that her friend did not kill his parents, Holly enlists the help of a clairvoyant.
5-8
F Nix
Nixon, Joan Lowery Search for the Shadowman
5-8
While working on a genealogy project for his seventh grade history class, Andy Bonner becomes determined to solve the
mystery surrounding a distant relative who was accused of stealing the family fortune.
F Nix
Nixon, Joan Lowery Shadowmaker
YA
Soon after she and her mother come to the small Texas town of Kluney and experience a series of menacing events, Katie begins
to suspect that there is something sinister going on.
F Nix
Nixon, Joan Lowery Who Are You?
5-8
When the police discover that a man who has been shot has been keeping a file of her entire life, sixteen-year-old Kristi, an
aspiring artist, suspects a connection with the possible theft of a painting from a museum.
F Nix
Nixon, Joan Lowery Secret Silent Screams
YA
A high school senior is convinced her friend Barry did not commit suicide but was a murder victim, and she endangers her own
life to prove it.
F Nix
Nixon, Joan Lowery The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore
5-8
A teenage girl is kidnapped, but when freed, is accused of masterminding the scheme to extort money from her wealthy
grandmother.
F Nix
Nixon, Joan Lowery Murdered, My Sweet
YA
Jenny and her mother hunt a killer while fearing for their own safety, after the reading of their millionaire cousin's will leads to
the murder of another cousin.
F Nix
Nixon, Joan Lowery
The Trap
YA
Sixteen-year-old Julie agrees to spend the summer at her great-aunt and uncle's ranch in Texas, but gets more than she bargained
for when valuables suddenly start disappearing and it appears that there may be a murderer in their midst.
F Nix
Nixon, Joan Lowery The Ghosts of Now
5-8
With her brother in a coma following a hit-and-run accident, a high school senior investigates the incident, stirring up animosity
in the small, tight west Texas community where her family has recently moved.
F Nix
Nixon, Joan Lowery A Deadly Game of Magic
5-8
Lisa and her three friends find themselves unwilling players in a cat-and-mouse game with a murderous magician whose identity
and motivation baffle them.
F Nix
Nixon, Joan Lowery A Candidate for Murder
5-8
Cary finds her life in danger when she uncovers a plot to sabotage her father's political campaign for governor of Texas.
F Nix
Nixon, Joan Lowery The Dark and Deadly Pool
5-8
Sixteen-year-old Mary Elizabeth's summer job at an expensive health club turns out to be more exciting than she bargained for
when a series of mysterious events culminate in murder.
F Nix
Nixon, Joan Lowery The Stalker
5-8
When her best friend is accused of murder, seventeen-year-old Jennifer is determined to prove her innocence by finding the real
culprit.
F Nix
Nixon, Joan Lowery Don’t Scream
5-8
When two new guys come to her school, Jess thinks things are really looking up, but she doesn't know their real identities or if
she can trust them.
F Par
Park, Linda Sue
Storm Warning (9th in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Amy and Dan Cahill continue to hunt for clues while reeling from the knowledge of what happened the night their parents died,
and they wonder if the end is near as they try to learn the secret behind Grace Cahill's alternate will.
F Par
Parksinson, Curtis
Sea Chase
(also Adventure)
5-8
Fifteen-year-old Brodie embarks on a desperate rescue mission when his father falls overboard from their small yacht in the
middle of the night, and Brodie learns he has been mistaken for a wealthy businessman and is being held for ransom.
F Pat
Patterson, James
Witch and Wizard
(also Dystopian)
5-8
A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up
missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life
and liberty, music and books. Sequels are The Gift and The Fire (not mysteries)
F Pea
Pearson, Ridley
Kingdom Keepers I : Disney After Dark
5-8
Thirteen-year-old Finn Whitman and four other young teens have been transformed into holograms to be guides for visitors to
Disney World, but now they must do battle with the evil witch, Maleficent, and her Overtakers to save Walt Disney World.
F Pea
Pearson, Ridley
Kingdom Keepers II : Disney At Dawn
5-8
When the evil Overtakers gain control of a computer server at the Magic Kingdom, allowing them to put the holographic hosts
into permanent comas if they should fall asleep, Finn and the others race against time to find the missing Jez and foil the plan.
F Pea
Pearson, Ridley
Kingdom Keepers III : Disney In Shadow
5-8
The Kingdom Keepers, five teens who have been transformed into Holographic Hosts at Florida's Disney World, mount a search
for Wayne, their missing Imagineer mentor, and find themselves fighting for their lives in imaginary worlds that have become
real.
F Pea
Pearson, Ridley
Kingdom Keepers IV : Power Play (not really a mystery)
5-8
F Pea
Pearson, Ridley
Shell Game
5-8
The Kingdom Keepers have their hands full when, during the inaugural cruise of the Disney ship, Fantasy, to exotic locations,
they discover that the Overtakers have infiltrated the cast, stolen a journal that belonged to Walt Disney himself, and plan to
unleash a powerful evil, the Chernabog.
F Pec
Peck, Richard
Are You in the House Alone?
