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Puppy Patrol Series (age 8-11)
by Jenny Dale
mystery ... animals
Catalog: Neil must try to unravel a mystery when he reunites lost dog Jason with its owners, only to have an angry man turn up claiming the dog was stolen from him.
title: Tug of Love
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Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place (age 8-11)
by Maryrose Wood
humor ... mystery
Publisher comments: Found running wild in the forest of Ashton Place, the Incorrigibles are no ordinary children: Alexander, age ten or thereabouts, keeps his siblings in line with gentle nips; Cassiopeia, perhaps four or five, has a bark that is (usually) worse than her bite; and Beowulf, age somewhere-in-the-middle, is alarmingly adept at chasing squirrels. Luckily, Miss Penelope Lumley is no ordinary governess. Only fifteen years old and a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, Penelope embraces the challenge of her new position. Though she is eager to instruct the children in Latin verbs and the proper use of globes, first she must help them overcome their canine tendencies. But mysteries abound at Ashton Place: Who are these three wild creatures, and how did they come to live in the vast forests of the estate? Why does Old Timothy, the coachman, lurk around every corner? Will Penelope be able to teach the Incorrigibles table manners and socially useful phrases in time for Lady Constance's holiday ball? And what on earth is a schottische?
title: The Hidden Gallery
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (age 8-11)
by Marie Greenwood
spooky ... mystery
In this adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous book, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to the bleak wastes of Dartmoor to solve the mystery surrounding the late Sir Charles Baskerville and a ghostly hound.
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Investigators of the Unknown Series (age 8-11)
by Janet Taylor Lisle
family ... magic ... mystery ... fantasy
Angela, Georgina, and Poco are on the lookout for magic in everyday life, and in each volume these three friends find themselves facing the inexplicable.
title: The Gold Dust Letters
title: Looking for Juliette
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Fat Fanny, Beanpole Bertha, and the Boys (age 8-11)
by Barbara Ann Porte
humor ... enterprise ... mystery
When Bertha's father vanishes in the Bermuda Triangle, and Fanny's theater agent parents are secretly divorced, the girls decide to teach Fanny's triplet brothers to tap-dance to raise money.
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Room One: a Mystery or Two (age 8-11)
by Andrew Clements
friendship ... mystery ... school
Catalog: A young boy living in rural western Nebraska investigates the connection between a mysterious face in the window of an empty house and the possible closing of the one-room school he attends.
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The Flint Future Detectives Series (age 8-11)
by Christopher Curtis
brilliant protagonist ... mystery ... enterprise ... humor
In the first book, Mr. Chickee's Funny Money, Mr. Chickee, the genial blind man in the neighborhood, gives 9-year-old Steven a mysterious bill with 15 zeros on it and the image of a familiar but startling face. Could it be a quadrillion dollar bill? Could it be real? Well, Agent Fondoo of the U.S. Treasury Department and his team of Secret Government Agents are determined to get that money back! But Steven and his best friends, Russell and Zoopy the giant dog, are more than a match for the Feds. After all, Steven is the president of the Flint Future Detectives Club, and the inventor of fantastic spying and detecting equipment such as the Snoopeeze 9000!
title: Mr. Chickee's Funny Money
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The Real Thief (age 8-11)
by William Steig
mystery ... friendship
When Gawain the goose is deserted by his friends after being unjustly convicted of stealing from his beloved king, the real thief is tortured by his conscience.
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The Celery Stalks at Midnight (age 8-11)
by James Howe
spooky ... mystery ... humor
Chester the cat is more than ever convinced that Bunnicula is a vampire when there is a harvest of white vegetables on the morning after the night that Bunnicula was probably wandering through the neighborhood.
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Howliday Inn (age 8-11)
by James Howe
humor ... mystery ... spooky
Harold and Chester are sent to the Chateau Bow-Wow when the Monroe family goes on vacation. When a French poodle involved in a messy love triangle disappears, Chester and Harold enter the crime-detection business.
sequel: Return to Howliday Inn
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The Serial Sneak Thief (age 8-11)
by E.W. Hildick
mystery
A master criminal known as The Chameleon threatens to disrupt a mystery contest being held in the public library, but J.G. and the other Watchdogs are on hand to investigate.
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The Purloined Corn Popper (age 8-11)
by E.W. Hildick
friendship ... mystery
Ten-year-old Tim is worried when a popcorn popper containing a wad of money is stolen from his kitchen and his friend Freddie is suspected of the crime.
