Mystery+Book+List

Mystery Book List Book Project Due: November 14, 2011 Select a book from the following list:


 * Abela, Deborah. **
 * [|Mission: Hollywood.] ** Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2006. Eleven-year-old Max and other Spy Force agents investigate a dark plot involving the movie industry as Max, Linden, and an unexpected guest work as extras on her father's latest film.
 * [|Mission: The Nightmare Vortex.] ** Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2005. Spyforce agents Max and Linden have only a few hours to save the world's spy agencies, gathered together on a remote island for the top secret Annual Spy Awards Night, from being destroyed by a volcanic eruption set off by the evil Mr. Blue.


 * Abrahams, Peter. **
 * [|Down the Rabbit Hole.] ** Laura Geringer Books 2005. Ingrid Levin-Hill lands the plum role of Alice in the Echo Falls production of "Alice in Wonderland." Things in Ingrid's small town soon keep getting "curiouser and curiouser." Then events in Echo Falls turn into a nightmare, and Ingrid is determined to wake up.


 * Anderson, Janet. **
 * [|The Last Treasure.] ** Dutton's Children's Books, 2003. 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.


 * Avi. **
 * [|The Man Who Was Poe.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Orchard Books, 1989. In Providence, Rhode Island, in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of 11-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with a ghastly final twist.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Windcatcher.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Maxwell Macmillan, 1991. While learning to sail during a visit to his grandmother's at the Connecticut shore, 11-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.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Bailey, Linda. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|How can a Brilliant Detective Shine in the Dark?] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Kids Can Press, 1999. While Stevie attends her family reunion with her best friend, Jesse, they investigate rumors of hidden gold and the mystery surrounding her long-lost Uncle Archie.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|How Come the Best Clues are Always in the Garbage?] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> A. Whitman, 1996. When a theif 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.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Balliett, Blue. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Chasing Vermeer.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Scholastic Press, 2004. When a book of unexplainable occurrences brings Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay together, strange things start to happen: Seemingly unrelated events connect, an eccentric old woman seeks their company, and an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves at the center of an international art
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Wright 3.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Scholastic Press, 2006. In the midst of a series of unexplained accidents and mysterious coincidences, sixth-graders Calder, Petra, and Tommy lead their classmates in an attempt to keep Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Robie House from being demolished.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Bellairs, John. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Secret of the Underground Room.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Dial Books for Young Readers, 1990. When Father Higgins disappears, Johnny Dixon and Professor Childermass discover disturbing clues which lead them to England and an encounter with a long-dead knight.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Mansion in the Mist.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Dial Books for Young Readers, 1992. While spending the summer in an old house on a desolate Canadian island, Anthony Monday and Miss Eells discover a chest that can transport them to another world and a maniacal group who are plotting the destruction of people on Earth.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Drum, the Doll and the Zombie.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Dial Books for Young Readers, 1994. 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.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Broach, Elise. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Shakespeare's Secret.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Henry Holt, 2005. Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit sixth-grader Hero becomes interested in exploring this unusual connection because of a valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new house, an intriguing neighbor, and the unexpected attention of the most popular boy in school.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Brockmeier, Kevin. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Grooves: A Kind of Mystery.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Katherine Tegen Books, 2006. After a seventh-grader discovers that the grooves in his Thigpen-brand blue jeans are encoded with a cry for help, he sets out to save the factory workers from greedy entrepreneur Howard Thigpen.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Buckley, Michael. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Sisters Grimm. Book 1, The Fairytale Detectives.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Amulet Books, 2005. Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Sisters Grimm. Book 2, The Usual Suspects.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Amulet Books, 2005. Although filled with anger over her parents' disappearance, eleven-year-old Sabrina Grimm--along with her grandmother, sister, and several fairy-tale characters--tries to discover who has killed her teacher.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Byars, Betsy Cromer. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Dark Stairs.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Viking, 1994. A Herculeah mystery. The intrepid Herculeah Jones helps her mother, a private investigator, solve a puzzling and frightening case. (paperback)
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Disappearing Act: A Herculeah Jones Mystery.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Viking, 1998. Herculeah stumbles onto the trail of her friend Meat's long-lost father while she and Meat are investigating the disappearance of a dead body from the men's room of a comedy club.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Christopher, Matt. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Penalty Shot.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Little, Brown, 1997. Jeff, already worried about losing his place on the hockey team because of low grades suddenly finds himself the victim of sabotage in the form of forged papers.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Clements, Andrew **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Room One: A Mystery or Two.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 2006. A young boy living in rural western Nebraska investigates the connection between a mysterious face in the window of an empty house and the possible closing of the one-room school he attends.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Conford, Ellen. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|A Case for Jenny Archer.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Little, Brown, 1988. After reading three mysteries in a row, Jenny becomes convinced that the neighbors across the street are up to no good and decides to investigate.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Creary, Eve. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|A Silent Witness in Harlem.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Silver Moon Press, 2002. Felicia's grandmother tells her the story of a twelve-year-old girl named Lily, who witnessed a mysterious kidnapping one night in 1928 in Harlem, New York. (Mysteriesd in Time series).