YA
"Forget it," Alison counseled. "It never happened." But it was happening. The obscene notes. And whenever Gail was alone, the
phone rang and went dead as soon as she answered it. As her world shaded into a nightmare, Gail, surrounded by friends, family,
and teachers, found herself utterly alone. Then one evening her nightmare became fact when she learned an even more tragic
truth; in spite of violence and degradation, she was still alone, the victim of a crime that punished the innocent and let the
criminal go free.
F Pik
Pike, Christopher
Scavenger Hunt
YA
The entire senior class partakes in a scavenger hunt sponsored by a secret campus club, but student Carl Timmons's search
becomes a nightmare trip into a world where the living and the dead are one.
By the same author: Spellbound, Gimme a kiss.
F Pul
Pullman, Philip
The Ruby In the Smoke (A Sally Lockhart Mystery#1) (HF, Steampunk) YA
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious
ruby.
F Pul
Pullman, Philip
Shadow in the North (A Sally Lockhart Mystery#1) (HF, Steampunk) YA
In 1878 in London, Sally, now twenty-two and established in her own business, and her companions Frederick and Jim try to
solve the mystery surrounding the unexpected collapse of a shipping firm and its ties to a sinister corporation called North Star.
F Pul
Pullman, Philip
The Tiger in the Well (A Sally Lockhart Mystery#1) (HF, Steampunk) YA
In London in 1881, twenty-four-year old Sally finds her young daughter and her possessions assailed by an unknown enemy,
while a shadowy figure known as the Tzaddik involves her in his plot to defraud and exploit the hordes of Jewish immigrants
pouring into the country.
F Pul
Pullman, Philip
Lyra’s Oxford (HF, Steampunk)
YA
Lyra discovers a request from a witch's demon for an escort to the home of alchemist Sebastian Makepeace is not as
straightforward as it appears. Includes maps, brochures, postcards, and other clues.
F Rio
Riordan, Rick
Maze of Bones (1st in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Amy and Dan, members of the powerful Cahill family, try to uncover the thirty-nine clues which will reveal the secrets of their
lineage and find out what really happened to their parents.
F Rio
Riordan, Rick
The Medusa Plot (1st in the Cahills vs. Vespers series)
3-6
Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, thought the search for the thirty-nine clues leading to the source of their
family's power was over, but when Cahills are kidnapped by the Vespers, Amy and Dan find themselves with only a few day to
fulfill a bizarre ransom request before their friends start dying.
F Roo
Roosevelt, Elliott
Murder in the Oval Office
Who shot Congressman Colmer to death in the Oval Office of the White House? It appeared to be a suicide, but too many people
around Capitol Hill were breathing relieved sighs over the congressman's death for his passing to be so neatly dismissed. With
the FBI mucking up the investigation, feisty First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt decides to try her hand at solving the puzzle. Sixth in
the Eleanor Roosevelt series.
F Rya
Ryan, Mary C.
The Voice from the Mendelsohns' Maple.
Penny's expectations of a long boring summer are exploded when she meets an elderly, practically naked, woman in a tree and
soon finds herself embroiled in a mystery involving the Beacon Manor Senior Citizen Residence.
F Say
Sayers, Dorothy L.
The Nine Tailors
YA
The nine tellerstrokes from the belfry of an ancient country church toll out the death of an unknown man and call the famous
Lord Peter Wimsey to one of his most brilliant cases. Steeped in the atmosphere of a quiet parish on the strange, flat fen-country
of East Anglia, this is a tale of suspense, character, and mood by one of the great masters of the mystery novel.
SC Ste Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Famous Tales (Clas) YA
Idealistic young scientist Henry Jekyll struggles to unlock the secrets of the soul. Testing chemicals in his lab, he drinks a
mixture he hopes will isolate--and eliminate--human evil. Instead it unleashes the dark forces within him, transforming him into
the hideous and murderous Mr. Hyde. "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde dramatically brings to life a science-fiction
case study of the nature of good and evil and the duality that can exist within one person. Dr. Jekyll, an essentially good man,
was fascinated with the idea of evil. He pursued this to the point of developing a drug which altered his own state of mind,
leading him to develop a split personality of good and evil sides. Gradually the evil character, Mr. Hyde, took greater and greater
control. The increasing horror of this led to ... well, discover for yourself!
F Tra
Travis, Falcon Super Sleuth :Mini-Mysteries For You To Solve
Describes forty-three crime puzzles, which the reader tries to solve with the aid of clues, codes, alibis, and other evidence.
SC Ras
Raskin, Ellen
The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues
5-8
Only Ellen Raskin could have tangled this witty web of mysteries within mysteries -- with art lessons, puzzles, and a spoof of
Sherlock Holmes -- and then untangled it to such an unexpected finale. You will discover the horrible hairdresser and the fullsized midget, not to mention the monster in the basement.
F Ras
Raskin, Ellen
The Westing Game Newbery Honor 1979
5-8
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the
circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
F Ras
Raskin, Ellen
The Mysterious Disappearance Of Leon (I Mean Noel) Humor 3-6
The disappearance of her husband is only the first of the mysteries Mrs. Carillon must solve
F Ren
Renner, Ellen
Castle of Shadows
3-6
Five years after the mysterious disappearance of the queen and her father's decent into madness, eleven-year-old Princess
Charlie finds herself powerless in the face of an oncoming revolution, but after she discovers a letter written by the missing
queen, Charlie embarks on a quest to find the mother she lost so she can save her father and their kingdom.