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A Ghost in the Family (age 8-11)
by Betty Ren Wright
mystery ... spooky
Catalog: While visiting his friend Jeannie's eccentric Aunt Rosebud in a boarding house that may be haunted, ten-year-old Chad comes across a mystery involving a missing diamond bracelet.
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The Ghost Comes Calling (age 8-11)
by Betty Ren Wright
mystery ... spooky
Catalog: While vacationing at a spooky cabin on Perch Lake, nine-year-old Chad tries to clear the name of Tim Tapper, the cabin's ghostly inhabitant, who was blamed for a truck accident in the 1930s.
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Who Really Killed Cock Robin? (age 8-11)
by Jean Craighead George
nature ... mystery
Citizens of Saddleboro are proud to say that theirs is the cleanest town around. So they can't ignore the mysterious death of their mascot, Cock Robin. Some people would like to blame the citizens themselves, but one boy, Tony Isidoro, suspects there's more to the story.
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Princess for a Week (age 8-11)
by Betty Ren Wright
princesses ... spooky ... mystery
Catalog: When a confident girl named Princess arrives to spend a week at Roddy's house, she encourages him to help her investigate the suspicious activities happening at a supposedly haunted house.
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M. T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales (age 8-11)
by M. T. Anderson
mystery ... adventure ... humor ... science fiction ... authorship
What sort of madman would unleash an army of stilt-walking, laser-beaming, thoroughly angry whales upon the world? Who cares! All that matters is that his dastardly plan be foiled. Lucky for Lily Gefelty, her two best friends are the intrepid stars of their own middle-grade series novels: Jasper Dash (better know as the Boy Technonaut) and Katie Mulligan (beloved by millions as the heroine of the Horror Hollow series). It's going to take all their smarts to stop this insane, inane plot from succeeding. Start with the first thrilling tale, Whales on Stilts.
title: Whales on Stilts
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Utterly Me, Clarice Bean (age 8-11)
by Lauren Child
mystery ... school ... humor
It's not easy to concentrate at school when mysterious things are happening all around you. In fact, Clarice Bean is starting to feel just like her favorite heroine: Ruby Redforr, schoolgirl detective. Clarice and her utterly best friend, Betty Moody, are planning to ace their book project about Ruby and win the class prize, until Betty disappears into thin air, and horrible teacher Mrs. Wilberton teams Clarice up with the naughtiest boy in school. Will her new partner ruin everything? Will Betty ever come back? And what on earth happened to the silver trophy everyone's hoping to win?
sequel: Clarice Bean Spells Trouble
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Steal Away Home (age 8-11)
by Lois Ruby
mystery ... historical
When twelve-year-old Dana Shannon starts to strip away wallpaper in her family's old house, she's unprepared for the surprise that awaits her. A hidden room, containing a human skeleton! How did such a thing get there? And why was the tiny room sealed up? With the help of a diary found in the room, Dana learns her house was once a station on the Underground Railroad. The young woman whose remains Dana discovered was Lizbet Charles, a conductor and former slave. As the scene shifts between Dana's world and 1856, the story of the families that lived in the house unfolds.
sequel: Soon Be Free
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Trial by (Jury) Journal (age 8-11)
by Kate Klise
humor ... mystery ... letters/journal
Get ready for a trial unlike any Tyle County has ever seen. Sixth-grader Perry Keet is missing, and Bob White, his co-worker at Tyle Park Zoo, will stand trial for the alleged murder. But Keet's disappearance is only the beginning of this legal thriller.
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Bunnicula (age 8-11)
by Deborah and James Howe
humor ... mystery
This book is written by Harold. His fulltime occupation is dog. He lives with Mr. and Mrs. Monroe and their sons Toby and Pete. Also sharing the home are a cat named Chester and a rabbit named Bunnicula. It is because of Bunnicula that Harold turned to writing. Someone had to tell the full story of what happened in the Monroe household after the rabbit arrived. Was Bunnicula really a vampire? Only Bunnicula knows for sure.
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Jim Ugly (age 8-11)
by Sid Fleischman
adventure ... mystery ... animals ... humor
Twelve-year-old Jake is thrown into an uneasy alliance with proud, one-man dog, Jim Ugly, when the dog's owner, Jake's father, suddenly disappears. Confident that Jim Ugly can pick up Jake's father's trail, boy and dog set out on the adventure of their lives.
