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Mystery Fiction
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by Linda Bailey
What's a Serious Detective Like Me Doing in Such a Silly Movie?
Published 2003 by Kids Can Press
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by Lisa Banim
Lizzie McGuire Mysteries: In the Doghouse - Book #5: Junior Novel
Published 2005 by Disney Press
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To raise money for an animal shelter, Lizzie starts her own dog-walking business. When someone lets the dogs out of the McGuires' backyard, can Lizzie track down the lost dogs and sniff out the guilty party?
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by Blue Balliett
Chasing Vermeer
Published 2004 by Scholastic Press
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When a book of unexplainable occurrences brings Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay together, strange things start to happen--seemingly unrelated events connect, an eccentric old woman seeks their company, and an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears.
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by John Bellairs
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
Published 1984 by Dial Books
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by Sarah Masters Buckey
The Curse of Ravenscourt: A Samantha Mystery
Published 2005 by American Girl
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by Betsy Cromer Byars
The Dark Stairs: A Herculeah Jones Mystery
Published 1997 by Puffin Books
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Mystery is in Herculeah Jones' blood. How could it be any other way, with a father on the police force and a mother who runs a private eye business? Herculeah can't resist the case of Dead Oaks. The old estate is a local legend, the site of a murder and an unsolved disappearance. Now history could be repeating itself--unless Herculeah can crack the case.
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by Evelyn Coleman
Mystery of the Dark Tower
Published 2000 by American Girl
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by John R. Erickson
Hank the Cowdog #42: Case of the Burrowing Robot
Published 2003 by Viking Books
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Someone--or rather something--with beady eyes and a full suit of armor is digging up the garden. Hank is on the case immediately, but before he can put an end to the digging robot's antics, he gets blamed for the crime. Can Hank dig his way out of this mess? Illustrations.
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by Kathleen Ernst
Danger at the Zoo: A Kit Mystery
Published 2005 by American Girl
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by Bruce Hale
Farewell, My Lunch Bag
Published 2001 by Harcourt Children's Books
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When fourth-grade private eye Chet Gecko is called to catch someone who is stealing food from the school cafeteria, he finds himself framed for the crime. Illustrations.
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by Virginia Hamilton
The House of Dies Drear
Published 1968 by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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The house held secrets, Thomas knew, even before he first saw it looming gray and massive on its ledge of rock. It had a century-oldlegend--two fugitive slaves had been killed by bounty hunters after leaving its passageways, and Dies Drear himself, the abolitionist who had made the house into a station on the Underground Railroad, had been murdered there. The ghosts of the three were said to walk its rooms...
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by Mary Downing Hahn
The Old Willis Place: A Ghost Story
Published 2004 by Clarion Books
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The acclaimed and award-winning author of "Hear the Wind Blow" has written a chilling ghost story in the tradition of her most successful spine-tingling novels. The intriguing characters, frightening secrets, and plot twists will delight her many fans.
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by Deborah Howe
Bunnicula
Published 1979 by Atheneum Books
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THIS book is written by Harold. His full time occupation is dog. He lives with Mr. and Mrs. X (here called Monroe) and their sons Toby and Pete. Also sharing the home are a cat named Chester and a rabbit named Bunnicula. It is because of Bunnicula that Harold turned to writing. Someone had to tell the full story of what happened in the Monroe household after the rabbit arrived.
It all began when the Monroes went to see the movie "Dracula" At the theater Toby found something on his seat?a baby rabbit that he took home and named Bunnicula. It proved to be an apt name, at least as far as Chester was concerned. A well-read and observant cat, he soon decided that there was something odd about the newcomer. For one thing he seemed to have fangs. And the odd markings on his back looked a little like a cape. Furthermore, Bunnicula slept from sunup to sundown. He was awake only at night.
When the family started funding white vegetables, drained dry, with two fang marks in them, Chester was sure Bunnicula was a vampire. But what to do about it. None of the family seemed to grasp the trouble, and Chester's hilarious hints were totally misunderstood.
Was Bunnicula really a vampire? Only Bunnicula knows for sure. But the story of Chester's suspicions and their consequences makes uproarious reading.
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by Eva Ibbotson
The Haunting of Granite Falls
Published 2004 by Dutton Children's Books
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American millionaire Hiram C. Hopgood will spare no expense to make his daughter Helen happy, even if it means importing a castle from Scotland. Alex MacBuff, the twelve-year-old former owner of the castle, accompanies Mr. Hopgood to Texas to oversee the rebuilding of his beloved Carra, and he befriends Helen in the process. Little do the children know that Carra's ghosts have followed Alex and are living in the movie theater next door! Colorful characters--both dead and alive--will be found around every corner in this madcap adventure with a plot as twisty as a castle's corridors.
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by Peg Kehret
The Stranger Next Door
Published 2002 by Dutton Books
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Two boys, one with a deadly secret, become neighbors. When fires start happening and street signs get cut down, Alex wonders if the new boy Rocky is to blame.
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by E. L. Konigsburg
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Published 1970 by Atheneum Books
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When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort-she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her money, and she invited her brother Jamie to go, mostly because be was a miser and would have money.
Claudia was a good organizer and Jamie bad some ideas, too; so the two took up residence at the museum right on schedule. But once the fun of settling in was over, Claudia had two unexpected problems: She felt just the same, and she wanted to feel different; and she found a statue at the Museum so beautiful she could not go home until she bad discovered its maker, a question that baffled the experts, too.
The former owner of the statue was Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Without her-well, without her, Claudia might never have found a way to go home.
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by Phyllis J. Perry
Mr. Crumb's Secret
Published 2003 by Upstart Books
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by James Preller
Jigsaw Jones #01: Case of Hermie
Published 2001 by Scholastic Paperbacks
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With the help of his Top Secret Detective Journal and his ace partner, Mila, Jigsaw Jones is hot on the trail of Hermie the missing hamster. Illustrations.
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by Ellen Raskin
The Westing Game
Published 1978 by Dutton Books
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The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
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by Willo Davis Roberts
The Kidnappers: A Mystery
Published 1998 by Atheneum Books
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