F Rob
Roberts, Willo Davis The View from the Cherry Tree BL*
3-6
From his favorite perch in a cherry tree, Rob sees a murder committed, but when he tells his preoccupied family, no one will
believe him.
F Rob
Roberts, Willo Davis Hostage
3-6
Eleven-year-old Kaci and her nosy elderly neighbor Mrs. Banducci are kidnapped and held hostage after
Kaci accidently interrupts burglars in the process of robbing her house.
F Rob
Roberts, Willo Davis The Kidnappers
3-6
No one believes eleven-year-old Joey, who has a reputation for telling tall tales, when he claims to have witnessed the
kidnapping of the class bully outside their expensive New York City private school.
F Rob
Roberts, Willo Davis What Could Go Wrong?
3-6
During a frightening trip spent in airplanes and airports between Seattle and San Francisco, three cousins get involved with
sinister characters, identical flight bags, and an assault on an innocent old lady.
F Rob
Roberts, Willo Davis Twisted Summer
YA
Fourteen-year-old Cici hopes for a romantic summer at the beach but instead finds herself trying to solve a murder which had
occurred there the previous year.
F Sku
Skurzynski, Gloria
Cliff-Hanger (Mysteries in our National Parks #2)
3-6
Twelve-year-old Jack and his younger sister visit Mesa Verde National Park, where they delve into the park's history while
gradually uncovering the mysterious past of their family's teenage foster child Lucky.
F Sku
Skurzynski, Gloria
Deadly Waters
(Mysteries in our National Parks #3)
3-6
While visiting the Everglades National Park with their parents, the Landon children uncover the mystery of dying manatees and
learn important lessons about the natural environment.
F Sku
Skurzynski, Gloria
Rage of Fire (Mysteries in our National Parks #4)
3-6
On vacation in Hawaii, 12-year-old Jack and his sister Ashley are swept up in a mystery with Danny, a young boy from
Vietnam. This fast-paced novel, the second in the National Parks Mystery series, combines science, suspense, youthful
camaraderies, Hawaiian history and culture with breathtaking descriptions of the island's natural landscapes and lava flows.
F Sku
Skurzynski, Gloria
The Hunted (Mysteries in our National Parks #5)
3-6
The Landon family travels to Glacier National Park to investigate why grizzly bear cubs are disappearing and becomes involved
with a ten-year-old Mexican runaway boy.
F Sku
Skurzynski, Gloria
Valley of Death (Mysteries in our National Parks #8)
3-6
The Landon family makes a trip to Death Valley National Park accompanied by a mysterious new foster child, fourteen-year-old
Leesa Sherman.
F Sku
Skurzynski, Gloria
Over the Edge
(Mysteries in our National Parks #7)
3-6
Wildlife veterinarian Olivia Landon has been asked to help find the source of the lead shotgun pellets that are poisoning the few
remaining California condors in Grand Canyon National Park. After she announces a plan, Olivia receives a death threat on her
laptop. The plot soon thickens to involve the Landon kids, Jack and Ashley, and the family' s temporary ward--15-year-old
Morgan Rogers, a rebellious self-proclaimed anarchist and computer buff. Tension mounts when the e-mail threat is almost
carried out and Morgan is the only witness. The following investigation leads readers on a trip through Morgan' s cyberworld
connections and builds to a thrilling conclusion.
F Sku
Skurzynski, Gloria
Escape from Fear
(Mysteries in our National Parks #9)
3-6
While at St. John National Park in the Virgin Islands for a seminar on coral reefs, the Landons help a wealthy thirteen-year-old
to find his birth mother, who he believes is in danger.
F Sku
Skurzynski, Gloria
Running Scared
(Mysteries in our National Parks #11) 3-6
While lost in a tunnel at Carlsbad Cavern, thirteen-year-old Jack, eleven-year-old Ashley, and their eight-year-old foster brother,
Sam, think bats and darkness are their worst problems, until they stumble across thieves.
F Sku
Skurzynski, Gloria
Buried Alive (Mysteries in our National Parks #12)
3-6
While their parents study why wolverines are disappearing from Alaska's Denali National Park, Jack and Ashley are stranded in
a remote area with their mysterious new foster brother when a hit man's bullet triggers an avalanche.
F Sku
Skurzynski, Gloria
Night of the Black Bear (Mysteries in our National Parks #13)3-6
In Great Smoky Mountains National Park Aateenage girl is the latest victim in a growing number of bear attacks. Officials must
figure out what's causing the bizarre bear behavior or close the park. Can the Landons help? Soon Jack and Ashley are searching
for answers with their new friends Yonah Firekiller, a 16-year-old Cherokee boy, and 14-year-old Merle Chapman, whose
family once lived on park land. But a heated argument over ancestral land rights puts the Landon kids in the middle of a clash of
cultures. Tensions mount when Merle is caught in a liea lie that leads straight to the heart-pounding solution. This breathtaking
new adventure features an afterword by a park naturalist on black bear behavior and the problems caused by tourists feeding
wildlife.