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Cross, Gilbert B. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Terror Train!] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Atheneum, 1987. Two boys traveling from Chicago to Portland, Oregon, by train join forces with an elderly mystery writer to investigate a fellow passenger's sudden death.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Crossman, David. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Secret of the Missing Grave.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Down East Books, 1999. Summering on a Maine island, thirteen-year-old Ab joins her friend Bean in investigating the odd noises in her boarding house and solving the mystery of a missing treasure and stolen paintings.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Cushman, Doug. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Inspector Hopper's Mystery Year.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> HarperCollins, 2003. Inspector Hopper and his partner McBugg solve a mystery in each season of the year.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Dale, Anna. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Dawn Undercover.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Bloomsbury Pub., 2005. Eleven-year-old Dawn, Rustgate Primary School's most forgettable student, is recruited for a British secret intelligence agency and sent on a spy mission to track a master criminal.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">De Felice, Cynthia. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Light on Hogback Hill.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Macmillan Pub., 1993. When she investigates the mysterious light up on Hogback Hill, eleven-year-old Hadley finds and befriends a hunchbacked old woman with a tragic past.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Dexter, Catherine. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|I Dream of a Murder.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Morrow Junior Books, 1997. Fourteen-year-old Jere is haunted by a recurring dream about a murder he may have witnessed ten years earlier.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Fast, Natalie. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Secret Apartment.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Delacorte Press, 2005. 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.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Friedrich, Joachim.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Feinstein, John. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Last Shot.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Knopf, 2005. 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.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|4 1/2 Friends and the Secret Cave.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Hyperion Books For Children, 2001. A lonely boy named Radish Rademacher hopes to become a member of his twin sister's detective agency after showing the members an old treasure map he found in a cave.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">George, Jean Craighead. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo: the Ecological Mystery.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> HarperCollins, 1992. 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 the outdoor home beautiful.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Fire Bug Connection.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> HarperCollinsPublishers, 1993. Twelve-year old Maggie receives European fire bugs for her birthday, but when they fail to metamorphose and grow grossly large and explode instead, she uses scientific reasoning to determine the cause of their strange death.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The case of the Missing Cutthroats: an Ecological Mystery.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996. After Spinner Shafter catches a cutthroat trout in the Snake River, she and her cousin, Alligator, search the nearby mountains to determine where the endangered fish came from and how it survived.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Goldman, E.M. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Getting Lincoln's Goat: an Elliot Armbruster Mystery.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996. Tenth-grader Elliot wants to be a detective when he grows up, and when he discovers that Lincoln the goat, the school mascot is missing, he and some of his classmates get a taste of what their chosen careers would really be like.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Hale, Bruce. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Big Nap.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Delacorte Press, 1995. Someone is turning the students at Emerson Hicky Elemenraty into zombies, and it's up to fourth-grade private eye Chet Gecko to find out who.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Give My Regrets to Broadway.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Harcourt, 2004. Chet and his partner, Natalie Attired, take on a case involving an actor gone missing from the school musical.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Mystery of Mr. Nice.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Harcourt, 2000. When the principal of his school begins acting nice to him, Chet Gecko realizes that he is an imposter and so sets out to find the real one.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Hamster of the Baskervilles.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Harcourt, 2002. Something is trashing the classrooms at Emerson Hicky Elementary School, and fourth-grade private eye Chet Gecko sets out to find the creature that's responsible.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Possum Always Rings Twice.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Harcourt, 2006. Chet Gecko and his partner, Natalie Attired, try to find out who is sending threatening notes to Viola Fuss, candidate for student council president at Emerson Hickey Elementary School.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|This Gum for Hire.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Harcourt, 2002. To save his own skin, private eye Chet Gecko sets out to solve the mystery of Emerson Hicky Elementary School's disappearing football players.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Hamilton, Virginia. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The House of Dies Drear.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Macmillan, 1968. A family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events and discoveries of secret passageways make the family believe they are in great danger.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Wrapped in a Riddle.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Houghton Mifflin, 1993. While staying at the Jumping Frog Inn, a bed-and-breakfast establishment run by her grandmother, eleven-year-old Miranda investigates a mystery involving stolen letters supposedly written by Mark Twain.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Hildick, E.W. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Purloined Corn Popper.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> M. Cavendish, 1997. Ten-year-old Tim is worried when a popcorn popper containing a wad of money is stolen from his kitchen and his friend Freddie is suspected of the crime.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Serial Sneak Thief.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Marshall Cavendish, 1997. A master criminal known as The Chameleon threatens to disrupt a mystery contest being held in the public library, but J.G. and the other Watchdogs are on hand to investigate.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Hirsch, Odo. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Something's Fishy, Hazel Green.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> As Hazel tries to find out who took two lobsters from Mr. Petrusca's fish shop, she discovers that the fishmonger has a secret and determines to help him.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Hoeye, Michael. