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Book Scavenger
by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
After Emily and her family move to San Francisco, she teams up with new friend James to figure out the secrets of an odd book they find before the men who attacked Emily's hero solve the mystery or come after the friends.
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The secret of the old clock
by Carolyn Keene
Nancy Drew solves her first mystery when the accidental rescue of a little girl who lives with her two great-aunts leads on an adventurous search for a missing will.
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Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
by Chris Grabenstein
Twelve-year-old Kyle wins a coveted spot to be one of 12 children chosen to stay in the new town library--designed by his hero, the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello--for an overnight of fun, food and games, but in the morning, the kids find all the doors still locked and must work together to solve secret puzzles in order to discover the hidden escape route.
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The boxcar children
by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Four orphaned children take up residence in an abandoned railroad boxcar.
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Finding Fortune
by Delia Ray
Angry with her mother, 12-year-old runaway Ren finds an unusual boarding house in a nearby ghost town where she meets some interesting people and learns about a forgotten treasure dating from the time when the town was famous for buttons made of Mississippi River shells.
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Greenglass House
by Kate Milford
At Greenglass House, a smuggler's inn, 12-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his winter holidays relaxing, but soon guests begin arriving with strange stories about the house, sending Milo and Meddy, the cook's daughter, on an adventure.
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Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life
by Wendy Mass
Without the keys to open the special box his father left for him to open on his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy fears that he will never get to know the meaning of life that awaits to be revealed, but through a series of events to locate the keys, Jeremy learns a great deal about what life truly is through his own personal experiences and strange encounters.
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The magician's elephant
by Kate DiCamillo
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
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Masterpiece
by Elise Broach
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as a present for James, a human boy with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Dürer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The mysterious Benedict Society
by Trenton Lee Stewart
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
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The name of this book is secret
by Pseudonymous Bosch
Two eleven-year-old misfits try to solve the mystery of a dead magician and stop the evil Dr. L and Ms. Mauvais, who are searching for the secret of immortality.
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Vanishing acts
by Phillip Margolin
This book follows the adventures of 12-year-old Madison, who resolves to help her attorney father solve a murder case at the same time her best friend, Ann, goes missing.
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We the children
by Andrew Clements
Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like, but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep his school from being destroyed.
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From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
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The Parker inheritance
by Varian Johnson
Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother. When she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on a treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery she sets out to find the inheritance, exonerate her grandmother, and expose an injustice once committed against an African American family in Lambert.
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