F Smi
Smith, Roland
Shatterproof (4th in the Cahills vs. Vespers series)
3-6
Vesper One commands Dan and Amy Cahill to steal the Golden Jubilee, one of the world's largest diamonds, but what they do
not know is that the Jubilee theft is just a setup and someone is going to die.
F Smi
Smith, Roland
Tentacles
(Also Adventure)
3-6
After the mysterious disappearance of their parents, Marty and Grace go to live with their scientist uncle and accompany him on,
what soon becomes, an increasingly dangerous expedition to New Zealand to track a giant squid.
F Smi
Smith, Roland
Jack’s Run
(Also Adventure)
5-8
Kidnapped by drug czar Alonzo Asnar and held hostage in Argentina, Jack and his sister Joanne attempt a daring escape while
their parents, aided by some old friends, set out to rescue them.
F Sot
Soto, Gary
The Afterlife
(Also Ghosts)
YA
A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal murder in the restroom of a club where he had gone to
dance.
F Spr
Springer, Nancy
The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets SLJ* (An Enola Holmes Mystery) 5-8
Everyone knows Dr. Watson is Sherlock Holmes' right-hand man - so when he goes missing, it's a shock. Even Sherlock hasn't
the slightest clue as to where he could be. Enola is intrigued but wary; she's still hiding from her older brothers, and getting
involved could prove to be disastrous. But Enola can't help but investigate, especially when she learns that a bizarre bouquet with flowers all symbolizing death - has been delivered to the Watson residence. Enola knows she must act quickly, but can she
find Dr. Watson in time?
F Spr
Springer, Nancy
The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye
(An Enola Holmes Mystery) 5-8
As Enola searches for the missing Lady Blanchefleur del Campo, she discovers that her brother Sherlock is just as diligently
searching for Enola herself--and this time he really needs to catch her! He is in possession of a most peculiar package, a message
from their long-lost mother that only Enola can decipher. Sherlock, along with their brother Mycroft, must follow Enola into the
reeking tunnels of London's dark underbelly as they solve a triple mystery: What has happened to their mother? And to Lady
Blanchefleur? And what does either have to do with Mycroft, who holds Enola's future in his everso- proper hands?No one, not
even Sherlock, is left unchanged or unsurprised in this brilliant conclusion to the Enola Holmes mystery series.
F Spr
Springer, Nancy
The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (An Enola Holmes Mystery) 5-8
Enola Holmes is hiding from the world's most famous detective her own brother, Sherlock Holmes. But when she discovers a
hidden cache of bold, brilliant charcoal drawings, she can't help but venture out to find who drew them: young Lady Cecily, who
has disappeared from her bedroom without a trace. Braving midnight streets where murderers roam, Enola must unravel the
clues a leaning ladder, a shifty-eyed sales clerk, political pamphlets but in order to save Lady Cecily from a powerful villain,
Enola risks revealing more than she should . . . In her follow-up to The Case of the Missing Marquess,which received four
starred reviews, two-time Edgar Award winner Nancy Springer brings us back to the danger and intrigue of Victorian London as
she continues the adventures of one of the wittiest and most exciting new heroines in today's literature.
F Spr
Springer, Nancy
The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline (An Enola Holmes Mystery) 5-8
In late nineteenth-century London, fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, turns to
Florence Nightingale for help when her investigation into the disappearance of a Crimean War widow grows cold.
F Spr
Springer, Nancy
The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan (An Enola Holmes Mystery) 5-8
While fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes endeavors to save her friend Lady Cecily Alistair from an unwelcome arranged marriage,
she meets with some assistance from her older brother, Sherlock, and interference by the eldest, Mycroft.
F Spr
Springer, Nancy
The Case of the Missing Marquess (An Enola Holmes Mystery#1) 5-8
Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to unravel the
disappearance of her missing mother.
F Ste Stewart. Trenton Lee The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict (Benedict Society prequel)3-6
Before there was a Mysterious Benedict Society, there was simply a boy named Nicholas Benedict. Meet the boy who started it
all.... Nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict has more problems than most children his age. Not only is he an orphan with an
unfortunate nose, but he also has narcolepsy, a condition that gives him terrible nightmares and makes him fall asleep at the
worst possible moments. Now he's being sent to a new orphanage, where he will encounter vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange
circumstances -- and a mystery that could change his life forever. Luckily, he has one important thing in his favor: He's a genius.
On his quest to solve the mystery, Nicholas finds enemies around every corner, but also friends in unexpected places -- and
discovers along the way that the greatest puzzle of all is himself.
F Ste Stewart. Trenton Lee The Mysterious Benedict Society (Benedict Society #1)(SF and Adv) 3-6
Dozens of children respond to this peculiar ad in the newspaper and are then put through a series of mind-bending tests, which
readers take along with them. Only four children-two boys and two girls-succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that
only the most intelligent and inventive children could complete. To accomplish it they will have to go undercover at the
Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules. But what they'll find in the hidden
underground tunnels of the school is more than your average school supplies. So, if you're gifted, creative, or happen to know
Morse Code, they could probably use your help.
