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1) Iceberg
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Hazel Rothbury stows away aboard the Titanic and, with the help of a porter named Charlie and a first-class passenger named Sylvia, she sets out to explore the great ship, uncovering a haunting mystery -- until the ship hits an iceberg and she must fight to save herself and her friends.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before -- the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
Author
Series
Grantchester mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Collects six new stories featuring the priest and part-time detective Sidney Chambers, in which he helps a youth in a hippie commune, a student who is divested of a family heirloom, and his former curate, who has been tied to an arson attack.
Author
Series
Cam Jansen adventure volume 4
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2004, c1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Cam uses her photographic memory, with help from her friend Eric and his twin sisters, to solve the mystery of Poochie, a famous canine television star.
Author
Series
Regan Reilly mysteries volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 22
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1973]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While trying to locate a missing dancer who is about to gain a large inheritance, Nancy Drew finds a clue leading to the solution of yet another mystery.
9) October ogre
Author
Series
Calendar mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy visit a haunted hotel on Halloween, but once inside they realize that they have seen plenty of people going in and none coming back out.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 22
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, a member of the Putnam & Grosset Group
Pub. Date
[1971]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When two suspicious plane accidents occur near an eastern airport, the two Hardy brothers investigate the case and find themselves in greater danger than they anticipated.
13) Pets on parade
Author
Series
Nancy Drew clue books volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Eight-year-old Nancy Drew and her friends solve a doggone puzzler of a mystery during the annual River Heights Halloween Pet Parade"--
Author
Series
Inquisitor's apprentice volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In early twentieth-century New York, Sacha Kessler's ability to see witches earns him an apprenticeship to the police department's star Inquisitor, Maximillian Wolf, to help stop magical crime and, with fellow apprentice Lily Astral, Sacha investigates who is trying to kill Thomas Edison, whose mechanical witch detector could unleash the worst witch-hunt in American history.
Author
Series
Christmas mysteries (Anne Perry) volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just before the Christmas holiday, distinguished London mathematician Henry Rathbone comes to the aid of an old friend whose son Lucien has gone missing. Enlisting the aid of Squeaky Robinson and Crow, Henry soon discovers that Lucien may be involved with a murdered prostitute and a major drugs dealer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Booth and Cece are in Lucedale, Mississippi, where the newly-pregnant Tinkie is treating her friends to a girls' weekend at the fabulous new Bexley B&B. The facials, organics, food, and fitness coaches are supposed to be phenomenal, but Tinkie's primary aim is to attend the Sunrise Easter Services at the incredible Palestinian Gardens, a miniature Holy Land that spreads over 20 acres and has recreations of all parts of Jerusalem - and to speak...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of 22 short stories selected from the five collections of short stories about master criminal Arsene Lupin that Maurice Leblanc published in France a century ago. The English translations (some by George Morehead and some by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos) are now in the public domain. With a new introduction by mystery writer Martin Walker"--
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