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Mystery Books for 4th and 5th graders
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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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Detective Camp
by Ron Roy
While learning detective skills at a sleep-away camp, Dink and his friends undercover a real mystery involving stolen paintings.
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The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin
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.
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Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
by Chris Grabenstein
Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape.
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Sammy Keyes and the Killer Cruise
by Wendelin Van Draanen
Sammy struggles to get to know her dad better on a cruise, only to be swept up in a perplexing case involving the disappearance of an heiress.
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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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Nowhere to Run
by Jude Watson
The latest generation of a family that has guarded 39 ingredients in a serum capable of making someone the most powerful person in the world, 13-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, face a dangerous adversary when the serum is stolen. By the National Book Award for Young People's Literature-winning author of What I Saw and How I Lied.
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Ghostopolis
by Doug TenNapel
Accidentally transported to the spirit world by a washed-out ghost wrangler, Garth Hale discovers that he wields unique powers aggressively coveted by the spirits around him and teams up with his grandfather's ghost to find a way back home. By the Eisner Award-winning author of Monster Zoo.
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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.
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