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The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club
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Include books by the same authorEncyclopedia 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
Archer's Goon
Diana Wynne Jones · 320 pages
After the Goon moves into the Sykes' house and refuses to budge, thirteen-year-old Howard learns some startling information about his family, including the fact that he is adopted and that his father is connected with the seven wizards who run the town.
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.
Cupid Doesn't Flip Hamburgers
Debbie Dadey, Marcia Thornton Jones · 76 pages
Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger
Louis Sachar · 168 pages
Unusual things continue to happen in the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.
Homer Price
Robert McCloskey · 149 pages
Six episodes in the life of Homer Price including one in which he and his pet skunk capture four bandits and another about a donut machine on the rampage.
Regarding the Fountain: A Tale, in Letters, of Liars and Leaks
Kate Klise · 144 pages
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Stephen Leacock, Seth · 225 pages
"Set in the fictional landscape of Mariposa on the shores of Lake Wissanotti in Missinaba County, Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of A Little Town is an affectionate satire of small town life. This series of humorous connected sketches about graft, high finance, religion, love and romance is, on one level, an intimate, comic portrait of town life and local politics. On another level, the narrative is
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Lemony Snicket · 288 pages
The Last Present
Wendy Mass · 246 pages
Children's birthdays are always strange in Willow Falls, but when Connor's little sister Grace falls into a frozen state on her tenth birthday, Amanda and Leo must travel back in time to find out what force prevented Angelina from casting the blessing that would have protected her.
The Black Jacket Mystery
Kathryn Kenny · 236 pages
While organizing an ice carnival to raise funds for her pen pal's school library, Trixie investigates a mysterious problem facing Regan and a run of thefts and accidents in the neighborhood.
The View from Saturday
E.L. Konigsburg · 163 pages
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
The Artemis Fowl Files
Eoin Colfer · 187 pages
Two original short stories, plus puzzles, interviews with characters, and other writings that unlock secrets of the Artemis Fowl books, which feature a twelve-year-old evil genius and his dealings with fairies and other magical beings.
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.
Hideout
Gordon Korman · 273 pages
Luthor's former owner, Swindle, is back trying to reclaim his dog, and it is up to Griffin Bing, Savannah Drysdale, and their friends to hide the Doberman until they can come up with a plan to rescue him from the vicious crook.
Cold Sassy Tree
Olive Ann Burns · 395 pages
Had difficulty with the unfamiliar language spoken by the characters, but once I was able to figure it out I enjoyed the family dynamics. Upon finishing this book, I immediately borrowed "Leaving Cold Sassy".
Soup & Me
Robert Newton Peck · 115 pages
The further adventures and misadventures of Rob and Soup, two boys growing up in a small Vermont town.
The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree
Bill Brittain · 181 pages
A children's novel in a folk tale style. A mysterious stranger offers to grant the wishes of the inhabitants of the New England village of Coven Tree. The loose wording of the wishes of some villagers causes their wishes to go awry.
The Callahan Chronicals
Spider Robinson · 399 pages
This omnibus edition contains the trio of books that introduced the world to Mike Callahan, Jake Stonebender, Doc Webster, Mickey Finn, Fast Eddie Costigan, Long-Drink McGonnigle, Ralph Von Wau Wau, and the rest of the regulars of Callahan's Place, in the stories that helped Spider Robinson to win both a John W. Campbell Award and a legion of fans. Callahan's Crosstime Saloon is the neighborhood
Three of Diamonds
Anthony Horowitz · 227 pages
A collection of three Diamond Brothers mysteries in which Tim and Nick bungle their way through a search for a missing philanthropist, find themselves in a Parisian prison, and are stranded on a Scottish island with a murderer.