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The Old Motel Mystery

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The Great Spy Showdown

Gertrude Chandler Warner and JM Lee; illustrated by Hollie Hibbert

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The Mystery of Tally-Ho Cottage

Enid Blyton · 183 pages

Fatty and the Find-Outers are plunged into an exciting mystery. Who stole the valuable picture from the art gallery? What connects the glamorous Lorenzos with the old Larkins? How does a poodle called Poppet fit into the puzzle? When the truth comes out, Fatty works once more with Inspector Jenks, and solves a mystery that had baffled the nation's police.

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Trixie Belden and the Sasquatch Mystery

Kathryn Kenny

The gang (sans Dan) go on a camping trip with the Belden cousins Hallie, Cap, and Knut. Before you know it, they meet Bigfoot--or do they?

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The Mystery of the Green Ghost

Robert Arthur · 170 pages

The Three Investigators become entangled in the theft of a string of rare pearls and a fraudulent scheme involving family inheritance when they try to solve the mystery of a ghost's appearance in the old Green Mansion.

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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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The Mysterious Benedict Society

Trenton Lee Stewart · 512 pages

Dozens of children respond to this peculiar ad in the newspaper and are then put through a series of mind-bending tests, which readers take along with them. Only four children-two boys and two girls-succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and inventive children could complete. To accomplish it they will have to go undercover at the Learning Institute f

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A To Z Animal Mysteries Cases 1-4

Ron Roy and Kayla Whaley

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The Strange Message in the Parchment

Carolyn Keene · 170 pages

While trying to recover a set of stolen parchment paintings, Nancy Drew becomes involved in tracking a kidnapper and extortionist.

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Cam Jansen and the First Day of School Mystery

David A. Adler · 50 pages

On her first day of fifth grade, Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to help the police find a car thief. Includes a memory game.

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The Shrunken Head

Lauren Oliver, H.C. Chester · 362 pages

Orphans Philippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max must find out who stole a valuable artifact in order to save to save their home, Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders.

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Precious and the Monkeys

Alexander McCall Smith · 71 pages

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The Happy Hollisters

Andrew E. Svenson · 184 pages

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The Penultimate Peril

Lemony Snicket · 353 pages

Dear Reader, If this is the first book you found while searching for a book to read next, then the first thing you should know is that this next-to-last book is what you should put down first. Sadly, this book presents the next-to-last chronicle of the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, and it is next-to-first in its supply of misery, despair, and unpleasantness. Probably the next-to-last thin

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The Curse of Ravenscourt: A Samantha Mystery

Sarah Masters Buckey · 181 pages

When her family temporarily moves into a luxury apartment building in 1904 Manhattan, eleven-year-old Samantha tries to discover whether a series of mishaps is related to a curse on the building's owner.

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Footprints Under the Window

Franklin W. Dixon · 168 pages

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Detective Camp

Ron Roy

While learning detective skills at a sleep-away camp, Dink and his friends undercover a real mystery involving stolen paintings.

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The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett · 256 pages

A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

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One False Note

Gordon Korman · 174 pages

A million dollars, or a clue? Police report a break-in at an elite hotel, and the suspects sound suspiciously like Amy and Dan. There's a car and speedboat chase and an angry mob! When there's a Clue on the line, anything can happen.

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The Black Circle

Patrick Carman · 176 pages

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The Sword Thief

Peter Lerangis · 160 pages

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The Mystery of the Magic Circle

M.V. Carey, M. V. Cary · 160 pages

Three young sleuths uncover a coven of witches when they search for the missing memoirs of a movie star.

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The Mystery of the Moaning Cave

William Arden · 176 pages

Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews are spending time at the Dalton's Crooked-Y Ranch when the cave on the mountain begins moaning after fifty years of silence. Wrapped in the legend of El Diablo, an outlaw who hid in the cave and never returned, the cave holds more secrets than just a legend. With two ancient prospectors, a man with a scar and eyepatch, and man in a speeding car from Ne

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