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I dearest me a good mystery. I want to be Miss Marple when I grow upwardly and Flavia de Luce is absolutely my best friend in my head. But long before Agatha Christie and Alan Bradley filled my bookshelves, I was a kid enraptured past spies named Harriet and kids living in boxcars. Mystery books for kids are bully because they foster logical thinking and deductive reasoning. They're as well just obviously fun.
Classics like Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys still accept a healthy readership, merely the genre has come a long way. At that place are so many fantastic mystery series and standalone works out there past a diverse mix of authors and illustrators. I've compiled a list of 50 mystery books for kids, both new and tried & true. The list spans everything from cake theft capers in moving picture books to art heist novels for heart grade readers.
A note about reading levels…
I've cleaved this list up into 2 wide sections, flick books and chapter books, with the affiliate books listed in a mostly ascending order based on grade level. This procedure was a tricky one! I consulted various sources to come upwardly with the best estimates: Scholastic's handy Book Wizard tool; the Renaissance Accelerated Reader Bookfinder; conversations with local librarians and, of form, input from parents. Using a combination of these resources, I've listed a grade level for each of these 50 selections, but these are past no means a universal one-size-fits-all guide.
Lastly, while this list focuses on mystery books for kids in the 5th grade or younger, the reading level range on several titles creeps into higher grade levels, i.e. titles with a range of grades v–vii. I've gone ahead and included those since they practice at minimum work for fifth graders. Over again, apply your own discretion.
At present become crack some cases!
Picture show Mystery Books For Kids (infants, toddlers, preschool, Kindergarten)
Sherlock Holmes in the Hound of the Baskervilles (A Babylit Sounds Primer) past Jennifer Adams, Illustrated by Allison Oliver
So, funny story—a lot of mystery books for kids like to riff off the Sherlock thing. This one is for the actually little humans and then it's sort of in a league of its own! The books in the Babylit Sounds Primer serial all use simple discussion pairings to introduce young minds to classic works of literature, like this ane well-nigh the famed quirky detective of London'southward Baker Street.
The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery by Graeme Base of operations
In this beautifully illustrated pic book—seriously, the detail in these drawings is stunning—Horace the elephant throws himself an extravagant costume political party to gloat his eleventh birthday. Then disaster strikes amidst the festivities: someone has eaten the lavish birthday feast! Horace must figure out who the culprit is in the eleventh 60 minutes—which of his friends has dunnit?!
Where's the Big Bad Wolf ? by Eileen Christelow
In this remix of the classic tale, Detective Doggedly is trying to take hold of the huffing, puffing, house-blowing wolf before he eats the iii little pigs for dinner. With the aid of some observant cows and his own canine spidey-sense, he'll sniff out the culprit, doggone information technology!
Pigeon P.I. by Meg McLaren
Well, this picture book certainly isn't helping my theory that all pigeons are tiny cooing spies. Information technology reads like a criminal offence noir comic, the story of a plumed private investigator who's come up out of retirement to pursue a birdnapping case. He looks every bit the detective as one can equally a pigeon—he'southward got a fedora on and then you know he ways business.
The Dot & Jabber serial past Ellen Stoll Walsh
Come across Dot & Jabber, a pair of teeny mouse detectives who solve a different mystery in each of the books from this adorable serial. These mysteries are both fun and informative for young readers, introducing them to the wonders of science with the aid of some cute little critters. Each book includes an afterword with facts nigh the book's discipline; Dot & Jabber and the Great Acorn Mystery, for example, includes easy-to-sympathize tidbits nigh oak trees and acorns.
Betty's Burgled Bakery by Travis Nichols
Of all the muddy, underhanded crimes I've come across in my life as a mystery reader, this takes the cake. Someone has stolen the pastries! Betty's Bakery has been burgled past a bread bandit who cleared the cupboards and counters of carrot cake, cornbread and crackers. The beast detectives of Gumshoe Zoo are on the case in this awesome, alliterative comic picture book.
