| Adler, David |
Cam Jansen. (Series) |
Cam Jansen and friends in a popular adventure/mystery series.
Grades 3 -5.
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| Anderson, Mary |
R.I.S.K. |
Self-styled super spy Hector is scornful of Kathy and Ben's cat rescue operation until it lands them all in a big-time smuggling scheme.
Grades 4 -6.
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| Arthur, Robert |
Secret of Terror Castle. (Alfred Hitchcock & the Three Investigators series) |
A detective mystery/adventure series that features three boys who establish a detective firm with the motto "We Investigate Anything!"
Grades 5 -8.
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| Bailey, Linda |
How Can a Frozen Detective Stay Hot on the Trail? |
Detective and mystery stories.
Grades 4 -6.
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How Come the Best Clues are Always in the Garbage? |
When a thief steals money from her mom's Garbage Busters project, Stephanie, a sixth grader, identifies herself as "Stevie Diamond, Detective" and sets off to find the culprit.
Grades 4 - 6.
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Who's Got Gertie? And How Can We Get Her Back? |
Twelve-year-old detectives Stevie and Jesse investigate the mysterious disappearance of their friend Gertie, an elderly actress preparing for an audition for a horror movie.
Grades 4 - 6.
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| Bellairs, John |
Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie. |
When thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon and his friend Professor Childermass try to save the life of the elderly Dr. Coote, they find themselves facing the forces of a menacing voodoo cult.
Grades 4 - 6.
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House With a Clock in Its Walls. |
A boy goes to live with his magician uncle in a mansion that has a clock hidden in the walls which is ticking off the minutes until doomsday.
Grades 4 - 6.
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| Brittain, Bill |
Who Knew There'd Be Ghosts? |
Three spunky youngsters join forces with two lively ghosts to save a historic mansion from being destroyed by a crooked antique dealer.
Grades 4 - 6.
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| Byars, Betsy |
Dark Stairs: A Herculeah Jones Mystery. |
The intrepid Herculeah Jones helps her mother, a private investigator, solve a puzzling and frightening case.
Grades 4 - 6.
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| Christian, Mary Blount |
Sebastian. (Super Sleuth Series) |
Dog detective Sebastian in detective and mystery stories.
Grades 4 - 6.
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| Dixon, Franklin W. |
Mysterious Caravan. (Hardy Boys Series) |
A series that follows two detective brothers who solve crime.
Grades 4 - 6.
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| Gaff, Patricia Reilly |
Kidnap at the Catfish Café. |
Assisted by her cat Max, sixth grader Minnie starts up her new detective agency by investigating a kidnaping and a thief who will steal anything, even a hot stove.
Grades 3 - 5.
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| Hahn, Mary Downing |
Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story. |
After Ashley and Kristi find an antique doll buried in old Miss Cooper's garden, they discover that they can enter a ghostly turn-of-the-century world by going through a hole in the hedge.
Grades 4 - 6.
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| Hildrick, Edmund |
Case of the Fantastic Footprints. |
McGurk and his team of detectives investigate the strange footprints that have begun to appear in wet cement all over their neighborhood.
Grades 4 - 6.
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| Howe, Deborah |
Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery. |
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.
Grades 3 - 6.
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| Howe, James |
Drew Drop Dead: A Sebastian Barth Mystery. |
While setting up a homeless shelter at the church, Sebastian and his friends, Corrie and David, solve the mystery of a dead man found in an abandoned inn.
Grades 4 - 7.
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| Keene, Carolyn |
Nancy Drew. (Series) |
Mystery and adventure follows a young sleuth on her way to becoming a great detective.
Grades 4 - 7.
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| Lasky, Kathryn |
Alice Rose & Sam: A Novel. |
Alice Rose, an irrepressible twelve-year-old, shares adventures with Mark Twain, an outlandish reporter on her father's newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada, during the 1860s.
Grades 5 - 8.
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| Levy, Elizabeth |
Something Queer in the Wild West. (Series) |
Mysteries and adventure in the rural and always exciting Wild West.
Grades 2 - 5.
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| Raskin, Ellen |
Westing Game. |
One Fateful day, 16 people gather for the reading of the very strange will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. To their surprise, the will turns out to be a contest, challenging the heirs to find out who among them is Westing's murderer - and the winner may become a millionaire!
Grades 5 - 8.
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| Roberts, Willo Davis |
Kidnappers: A Mystery View from the Cherry Tree. |
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.
Grades 5 - 7.
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| Sachar, Louis |
Holes. |
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Grades 5 - 8.
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| Sobol, Donald J. |
Encyclopedia Brown. (Series) |
Encyclopedia Brown is a 10-year old genius who solves crimes for both children ($0.25 a case) or for his dad, the chief of police.
Grades 3 - 5.
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| Stevenson, Drew |
Case of the Wandering Werewolf. |
Raymond Almond, the Often Nervous, and J. Huntley English, Monster Hunter, try to track down the wolflike beast haunting Lost Woods. Sequel to the "The Case of the Horrible Swamp Monster" and "The Case of the Visiting Vampire."
Grades 4 -6.
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| Stevenson, James |
Bones in the Cliff. |
Pete, a lonely and timid eleven-year-old who has just made friends with an adventurous girl named Rootie, hides out on the Cutlass Island with his alcoholic father, waiting for the gunman his father fears will kill him.
Grades 4 - 7.
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| Wallace, Barbara |
Twin in the Tavern. |
A young orphan, afraid of being sent to the workhouse, finds himself at the mercy of the unsavory owner of a tavern in Alexandria, Virginia, while he tries to solve the mystery surrounding his past and a missing twin.
Grades 3 - 6.
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| Warner, Gertrude |
Boxcar Children. (Series) |
Four abandoned children survive by living in a boxcar and solving mysteries.
Grades 2 - 6.
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| Wright, Betty Ren |
Dollhouse Murders-Ghost of Mercy Manor. |
Twelve-year-old Gwen, and orphan who comes to live with the Mercy family, discovers that the house is haunted by the ghost of a sad-looking young girl and is determined to solve the mystery behind her appearances.
Grades 5 - 7.
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| Yep, Laurence |
Case of the Goblin Pearls. (Series) |
Part detective stories and part docunovel, the series chronicles the adventures of a 12-year old girl, Lily, who lives in San Francisco's Chinese American community.
Grades 5 - 7.
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