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The Encyclopedia Brown Series (age 8-11)
by Donald Sobol
mystery ... brilliant protagonist
Whenever ten-year-old Leroy (nicknamed ``Encyclopedia'') Brown's father, Chief of Police of Idaville, had a difficult case, Encyclopedia always managed to solve it at the dinner table. So, he decided to open his own detective agency.
title: Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Disgusting Sneakers
title: Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Mysterious Handprints
title: Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Treasure Hunt
title: Encyclopedia Brown Shows the Way
title: Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All
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Regarding the Fountain (age 8-11)
by Kate Klise
mystery ... letters/journal ... humor ... school
The Dry Creek Middle School drinking fountain has sprung a leak, so principal Walter Russ dashes off a request to Flowing Waters Fountains, Etc. We need a new drinking fountain. Please send a catalog. Designer Flo Waters responds: ``I'd be delighted...but please understand that all of my fountains are custom-made.'' Soon the fountain project takes on a life of its own, one chronicled in letters, postcards, memos, transcripts, and official documents.
sequel: Regarding the Bathrooms: a Privy to the Past
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Letters From Camp (age 8-11)
by Kate Klise
mystery ... humor ... family ... letters/journal
Sent to Camp Happy Harmony to learn how to get along with each other, pairs of brothers and sisters chronicle in letters home how they come to suspect the intentions of the singing family running the camp.
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The Chet Gecko Mystery Series (age 8-11)
by Bruce Hale
humor ... mystery
In these hilarious mysteries, Chet Gecko can't think of anything but eating and sleeping. Nevertheless, he's called upon to foil sinister plots, catch wiley thieves, and take on vicious monsters.
title: The Big Nap: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko
title: The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko
title: Farewell, My Lunchbag: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko
title: Give My Regrets to Broadway: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko
title: The Hamster of the Baskervilles: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko
title: Key Lardo: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko
title: The Malted Falcon: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko
title: Murder, My Tweet: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko
title: The Mystery of Mr. Nice: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko
title: The Possum Always Rings Twice: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko
title: This Gum for Hire: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko
title: Trouble Is My Beeswax: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko
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Hank the Cowdog Series (age 8-11)
by John Erickson
humor ... mystery
In the first installment, Hank the Cowdog, head of ranch security, is framed for the murder of a chicken and becomes an outlaw with the coyotes.
title: The Case of the Double Bumblebee Sting
title: The Case of the Halloween Ghost
title: The Case of the Haystack Kitties
title: The Case of the Hooking Bull
title: The Case of the Kidnapped Collie
title: The Case of the Swirling Killer Tornado
title: The Case of the Vampire Cat
title: The Case of the Vanishing Fishhook
title: The Curse of the Incredible Priceless Corncob
title: Every Dog Has His Day
title: Faded Love
title: The Further Adventures of Hank the Cowdog
title: The Garbage Monster From Outer Space
title: Hank the Cowdog and Monkey Business
title: Hank the Cowdog: The Wounded Buzzard on Christmas Eve
title: Hank the Cowdog and the Case of the Fiddle-Playing Fox
title: Hank the Cowdog and the Case of the One-Eyed Killer Stud Horse
title: It's a Dog's Life
title: Hank the Cowdog: Lost in the Dark Unchanted Forest
title: Moonlight Madness
title: The Mopwater Files
title: Murder in the Middle Pasture
title: The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog
title: the Phantom in the Mirror
title: Slim's Goodbye
title: The Case of the Black-hooded Hangmans
title: The Case of the Car-Barkaholic Dog
title: The Case of the Measled Cowboy
title: The Case of the Night-Stalking Bone Monster
title: The Case of the Raging Rottweiler
title: The Case of the Saddle House Robbery
title: The Case of the Vampire Vacuum Sweeper
title: The Case of the Missing Cat
title: The Case of the Midnight Rustler
title: Lost in the Blinded Blizzard
title: Hank the Cowdog: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
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The Hockey Machine (age 8-11)
by Matt Christopher
mystery ... survival ... adventure ... sports
Catalog: Abducted by a "fan" and forced to become a member of a professional junior hockey team, thirteen-year-old star center Steve Crandall quickly realizes that he must play not only to win but to survive.
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Hurculeah Jones Mysteries (age 8-11)
by Betsy Cromer Byars
mystery
Supersleuth Hurculeah Jones and her friends crack one case after another.
title: Death's Door
title: Tarot Says Beware
title: Disappearing Acts
title: Dead Letter
title: The Dark Stairs

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