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The Case of the Missing Marquess

Nancy Springer · 216 pages

When Enola Holmes, sister to the detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared, she quickly embarks on a journey to London in search of her. But nothing can prepare her for what awaits. Because when she arrives, she finds herself involved in the kidnapping of a young marquess, fleeing murderous villains, and trying to elude her shrewd older brothers—all while attempting to piece

Puzzles and RiddlesMissing PersonMiddle GradeCharming
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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

Puzzles and RiddlesMiddle GradeCharmingMystery
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The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma

Trenton Lee Stewart · 391 pages

Join the Mysterious Benedict Society as Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance embark on a daring new adventure that threatens to force them apart from their families, friends, and even each other. When an unexplained blackout engulfs Stonetown, the foursome must unravel clues relating to a nefarious new plot, while their search for answers brings them closer to danger than ever before.Filled with p

Puzzles and RiddlesMiddle GradeCharmingMultiple POV
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The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot

Robert Arthur · 169 pages

In searching for a lost parrot who recites Shakespeare with a stutter, Jupiter Jones' firm of young detectives becomes involved with a missing masterpiece.

Puzzles and RiddlesMiddle GradeCharmingMystery
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

E.L. Konigsburg · 162 pages

Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.

Puzzles and RiddlesMiddle GradeCharmingMystery
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How to Solve Your Own Murder

Kristen Perrin · 358 pages

Puzzles and RiddlesMissing PersonCharmingFemale Friendship
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The Vanishing Violin

Michael D. Beil

Puzzles and RiddlesFemale FriendshipMiddle GradeMystery
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Brian Selznick · 534 pages

ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric girl and the owner of a small toy booth in the train station, Hugo’s undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen

Puzzles and RiddlesMiddle GradeCharmingMystery
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The London Eye Mystery

Siobhan Dowd · 336 pages

Puzzles and RiddlesMiddle GradeMissing PersonMystery
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The Bletchley Riddle

Ruta Sepetys · 392 pages

Puzzles and RiddlesMissing PersonMysteryMultiple POV
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Where's Nancy?

Carolyn Keene · 167 pages

Nancy's disappearance leaves the story in the hands of alternating narrators--Nancy's good friends George and Bess (although it's not always easy to tell their voices apart). When Nancy is late for a lunch date, her friends chalk it up to her usual forgetfulness. When she misses a date with boyfriend Ned, concern mounts. As several days pass, George, Ned, and Bess try to follow the slim offering o

Missing PersonFemale FriendshipMiddle GradeMystery
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Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal / Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal es el primer volumen de la ya clásica serie de novelas fantásticas de la autora británica J.K. Rowling. «Con las manos temblorosas, Harry le dio la vuelta al sobre y vio un sello de lacre púrpura con un escudo de armas: un león, un águila, un tejón y una serpiente, que rodeaban una gran letra H.» Harry Potter nunca ha oído hablar de Hogwarts hasta que empiezan a

Puzzles and RiddlesMiddle GradeCharmingMystery
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Since You've Been Gone

Morgan Matson · 464 pages

Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete, but with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives them a try.

Puzzles and RiddlesMissing PersonCharmingFemale Friendship
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The Potato Chip Puzzles

Eric Berlin

When puzzle addict Winston Breen and his best friends head to an all-day puzzle hunt with a $50,000 grand prize, they’re pumped. But the day is not all fun and games: not only do they have a highstrung and highly competitive teacher along for the ride, but the puzzles are hard even for Winston, the other schools’ teams are no joke, and someone in the contest is playing dirty in order to win. Tryin

Puzzles and RiddlesMiddle GradeMysterySeries
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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

Puzzles and RiddlesMiddle GradeMysteryMale Lead
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Mary Anne and the Search for Tigger

Ann M. Martin · 142 pages

While trying to find her missing kitten with the help of the other members of the Baby-sitters Club, Mary Anne almost loses her good friend Logan.

Female FriendshipMiddle GradeMissing PersonCharming
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The Falls

Ian Rankin · 416 pages

Puzzles and RiddlesMissing PersonMysterySeries
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Guilty by Definition

Susie Dent · 384 pages

Puzzles and RiddlesMissing PersonCharmingMystery
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The Grim Grotto

Lemony Snicket · 323 pages

Warning: Your day will become very dark – and possibly damp – if you read this book. Plan to spend this spring in hiding. Lemony Snicket is back with the eleventh book in his New York Times bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events. Lemony Snicket's saga about the charming, intelligent and grossly unlucky Baudelaire orphans continues to provoke suspicion and despair in readers the world over. In

Puzzles and RiddlesMiddle GradeMysteryCharming
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The Diamond in the Window

Jane Langton · 256 pages

Eleanor and Edward Hall are orphans being raised by their Aunt Lily and Uncle Freddy in a faded old Victorian mansion. When they stumble upon the hidden bedroom of another aunt and uncle who disappeared from the house as children, they begin a series of dream adventures in hopes of discovering the fate of their lost relatives and restoring the family fortunes. An imaginative and exciting tale that

Puzzles and RiddlesMiddle GradeMissing PersonSeries
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The Water Castle

Megan Frazer Blakemore · 352 pages

Moving into an inherited mansion in Maine with their mother and stroke-afflicted father, three siblings uncover a mystery involving hidden passageways, family rivalries, and healing waters.

Puzzles and RiddlesMiddle GradeMysteryMultiple POV
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Under the Egg

Laura Marx Fitzgerald · 272 pages

When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather’s painting, she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath. That’s great news for Theo, who’s struggling to hang onto her family’s two-hundred-year-old townhouse and support her unstable mother on her grandfather’s legacy of $463. There’s just one problem: Theo’s grandfather was a security g

Puzzles and RiddlesMiddle GradeMysteryMuseums
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The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown · 454 pages

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of da Vinci…clues visible for all to see…and yet ingeniously d

Puzzles and RiddlesMysteryMultiple POVSeries
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The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow

Katherine Woodfine · 320 pages

Middle GradeFemale FriendshipCharmingMystery

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