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The Cry of the Loon: A Samantha Mystery

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The Smuggler's Treasure

Sarah Masters Buckey

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Traitor in Williamsburg: A Felicity Mystery

Elizabeth McDavid Jones · 136 pages

Middle GradeMysteryHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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The Sirens of Surrentum

Caroline Lawrence · 224 pages

Middle GradeMysteryHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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The Gallery

Laura Marx Fitzgerald · 336 pages

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.

Middle GradeMysteryHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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The Tangled Web: A Julie Mystery

Kathryn Reiss

In 1977 San Francisco, Julie wants to be just like her new friend Carla, until she discovers that Carla is either in big danger or telling big lies.

Middle GradeMysteryHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan

Nancy Springer · 187 pages

Enola doesn't like to rush a client, or a case. But when she encounters a familiar young lady carrying a paper fan, she is sent immediately into action--for the girl is her old friend Lady Cecily, and the peculiar pink fan signals that Cecily is in terrible peril! There is no time to waste. But what, exactly, is the matter? And how can Enola help her? After following too many clues that lead no

Middle GradeMysteryHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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Mandie and the Hidden Past

Lois Gladys Leppard · 157 pages

Mandie is sure there is a mystery hidden behind the crack in the wall of a tunnel below her house.

Middle GradeMysteryHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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Assassin

Grace Cavendish · 201 pages

WHEN MARGARET CAVENDISH, one of Elizabeth I's Gentlewomen of the Bedchamber, lost her life in a bungled attempt to kill the Queen, her daughter, Lady Grace, became a protegee to the monarch, who takes Grace under her wing. Now Grace, a spunky girl who romps through the gardens with the laundry maids and court tumblers and rolls her eyes at her fellow ladies, chronicles the court intrigues that swi

Middle GradeMysteryHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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The Disappearing Stranger

Lois Walfrid Johnson · 144 pages

When her mother marries Mr. Nordstrom, Kate moves to a farm in northwest Wisconsin, solves a mystery, and learns to adjust to her new stepfamily.

Middle GradeMysteryHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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The Luck of the Buttons

Anne Ylvisaker · 224 pages

In Iowa circa 1929, spunky twelve-year-old Tugs vows to turn her family's luck around, with the help of a Brownie camera and a small-town mystery that only she can solve.

Middle GradeHistorical FictionMysteryFemale Lead
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Betrayal

Grace Cavendish, Patricia Finney · 197 pages

Now that Lady Grace is the Queen's secret "Lady Pursuivant"--a title normally reserved for those who pursue wrongdoers of the Crown--she can hardly believe that a new mystery has fallen in her lap. But what else can it be when Lady Sarah, a fellow lady-in-waiting known for her fancy clothes and hoity-toity attitude, is missing and feared kidnapped by the dashing Captain Drake. Despite her hard fee

Middle GradeMysteryHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow

Katherine Woodfine · 320 pages

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Shadows in the Glasshouse

Megan McDonald · 131 pages

While working as an indentured servant for a Jamestown glassmaker in 1621, twelve-year-old Merry uncovers a case of sabotage.

Middle GradeMysteryHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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The Case of the Girl in Grey

Jordan Stratford · 220 pages

Spotting a ghostly girl in the park who resembles the Wollstonecraft Detective Agency's new client, Lady Ada and Mary discover links between the girl and a case involving a hospital, a missing will, a hasty engagement, and a devious servant.

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Secrets in the Hills: A Josefina Mystery

Kathleen Ernst · 183 pages

Josefina has heard tales and legends all her life: rumors of gold and silver buried in the hills and even tales of a ghostly Weeping Woman who haunts the countryside. But she never imagined that such stories might be true. A stranger leads Josefina to believe that the old stories about buried treasure in New Mexico might be true.

Middle GradeMysteryHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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Arsenic for Tea

Robin Stevens · 352 pages

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The Callender Papers

Cynthia Voigt · 214 pages

In nineteenth-century Massachusetts, orphan Jean, employed to sort out the family papers of a reclusive artist, becomes curious about the mysterious, long-ago death of his wife and the subsequent disappearance of their young child.

MysteryMiddle GradeHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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Speaking from Among the Bones

Alan Bradley · 384 pages

Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they’re found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters’ diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred’s death, the English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey is busily preparing to open its patro

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Anne of Green Gables

L.M. Montgomery · 308 pages

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

Middle GradeHistorical FictionSummer VibesFemale Lead
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The Blackthorn Key

Kevin Sands · 384 pages

"Tell no one what I've given you." Until he got that cryptic warning, Chrisopher Rowe was happy, learning how to solve complex codes and puzzles and creating powerful medicines, potions, and weapons as an apprentice to Master Benedict Blackthorn--with maybe an ecplosion or two along the way. But when a myswterious cult begins to prey on London's apothecaries, the trail of murders grows closer a

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The Lost Twin

Sophie Cleverly · 294 pages

When troublemaking Scarlet vanishes from Rookwood boarding school, Ivy, her quiet twin sister, is invited to "take her place." But when Ivy arrives, she discovers the school's true intention. She is not simply taking up Scarlet's enrollment. She must think like Scarlet, act like Scarlet, become Scarlet. What on earth happened to the real Scarlet, and why is the school trying to keep it a secret? T

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Into the Gauntlet

Margaret Peterson Haddix

The explosive finale! Throughout the hunt for the 39 Clues, Amy and Dan Cahill have uncovered history's greatest mysteries and their family's deadliest secrets. But are they ready to face the truth about the Cahills and the key to their unmatched power? After a whirlwind race that's taken them across five continents, Amy and Dan face the most the difficult challenge yet-a task no Cahill dared to i

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When You Reach Me

Rebecca Stead · 199 pages

As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.

Middle GradeMysteryHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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A Spy on the Home Front: A Molly Mystery

Alison Hart · 165 pages

During a visit to her grandparents' Illinois farm in 1944, ten-year-old Molly tries to prove the innocence of a German-American neighbor whom the FBI suspects of smuggling anti-American propaganda. Includes historical notes about life on the home front in World War II.

Middle GradeMysteryHistorical FictionFemale Lead

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