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I so don't do mysteries
by Barrie Summy
While trying to solve the mystery regarding a rhino heist in San Diego, Sherry Holmes Baldwin's spring break in California is anything but dull--especially with her mom--a super cop ghost on the brink of failing the Academy of Spirits--keeping track of her every sleuthing step!
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The mysterious Benedict Society
by Trenton Lee Stewart
As the only four children to pass the series of tests provided, Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance are asked to go on a secret mission as undercover agents at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened and quickly realize they will have to use their collective wit to get their important task complete. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.
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The mysterious case of the Allbright Academy
by Diane Stanley
As new students of the Allbright Academy, a school where everything has its place and is in its place, friends Franny, Call, Brooklyn, and Prescott have to stick close together in order to avoid falling into the trap of perfection while trying to figure out what spooky spell all their classmates seem to be under.
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The secret tree
by Natalie Standiford
The author of How to Say Goodbye in Robot and Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters presents the endearing story of a mysterious tree on which young people place their written secrets and wishes with unexpected results.
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The Dead Kid Detective Agency
by Evan Munday
When outcast October Schwartz moves to Sticksville, she teams up with five dead teenagers to solve the mystery of a teacher's murder
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A tale of Two Castles
by Gail Carson Levine
Twelve-year-old Elodie journeys to Two Castles in the hope of studying acting but instead becomes an apprentice to the dragon Meenore, who teaches her to be observant and use reasoning, thus helping her discover who is poisoning Count Jonty Um. By the author of the Newbery Honor Book Ella Enchanted, and the New York Times best-sellers Ever and Fairest. 150,000 first printing.
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Eye of the storm
by Kate Messner
Jaden's visit with her meteorologist father, who has just returned from spending four years in Russia conducting experiments, fills her with fear as she discovers that her father's community, Placid Meadows, is anything but placid
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The hunt for the seventh
by Christine Morton-Shaw
When his father starts a new job at Minerva Hall as a gardener, 12-year-old Jim discovers an ancient curse that needs to be thwarted before disaster strikes. Reprint.
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Kiki Strike : inside the shadow city
by Kirsten Miller
After discovering an entrance to a secret world beneath Manhattan's city streets, Ananka learns about the Shadow City through a meeting with one of its residents, Kiki Strike, yet as Kiki begins to recruit delinquent kids to guard her underground world, Ananka begins to fear her new friend and worries that her connection to both worlds may not be a good thing after all. Reprint.
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Hidden talents
by David Lubar
When thirteen-year-old Martin Anderson arrives at an alternative school for misfits and problem students, he falls in with a group of boys with psychic powers and discovers something surprising about himself. Reprint.
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Scat
by Carl Hiaasen
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing
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Shadows on the sea
by Joan Hiatt Harlow
During World War II, fourteen-year-old Jill Winters arrives in the town of Winter Haven, Maine to stay with her grandmother and, while exploring her new surroundings, stumbles upon a carrier pigeon with a coded message--a discovery that plunges her into a dangerous game of treason and betrayal. Reprint.
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Island of thieves
by Josh Lacey
Tom goes with his Uncle Harvey to Peru, where they narrowly escape imprisonment and death as they hunt for buried treasure after tracking down a journal written by John Drake, a young relative of Sir Francis Drake, on a voyage to Lima in 1577
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The seven keys of Balabad
by Paul Haven
Homesick for New York City, twelve-year-old Oliver feels very much out of his element in war-torn Balabad, until he gets caught up in a centuries-old mystery involving stolen artifacts and buried treasure
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The big dip
by Melanie Jackson
When track champion Joe "Mojo" Lumby gets caught up in a mystery involving a hidden treasure, he must deal with someone who will stop at nothing to find it, and thinks that Joe knows where it is
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Theodore Boone, kid lawyer
by John Grisham
In the small city of Strattenburg there are many lawyers, and thirteen-year-old Theo Boone thinks he is one of them, but his inside knowledge of the justice system means trouble when a cold-blooded killer is about to go free and only Theo can stop him
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Last shot : a Final Four mystery
by John Feinstein
After winning the prize of a press pass to New Orleans to watch the Final Four, Steven and his fellow winner, Susan, delight in all the behind-the-scenes activities, but when they overhear a blackmail plot involving an MSU star player that could result in the big game being thrown, the two junior guest reporters know that it is up to them to break the story and put a stop to the devious plan. Reprint.
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The diamond of Drury Lane
by Julia Golding
Orphan Catherine "Cat" Royal, living at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790s London, tries to find the "diamond" supposedly hidden in the theater, which unmasks a treasonous political cartoonist, and involves her in the street gangs of Covent Garden and the world of nobility. Reprint.
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The London Eye mystery
by Siobhan Dowd
When Salim doesn't come back from his ride on the London Eye, his cousins Ted and Kat turn to the authorities for help, but when they offer no viable suggestions, the two use their sleuthing skills to figure out what actually happened. Reprint.
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The last Martin
by Jonathan Friesen
Thirteen-year-old Martin Boyle struggles to break a family curse after discovering that he has only twelve weeks to live
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The haunting of Charles Dickens [sound recording]
by Lewis Buzbee
Twelve-year-old Meg Pickel travels the rooftops and streets of 1862 London, England, in search of her missing brother, Orion, accompanied by a family friend, the famed author Charles Dickens, whose quest is to find his next novel. Book available.
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The Wikkeling
by Steven Arntson
Henrietta and her pals Gary and Rose all have headaches with an unknown cause and experience other strange incidents--including the appearance of a threatening creature called the Wikkeling--and are hopeful that an ancient bestiary can help solve these mysteries
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Tangerine
by Edward Bloor
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother, Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Simultaneous. 10,000 first printing.
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The bones of the holy
by Jennifer Allison
Gilda Joyce is appalled that her mother plans to remarry, but while they are in St. Augustine, Florida, making the arrangements Gilda discovers that the city is full of ghosts and mysteries, including one involving her stepfather-to-be
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The unknowns : a mystery
by Benedict Carey
When people start vanishing from a godforsaken trailer park next to the Folsom Energy Plant, two eleven-year-olds investigate using mathematical clues that were hastily planted by their friend Mrs. Clarke before she disappeared
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The postcard
by Tony Abbott
Inspired by an old postcard and unfinished magazine, Jason gathers all the strange clues he has discovered and heads down to St. Petersburg with his friend Dia in the hopes of uncovering the truth about his family's past.
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