Mysteries

After a mean collector cons him out of a valuable baseball card, Griffin must put together a band of misfits to recapture the card. There are many things standing in their way, a menacing guard dog, a high-tech security system, a very secret hiding place, but Griffin and his team are going to get back what's rightfully his.
256 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Burglaries & Heists

When Calder Pillay travels with his father to England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery, including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Both the boy and the sculpture seem out of place, and then they dissapear!
379 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Burglaries & Heists, Museum Mysteries

When strange 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.
272 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Burglaries & Heists, Museum Mysteries

Edgar and Ellen encounter a new foe, an unknown prankster who's stealing their best schemes! To stop the copycat capers the twins must descend into the sewers, but what they discover there is stranger than anything they could have imagined.
160 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Twins, Funny

Book 2 of the Echo Falls series. Things are amiss in Echo Falls. True to her hero, Sherlock Holmes, eighth-grader Ingrid begins fishing around to find out who's really pulling the strings in Echo Falls. But one morning, while en route to the dreaded MathFest, Ingrid is kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a car.
352 pages, Grades 6-8
related subjects:  Detectives

Fletcher Moon is the youngest qualified private detective in the world. Things are going pretty well until he is caught up in an investigation involving the town's biggest crime family. Grievous bodily harm, arson, dangerous undercover work ensue as Fletcher is framed for several crimes he did not commit.
304 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Detectives

Chet and Natalie have met their sleuthing match, and boy, are they jealous. A new detective has arrived at Emerson Hicky Elementary. His name's Bland. James Bland. But when Bland suddenly goes missing, the blame falls squarely on Chet.
128 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Someone is sending school council candidates ominous threats, and a certain not-so-smooth-talking fox is hitting the hallways to drum up fanatic support for his flashy campaign. This presidential race is getting fishy. Could it be that someone is trying to rig the election?
128 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Ted loves to read mysteries, but when he sees a face in the window of the abandoned Anderson house, he becomes involved in a real-life mystery.
176 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Homelessness

Like her idol, Sherlock Holmes, eighth grader Ingrid uses her intellect to solve a murder case in her home town of Echo Falls.
375 pages, Grades 6-8
related subjects:  Murder Mysteries, Detectives

Steven has won a coveted press pass for the Final Four. But the games going on behind the scenes between the coaches, the players, the media, the money-men, and the fans turn out to be even more fiercely competitive than those on the court. Steven and his fellow winner, Susan, overhear a threat to throw the championship game. Now they have just 48 hours to figure out who is blackmailing one of MSU’s star players . . . and why.
256 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Basketball, Detectives

Right in the middle of a run-of-the-mill case, the powers that be finger Chet's fine-feathered partner, Natalie Attired, as a no-goodnik blackmailer and boot her out of Emerson Hicky quicker than you can say, "Boot her out of Emerson Hicky."
136 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Chet Gecko can't sing, dance, or act. He can't even act normal. So why would he take the lead in Mr. Ratnose's musical version of Shakespeare's Omlet, Prince of Denver? A new case, naturally. The original leading man has disappeared, and something smells rotten in the realm of Ratnose.
115 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Chet Gecko and his partner Natalie blow the lid off a cheating ring in Mr. Ratnose's classroom.
132 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Chet Gecko and his partner Natalie try to find a missing valentine and track down the winning ticket for the biggest, chocolatiest, most gut-busting dessert ever, the Malted Falcon.
132 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

To save his own skin, private eye Chet Gecko sets out to solve the mystery of Emerson Hicky Elementary School's disappearing football players.
144 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Chet Gecko doesn't believe in the supernatural. But when a teacher reports seeing a monster by the light of a full moon, Chet and his sleek-winged partner, Natalie Attired, must answer the burning question: Is there a vicious, supernatural werehamster on the loose?
144 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Chet Gecko's hunger for mystery is matched only by his appetite for cockroach casserole, mosquito marshmallow surprise, and stinkbug pie. So when the cafeteria needs help nabbing a food thief, Chet digs into the case with a passion. But this time Chet may have bitten off more than he can chew.
132 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Someone is turning the students at Emerson Hickey Elementary into zombies, and it's up to fourth-grade private eye Chet Gecko to find out who.
132 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really happened.
272 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Best Friends, Detectives

When hired by a fellow fourth-grader to find her missing brother, Chet Gecko uncovers a plot involving a Gila monster's revenge upon the school football team.
120 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