Detective Larue: Letters from the Investigation by Mark Teague
This is the second book in the Dear Mrs. Larue serial virtually a canis familiaris named Ike Larue with a knack for mad-cap hijinx. The residue of the books in the series aren't mysteries, simply this 1 finds Ike putting on a detective hat to solve a string of canary burglaries in the neighborhood. The problem is that Ike's been accused—wrongly, of course!—of a crime himself, and is trapped in doggy jail! In that location'due south only i affair for Ike to exercise when the local police can't seem to go the chore done: break gratuitous and have matters into his own hands. Err, paws.
The Mystery of the Missing Block by Claudia Boldt
"'Today is the perfect day for solving mysteries and eating cheese,' thinks Harold, tucked upwardly warm in bed. Though, for Harold every 24-hour interval was the perfect day for solving mysteries and eating cheese." And those, folks, are some words I can relate to. Harold the fob attends a costume birthday political party for his friend Donkey. The festivities are soured when the birthday burro'due south cake is stolen during a game of monster tag. Harold steps in to save the party and the day by putting the pieces together to detect the culprit of this cake caper. It'south a dandy lesson on the importance of honesty, sharing, and the joys of a yummy slice of cake.
Infant Monkey, Private Eye past Brian Selznick, Illustrated by David Serlin
Don't permit the format fool you—while information technology looks like a chapter book from the outside, the easy, sparse language reads similar a picture show book. Baby Monkey is only the cutest little gumshoe, sitting in his giant office waiting for cases to solve. He finds the thieving culprits for everything from an opera singer'southward missing jewels to an astronaut's misplaced spaceship using some serious detective work. I love, love, honey that he never begins a case before stopping for a snack and how laborious an effort it is for him to put on pants. Pants are difficult!
Inspector Brunswick: The Case of the Missing Eyebrow by Angela Keoghan, Illustrated by Chris Sam Lam
You might take a look at that title and recollect, "Is this about Vanessa in her twenties when Mr. Tweezer went rogue and defiled her face up?" But no, this picture book is about cat detective Inspector Brunswick. He and his banana Nelson take a trip to the art museum where they find something missing from a very famous painting. The two put their heads together to figure out what happened in this charming story almost fine art, teamwork and a very sneaky caterpillar.
Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar? by Bonnie Lass, Illustrated by Philemon Sturges and Ashley Wolff
This motion picture book is the perfect companion to the classic kids song. You know—the one you started singing every bit soon every bit you read the title, and don't yous deny it! Mr. Skunk discovers the aforementioned cookie jar and dang it, he'due south going to find the thief. Follow along equally he confronts each of his animal friends to see which ane of them nabbed those cookies!
seven Ate 9 past Tara Lazar, Illustrated by Ross MacDonald
Ok, I tin can't write upwards a better blurb for this book than what's already been done. Alas, I bring y'all this spot-on, punny piece of plot-summary perfection from the author's website: "Word on the street is that 7 ate ix. If that'due south truthful, half dozen's days are numbered. Lucky for him, Private I is on the case. Only the facts just don't add up. It'south odd. Will Private I put 2 and 2 together and solve the problem…or is 6 adjacent in line to be subtracted?" See? Told you.
The Great Pie Robbery and other Mysteries by Richard Scarry
I'm a fan of Richard Scarry books in general, merely this is one of my favorites. Sam Cat and Dudley Grunter are these cute and quirky animal sleuths who do beautiful and quirky detective things. In this collection of 3 stories, their capers include catching shoplifters, pearl thieves and even more than shockingly: pie thieves. Sam and Dudley are ofttimes hilariously clueless and love to apparel themselves in some pretty ridiculous disguises. The illustrations are half the fun.
Mama the Conflicting by Rene Colato Lainez, Illustrated by Laura Lacamara
This isn't exactly your typical mystery—in that location's no criminal offence to be solved, no whodunnit to unravel. The mystery here is whether Sofia's mom is who she says she is—like from planet Globe! It all starts one day when an ID card falls out of Mama's purse. Sofia sees the words "Resident Alien" on it and wonders: does this mean Mama is an alien?! This bilingual story is a funny, lighthearted lesson on clearing and how words sometimes mean more ane matter.
