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Great Mysteries for Kids

Get ready to crack the case! If you enjoy solving confounding clues and unraveling mysteries, each of these 'whodunnit' chapter books will keep you captivated until the very end! For this list, chapter books for early readers will be listed first.

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  • Nine-year-old Hilde Lysiak is an aspiring reporter with her own newspaper, the Orange Street News, and she is investigating break-ins and missing baked goods--and with the help of Zeus, a little dog with a big bark, she intends to track down the…
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., 2017. ©2017 — EASY SERIES Hil
  • One day, Mac (smartest boy in his class in a small town in California) receives a telephone call from the Queen of England, recruiting him to find the crown jewels (well, actually just the Coronation Spoon) and so Mac embarks on his first adventure…
    Book, 2018New York : Orchard Novel/Scholastic Inc., 2018. ©2018 — EASY SERIES Mac
  • Meet Myron: a third-grade detective who loves logic, facts and solving mysteries. He does not love new things. Unfortunately, everything is new this year: Myron has a new baby sister, his family has moved across town, and now he's starting his first…
    Book, EASY SERIES Wes
  • Abigail 'Abbi' Wallace is excited to see the alpacas at the Maine State Fair. But there's only one alpaca left-- the rest are missing! What sent the alpacas packing? Abbi; her dog, Barkley; and her friends Lydia and Daniel are ready to sniff out…
    Book, 2023New York : Random House, [2023] — EASY SERIES Ato
  • When a cyberbully posts embarrassing rumors about other students at school, Drew, to protect her own secret, puts her sleuthing skills to good use to find the culprit, who just might be one of her closest friends.
    Book, 2022Boston ; NY : Harpercollins Childrens Books 2022 — JUV FIC Bur
  • A painting has been stolen...! When Rami sees a floating girl in the museum, he knows he has seen her somewhere before. Then he realizes: She looks just like the girl in the painting that has gone missing. But how does her appearance connect to the…
    Book, 20242024. — DOWNLOADABLE eBOOK
  • When Mom is accused of stealing from the family-owned jewellery store she's worked at for years, Shamus the rez dog sets out to find the real thief!
    Book, 2023Tkaronto, (Toronto) : DCB Young Readers, [2023] — JUV FIC Gen
  • When a visiting archaeologist goes missing, the cousins decide to solve the mystery of his disappearance. In the midst of community conflict, family concerns, and environmental protests, the four get busy following every lead. From their base of…
    Book, 2019Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Second Story Press, [2019] — JUV FIC Hut
  • 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…
    Book, 2015New York : Aladdin, 2015. — JUV FIC San
  • Based on the Peabody Award-winning podcast, this tech-filled adventure series pits intrepid Mars Patel and his outcast friends against a brilliant, enigmatic billionaire as they race to figure out why kids are disappearing from their school.
    Book, 2020London : Walker Books, 2020. — JUV FIC Cha
  • Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the prestigious Boston School, she's excited to be in the same world as her dad, whom she's never met, and make real friends. But Weatherby has a secret she'll risk everything to…
    Book, 2024New York : Scholastic Press, 2024. — JUV FIC Ger
  • Follows three young operatives of a Psychic Detection Agency as they battle an epidemic of ghosts in London. Also available in audiobook format.
    Book, 2013New York : Disney-Hyperion Books, [2013] — JUV FIC Str
  • An elite group of underdogs trained to fight crime must save their unique school from shutting down.
    Book, 2024New York : Random House, [2024] — JUV SERIES Mis
  • Fourteen-year-old Andrea Hernandez-Baldoquin hails from a family of spies working for the factory, an international organization dedicated to protecting people of color. Andrea has dreamed about getting her first solo mission, but she never imagined…
    Book, 2022Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2022. — JUV FIC Del
  • Twelve-year-old Lark Heron-Finch inherits a house on Swallowtail Island in Lake Erie, where she untangles a decades-old mystery and saves the island from unscrupulous developers.
    Book, 2022[New York] : Pixel+Ink, [2022] — JUV FIC Bei
  • This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, which involves blizzards, burglaries,…
    Book, 1978New York, NY : Dutton Children's Books, 1978, 2003 — JUV FIC Ras
  • Everything changes when reports of three kidnapped children reach the Greystone kids, and they're shocked by the startling similarities between themselves and these complete strangers. Before Chess, Emma, and Finn can question their mom about it,…
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — JUV FIC Had
  • Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the Moon's most prominent doctors. Also available in audiobook format.
    Book, 2014New York : Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2014] — JUV FIC Gib
  • New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges. Also available in eBook format.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Sterling Children's Books, An imprint of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., [2017] — JUV FIC Bow
  • When a mystery unfolds at school, Clara finds herself in a strange situation: having an opportunity to prove herself as an investigative journalist with the help of her own mystical powers.
    Book, 2018Toronto : Puffin Canada, 2018. — JUV FIC Del