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.
120 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Though legally blind, Paul Fisher can see that his parents' praise of his brother, Erik, the football star, is to cover up something terribly wrong. But no one listens--until his family moves to Tangerine where weird is normal: lightning strikes at the same time every day, a sinkhole swallows the school, and Paul finds himself adopted into the toughest group around: the soccer team at his middle school.
324 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Brothers, Detectives, Soccer

In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.
320 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Detectives, Future, Mutants, Zimbabwe

Book 3 of the Sally Lockhart Trilogy. In London in 1881, twenty-four-year-old Sally finds her young daughter assailed by an unknown enemy, while a shadowy figure known as the Tzaddik involves her in his plot to exploit the hordes of Jewish immigrants pouring into the country.
416 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  19th Century, Detectives

Book 2 of the Sally Lockhart Trilogy. 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.
368 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  19th Century, Detectives

Book 1 of the Sally Lockhart Trilogy. In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
230 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  19th Century, Detectives, Murder Mysteries

High school senior Karen is frightened at first when a young policeman asks her to use her psychic powers to help the police locate missing children.
224 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  ESP, Detectives

A retelling of the Shakespeare play Macbeth, told from the perspective of a teenaged girl living in Macbeth's castle when the King is murdered.
281 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Murder Mysteries, Witches, 9th-13th Century

Like her idol, Sherlock Holmes, eighth grader Ingrid uses her intellect to solve a murder case in her home town of Echo Falls.
375 pages, Grades 6-8
related subjects:  Murder Mysteries, Detectives

Twelve-year-old Diana ignores her brother's warnings and befriends the daughter of the new caretaker, setting in motion events that lead to the release of the spirit of an evil crazy woman who once ruled the old Willis place.
208 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Ghosts , Murder Mysteries

When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a stronged-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother.
192 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Murder Mysteries, Hearing Impaired

As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself accused of murder.
240 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, 19th Century, Murder Mysteries

Book 1 of the Sally Lockhart Trilogy. In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
230 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  19th Century, Detectives, Murder Mysteries

A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English teacher, but did he intend it to end with murder?
224 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Murder Mysteries, High School

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.
192 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Murder Mysteries, Secret Codes

When Calder Pillay travels with his father to England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery, including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Both the boy and the sculpture seem out of place, and then they dissapear!
379 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Burglaries & Heists, Museum Mysteries

Theodosia must reverse the black magic that only she can see in the ancient artifacts her archaeologist parents bring back from Egypt.
344 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Magic

When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toy seller, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
533 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Orphans

Three teens and a curator of unclassifiable artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs.
336 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  19th Century, Museum Mysteries, Zombies, Evil Scientists

In 1452, a man appears at Gutenberg's home with a mysterious chest which can only be opened when the fangs of its serpent's-head clasp taste blood. Centuries later, in an Oxford library, a boy touches a strange book and feels something pierce his finger. The book is blank, but then words begin to appear on the page, words only the boy can see.
400 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  14th-15th Century, Museum Mysteries, Secret Codes

Petra and Calder are drawn into another mystery when unexplainable accidents and ghostly happenings throw a spotlight on Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, and it's up to the two junior sleuths to piece together the clues. Together with Calder's friend Tommy the kids hunt for a coded message left behind by Wright.
318 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Secret Codes

When strange 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.
272 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Burglaries & Heists, Museum Mysteries

Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away, so she decided not to run FROM somewhere, but TO somewhere. After some careful planning, she and her younger brother, Jamie, escaped to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, right into a mystery that made headlines!
176 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries

In 1452, a man appears at Gutenberg's home with a mysterious chest which can only be opened when the fangs of its serpent's-head clasp taste blood. Centuries later, in an Oxford library, a boy touches a strange book and feels something pierce his finger. The book is blank, but then words begin to appear on the page, words only the boy can see.
400 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  14th-15th Century, Museum Mysteries, Secret Codes

Petra and Calder are drawn into another mystery when unexplainable accidents and ghostly happenings throw a spotlight on Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, and it's up to the two junior sleuths to piece together the clues. Together with Calder's friend Tommy the kids hunt for a coded message left behind by Wright.
318 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Secret Codes

Book 3 of the Artemis Fowl series. Ever the resourceful young criminal mastermind, Artemis has found a way to construct a supercomputer from stolen fairy technology. Called the "C Cube," it will render all existing human technology obsolete.
320 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairies, Secret Codes, Spies

Book 1 of the Artemis Fowl series. When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
304 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairies, Secret Codes, Spies

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.
192 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Murder Mysteries, Secret Codes