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Time Stops for no Mouse.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> When Linka Perflinger, a jaunty mouse, brings a watch into his shop to be repaird 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.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Hoobler, Dorothy. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Demon in the Teahouse.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> In eighteen-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 which is associated in some way with a popular geisha.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|In Darkness, Death.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> In eighteenth-century Japan, young Seikei becomes involved with a ninja as he helps Judge Ooka, his foster father, investigate the murder of a samurai.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Sword That Cut the Burning Grass.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> In his latest adventure in eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old samurai apprentice Seikei, with the help of a servant girl and an imperious old man, sets out to rescue the young Emperor Yasuhito from his kidnappers.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Horowitz, Anthony**. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Howe, James.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Falcon's Malteser.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> After his older brother, a fledgling private detective, agrees to safeguard a package for a dwarf who does not live long, thirteen-year-old Nick scampers to solve the mystery while also trying to stay one step ahead of an assortment of thugs.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|South By Southeast.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Fourteen-year-old Nick and his bumbling detective brother Tim Diamond investigate a mystery involving international spies and assassins.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Three of Diamonds.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> A collection of three Diamond Brothers mysteries in which Tim and Nick bungle their way through a search for a missing philanthropist, find themselves in a Parisian prison, and are stranded on a Scottish island with a murderer.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Dew Drop Dead: a Sebastian Barth Mystery.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> While setting up a homeless shelter at the church, Corrie and David solve the mystery of a dead man found in an abandoned inn.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Eat Your Poison, Dear.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> (Sebastian Barth mysteries; bk. 3) Young sleuth Sebastian and three friends probe the mystery of a poisoning in their school cafeteria.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Mona Lisa Mystery.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Class 3 of Hampstead Primary School takes a trip to Paris and lands in the middle of a mystery.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Joosee, Barbara M. . **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Alien Brain Fryout.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> When the neighborhood bully starts following Willie, Lucy, and Kyle around and acting goofy, they suspect that he's been abducted by aliens until Scarface the parrot presents another possibility.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Terror at the Zoo.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Twelve-year-old Ellen and her younger brother Carey are excited about their overnight camp-out at the zoo, until they discover that they are locked inside with a desperate escaped convict.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Karbo, Karen**.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Minerva Clark Gets A Clue.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> A thirteen-year-old girl in Portland, Oregon, loses all self-doubt when she is zapped by lightning and uses her newfound courage to solve a murder mystery.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Minerva Clark Goes to the Dogs.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 2007. Still enjoying her new found self-confidence, a thirteen-year-old sleuth in Portland, Oregon, tries to uncover a missing red diamond and gets herself mixed up with a crooked animal shelter worker and some very strange animals.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Karr, Kathleen. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Seventh Knot.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 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.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Klise, Kate. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Letters from Camp.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 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.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Labatt, Mary. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Ghost of Captain Briggs.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Best friends Jennie and Beth, along with Sam, the dog detective, find themselves spending their summer vacation in a rented house that was built long ago by a bloodthirsty pirate. Super sleuth Sam digs up a hidden tunnel which adds suspense to the mysterious sounds coming from the attic, a creepy housekeeper, and threatening notes.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Mummy Lives!] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Sam, the detective dog, joins his friends Jennie and Beth in an investigation of a mummy in search of his missing shaggy white dog.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|A Weekend at the Grand Hotel.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Sam, the detective dog, joins his friends Jennie and Beth in an investigation at the Grand Hotel.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Lawrence, Caroline. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Secrets of Vesuvius.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Ten-year-old Flavia and her friends encounter the Roman admiral Pliny before making a journey to her uncle's farm near Mt. Vesuvius, where they try to solve a riddle, reunite a family, and get out of the path of a natural disaster.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Thieves of Ostia.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> In Rome in the year A.D. 79, a group of children from very different backgrounds work togewther to discover who beheaded a pet dog - and why.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Lehr, Norma. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Secret of the Floating Phantom.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> While staying with her grandmother in Monterey, California, eleven-year-old Kathy has some strange experiences as she is led by a foglike phantom to a treasure hidden from pirates over 150 years ago.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mitchell, Marianne. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Finding Zola.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> A thirteen-year-old girl investigates the disappearance of an older woman in this coming-of-age mystery.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Napoli, Donna Jo**.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Sly the Sleuth and the Sports Medicine.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 2006. Sly uses her detective skills to help her friends solve the case of the soccer switch, the kick craze and the basketball blues.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Nixon, Joan Lowery.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Face in the Bessledorf Funeral Parlor.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 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.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|A Deadly Promise.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Sarah risks her life to clear her murdered father's name and expose big time criminal activity in the lawless mining town of Leadville. Sequel to "High Trail to Danger."