F Ste Stewart. Trenton Lee The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey (B S #2)(SF, Adv) 3-6
The fabulous foursome readers embraced as The Mysterious Benedict Society is back with a new mission, significantly closer to
home. After reuniting for a celebratory scavenger hunt, Reynie, Kate, Sticky, andConstanceare forced to go on an unexpected
search--a search to find Mr. Benedict. It seems that while he was preparing the kids' adventure, he stepped right into a trap
orchestrated by his evil twin Mr. Curtain. With only one week to find a captured Mr. Benedict, the gifted foursome faces their
greatest challenge of all--a challenge that will reinforce the reasons they were brought together in the first place and will require
them to fight for the very namesake that united them.
F Ste Stewart. Trenton Lee The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma(B S #3)(SF, Adv 3-6
Join the Mysterious Benedict Society as Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance embark on a daring new adventure that threatens to
force them apart from their families, friends, and even each other. When an unexplained blackout engulfs Stonetown, the
foursome must unravel clues relating to a nefarious new plot, while their search for answers brings them closer to danger than
ever before.
F Ste
Stengel, Joyce A.
Mystery of the Island Jewels
5-8
Fourteen-year-old Cassie, feeling like an outsider while on a cruise to Martinique with her father and her new stepfamily,
becomes involved in helping Charles, a cute boy her own age, solve a mystery that has been haunting his family for years.
F Ste
Stenhouse, Ted
A Dirty Deed
Arthur and Will investigate the murder of a young Native American by their town's richest man.
5-8
F Sum
Summy, Barrie
I So Don’t Do Mysteries
(I So Don’t Do..)
5-8
Thirteen-year-old Sherry is visited by the ghost of her mother, who asks Sherry to help solve a case that involves rhinoceros
poaching at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, and Sherry's involvement not only helps save the rhinos, but it also brings mother
and daughter closer together than ever before.
F Sum
Summy, Barrie
I So Don’t Do Famous
(I So Don’t Do..)
5-8
When thirteen-year-old Sherry Baldwin's essay wins a magazine contest, she, her father, and best friend Junie go to Hollywood,
where she helps her ghost-detective mother and another ghost investigate a series of burglaries.
F Sum
Summy, Barrie
I So Don’t Do Makeup
(I So Don’t Do..)
5-8
When Phoenix, Arizona, seventh-grader Sherry Baldwin hosts a makeover sleepover that causes horrible reactions in her friends'
skin, she enlists the help of her mother, a ghost detective at the Academy of Spirits, to help solve the mystery of the tainted
makeup.
F Sum
Summy, Barrie
I So Don’t Do Spooky
(I So Don’t Do..)
5-8
Thirteen-year-old Sherry helps her mother, a ghost, to investigate who is stalking Sherry's stepmother, but Sherry is also very
busy with school and friends, while her mother is also striving for a gold medal in the Ghostlympics.
F Tay
Taylor, Theodore
Lord of the Kill
YA
With his parents in India, sixteen-year-old Ben Jepson is in charge of Los Coyotes Preserve, a refuge for big cats near Los
Angeles, when two powerful groups try to shut it down by intimidation, murder, and kidnapping the largest tiger in captivity.
F Van Van Draanen, Wendelin Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief (Sammy Keyes #1)
5-8
Thirteen-year-old Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a
robbery at the "seedy" hotel across the street from the seniors' building where she is living with her grandmother.
F Van Van Draanen, Wendelin Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man
(Sammy Keyes #2)
5-8
On Halloween night, seventh grader Sammy stumbles onto a mystery involving a twenty-year-old family feud and some
heirlooms stolen by a man in a skeleton costume.
F Van Van Draanen, Wendelin Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy
(Sammy Keyes #3)
5-8
Sammy continues to make life with her grandmother interesting as she tries to discover who is stealing from St. Mary's church,
befriends a homeless girl, and plays in a softball tournament against a bitter rival.
F Van Van Draanen, Wendelin Sammy Keyes and the Runaway Elf
(Sammy Keyes #4)
5-8
Thirteen-year-old Sammy must call upon her detective skills to solve the mystery when a dog she is watching disappears from a
city parade and the owner receives a ransom note.
F Van Van Draanen, Wendelin Sammy Keyes and the Curse of Moustache Mary (Sammy Keyes #5)5-8
While celebrating the New Year with a friend, Sammy encounters a mystery involving an elderly neighbor, a pioneer cabin, and
a century-old family feud.
F Van Van Draanen, Wendelin Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy (Sammy Keyes #6)
5-8
A Hollywood actress, who had been competing with Sammy's mother for an important role, is murdered, but thirteen-year-old
Sammy and her friend Marissa are on the case.
F Van Van Draanen, Wendelin Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes (Sammy Keyes #7) 5-8
When thirteen-year-old Sammy finds herself with an abandoned baby on her hands, she sets out to find the young mother, who
may belong to a gang, and accidentally jeopardizes her position on the softball team.
F Van Van Draanen, Wendelin Sammy Keyes and the Art of Deception
(Sammy Keyes #8)
Seventh-grade sleuth Sammy Keyes investigates mysterious happenings at a local art gallery.
