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Captain Hawaii |
While vacationing in Hawaii, fifteen-year-old Arron becomes
involved with a tour guide, his beautiful daughter, and a ruthless
developer who seeks an ancient secret hidden on the island of
Kanai. |
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Arkin, Anthony
Dana |
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J Fic ARK |
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The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie |
When thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon and his friend Professor
Childermass try to save the life of the elderly Dr. Coote, they
find themselves facing the forces of a menacing voodoo cult. |
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Bellairs, John |
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J Fic BEL |
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Coffin on a Case |
Like Sam Spade, Paul Coffin's dad is a private detective. All Dad
needs, Paul is sure, is either for Mom to come back or for a
really gorgeous woman to ask them to take her case. Enter
gorgeous Lily Larson, age sixteen, whose mother is missing and who
needs a detective. |
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Bunting, Eve |
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J Fic BUN |
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The Dark Stairs: A Herculeah Jones Mystery |
The daughter of a police detective and a private eye becomes a
sleuth in this fast-paced mystery. |
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Byars, Betsy |
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J Fic BYA |
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Disappearing Acts: A Herculeah Jones Mystery |
Herculeah stumbles onto the trail of her friend Meat’s long-lost
father while she and Meat are investigating the disappearance of a
dead body from the men’s room of a comedy club. |
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Byars, Betsy |
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J Fic BYA |
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A Case For Jenny Archer |
After reading three mysteries in a row, Jenny becomes convinced
that the neighbors across the street are up to no good and decides
to investigate. |
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Conford, Ellen |
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J Fic CON |
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The Trouble with Diamonds |
After Jeff Adams gets a country job at a country inn, his first
duty is to help the owner trap a suspected jewel thief. |
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Corbett, Scott |
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J Fic COR |
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Witch Hunt |
Sixteen-year-old Les and his best friend get involved in a murder
case when they stumble across a coven of witches plotting revenge
against a troublesome lawyer. |
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Corbett, Scott |
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J Fic COR |
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Terror Train! |
Two boys traveling from Chicago to Portland, Oregon, by train join
forces with an elderly mystery writer to investigate a fellow
passenger’s sudden death. |
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Cross, Gilbert B. |
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J Fic CRO |
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Kid Caramel,
Private
Investigator: The Werewolf
of PS 40 |
Kid Caramel and his trusty sidekick,
Earnie are up against their biggest case yet. All the
neighborhood pets are disappearing and no one has any idea what's
going on. |
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Ferguson, Dwayne |
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J Fic FER |
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The Missing ‘Gator of Gumbo Limbo: an ecological mystery |
Sixth-grader Liza K., one of five homeless people living in an
unspoiled forest in southern Florida, searches for a missing
alligator destined for official extermination and studies the
delicate ecological balance keeping the outdoor home beautiful. |
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George, Jean
Craighead |
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J Fic GEO |
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The Fire Bug Connection:
an ecological mystery |
Twelve-year-old Maggie receives European firebugs for her
birthday, but they fail to metamorphose and grow grossly large and
explode instead, she uses scientific reasoning to determine the
cause of their strange death. |
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George, Jean
Craighead |
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J Fic GEO |
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The Case of the Missing
Cutthroats: an ecological
mystery |
After Spinner Shafter catches a cutthroat trout in the Snake
River, she and her cousin Alligator, search the nearby mountains
to determine where the endangered fish came from and how it
survived. |
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George, Jean
Craighead |
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J Fic GEO |
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Chelsey and the
Green-Haired Kid |
After 2 teenagers witness a murder, they find their own lives are
in danger. |
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Gorman, Carol |
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J Fic GOR |
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Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery |
Though scoffed
at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human
family that their foundling boy bunny must be a vampire. |
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Howe, Deborah |
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J Fic HOW |
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Eat Your Poison Dear: a
Sebastian Barth mystery |
Young sleuth Sebastian and three friends probe the mystery of a
poisoning in their school cafeteria. |
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Howe, James |
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J Fic HOW |
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The Curse of the
Egyptian Mummy |
A group of cub scouts run into a mystery on their camp out, which
begins with the discovery of a man dead from the bite of an asp. |
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Hutchins, Pat |
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J Fic HUT |
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The Original Freddie Ackerman |
Twelve-year-old Trevor Frederick Ackerman refuses to spend another
summer with his extended family of divorced parents, step parents,
and step brothers and sisters, so he is sent up to Maine to stay
with two eccentric great-aunts and there gets involved with some
interesting people and an unexpected mystery. |
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Irwin, Hadky |
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J Fic IRW |
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Who Are You? |
When the police discover that a man
who has been shot has been keeping a file of her entire life,
sixteen-year-old Kristi, an aspiring artist, suspects a connection
with the possible theft of a painting from a museum. |
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Nixon, Joan Lowery |
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J Fic NIX |
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Someone was Watching |
When his little
sister disappears near their summer home and is presumed
drowned, Chris discovers that something else may have happened
to her. |
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Patneaude, David |
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J Fic PAT |
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Fat Fanny, Beanpole Bertha, and the Boys |
When Bertha’s father vanishes in the Bermuda Triangle, and Fanny’s
theater agent parents are secretly divorced, the girls decide to
teach Fanny’s triplet brothers to tap-dance to raise money. |
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Porte, Barbara Ann |
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J Fic POR |
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The Westing Game |
Sixteen possible heirs try to decipher an enigmatic will. |
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Raskin, Ellen |
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J Fic RAS |
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Janie’s Private Eyes |
Intent on
investigating a rash of dog disappearances, eight-year-old Janie
forms a detective agency and involves her friends and unwilling
family in tracing clues and suspects. |
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Snyder, Zilpha
Keatley |
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J Fic SNY |
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Sammy
Keyes and the
Psycho Kitty Queen |
When cats begin to
mysteriously disappear in Santa Martina, thirteen-year-old friends
Sammy and Holly start snooping around town to find out what is
happening. |
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Van Draanen,
Wendelin |
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J Fic VAN |
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The Vandemark Mummy |
When, as the
new Classics professor at Vandemark College, their father is made
responsible for a collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts,
12-year-old Phineas and his older sister Althea try to find out
why the collection is the target of thieves, especially when the
mummy disappears. |
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Voight, Cynthia |
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J Fic VOI |
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The Twin in the Tavern |
A young
orphan, afraid of being sent to the workhouse, finds himself at
the mercy of the unsavory owner of a tavern in Alexandria,
Virginia, while he tries to solve the mystery surrounding his past
and a missing twin. |
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Wallace, Barbara |
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J Fic WAL |
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Adam
Canfield of the Slash |
While serving as
co-editors of their school newspaper, middle-schoolers Adam and
Jennifer uncover fraud and corruption in their school and in the
city's government. |
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Winerip, Michael |
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J Fic WIN |
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The Dollhouse Murders |
A dollhouse
with a ghostly light in the middle of the night and dolls that
have moved from where she left them lead Amy and her retarded
sister to unravel the mystery surrounding grisly murders that took
place years ago. |
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Wright, Betty R. |
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J Fic WRI |
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