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The Mystery of the Missing Necklace

Enid Blyton · 177 pages

Who could be burgling the village's jewels? There is a gang of thieves using Peterswood as their headquarters! Luckily, Fatty's disguises are better than ever -- no one recognises him as a balloon seller or the old man in the village. He is just the person to get the Five Find-Outers to the bottom of this mystery.

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The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club

Bertrand R. Brinley · 200 pages

The six members of the Mad Scientist Club experiment with new projects which include making rain and launching a flying saucer.

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Werewolves Don't Go to Summer Camp

Debbie Dadey, Marcia Thornton Jones · 94 pages

Mr. Jenkins' beard and bare feet have campers at Camp Lone Wolf wondering if he might be a werewolf who comes out at midnight for a snack.

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Inside the Shadow City

Kirsten Miller · 387 pages

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This Isn't What It Looks Like

Pseudonymous Bosch

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Thea Stilton and the Star Castaways

Thea Stilton · 176 pages

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The Candymakers and the Great Chocolate Chase

Wendy Mass · 533 pages

It has been a few months since the Harmonicandy was chosen as the winner of the nationwide candymaking contest. Forever changed by the experience, Logan, Miles, Philip, and Daisy have returned to their regular lives. But when presented with the chance to go on tour to promote the new candy, they each have very different reasons for hitting the road.

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The Mystery of the Talking Skull

Robert Arthur · 164 pages

An old trunk involves the three investigators with dangerous criminals seeking a cache of stolen money.

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The Vile Village

Lemony Snicket · 256 pages

You have undoubtedly picked up this book by mistake, so please put it down. Nobody in their right mind would read this particular book about the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire on purpose, because each dismal moment of their stay in the village of V.F.D. has been faithfully and dreadfully recorded in these pages. I can think of no single reason why anyone would want to open a book con

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The School Skeleton

Ron Roy · 91 pages

S is for Skeleton. . . .It's a bone-afide mystery at Dink's school. Some sneaky soul has stolen the skeleton from the nurse's office! The principal promises free aquarium tickets to the savvy sleuths who can track down poor Mr. Bones. Soon mysterious clues are showing up all over the school. It's up to Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose to follow the clues and put those old bones to rest.From the Trade Pap

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The Mysterious Benedict Society Collection

Trenton Lee Stewart · 1,872 pages

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Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All

Donald J. Sobol · 96 pages

Leroy Brown is back in the next six books in the Encyclopedia Brown series. As Idavilles ten-year-old star detective, Encyclopedia has an uncanny knack for trivia. With his unconventional knowledge, he solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids through his own detective agency. But his dad also happens to be the chief of the Idaville police department, and every night around the dinner table, Ency

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Down the Rabbit Hole

Peter Abrahams · 375 pages

Welcome to Echo Falls, home of a thousand secrets.Ingrid is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or at least her shoes are. And getting them back will mean getting tangled up in a murder investigation as complicated as the mysteries solved by her idol, Sherlock Holmes. With soccer practice, schoolwork, and the lead role in her town's production of Alice in Wonderland, Ingrid is swamped. But as th

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The Problem Child

Michael Buckley · 292 pages

a great book for kids about fairy tale creatures and people come to life where saabrina and daphne and the grrandmother are the grimms they solve the fairy tale crimes

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The Odds of Getting Even

Sheila Turnage · 368 pages

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Return of the Homework Machine

Dan Gutman · 176 pages

After discarding their infamous homework machine, four friends, now in sixth grade, find themselves once again at the police station, this time giving testimony about an incident involving a powerful computer chip, a Grand Canyon treasure, and a dead body.

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Unleashed

Gordon Korman · 205 pages

Luthor the Doberman, a former attack dog, has a good home with Savannah Drysdale, but every time a certain truck passes he goes into a frenzy, while Griffin Bing is caught up in trying to beat his rival, Darren Vader, at an invention contest. Luthor, a former attack dog, is trying to be on his best behavior now that he's in the care of Savannah, a girl who's easily a dog's best friend. But every

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Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer · 288 pages

Artemis Fowl is the first of a series of semi-realist novels produced by Eoin Colfer. They document the adventures of a precocious prodigal child of the criminal empire, Artemis Fowl. In this book, accompanied by his huge and loyal bodyguard/sidekick/advisor Butler, Artemis engages in a series of surreal activities; the absence of his missing father and the mental disorder of his mother allow him

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Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics

Chris Grabenstein · 288 pages

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The Well-Wishers

Edward Eager · 240 pages

James, Laura, and Deborah along with their friends Kip, Lydia, and Gordy relate their experiences when the unpredictable old wishing well in the backyard continues to involve them in a variety of magical adventures.

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The Lonely Lake Monster

Suzanne Selfors · 205 pages

"Ten-year-olds Pearl and Ben find excitement in the small town of Buttonville as they encounter otherworldly animals, including a lake monster, during their first official day as apprentices to Dr. Woo, a veterinarian for Imaginary Creatures" Ten-year-olds Pearl and Ben find excitement in the small town of Buttonville as they encounter otherworldly animals, including a lake monster, during their

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Escape Velocity

Mark Walden

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The Great Greene Heist

Varian Johnson · 277 pages

Jackson Greene has a reputation as a prankster at Maplewood Middle School, but after the last disaster he is trying to go straight--but when it looks like Keith Sinclair may steal the election for school president from Jackson's former best friend Gabriela, he assembles a team to make sure Keith does not succeed.

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