Mysteries for Kids | Overton High

Alex Cross' son, Ali, is eager to follow in his father's footsteps as a detective, but when his best friend goes missing, what price will he have to pay to solve the mystery?

3) The Ambrose deception

Author

Ecton, Emily

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"Three Chicago students, Melissa, Wilf, and Bondi, are unlikely participants in a competition for a ten thousand-dollar scholarship, unaware that there is much more at stake." --

4) The Amelia Six: an Amelia Earhart mystery

Author

Gray, Kristin L

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When Amelia "Millie" Ashford gets an invitation to spend the night in Amelia Earhart's childhood home with five other girls, she can't believe her luck. When she gets there, Millie discovers Amelia Earhart's famous flight goggles that are about to be sent to a museum in Washington, D.C. During a scavenger hunt, the girls realize the goggles have gone missing, and Millie was the last one seen with them. As other strange things start happening, the...

5) Belly up

Author

Gibbs, Stuart

Series

FunJungle volume 1

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo's star attraction--Henry the hippopotamus--is murdered.

6) The Blackthorn key

Author

Sands, Kevin

Series

Blackthorn key volume 1

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In 1665 London, fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe, apprentice to an apothecary, and his best friend, Tom, try to uncover the truth behind a mysterious cult, following a trail of puzzles, codes, pranks, and danger toward an unearthly secret with the power to tear the world apart.

7) The body under the piano

Author

Jocelyn, Marthe

Series

Aggie Morton, mystery queen volume 1

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"A smart and charming middle-grade mystery series starring young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, inspired by the imagined life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of Lemony Snicket and The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency. Aggie Morton lives in a small town on the coast of England in 1902. Adventurous and imaginative but deeply shy, Aggie hasn't got much to do since the death of her beloved...

8) The book of lost things

Author

Voigt, Cynthia

Series

Mister Max volume 1

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway

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"When Max's parents leave the country without him, he must rely on his wits to get by, and before long he is running his own--rather unusual--business"--

9) Book Scavenger

Author

Chambliss Bertman, Jennifer

Series

Book scavenger volume 1

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Book, CD audio book

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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.

10) The Boxcar children

Author

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Series

Boxcar children volume 1

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Four orphaned children run away and live in a boxcar, until they are found by their grandfather. Includes a biography and photographs of the author.

11) Cam Jansen and the secret service mystery

Author

Adler, David A

Series

Cam Jansen mysteries. Main series volume 26

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Cam and her friend Danny help solve the mystery of a stolen pearl necklace when the governor comes to visit their school for the dedication of the new library.

12) The case of the missing marquess: an Enola Holmes mystery

Author

Springer, Nancy

Series

Enola Holmes mysteries volume 1

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Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother.

13) The case of the missing moonstone

Author

Stratford, Jordan

Series

Wollstonecraft Detective Agency volume 1

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Book, CD audio book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway

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"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects"--Provided by publisher.

14) The case of the time-capsule bandit

Author

Spencer, Octavia

Series

Randi Rhodes, ninja detective volume 1

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Book, eAudiobook

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Twelve-year-old Randi, unhappy about moving from Brooklyn to Deer Creek, Tennessee, after her mother's death, soon finds new friends and a case to solve surrounding a stolen time capsule and rumors of a centuries-old treasure.

15) Charlie & Frog: a mystery

Author

Kane, Karen

Series

Charlie & Frog volume 1

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While staying with his grandparents in Castle-on-the-Hudson, Charlie stumbles upon a mystery but must learn American Sign Language to keep up with Frog, a deaf girl who wants to help solve it.

16) Chasing Vermeer

Author

Balliett, Blue

Series

Chasing Vermeer volume 1

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When seemingly unrelated and 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.

17) The Chicken Squad: the first misadventure

Author

Cronin, Doreen

Series

Chicken Squad volume 1

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When the squirrel Tail comes barreling into the chicken coop ranting about a round, shiny, green, big, scary thing in the yard, Dirt, Sweetie, Poppy, and Sugar investigate this strange object.

18) Chirp

Author

Messner, Kate

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Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.--

19) The detective's assistant

Author

Hannigan, Kate

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"In 1859, eleven-year-old Nell goes to live with her aunt, Kate Warne, the first female detective for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. Nell helps her aunt solve cases, including a mystery surrounding Abraham Lincoln, and the mystery of what happened to Nell's own father" --

20) A dog-friendly town

Author

Cameron, Josephine

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As his family's dog-friendly bed-and-breakfast establishment in dog-friendly Carmelito, California, welcomes celebrity dog Sir Bentley, twelve-year-old Epic McDade and his younger siblings investigate the disappearance of a $500,000 dog collar.