5-8
F Van Van Draanen, Wendelin Sammy Keyes and the Psycho Kitty Queen (Sammy Keyes #9)
5-8
When cats begin to mysteriously disappear in Santa Monica, thirteen-year-old friends Sammy and Holly start snooping around
town to find out what is happening.
F Van Van Draanen, Wendelin Sammy Keyes and The Dead Giveaway
(Sammy Keyes #10)
5-8
While investigating why someone is trying to force people from their homes to expand a recreation center, Sammy is distracted
by the lies she must tell to cover an accident she caused, but which was blamed on her nemesis, Heather.
F Van Van Draanen, Wendelin Sammy Keyes and The Wild Things
(Sammy Keyes #11)
5-8
Sammy Keyes trades in her hightops for hiking bootsand winds up with blisters. This isnotthe summer camping trip of Sammy's
dreams. She imagined shady glades, meandering streams, a deer or two. What she gets are scrubby shrubs, blazing sun,
rattlesnakes, ticks, and scorpions. Her fellow campers are desperate to catch a rare glimpse of an endangered condor. To Sammy,
the trip is nothing more than the painful in pursuit of the unspeakably ugly. But when she and two other girls find an injured
condor, Sammy's intrigued at last. As they track down a clue, they stumble onto two classmates and wind up lost. Which leaves
three girls and two boys in a canyon with one tent and six billion biting flies. Ohand an armed and dangerous highstakes
poacher. S'mores anyone?
F Van Van Draanen, Wendelin Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash
(Sammy Keyes #12)
5-8
Sammy Keyes has three wads of cash in her hands, given to her by some old guy who told her to throw them away. He had
begged her with his dying breath--which he had been taking because Sammy had just scared the life right out of him. So she's
got to get this man some help.
F Van Van Draanen, Wendelin Sammy Keyes and the Wedding Crasher
(Sammy Keyes #13)
5-8
For junior high detective Sammy Keyes, eighth grade begins with an accusation, an inquisition, and several assorted death
threats! The history teacher, Mr. Vince, is being threatened, which at first seems funny. Hers"s horrible!Everystudent wants Mr.
Vince gone. But as the threats become more serious, the question becomes-who wants himdeadand gone? With her own name
near the top of the suspect list, Sammyrs"s determined to get to the bottom of things. But shers"s distracted by a mother bearing
bad news, an almost-boyfriend ducking her calls, and a date with a poofy lavender bridesmaid dress. This latest Sammy Keyes
adventure blends mystery, comedy, and a dusting of fairy tale magic as Sammy takes off her high-tops, puts on some party
shoes, and steps into a whole lot of trouble.
F Van Van Draanen, Wendelin Sammy Keyes and the Night of Skulls
(Sammy Keyes #14)
5-8
In her newest adventure, junior high detective Sammy Keyes and her friends take a detour through a graveyard on Halloween
night and find themselves in the middle of a mystery. Sammy must figure out how three missing people, two human skulls, and
one ghoulish embalmer add up before she winds up six feet under herself! And school presents its own set of tricks and treats.
Sammy knows that a classmate is guilty of beating up a man on Halloween night. Should she obey the law and tell Officer
Borsch? Or should she obey the junior high code and keep quiet? Life and death and truth and justice have never been so tangled
up...
F Van Van Draanen, Wendelin Sammy Keyes and the Power of Justice Jack (Sammy Keyes #15) 5-8
Sammy thought she'd seen all the weirdness her town had to offer-and then she met Justice Jack, Santa Martina's very own
superhero. Well, really he's just a guy in spandex and a mask who rides around town on a dirt bike, hoping to find some crime to
fight. The old folks in town think he's wonderful. So wonderful that they've asked him to track down Sammy's neighbor Mrs.
Wedgewood, who seems to have disappeared-along with a lot of other people's cash. Sammy's friends think Justice Jack is funny
and cool. Billy Pratt's even auditioning to be his sidekick! But Sammy thinks he's kind of . . . lame. He's more of a showstopper
than a crime stopper. And when a real mystery comes along, Sammy finds herself right in the middle of it. . . .
F Van Van Draanen, Wendelin Sammy Keyes and the Showdown in Sin City (Sammy Keyes #16) 5-8
In this pivotal book in the Sammy Keyes series, Sammy tackles the persistent mysteries of her own life.
Mysteries like: Who is her father? And why has her mother kept it such a secret? How long can she manage to hide out in
Grams' seniors-only building before someone catches on? Is her mother really planning to marry her boyfriend's father? (Ew.)
And why, why is Heather Acosta so nasty?
During one crazy weekend in Las Vegas, with the help of an entire army of Elvis impersonators, Sammy finally gets some
answers. But of course knowledge comes at a price—and solving the mysteries of her own life will cost Sammy more than she
ever meant to pay. . . .
F Voi
Voigt, Cynthia
The Vandemark Mummy
5-8
When, as the new Classics professor at Vandemark College, their father is made responsible for a collection of ancient Egyptian
artifacts, twelve-year-old Phineas and his older sister Althea try to find out why the collection is the target of thieves, especially
when the mummy disappears.