Affiliate Mystery Books For Kids (Grades one–five)
The Haunted Library series past Dori Hillstead Butler (Grades 1–3)
This delightful serial feels a niggling like a bookish Casper the Friendly Ghost. It's nearly a library-lurking ghost named Kaz who gets separated from his family and fears he'll never see them once more. Then ane day he meets Claire, a young girl who can actually see him! The pair go friends and solve ghostly mysteries while they search for Kaz's family unit.
The Mysteries of Maisie Hitchins series by Holly Webb, Illustrated by Marion Lindsay (Grades one-4)
Recall when I told you that a lot of kids mystery books are a re-imagining of the Sherlock Holmes stories? I presume you'll at present take that I'm no liar! In the Mysteries of Maisie Hitchins series, Maisie is a twelve-year-old working in her grandmother's boarding firm with dreams of beingness a big, bad, lady detective. She merely knows she'd exist good at it, she just needs a case to prove it! In The Example of the Stolen Sixpence , the first of eight in the series, she finally gets her large break. Maisie is our reimagined Holmes and her sidekick Eddie is her Watson; Eddie simply so happens to be a dog, but hey! He proves to be as as helpful.
Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth by Jane O'Connor, Illustrated by Robin Price Glasser (Grades 1-four)
Nancy puts on her detective cap to help a classmate observe a stolen detail of priceless value. Little ones may recognize our stylish little sleuth from the Fancy Nancy moving-picture show books. Back in action in chapter book form, Nancy solves mysteries in a pinkish trench coat and a bedazzled magnifying drinking glass. She's…well, fancy!
Julian, Surreptitious Agent by Ann Cameron (Grades ii-5)
Julian and his buddies Huey and Gloria consider themselves some pretty sugariness secret agents. They accept after all rescued a neighborhood domestic dog, saved a small kid from drowning… just these kids have their sights set on solving some serious criminal offense. They decide they're going to nab themselves a banking company robber only get in the way of the police force. When theydetect themselves in some hot water, they'll need to use their super sleuthing and spy skills to relieve themselves!
Malcolm at Midnight by W. H. Brook, Illustrated by Brian Lies (Grades 2-v)
Malcolm is jazzed to be the new fifth grade course pet at school: he'due south well fed, well loved and has some comfy digs. Even improve: he finds out that the balance of the classroom pets are part of a secret social club called The Academy whose charge is to keep the students of the schoolhouse safe. When Aggy the iguana goes missing, the rest of the class pets charge Malcolm of the criminal offense. See, he chose to hibernate the fact that he's non so much a mouse as a rat, and rats are not to be trusted—or are they? This is a delightful mystery with some valuable lessons on acceptance and inclusion.
The Geronimo Stilton series by Geronimo Stilton (Grades two-5)
I went back and along as to whether this originally Italian series should be labeled as mystery or adventure and I think it'due south a picayune scrap of both! The books are near globetrotting mouse Geronimo Stilton, a best-selling author, investigative reporter and editor for the Rodent Gazette in New Mouse City, Mouse Island. Stilton embarks on all sorts of wild adventures with his sister Thea, cousin Trap, and nephew Benjamin, keeping a diary of his travels as inspiration for his books. Beginning with The Lost Treasure of the Emerald Center where Geronimo and Thea notice a mysterious map that leads the pair on a hunt for treasure.
The Sherlock Sam serial by A.J. Depression (Grades ii-5)
Aye. Another Sherlock volume, but with a few twists! It's set up in Singapore, our sleuth Samuel Tan Cher Lock (aka Sherlock Sam) is a 10 yr old foodie, and his sidekick is a robot named Watson. In Sherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong, Sherlock & friends set out to discover his auntie's stolen cookbook. Fun fact: A.J. Low is actually a husband and married woman duo! Adam Jimenez is a Mexican American writer who grew up in California and subsequently moved to Singapore where he met wife Felicia Low. A.J. Jimenez plus Felicia Low = A.J. Low.
