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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In late nineteenth-century London, fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, turns to Florence Nightingale for help when her investigation into the disappearance of a Crimean War widow grows cold.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
While fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes endeavors to save her friend Lady Cecily Alistair from an unwelcome arranged marriage, she meets with some assistance from her older brother, Sherlock, and interference by the eldest, Mycroft.
23) Detective camp
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While learning detective skills at a sleep-away camp, Dink and his friends undercover a real mystery involving stolen paintings.
Author
Series
Bunnicula series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the book's twenty-fifth anniversary with a special anniversary edition that includes a brand-new jacket and a new preface from James Howe.
Author
Series
Cam Jansen mysteries. Super specials volume 1
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A collection of three Cam Jansen summer camp mysteries in which Cam Jansen and her best friend are spending three weeks at Camp Eagle Lake, where they play sports, do crafts, and solve three mysteries.
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2004, c 1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When fifth-grader Cam notices that the prizes for the most difficult game at the school carnival are rapidly disappearing, she uses her amazing photographic memory to investigate.
Author
Series
Encyclopedia Brown volume 26
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he investigates such cases as whether a diary of George Washington's mother is authentic, or if a UFO picture supposedly taken by the army is real.
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar photographs. A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off teh coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its decaying bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss Peregrine's children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They...
29) The lost village
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed "The Lost Village," since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother's entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were left-a woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newborn-have plagued her. She's gathered a small crew of...
Author
Series
Nate the Great volume 27
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2014].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Nate the Great and his dog, Sludge, would like to take a break from detective work, but new cases--cases they do not want--await them"--
Author
Series
Mysteries of Maisie Hitchins volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Junior sleuth Maisie Hitchins, who lives in her grandmother's boarding house in Victorian London, uncovers an intriguing plot involving stolen sausages, pilfered halfpennies, and a fast-paced bicycle chase.
Author
Series
Cam Jansen adventure volume 12
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2004, c1989
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grade sleuth Cam Jansen and her friend Eric combine wits to solve the disappearance of a young French girl.
Author
Series
All the wrong questions volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town called Stain'd By The Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a statue.
35) Sadie
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance.
Author
Series
Nate the Great volume 26
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nate and his dog Sludge help Rosamond discover who has been tearing pages out of her books.
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