Mysteries & Detective Stories - Kids Fiction

World-famous duck-tective Miss Mallard's ski vacation is a bust when she finds herself on the tail of a bundled-up bandit in this engaging Aladdin QUIX mystery. When the police are baffled by an eerie robbery, Miss Mallard interrupts her ski vacation in the Alps...

It's puppy primping time Watson the dog has an appointment at the Dirty Dog Salon at 4:15 P.M.--but no one can find him Follow the clock as time runs out to find Watson the Dog in this third Charlie Piechart mystery.Spotting clues, from pink...

While on a camping trip, a group of young scouts come face-to-face with a hungry vampire Are their necks on the line? Or does this vampire have a frightful sweet tooth? With short chapters, easy-to-read text, and enhanced back matter, Boo Books deliver just-right...

Max's mom has been kidnapped When he sets out to find her, he learns this is no normal abduction. Demons have taken his mother. Will Max be able to rescue her from these evil beasts? Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state...

Hidden cameras, secret operations, and new math concepts await in the Math Kids' ninth adventure! Justin has been accused of stealing from the comic book shop! To earn back the trust of his parents and the store manager, he'll have to work at the...

After twelve-year-old JJ Bennett lands at the airport in Berlin, he's sure something is wrong. His secret organization of kid spies, the K-CIA, hasn't had to deal with any problems in a while. When his fellow agent and best friend Maggie convinces him they...

Wimpy Kid and Dork Diary fans, meet Aldo Zelnick Ten-year-old Aldo Zelnick has decided it's fun to be artistic, and when his grandma Goosy gives him a second sketchbook, Aldo fills it with more comic drawings, fun words, and accounts of his extraordinary adventures...

Annabelle Dot Dotty's Adventure" is a beautifully watercolour-illustrated children's picture book that combines action, adventure, and counting fun-Annabelle Dot teams up with Detective Redback for a search when she loses her nine shiny dots. The book's interactive nature combines fantasy and quirky characters, transforming...

Uncover Thrilling Mysteries with the Ava & Carol Detective Agency Book Bundle 2!Embark on a riveting journey alongside Ava and Carol, the dynamic twelve-year-old duo, as they tackle three captivating mysteries that will keep you on the edge of your seat. From dognappings to...

Move over Santa! This year, Ava and Carol are figuring out who's naughty or nice.There's a time of year that's full of cheer-but this December, not everything is quite so merry for Ava and Carol Detective Agency. For their holiday house-sitting gig has gone...

After bringing home a lucky cat statue, Moto discovers that it is haunted. The only way he can shake the cat's spirit is by teaming up with his friend to find the statue's original owner. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state...

Betty Bartholomew and the Vanishing Begonias is the first book in the engaging Words of Whimsy children's book series. With a page-turner story, beautiful illustrations, and a scattering of whimsical, unusual words, it is sure to be a favorite for children and adults. Vanishing...

Batter up! Get ready to watch the kids' baseball team from Cooperstown compete in this Super Special edition of the Ballpark Mysteries--fun, accessible early chapter books that cross baseball action with puzzling whodunits! Catch a baseball mystery with the World Series Kids! The kids...

A fun middle-grade chapter book, full of mystery, magic, and adventure ★★★★★ BERNARD JONES IS GOING PLACES, is a fun fast-paced, action-packed middle-grade chapter book that follows the adventure of Bernard Jones, a brave yet sheltered small-town boy who dreams of traveling the world...

On the eve of Ghost Month, Moto Maki discovers a box of lost things, but is disappointed by the old, broken umbrella inside it until the haunted umbrella starts to follow him. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spellbound is...

Detective Jeffery Bones and Grandpa visit Grandpa's friend Sally--the best apple pie baker around. Today, she's practicing for the pie contest held at the county fair. But when it's finally time to eat the pies, they are nowhere to be found--not in the oven,...

Now in paperback! Young spy-in-training Beatrice Bly finds herself in a sticky mess when her latest case pulls her attention away from planning for the science fair. After using her keen observation skills to locate the missing class hamster, Beatrice Bly is eager for...

