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The Clue of the Broken Locket

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The Gatehouse Mystery

Julie Campbell · 272 pages

When Trixie Belden and Honey Wheeler explore an abandoned gatehouse, they discover more than dust and spiderwebs. Stuck in the dirt floor is a huge diamond! Could a ring of jewel thieves be hiding out in Sleepyside?

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The Bobbsey Twins At Snow Lodge

Laura Lee Hope · 136 pages

The Bobbsey Twins solve a mystery which has estranged an old man and his nephew.

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The Third Form at St. Clare's

Pamela Cox · 152 pages

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Buried Treasure

Jamie Suzanne · 104 pages

Jessica Wakefield and her best friend, Ellen Riteman, find themselves in trouble when their discovery of a metal box containing letters, photographs and money--buried in Ellen's backyard--coincides with the theft of class trip money from the school.

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Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls

Ann M. Martin · 153 pages

Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne and Stacey have had some strange adventures since they started the Baby-sitters Club. But nothing's been as spooky as what's going on right now. The baby-sitters have been getting mysterious phone calls when they're out on their jobs. When a phone rings and they pick up, there's no one on the other end of the line. Claudia's sure it's the Phantom Caller, a jewel thief

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Five on Kirrin Island Again

Enid Blyton · 188 pages

What can Uncle Quentin be up to -- all alone -- on Kirrin Island? He won't let anyone visit -- not even George and the rest of the Famous Five. But Quentin isn't really all alone on the island -- somebody is watching his every move!

Middle GradeLightheartedMysterySeries
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The Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds

David A. Adler · 58 pages

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Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man

Wendelin Van Draanen · 224 pages

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Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill

Alexander McCall Smith · 90 pages

"Precious Ramotswe has two new friends at school and they have the funniest and most resourceful pet you can imagine. But they are upset that their family's most valuable possession, their cow, has gone missing. Precious has a plan to find the missing animal but she needs the help of another in her search. Will she succeed and what obstacles will she face on her path?"--Http://www.fantasticfiction

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Lunch Lady and the Bake Sale Bandit: Lunch Lady #5

Jarrett J. Krosoczka · 102 pages

Lunch Lady, Betty, and the Breakfast Bunch must figure out who is stealing the goods from the bake sale.

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The Happy Hollisters

Andrew E. Svenson · 184 pages

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Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth

Jane O'Connor · 136 pages

"In her chapter book debut, Nancy Clancy must find the culprit when a prized possession goes missing at school"--

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Goldie Vance Vol. 2

Hope Larson · 112 pages

Sixteen-year-old Marigold "Goldie" Vance lives at a Florida resort with her dad, who manages the place. Her mom, who divorced her dad years ago, works as a live mermaid at a club downtown. Goldie has an insatiable curiosity, which explains her dream to one day become the hotel's in-house detective. When Charles, the current detective, encounters a case he can't crack, he agrees to mentor Goldie in

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Vampalicious!

Sienna Mercer

After discovering that she has a twin sister, Ivy, who is a vampire, Olivia risks losing her when their father decides to move to Europe with Ivy.

Middle GradeLightheartedFemale LeadSeries
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Abby's Lucky Thirteen

Ann M. Martin, Nola Thacker · 126 pages

Abby may have spoiled the biggest day of her life, her Bat Mitzvah, because she was caught cheating on a math test. Preparing for her Bat Mitzvah with her twin sister, Abby is falsely accused of cheating on a math test and suspended from school, and she decides to hide the truth about the test and the suspension. Original.

Middle GradeLightheartedTwinsFemale Lead
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Thea Stilton and the Ghost of the Shipwreck

Thea Stilton · 166 pages

Nadat professor Van Kraken een lezing heeft gegeven over een gezonken schip, verdwijnt hij. De Thea Sisters gaan op zoek naar de professor en naar het gezonken schip. Voorlezen vanaf ca. 7 jaar, zelf lezen vanaf ca. 9 jaar.

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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.

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War of the Wardrobes

Megan Stine · 128 pages

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The Secret of the Old Mill

Franklin W. Dixon · 192 pages

The Secret of the Old Mill is the third volume of the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories. This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane under the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon in 1927. After becoming victims of a counterfeiting ring, the boys become suspicious of the activities surrounding a previously disused mill on a deserted road by the river. When they give a boa

Middle GradeLightheartedMysterySeries
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Belly Up

Stuart Gibbs · 294 pages

This book is a mystery about a teenage boy who finds a hippo dead in the zoo, who did it?

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Perfect Scoundrels

Ally Carter

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Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill

Maud Hart Lovelace · 171 pages

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