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Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
Author
Series
Uncommon magic volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Isaveth eagerly accepts an opportunity to study at the most exclusive magical school in the city but her scholarship might prove be more a trap than a gift.
Author
Series
Bowser and Birdie novels volume 2
Language
English
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Birdie Gaux's dog, Bowser, considers himself in charge of security at 19 Gentilly Lane, so when the house is broken into Bowser wants to find the man with the limeade aftershave (and the cat) responsible--but nobody seems to know what the culprits were looking for, or why a strange girl is asking questions about Birdie's father, a policeman who was killed in the line of duty years before Bowser was adopted.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jessie spends the summer with her family on Quicksand Pond, a New England vacation spot, where she develops a star-crossed friendship with independent Terri, and meets a reclusive old lady whose connection to a murder that took place decades ago still informs her present--and affects Terri in ways that Jessie gradually comes to understand the more time they spend together.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone knows he can barely read or write. Mason's learning disabilities are compounded by grief. Fifteen months ago, Mason's best friend, Benny Kilmartin, turned up dead in the Buttle family's orchard. An investigation drags on, and Mason, honest as the day is long, can't understand why Lieutenant Baird won't believe the story Mason has told about that day. Both Mason and his new friend,...
8) Shadow magic
Author
Series
Shadow magic novels volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
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"Thorn, a boy sold into slavery who must serve the royalty of Castle Gloom for a year and a day to earn his freedom, and Lilith Shadow, the 13-year-old ruler of Gehenna, who is forbidden to practice the magic that is her heritage, join forces to solve the murders taking place in Gehenna"--
Author
Series
Norumbegan quartet volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Bent on tracking down the elven Norumbegans in order to save Vermont from an invasion of dream-sucking Thusser, Brian, Gregory and the mechanical troll Kalgrash pass through an interdimensional curtain--to find themselves inside an organic alien body.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1930s England, schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy's home for the holidays when someone falls seriously, mysteriously ill at a family party, but no one present is what they seem--and everyone has a secret or two--so the Detective Society must do everything they can to reveal the truth ... no matter the consequences.
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Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Tia Lugo, an asthmatic thirteen-year-old Puerto Rican girl living in NYC, witnesses a murder late one night from her bedroom window. Terrified the killer will do anything to keep her silent and desperate to find the courage to speak out, Tia turns to her grandmother's favorite shopping spot: the botanica."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
At an English boarding school in the 1930s, crime-solving friends Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells struggle to find an exciting mystery to investigate and hit pay-dirt when Hazel discovers the dead body of Miss Bell, the science teacher.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Tori, Marvin, and Noah would rather be anywhere else than on the seventh grade class field trip to Raven Island prison ... But when the three of them stumble upon a dead body in the woods, miss the last ferry back home, and then have to spend the night on Raven Island, they find that they need each other now more than ever"--
Author
Series
Myrtle Hardcastle mystery volume 3
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Young Lady of Quality and Victorian amateur detective Myrtle Hardcastle returns, and now she is on the trail of a serial killer in her hometown of Swinburne.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A dollhouse filled with ghostly light in the middle of the night and dolls that have moved from where she left them lead Amy and her mentally challenged sister to unravel the mystery surrounding grisly murders that took place years ago.
20) In Myrtle peril
Author
Series
Myrtle Hardcastle mystery volume 4
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Myrtle Hardcastle's search for a missing heiress, presumed lost at sea, runs aground when a murder in plain sight has no apparent victim"--
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