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• A Copycat Conundrum

  Yee, Lisa,

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  When one of their classmates starts receiving threatening notes, the Misfits investigate and uncover ties to an art forgery scheme.

• It Came From the Trees

  Russell, Ally

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  Convinced that a big-foot-like creature took her best friend during a scouting trip, eleven-year-old Jenna sets out into the woods to find her.

• The Night Train

  Savaryn, Lorelei,

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  When a ghost won't leave Maddie Maverick alone, she must solve the mystery of a decades-long train crash to save her twin sister and her hometown

• Murder at the Old Willow Boarding School

  Fleck, Jessika,

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  In this interactive adventure, you need to solve a murder - your own! You are a student at the Old Willow Boarding School for gifted children; you wake up one day to find you've been murdered. Now a ghost, you have to figure out how to communicate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Swifts

  a Dictionary of Scoundrels

  Lincoln, Beth,

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  On the day they are born, every Swift child is brought before the sacred Family Dictionary. They are given a name, and a definition. A definition it is assumed they will grow up to match.

• The Fairfleet Affair

  Saxton, K. H.

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  Twelve-year-old friends Alex and Asha have a detective agency but no cases--until Alistair Fairfleet goes missing and leaves them a clue.

• Camp Creepy

  White, Kiersten

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  The Sinister-Winterbottoms, twins Alexander and Theo and their older sister Wil, find themselves at a mysterious summer camp where they meet other families whose parents are missing.

• Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

  Gibbs, Stuart, 1969-

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  After tracking down incredible discoveries by Einstein and Darwin, Charlie is back. This time, the great ruler Cleopatra has left behind an extremely valuable and powerful treasure, its location encoded on an ancient stone tablet.

• The Grave Thief

  Hahn, Dee,

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  Twelve-year-old Spade is a grave thief that gets caught up in a royal heist. long the way, he meets Ember, the queen's niece, and together they race to solve the mystery of the legendary Deepstones and their connection to the Woegon, the queen, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Swift and Hawk

  Cyberspies

  Macx, Logan,

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  When their families mysteriously disappear, Swift and Hawk, teen experts in AI and robotics, are recruited by the secretive Mobius Program to crack an unbreakable code. They are immediately plunged into a life-and-death rescue mission, that takes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bear Bottom

  a Funjungle Novel

  Gibbs, Stuart, 1969-

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  While visiting a ranch near Yellowstone National Park with his parents, Summer, and her parents, Teddy Fitzroy investigates the disappearances of bison and an irreplaceable necklace.

• Escape at 10,000 Feet

  D.B. Cooper and the Missing Money

  Sullivan, Tom (Writer of children's books),

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  A minute-by-minute account of the only unsolved airplane hijacking in the United States uses reproductions of FBI files and investigation photographs to chronicle the events surrounding an unidentified extortionist's 1971 hijacking and disappearance.

• The Peacock Detectives

  Nugent, Carly,

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  Almost twelve years old, Cassie is good at finding her neighbors' pet peacocks but not so good at figuring out the changes in her parents, her older sister, and her best friend Jonas.

• Kat Wolfe Takes the Case

  St. John, Lauren, 1966-

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  Join brave Kat Wolfe and her animal sidekicks in this second mysterious adventure filled with friendship, freedom and a fierce wild cat! When a landslide on the Jurassic Coast reveals a rare 'dragon' dinosaur, best friends Kat Wolfe and Harper Lamb…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Winterhouse

  Guterson, Ben,

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  Elizabeth, eleven, spends Christmas break at Winterhouse hotel under strange circumstances, where she discovers that she has magic, and her love of puzzles helps her solve a mystery.

• The Gallery

  Fitzgerald, Laura Marx,

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  In 1929 New York City, twelve-year-old housemaid Martha O'Doyle suspects that a wealthy recluse may be trying to communicate with the outside world through the paintings on her gallery walls.

• Framed!

  a T.O.A.S.T. Mystery

  Ponti, James,

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  In Washington, D.C., twelve-year-old Florian Bates, a consulting detective for the FBI, and his best friend Margaret help thwart the biggest art heist in United States history.

• Warren the 13th and the All-Seeing Eye

  Del Rio, Tania

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  "Twelve-year-old orphan Warren's pride and joy is his family's hotel, but he's been miserable ever since his evil Aunt Anaconda took over the management. Anaconda believes a mysterious treasure known as the All-Seeing-Eye is hidden somewhere on the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Greenglass House

  Milford, Kate

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  At Greenglass House, a smuggler's inn, twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his winter holidays relaxing but soon guests are arriving with strange stories about the house sending Milo and Meddy, the cook's daughter, on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Frog Who Croaked

  Krosoczka, Jarrett,

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  Paired together after a veteran detective retires, platypus police squad members Rick Zengo, a hotshot rookie, and Corey O'Malley, a hard-nosed old-timer, struggle with their differences while tackling their first case involving a missing…Read moreRead more of this annotation