F Voi
Voigt, Cynthia
The Callender Papers (Historical Fiction)
5-8
In nineteenth-century Massachusetts, orphan Jean, employed to sort out the family papers of a reclusive artist, becomes curious
about the mysterious, long-ago death of his wife and the subsequent disappearance of their young child.
F Wal
Wallace, Bill
Trapped in Death Cave
3-6
A posthumous letter referring to buried treasure convinces Gary that his grandfather did not die a natural death and, with his
friend Brian, he sets out to find both the treasure and his grandfather's killer.
F Wat
Watson, Jude
Beyond the Grave (4th in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Amy and Dan, following a clue found in Book 3, set out to uncover details about the origins of the rivalry between the Tomas
and Ekaterina branches of their family, not realizing they are headed right into the hands of the enemy.
F Wat
Watson, Jude
In Too Deep (6th in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Amy and Dan continue their search for the clues and cross oceans amid ruthless enemies and dangerous truths while following
the trail of a famous aviator.
F Wat
Watson, Jude
Vespers Rising (11th in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Amy and Dan Cahill were never warned about the Vespers, powerful enemies, but when they rise from the shadows to seek out
the Clues, the Cahills learn more about the legacy left to them by their grandmother,
F Wat
Watson, Jude
A King’s Ransom (3rd in the Cahill’s vs. Vespers Series)
3-6
Amy and Dan are in a race for their lives . . . and the enemy may be even closer than they think. When seven members of their
family were kidnapped by a sinister organization known as the Vespers, thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy,
vowed they'd stop at nothing to bring the hostages home. But then the ransom comes in and the Vespers demand the impossible.
Amy and Dan have just days to track down and steal an ancient map. The only catch? No one has seen the map for half a
century. Now Amy and Dan are on a desperate search that will lead them to the Nazis, spies, a mad king and some of history's
dirtiest secrets. It's the race of their lives . . . and one misstep will mean certain death for the hostages.
F Wat
Watson, Jude
Premonitions
5-8
Grace, haunted by premonitions since her parents' death, finds that these premonitions help her to solve the mystery of her best
friend's disappearanve.
F Wea
Weatherly, Lee
Missing Abby
YA
As the last one to see thirteen-year-old Abby, Emma is determined to discover the truth about her mysterious disappearance,
spurred in part by her feelings of guilt over ending their friendship in order to ensure popularity at her new school.
F Whi
White, Robb
Deathwatch
(Also Adventure)
YA
Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life.
F Wil
Wilson, Eric H.
Vancouver Nightmare
(A Tom Austen Mystery #2) 5-8
With the Hardy Boys as heroes and stars in his eyes, Tom Austen has a nose for adventure. He is investigating full throttle in
Murder on the Canadian and mysterious dirty dealings keep him up nights in Vancouver Nightmare. Wilson clearly had curious
readers with little time to spare in mind when he wrote these awesome escapades. The writing is punchy and leaves youngsters
wanting more. They will be quickly drawn into the stories and will stick with them until the conclusions when the author and his
alter ego, Austen, tie up all the loose ends and see justice served. Missing in JLS Collection
F Wil
Wilson, Eric
Disneyland Hostage
(A Liz Austen Mystery #4)
5-8
Young Canadian Liz Austen is taken hostage by terrorists on a trip to Disneyland with her aunt Melody.
On a trip to California with her aunt, Liz Austen becomes involved with Latin American terrorists.
F Wil
Wilson, Eric
The Kootenay Kidnapper (A Tom and LizAusten Mystery #7 ) 5-8
Tom Austen investigates kidnappings in a lonely ghost town in British Columbia.
F Wil
Wilson, Eric
Code Red at the Supermall (A Tom and Liz Austen Mystery #11)5-8
Tom and Liz Austen investigate a bombing at the West Edmonton Mall.
F Win
Winterfeld, Henry
The Mystery of the Roman Ransom
5-8
The purchase of a slave for their teacher leads a group of schoolboys in ancient Rome into a dangerous intrigue.
F Wit
Withers, Pam
Skater Stuntboys
(Also Sports, skateboarding)
Jake and Peter must find out who is sabotaging their jobs as skateboarding stuntboys on a movie set.
YA
F Wri
Wright, Betty Ren
The Dollhouse Murders
5-8
Each time Amy goes up to the attic in the middle of the night, the dollhouse is filled with a ghostly light and the dolls have
moved from where she last left them. Even though Amy's terrified, she knows the dolls are trying to tell her something. But
what? Could their movements be connected to the grisly murders that took place years before?
F Yep
Yep, Laurence
The Mark Twain Murders (also Historical Fiction)
5-8
Mark Twain was a reporter during the Civil War and was befriended by a fifteen-year-old boy, the Duke of Baywater. Together
they investigated the murder of the Duke's stepfather and found themselves in a Confederate plot involving stolen coins and
disappearing corpses. But was this a real mystery, or another hoax by Mark Twain?
F Yep
Yep, Laurence
The Case of the Lion Dance
3-6
When $2000 is stolen during the opening of a restaurant, Lily and her aunt, a Chinese American movie actress, search for the
thief throughout San Francisco's Chinatown.