CURSES...BLESSINGS... TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN. A new string of mysteries begins with Naoya's classmate Nanba discovering a chain letter in his schoolbag. Unusually excited by the occult opportunity, Professor Takatsuki gleefully invites the burden of the chain letter onto himself! Meanwhile, an...

In this interactive Choose Your Path adventure, the reader becomes classic literature's most famous detective and must make choices in order to survive Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Ryan Jacobson, Deb MercierISBN-10: 1940647673ISBN-13: 9781940647678Publisher: Lake 7 CreativeLanguage:...

Twelve-year-olds Ava and Carol are back with three captivating mysteries that will keep readers of all ages on the edge of their seats.In "The Curse of the Red Devil," join the trio as they venture into the heart of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil,...

Bodies are coming and going from the Bessledorf Hotel -- dead and alive! Who wants to stay in a hotel full of zombies? Not too many -- and that's a big problem for Mr. Magruder, who's trying hard to manage his hotel! Bernie's determined...

A famous Van Gogh painting has been stolen from the National Gallery of Art. Or was it? Why risk such a brazen robbery in broad daylight? Was the theft a ruse for something more nefarious?Join super sleuths Ava and Carol as they unravel a...

The latest installment in the beloved Cam Jansen mystery chapter book series from David A. Adler! Aunt Molly has entered a joke-telling contest at a local comedy club and Cam, her best friend Eric, and Mr. Jansen are in the audience to watch her...

A boy and his ghostly twin sister work together to pass messages from the beyond in this "funny, mystical, and endearing" (Kirkus Reviews) debut that James Patterson called "a fun ride and a great concept." There are a few things you should know about...

Boy medium Baylor Bosco enters the dream world with his ghostly twin Kristina to discover what has happened to a bunch of missing kids in this second spooky novel in a series that James Patterson called "a fun ride with chills galore." With assistance...

Big Crow and Little Pumpkin are fun characters who star in a series of improvised tales written and illustrated by Australian illustrator Leigh Ashley Ryan. This non-sequential story was entirely made up one night at bedtime as a way to delight and surprise the...

Better Nate than Ever meets Love Sugar Magic in this spooky second novel in the Fearless middle grade series from Hamilton and Broadway star Mandy Gonzalez about a group of young thespians who time travel back to 1950s Broadway.Twelve-year-old Relly can't wait for his...

The School of Necessary Magic is back in session. Alison, the young Drow princess has returned to Charlottesville for her second semester, along with the other elves, witches, and wizards and more.And her powers are growing.But dark forces have planted a bad seed in...

After twelve-year-old JJ Bennett lands at the airport in Berlin, he's sure something is wrong. His secret organization of kid spies, the K-CIA, hasn't had to deal with any problems in a while. When his fellow agent and best friend Maggie convinces him they...

Batter up! Baseball action and exciting whodunits star in this chapter book series! Next up is Colorado! Mike and Kate arrive in Colorado to a ballpark covered in snow! Luckily, the stadium has a heater that can melt the fluffy flakes in time for...

Curious Ellie buys a snake egg from Ms. Fleek. Or at least she thought it was a snake egg. But the creature that hatches from it has hands, feet, and wings Ellie isn't sure what Ms. Fleek sold her. But she knows she isn't...

Named one of "13 Detective Book Series You Obsessed Over as a Kid" by BuzzFeed and the inspiration for a hit Disney film, the masterful Great Mouse Detective is back and ready to find out what happened when two royal princes disappear With Sherlock...

More women have gone missing. As Max continues to search for his mom, he learns more about the demons that took her. Can Max use this knowledge to his advantage to slay the ghouls and bring his mother home? Aligned to Common Core standards...

Named one of "13 Detective Book Series You Obsessed Over as a Kid" by Buzzfeed and the inspiration for a hit Disney film, the masterful Great Mouse Detective is back and scurrying off to Paris to discover who's threatening the organizers of the Great...

