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• The Case of the Snack Snatcher

  O'Donnell, Liam

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Absent Alpacas

  Whaley, Kayla,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shamus the Urban Rez Dog, P.I

  Gentile, Leslie, 1959-

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  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!

• The Case of Windy Lake

  Hutchinson, Michael, 1971-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Blackthorn Key

  Sands, Kevin

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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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel

  Chari, Sheela

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Liars Society

  Gerber, Alyson,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Screaming Staircase

  Stroud, Jonathan

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  Follows three young operatives of a Psychic Detection Agency as they battle an epidemic of ghosts in London. Also available in audiobook format.

• A Royal Conundrum

  Yee, Lisa

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  An elite group of underdogs trained to fight crime must save their unique school from shutting down.

• Undercover Latina

  De León, Aya (Novelist),

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wreck at Ada's Reef

  Beil, Michael D.

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  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.

• Westing Game

  Raskin, Ellen

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  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,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Strangers

  Haddix, Margaret Peterson

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Space Case

  Gibbs, Stuart, 1969-

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  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.

• Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

  Bowling, Dusti,

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  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.

• Clara Voyant

  Delaney, Rachelle

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  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.

• Holes

  Sachar, Louis, 1954-

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  As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Three Times Lucky

  Turnage, Sheila

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  Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Goldfish Boy

  Thompson, Lisa

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  In this riveting debut, a boy struggling with OCD is uniquely qualified to solve a kidnapping.

• Mysterious Benedict Society

  Stewart, Trenton Lee

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  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. Also…Read moreRead more of this annotation