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Playing for Keeps.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 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.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Who are You?] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 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.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Page, Katherine Hall. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Christie and Company.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Three new eighth-grade girls at Cabot School find that their shared interest in mysteries comes in handy when the roommates are blamed for a series of thefts at the school.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Christie and Company In the Year of the Dragon.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Three roommates and amateur sleuths try to deal with a Chinese gang that is threatening the family of a friend.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Patneaude, David. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Someone was Watching.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> When his baby sister disappears from the river near their summer home, eighth grader Chris fights the assumption that she has drowned and sets off on a journey to discover the truth.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Petersen, P.J. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Liars.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Life in the remote town of Adler Creek, California, is boring for eight-grader Sam and his friends until his newly awakened ability to tell when a person is lying involves him in a series of mysterious events.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Pryor, Bonnie.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Potter, Ellen. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Pish Posh.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Eleven-year-old Clara Frankofile sits in her parents' elegant New York City restaurant, Pish Posh, and passes judgment on each customer as a Somebody or a Nobody, but her all-seeing eyes fail to observe the mysterious events occurring right under her nose.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Luke on the High Seas.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> In 1850, Luke and Toby set sail from Boston to California on a voyage featuring shady characters, a story of a lost gold mine, and a cabin boy with a secret.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Marvelous Marvin and the Wolfman Mystery.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Marvin looks for clues after suspecting that his new neighbor is a werewolf and involved in a murder conspiracy.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Marvelous Marvin and the Pioneer Ghost.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Marvin enlists the help of his twin sister, Sarah, and Ernie, the biggest boy in the fourth grade, to solve a mystery involving a ghostly figure and the polluting of his favorite stream.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Raskin, Ellen. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Westing Game.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 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. (Newbery Award)


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Roberts, Willo Davis. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Caught!] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> After a bus journey in search of their father, thirteen-year-old Vickie and her younger sister discover that he is missing and may need their help.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Scared Stiff.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> When their mother disappears, two brothers go to stay with a great uncle in a mobile home park next to an abandoned amusement park and begin a search which puts them in danger.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Kidnappers: a Mystery.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 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.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Rylant, Cynthia. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Case of the Fidgety Fox.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> When the fluffy dice of Melvin the bus driver turn up missing, Bunny and Jack, two animal detectives, investigate the case.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Skurzynski, Gloria. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Deadly Waters.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 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.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Wolf Stalker.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Twelve-year-old Jack, his younger sister, and the family's teenage foster child Troy go to Yellowstone National Park, where Jack's mother, a wildlife veterinarian, is investigating the report that wolves reintroduced to the park have killed a dog.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Smith, Roland.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Smith, Alison. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|A Trap of Gold.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Thirteen-year-old Margaret finds a mysterious, shadowy figure watching her as she searches for a lost gold nugget from an abandoned mine.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Cryptid Hunters.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Twins, Grace and Marty, along with a mysterious uncle, are dropped into the middle of the Congolese jungle in search of their missing photojournalist parents.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Stanley, Diane. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Mysterious Matter of I.M.Fine] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Noticing that a popular series of horror novels is having a bizarre effect on the behavior of its readers, Franny and Beamer set out to find the mysterious author.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Stem, Jacqueline. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Cellair n the Woods.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When twelve-year-old Joanna, her younger sister, and their cousin Mark discover a haunted house in the woods, they set out to resolve the mysteries surrounding it.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Torrey, Michele. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The case of the Barfy Birthday and Other Super-scientific Cases.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Fifth graders Drake Doyle and Nell Fossey use their detective and scientific investigation skills to solve cases which involve food poisoning, missing terns, a haunted treehouse, and a pig in a pit.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Case of the Gasping Garbage.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Fifth-graders Drake Doyle and Nell Fossey combine their detective and scientific-investigation skills to solve a variety of cases, involving a noisy garbage can, endangered frogs, a stuck truck, and a mysterious love letter. Includes a section of scientific experiments and activities.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Case of the Graveyard Ghost.