Lulu's Mysterious Mission
by Judith Viorst, Illustrated past Kevin Cornell (Grades two-five)
And so I definitely grabbed this book off a library shelf because young Lulu looks like a teeny tiny Edna Fashion. Y'all see it too, right?! In Lulu'south Mysterious Mission , Lulu is shocked and appalled to find out that her parents are going on vacation…without her! She enacts all sorts of elaborate schemes to get rid of babysitter Sonia Solinsky, only Ms. Solinsky has a secret that may only make Lulu encounter the error in her means. Notation: this book is one in a series, but this is the merely one I'd classify as a mystery.
The Boxcar Children serial past Gertrude Chandler Warren (Grades 3-5)
The Boxcar Children books were beginning published back in 1942 and are pretty much considered classic mystery books for kids. The series follows the iv orphaned Aiden children who decide to live in an abandoned boxcar in the woods. In the first book, The Boxcar Children , the kids learn that they take a grandfather just initially run from him, assertive him to be a cruel and scary old homo. This turns out happily not to be the case, and the books that follow in the series each revolve around a mystery that the children solve together. My personal favorite is The Mystery Bookstore, a super fun antic set in the New Orleans French Quarter about…you lot guessed it! A mystery bookstore.
The Meg Mackintosh Solve It Yourself Mysteries series by Lucinda Landon (Grades 3-5)
The One thousand thousand Mackintosh books are interactive "solve information technology yourself" mysteries—they invite readers to analyze visual and written clues throughout the unraveling of the mystery. There are at to the lowest degree viii books in the series, my favorite of which is Million Mackintosh and the Mystery in the Locked Library . In it, One thousand thousand, her brother and her granddaddy pay a visit to One thousand thousand'due south Aunt Alice, the head librarian at a local library. The problem is Aunt Alice has gone missing, merely she has left behind a trail of clues that atomic number 82 Meg & visitor to the library.
The Bunnicula series by Deborah and James Howe (Grades three-v)
In that location'southward no way I was going to forget to include this series in a list of mystery books for kids. Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery is a middle class mystery-comedy most a fanged rabbit who might be a vampire. Sign me up! When the Monroe family finds a peculiar little bunny at a screening of Dracula, they decide to bring him home with them. They call him Bunnicula and introduce him to pets Harold the dog and Chester the cat. Strange things get-go to happen effectually Bunnicula, convincing Chester that this fluffy bunny guy is a vampire. He sets out to prove his theory—is Bunnicula actually a bloodsucking bunny, or is it all a big misunderstanding?
T he Clubhouse Mysteries by Sharon Draper, Illustrated past Jesse Joshua Watson (Grades 3-five)
In The Buried Bones Mystery, Ziggy and his friends Rico, Rashawn and Jerome decide to form a club. They've congenital a clubhouse in Ziggy'southward backyard to serve as their headquarters and make up one's mind to call themselves the Black Dinosaurs—considering what's cooler than dinosaurs? They soon make a startling discovery: someone has buried a box of bones behind their clubhouse! The boys set off to solve this foreign and scary mystery and find themselves on an adventure across their wildest imaginations.
The Encyclopedia Brown serial by Donald J. Sobol (Grades iii-5)
Leroy Chocolate-brown is his town's star detective, solving cases for all of the kids in the neighborhood. Why is he known equally Encyclopedia Brown? Because of all the random facts, figures and trivia stored in his pretty remarkable memory. He's then expert that his own dad picks his encephalon every night to solve tricky cases, and he's the head of their town'south police department! Each book in the series is interactive and contains ten stories for readers to follow along and solve. Commencement with Encyclopedia Dark-brown, Boy Detective and get from there—there are 25+ books in this series, plenty of leads to pursue!