F Yep
Yep, Laurence
The Case of the Firecrackers
3-6
When a prop gun used during the making of a television show turns out to have real bullets, twelve-year-old Lily Lew and
Auntie, her movie actress great-aunt, comb San Francisco's Chinatown in search of the culprit responsible for loading the gun.
39 Clues
Amy and Dan, members of the powerful Cahill family, try to uncover the thirty-nine clues which will reveal the secrets of their
lineage and find out what really happened to their parents.
The 39 Clues book follow Amy Cahill and her brother Dan as they travel the world to hunt for the Clues. The Cahills are the
most powerful family the world has ever known. 39 clues hidden around the globe guard the family’s power. It is up to you to
discover the clues. It is Cahill vs. Cahill in an international race to find the clues.
The series is written by different authors.
F Rio
Riordan, Rick
Maze of Bones (1st in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Amy and Dan, members of the powerful Cahill family, try to uncover the thirty-nine clues which will reveal the secrets of their
lineage and find out what really happened to their parents.
F Kor
Korman, Gordon
One False Note (2nd in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Amy and Dan Cahill are in the lead to find thirty-nine clues that safeguard a great power, and are in possession of a coded sheet
of Mozart's music that will help them find the next clue while their relatives follow in close pursuit.
F Ler
Lerangis, Peter
The Sword Thief (3rd in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Orphans Amy and Dan Cahill, continuing their worldwide quest to track down the thirty-nine clues that will reveal the secret of
the Cahill family's power, follow a link to one of the planet's strongest fighters, and have a run-in with the unreliable Alistair.
F Wat
Watson, Jude
Beyond the Grave (4th in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Amy and Dan, following a clue found in Book 3, set out to uncover details about the origins of the rivalry between the Tomas
and Ekaterina branches of their family, not realizing they are headed right into the hands of the enemy.
F Car
Carman, Patrick
The Black Circle (5th in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Siblings Amy and Dan Cahill continue their global search for the clues that will unlock the Cahill family's secret power while
also working to evade Irina Spasky.
F Wat
Watson, Jude
In Too Deep (6th in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Amy and Dan continue their search for the clues and cross oceans amid ruthless enemies and dangerous truths while following
the trail of a famous aviator.
F Ler
Lerangis, Peter
The Viper’s Nest (7th in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Amy and Dan travel to a distant land to follow in the footsteps of their most formidable ancestor yet, a military leader who
teaches them the art of ancient warfare.
F Kor
Korman, Gordon
The Emperor’s Code (8th in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Amy and Dan are separated while trying to retrieve a clue which is guarded by thousands of soldiers and worry they cannot
succeed apart.
F Par
Park, Linda Sue
Storm Warning (9th in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Amy and Dan Cahill continue to hunt for clues while reeling from the knowledge of what happened the night their parents died,
and they wonder if the end is near as they try to learn the secret behind Grace Cahill's alternate will.
F Had
Haddix, Margaret Pterson Into the Gauntlet (10th in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Amy and Dan Cahill face their greatest challenge on their quest to find the thirty-nine clues, but in order to discover the secrets
of their lineage they will have to make a choice that could impact the world's future.
F Wat
Watson, Jude
Vespers Rising (11th in the 39 Clues series)
3-6
Amy and Dan Cahill were never warned about the Vespers, powerful enemies, but when they rise from the shadows to seek out
the Clues, the Cahills learn more about the legacy left to them by their grandmother,
The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers
The Cahills discover they're not the only ones who have been searching for the Clues. The Vespers, a ruthless cabal lurking in
the shadows for their turn to stomp across the world stage, have also been hunting for the source of ultimate power. The Cahill
family must unite to protect the Clues, and the world, against the Vespers.
F Rio
Riordan, Rick
The Medusa Plot (1st in the Cahills vs. Vespers series)
3-6
Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, thought the search for the thirty-nine clues leading to the source of their
family's power was over, but when Cahills are kidnapped by the Vespers, Amy and Dan find themselves with only a few day to
fulfill a bizarre ransom request before their friends start dying.
F Wat
Watson, Jude
A King’s Ransom (2nd in the Cahills vs. Vespers series)
3-6
Amy and Dan are in a race for their lives . . . and the enemy may be even closer than they think. When seven members of their
family were kidnapped by a sinister organization known as the Vespers, thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy,
vowed they'd stop at nothing to bring the hostages home. But then the ransom comes in and the Vespers demand the impossible.
Amy and Dan have just days to track down and steal an ancient map. The only catch? No one has seen the map for half a
century. Now Amy and Dan are on a desperate search that will lead them to the Nazis, spies, a mad king and some of history's
dirtiest secrets. It's the race of their lives . . . and one misstep will mean certain death for the hostages.
F Ler
Lerangis, Peter
The Dead of Night (3rdin the Cahills vs. Vespers series)
3-6
Siblings Amy and Dan must find another way to outwit the Vespers when they target and kidnap Dan's only friend, eleven-yearold Atticus.
F Smi
Smith, Roland
Shatterproof (4th in the Cahills vs. Vespers series)
3-6
Vesper One commands Dan and Amy Cahill to steal the Golden Jubilee, one of the world's largest diamonds, but what they do
not know is that the Jubilee theft is just a setup and someone is going to die.
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