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Allison, Jennifer
Gilda Joyce: The Dead Letter Drop
Almost-fifteen-year-old psychic investigator Gilda Joyce interns for the summer at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., and solves a mystery involving national security.
2009
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Avi
The Seer of Shadows
In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs. When he accidentally frees the real ghost of the dead girl, he discovers she is bent on revenge, and his life -- and others -- are in danger.
202 p. 2008
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Balliett, Blue
Chasing Vermeer
When strange and seemingly unrelated events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
254 p. 2005
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Barrett, Tracy
The 100-year-old Secret
Xena and Xander Holmes, an American brother and sister living in London for a year, are amazed to discover that Sherlock Holmes was their great-great-great grandfather. When they are inducted into the Society for the Preservation of Famous Detectives and given his unsolved casebook, they attempt to solve the case of a famous missing painting.
157 p. 2008
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Beil, Michael D.
The Red Blazer Girls : the Ring of Rocamadour
Catholic-schooled seventh-graders Sophie, Margaret, Rebecca, and Leigh Ann help an elderly neighbor solve a puzzle her father left twenty years ago. The girls tackle a scavenger hunt, while trying to help their neighbor reunite with her daughter.
299 p. 2009
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Broach, Elise
Shakespeare's Secret
Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit sixth-grader Hero becomes interested in exploring this unusual connection because of a valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new house, an intriguing neighbor, and the unexpected attention of the most popular boy in school.
250 p. 2005
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Byars, Betsy Cromer
The Dark Stairs : a Herculeah Jones Mystery
The intrepid Herculeah Jones helps her mother, a private investigator, solve a frightening case surrounding a creepy old house and Mrs. Jones' equally creepy new client.
130 p. 1994
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Cheshire, Simon
The Curse of the Ancient Mask and other Case Files
Saxby Smart is no ordinary ten-year-old. He's the best detective in the world, or at least the best one who also happens to be in elementary school. As you solve the mystery alongside Saxby, you get to examine pages of his casebook and search for clues.
169 p. 2009
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DeFelice, Cynthia C.
The Ghost of Fossil Glen
Allie Nichols' friend Karen doesn't want to hear the story of a ghost calling for Allie's help and then falling to her death. As Allie discovers that her role is to avenge a murder, she also learns something about friendship, false and true.
167 p. 1998
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Dowd, Siobhan
The London Eye Mystery
When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together -- Ted with his brain that is wired differently and impatient Kat -- to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.
322 p. 2008
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Dowell, Frances O'Roark
Dovey Coe
When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, twelve-year-old Dovey Coe comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother. Maud Hart Lovelace Award Winner; Edgar Award Winner.
181 p. 2000
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Ecton, Emily
Boots and Pieces
It's not easy being Arlie Jacobs. Her big sister bosses her around; her mom makes her dog-sit Mr. Boots, the family's well-dressed chihuahua; and she's convinced a strange and squishy swamp creature that lives down at the lake is eating high school kids. When no one believes her, Arlie and her best friend, Ty set out with Mr. Boots to stop the creature themselves.
230 p. 2008
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Ferraiolo, Jack D.
The Big Splash
Matt Stevens, Middle School Private Eye, is hired by Vinny Biggs, Franklin Middle School's Underworld Boss, for a seemingly simple job. But in a school where one well placed squirt gun shot can "kill" your reputation forever, Matt has only a few days solve a case with "more twists than a candy addict on a swivel chair."
277 p. 2008
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Freeman, Martha
Who Stole Uncle Sam?
Alex and Yasmeen have made a pact to stop solving mysteries, but when Alex's baseball coach -- nicknamed Uncle Sam -- disappears, it's hard for the young detectives to resist. Soon the two are tracking down clues involving porta-potties, lawn care chemicals, and secret baseball scouts. Will Alex and Yasmeen get to the bottom of the mystery before it's too late?
250 p. 2008
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Giff, Patricia Reilly
Eleven
When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his childhood. With the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, Sam tries to unravel the mystery of his past.
164 p. 2008
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Grabenstein, Chris
The Crossroads
When eleven-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well as another kind of ghost from Zack's past.
325 p. 2008
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Grant, Vicki
Quid Pro Quo
Cyril MacIntyre's mother is a twenty-eight-year-old ex-street kid who drags her son to all her law school classes, then proceeds to get herself kidnapped. That aside, Cyril's life isn't too different from that of other thirteen-year-olds. He has all the usual adolescent issues to deal with: parent problems, self-esteem problems, skin, hair and girl problems. He just has legal problems too. And he's got to solve them if he wants to save his mother's life. Quid Pro Quo is a High-Stakes, fast-moving legal thriller about real people, and funny people at that. Edgar Award Nominee
160 p. 2005
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Gregory, Kristiana
The Blizzard On Blue Mountain
Jeff, David, and Claire love their winter break jobs at the ski chalet on Blue Mountain, where they get to snowboard and go sledding between shifts of cleaning and tending to the grounds. When things start going missing from the chalet, however, the cousins find themselves prime suspects...
130 p. 2008
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Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Running Out of Time
When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists. It's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.
184 p. 1995
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Hahn, Mary Downing
All the Lovely Bad Ones : a Ghost Story
While spending the summer at their grandmother's Vermont inn, two prankster siblings awaken young ghosts from the inn's distant past who refuse to rest in peace.
182 p. 2008
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