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Now in fifth grade, Drake Doyle and Nell Fossey continue to combine their detective skills to solve a variety of cases, involving a noisy laundry chute, a ruined flower show, and a ghost.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Case of the Mossy Lake Monster.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Fourth-graders Drake Doyle and Nell Fossey combine their detective and scientific investigation skills to solve a variety of cases, involving a hungry cat, endangered penguins, a fish-stealing monster, and a dirty election. Includes a section of scientiic experiments and activities.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Vande Velde, Vivian. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Never Trust a Dead Man.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Wrongly convicted of murder and punished by being sealed in the tomb with the dead man, seventeen-year-old Selwyn enlists the help of a witch and the resurrected victim to find the true killer.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Voigt, Cynthia.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">VanDraanen, Wendelin. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|SammyKeyes and the Curse of Moustache Mary.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 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.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 2005. 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.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 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.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 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.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Sammy Keyes and the Runaway Elf.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> After a dog she is watching disappears from a city parade and the owner receives a ransom note, thirteen-year-old Sammy must use her detective skill to solve the mystery.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 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.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|TheVandermark Mummy.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> When, as the new Classics professor at Vandemark College, their father is made responsible for a collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts, 12-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.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Wallace, Barbara B. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Twin in the Tavern.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 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.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Warner, Gertrude Chandler. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Haunted Cclock Tower Mystery.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> The Aldens accompany their grandfather to his class reunion and investigate the possibility of a buried Civil War treasure, and of a ghost in the bell tower, at Goldwin University.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Copycat Mystery.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> A series of practical jokes at a restored nineteenth-century farmhouse makes the Aldens wonder if the ghost of its builder is at work.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Mystery in the Mall.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> The Alden children help out a store owner at the Hope Harbor mall and discover that someone is tampering with the shipments.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Mystery in New York.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> While visiting a friend in New York City, the Aldens investigate the theft of a valuable diamond.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Mystery of theScreech Owl.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> The Aldens visit an old camp in Quebec, Canada, and begin to suspect that someone or something is trying to scare them away from the place.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Mystery of the Lost Village.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> While visiting a Navajo Indian reservation in New Mexico, the Aldens try to save a forest under threat of development by proving it is the site of a lost, buried village, but someone is sabotaging their dig.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Mystery of the Midnight Dog.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> While visiting a small town in Alabama, the Aldens hear mysterious howls, leading them to wonder if an old local legend about a ghost dog is true.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Tthe Mystery of the Secret Message.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> While helping their grandfather prepare for Greenfield's Winter Festival, the Alden children uncover a mystery surrounding the statue in the town square.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Mystery of the Tiger's Eye.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> While visiting an old mansion, the Aldens investigate the possibility that it may be haunted.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Poison Frog Mystery #74.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> The Aldens investigate when exotic and endangered animals begin to disappear from the zoo where their new friend Lindsey works.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Winterfeld, Henry. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Mystery of the Roman Ransom.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> The purchase of a slave for their teacher leads a group of schoolboys in ancient Rome into a dangerous intrigue.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Wright, Betty R. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Christina's Ghost.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Christina's summer in a spooky, isolated Victorian house with her grumpy uncle turns into a ghostly adventure.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Dollhouse Murders.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> A dollhouse with a ghostly light in the middle of the night and dolls that have moved from where she left them lead Amy and her retarded sister to unravel the mystery surrounding grisly murders that took place years ago.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Too Many Secrets.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Nine-year-old Chad and his friend Jeannie try to discover who is breaking into their neighbor's house, while Chad also deals with his suspicions about why his father has been spending so much time away from home.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Yep, Laurence. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The case of the Firecrackers.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> When a pop 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.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Case of the Goblin Pearls.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Lily and her aunt, a Chinese American movie actress, join forces to solve the theft of some priceless pearls and stop the operator of a sweatshop in San Francisco's Chinatown.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Case of the Lion Dance.] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 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.