Mysteries for Kids!

1) The Absent Author

Author

Roy, Ron

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Book #1 in the "A to Z Mysteries" series. If you like this book, be sure to check out the others we have in the series.

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Help Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose solve mysteries from A to Z!

Kids love collecting the entire alphabet and super editions! With over 8 million copies in print, the A to Z Mysteries® have been hooking chapter book readers on mysteries and reading for years. Now this classic kid favorite is back with a bright new look!

A is for Author . . . A famous writer is coming to Green Lawn! Dink rushes to the

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2) Agents of S.U.I.T: from badger to worse

Author

Green, John Patrick, 1975-

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Book #1 in the "Agents of SUIT" series by John Patrick Green. If you like this book, be sure to check out the others we have in the series.

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"In the first book of Agents of S.U.I.T., the new volume in John Patrick Green's smash-hit InvestiGators world, eager rookie agent Cilantro stepped into the spotlight and rocketed into space! Now it's time for the B-Team to show why they're so un-B-lievably B-loved. That's right, Bongo and Marsha, the superspy Badgers, are on the case . . . and way over-budget. When S.U.I.T. realizes just how much money the Badgers waste with their gadgets and spy...

3) The Alcatraz escape

Author

Bertman, Jennifer Chambliss

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Book #3 in the "Book Scavenger" series. If you like this book, be sure to check out the others we have in the series.

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Sleuthing duo Emily and James tackle their most challenging mystery yet, set on the haunting Alcatraz Island.

4) The Alcatraz Escape

Author

Chambliss Bertman, Jennifer

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Book #3 in the "Book Scavenger" series. If you like this book, be sure to check out the others we have in the series.

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Sleuthing duo Emily and James tackle their most challenging mystery yet set on the haunting Alcatraz Island in Book 3 of the New York Times bestselling Book Scavenger series!

Legendary literary game-maker Garrison Griswold is back in action—this time with "Unlock the Rock." For his latest game, Griswold has partnered with the famous—and famously reclusive—mystery writer Errol Roy to plan

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5) At the bottom of the world

Author

Nye, Bill

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Book #1 in the "Jack and the Geniuses" series. If you like this book, be sure to check out the others we have in the series.

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Traveling to Antarctica for a prestigious science competition, twelve-year-old Jack and his genius foster siblings, Ava and Matt, become caught up in a mystery involving a missing scientist.

6) The Bald Bandit

Author

Roy, Ron, 1940-

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Book #2 in the "A to Z Mysteries" series. If you like this book, be sure to check out the others we have in the series.

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Third-grader Dink and his detective friends hope to receive a big reward by finding the person whose video recorder picked up a picture of the local bank robber.

7) Ballpark Mystery Collection, Books 1-5

Author

Kelly, David A

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Books #1-5 in the "Ballpark Mystery" series. If you like these books, be sure to check out the others we have in the series.

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THE FENWAY FOUL-UP: Mike Walsh and Kate Hopkins are super-lucky. They have tickets to the Boston Red Sox game and all-access passes to Fenway Park. But during batting practice, the lucky bat that belongs to Big D, the star slugger of the Red Sox, is stolen!
THE PINSTRIPE GHOST: Mike and Kate are waiting for Kate’s mom at a boring press conference in Yankee Stadium when the team official says something that makes Mike perk up his ears. There...

8) Bear country: bearly a misadventure

Author

Cronin, Doreen

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Book #6 in the "Chicken Squad" series by Doreen Cronin. If you like this book, be sure to check out the others we have in the series.

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The Chicken Squad is on the case when their beloved human, Barbara, goes missing around the same time they hear a report of a headless bear on the loose.

9) The Best Mistake Mystery

Author

McNicoll, Sylvia

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Some people count their blessings, but dogwalker Stephen Nobel counts mistakes. Dogwalker extraordinaire Stephen Nobel can get a little anxious, but his habit of counting the mistakes he and everyone else makes calms him. His need to analyze gets kicked into hyperdrive after two crazy events happen in one day at school: the bomb squad blows up a backpack and someone smashes a car into the building. To make things worse, that someone thinks Stephen...