A substitute teacher shows up at Max's school. Max knows she's more than meets the eye, and he's right. The sub has evidence that links her to Max's missing mom. Can Max get the demon to talk and lead Max to his mother? Aligned...

When animals and people begin to disappear in one of GOTHAM CITY'S parks, BATMAN suspects that the deadly POISON IVY and her creepy plants are at work again. But the green villainess is locked behind bars. BATMAN goes to investigate, and just in the...

There are no streetlights on Farragut Alley, so keeping Gabe in our sights was a little difficult. We followed him down toward the dead end, and then suddenly a door opened to our right, in one of the nondescript retail buildings. I wasn't aware...

Move over Scooby-Doo - there's a new dog detective in town! HALLOWEEN HYSTERIA. CHRISTMAS RESCUE. EASTER SECRETS. SERIOUS SLOBBER. Celebrate your favourite holidays with this collection of exciting short mysteries featuring Honey the Great Dane sleuth and her canine friends. In NIGHT OF FLYING...

An ordinary murder leads to a perfectly magical mystery. A paranormal cozy mystery from #1 Best Selling Author Susan HarperMonica Montoya is the new owner of the Back Room Bookstore, an ordinary bookstore with a back door to the supernatural realm. When a man...

A fun, fast-paced story about a girl determined to cut the cord with her helicopter parents. Twelve-year-old coder Averil can't do anything without her parents knowing. That's because her mom uses the Ruby Slippers surveillance app to check where she is, who she texts,...

Suzie is a dark-eyed twelve-year-old who desperately needs to feel safe and worthy of love. Seeking only to be "good enough," she remains motionless and silent for hours on end, feeling the walls of her psychological prison pressing against her. Ultimately, Suzie finds herself...

Dennis and Gnasher are back for a spooky adventure this Halloween. When the bogeyman of Bunkerton Castle returns and Lord Snooty flees town, Dennis, Gnasher and friends are dared to spend the night within the fortress's spooky halls.Will they last until morning? Or will...

What if the women in your family could do extra-ordinary things, but after an unfortunate incident, your mom wants you to pretend to be ordinary? Amber Gable stays true to herself and uses her extra-ordinary gifts to find their new not-so-ordinary house. There's a...

Wimpy Kid and Dork Diary fans, meet Aldo Zelnick Ten-year-old Aldo Zelnick has decided it's fun to be artistic, and when his grandma Goosy gives him a second sketchbook, Aldo fills it with more comic drawings, fun words, and accounts of his extraordinary adventures...

Middle school retrieval specialist Jeremy Wilderson must team up with preteen private detective Becca Mills once again to solve his most mind-boggling case yet in this action-packed MAX novel. Ahh, summer vacation! Jeremy Wilderson, Scottsville Middle School's first (and only) retrieval specialist, is enjoying...

Malcolm's class trip to the zoo goes bananas when animals break out of their cages. He's convinced the place is haunted, but is banned from the park when he climbs a cage to get his ghost zapper back from a monkey. Can the boys...

From New York Times bestseller Spencer Quinn comes book 3 in the laugh-out-loud series about the most epic rivalry of our time... Arthur the dog vs. Queenie the cat.Arthur doesn't always remember where he buried his bone, or what he was doing before he...

Eric and Chris are avid geocachers who stumble into a very strange search. At first they are merely curious, but as the stakes rise and the challenges become more trying, the boys get truly hooked. Convinced they are indeed on the trail of treasure,...

When Binny finds the money someone left behind at an ATM--and then loses it--she must play detective in this delightful romp from Hilary McKay. Binny Cornwallis is not a thief. Or is she? In one greedy moment, she snatches some bills left behind at...

Join over 20,000 children, teens and adults who've read the Ava & Carol Detective Agency series.Ava and Carol, teen detectives, can find a mystery just about anywhere, so why should Cairo, Egypt be any different?While Ava's mom, a world-renowned journalist is investigating the historical...