10) Bicycle mystery

Author

Warner, Gertrude Chandler, 1890-1979

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While on a bicycle trip to their aunt's farm, the four Aldens help solve a mystery.

11) Big Bad Detective Agency

Author

Hale, Bruce

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"The houses of all Three (not-so- ) Little Pigs were broken into and ransacked, and the Pigs are squealing for justice. So Prince Tyrone, ruler of Fairylandia, drags in the obvious suspect: Wolfgang. The lone wolf has big teeth, sharp claws, no alibi -- and a single day to find the real culprit and clear his big bad name. When Wolf (reluctantly) teams up with the fourth Little Pig to crack the case, the Big Bad Detective Agency -- and an adventure...

12) The Big Nap: A Chet Gecko Mystery

Author

Hale, Bruce

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Book #4 in the "Chet Gecko" mystery series. If you like this book, be sure to check out the others we have in the series.

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Grammar school—it's all about eating and sleeping. Well, for Chet Gecko, anyway.
To Chet, nothing is more divine than a plate of Mrs. Bagoong's Mothloaf Surprise followed by a sweet bit of shut-eye on the playground. (Besides a few Pillbug Crunch bars and a monthlong holiday, that is.)
In this hilarious mystery from Chet's tattered casebook, he and his mockingbird partner, Natalie Attired, must catch a cafeteria thief, foil the sinister...

13) The big nap: from the tattered casebook of Chet Gecko, private eye

Author

Hale, Bruce

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Book #4 in the "Chet Gecko" mystery series. If you like this book, be sure to check out the others we have in the series.

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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. In this hilarious mystery, Chet can't think about anything but eating and sleeping. Illustrations.

14) Book scavenger

Author

Bertman, Jennifer Chambliss

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Book #1 in the "Book Scavenger" series. If you like this book, be sure to check out the others we have in the series.

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Just after twelve-year-old Emily and her family move to San Francisco, she teams up with new friend James to follow clues in an odd book they find, hoping to figure out its secrets before the men who attacked Emily's hero, publisher Garrison Griswold, solve the mystery or come after the friends.

15) Book Scavenger

Author

Chambliss Bertman, Jennifer

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Book #1 in the "Book Scavenger" series. If you like this book, be sure to check out the others we have in the series.

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A New York Times-Bestseller!

"Full of heart and replete with challenging ciphers for readers to decode, Bertman's debut is literary cousin to classic puzzlers like The Westing Game." ―Publishers Weekly, starred review

For twelve-year-old Emily, the best thing about moving to San Francisco is that it's the home city of her literary idol:

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16) The Buddy files: the case of the fire alarm

Author

Butler, Dori Hillestad

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Book #4 in the "Buddy Files" series. If you like this book, be sure to check out the others we have in the series.

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When Buddy goes to school to become a therapy dog, he ends up helping figure out who pulled the fire alarm instead.

17) The Buddy files: the case of the lost boy

Author

Butler, Dori Hillestad

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Book #1 in the "Buddy Files" series. If you like this book, be sure to check out the others we have in the series.

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While searching for his mysteriously lost human family, Buddy the dog is adopted by another family and helps solve the mystery of their missing boy.

18) The Buddy files: the case of the missing family

Author

Butler, Dori Hillestad

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Book #3 in the "Buddy Files" series. If you like this book, be sure to check out the others we have in the series.

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Buddy the dog risks everything when he leaves his new family to investigate what happened to Kayla and her father, his beloved former owners, by slipping into a van Kayla's uncle is using to empty her house in the middle of the night.

19) The Buddy files: the case of the mixed-up mutts

Author

Butler, Dori Hillestad

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Book #2 in the "Buddy Files" series. If you like this book, be sure to check out the others we have in the series.

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While attending obedience class with his new humans, Buddy the dog helps solve a mystery involving two Pomeranians that were switched at the dog park.

20) The Calder game

Author

Balliett, Blue, 1955-

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Book #3 in the "Chasing Vermeer" series. If you like this book, be sure to check out the others we have in the series.

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When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.

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