The Not bad Mouse Detective Series past Eve Titus, Illustrated past Paul Galdone (Grades 3-v)
Basil is a mouse, but not just any mouse: he's the mouse who lives in the cellar of Sherlock Holmes's house on Bakery Street. As such he has observed the genius of the crime-solving mad human upstairs and has picked upwards a thing or two in the art of sleuthing. In Basil of Baker Street , Basil must try and solve his toughest instance however: a mousenapping (hehe) with seemingly zero clues to go on!
The Nate the Nifty Series by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, Illustrated by Marc Simont (Grades 3-v)
Nate the Slap-up is enjoying his morn pancakes when he gets a call from his friend Annie. She's lost something of import and needs Nate'due south assist to notice information technology. Nate throws on a very Sam Spade–ish trench glaze and gets correct on it. He follows clues, asks questions, makes a listing of suspects—yous know, all the stuff peachy detectives exercise. These books are clever and funny and there's plenty to love: this serial for beginning readers is 26 books long!
The Olivia Sharp: Amanuensis for Secrets series by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat and Mitchell Sharmat, Illustrated past Denise Brunkus (Grades 3-five)
Olivia Sharp isn't new to mystery—she'due south Nate the Great's cousin, later on all! She considers herself less a solver of mysteries and more than an agent of secrets: she helps her clients with warm & friendly approach and by excavation into what'southward going on beneath the surface. Kickoff with The Sly Spy and go from there.
The A to Z Mysteries series by Ron Roy, Illustrated past John Steven Gurney (Grades 3-v)
Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose are three friends who solve mysteries in this much loved drove. As you may have guessed, the volume titles in this series follow the alphabet: The Absent-minded Author, The Bald Bandit, The Canary Caper, etc. Kickoff with The Absent-minded Author where Dink'south favorite author is a no-evidence at a volume signing. Information technology's upward to the iii amigos to find out where he went.
Nancy Drew and the Inkling Crew serial past Carolyn Keene, Illustrated by Macky Pamintuan (Grades 3-5)
You've surely heard of the original Nancy Drew series from the 1930s—yep, you read that right. The '30s! Merely did y'all know that there's a newer serial out for middle grade readers? Well at that place is! Nancy's adventures include finding her missing Metropolis Girls doll at a sleepover and tracking downwardly the thief that stole a special basket of treats from a doggy fashion prove. However, Nancy remains ever the resourceful lilliputian sleuth and always cracks the case.
The Wollstonecraft Detective Bureau series by Jordan Stratford, Illustrated past Kelly Murphy (Grades three-seven)
The concept of this serial is simply and then, and so brilliant. Information technology's a reimagined 1826 where Ada Lovelace and Mary Shelley are BFFs and have come together to class a secret detective bureau in London. In book one, The Case of the Missing Moonstone , this girl duo reminiscent of Holmes and Watson (yep, more Holmes stuff!) uses math, science and deductive reasoning to solve a mystery surrounding a stolen heirloom. This series is funny, action-packed, and dripping with erudite girl power.
Me, Frida and the Hugger-mugger of the Peacock Ring past Angela Cervantes (Grades iii-vii)
Pamela Cervantes is eleven years quondam when she and her female parent travel to Mexico City, the birthplace of Pamela'southward deceased father. She meets siblings Lizzie and Gael who ask for her help in finding a ring that once belonged to her father's favorite artist, beloved Mexican icon Frida Kahlo! Pamela agrees to help, just information technology seems like Lizzie and Gael'southward motives may non be equally pure as they seem.
Harriet the Spyby Louise Fitzhugh (Grades three-7)
I couldn't compile a listing of mystery books for kids without this archetype. Harriet is an acute and spunky fiddling girl who goes around scribbling thoughts and observations in a notebook. When she misplaces that notebook, it ends upward in the incorrect easily. Soon the contents (some hurtful, though true) make their way to her friends…bad-mannered! Now Harriet must find a way to fix things with her pals and show that she'south no mean girl. She merely actually, really loves the truth.
The Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch, Grades 3-7
I actually dig the witty subversiveness of this serial's secrecy: the titles, the plot descriptions, and even the authors' name are all cloaked in an air of mystery that's perfect for young mystery readers and fans of a good riddle. The Name of this Book is Secret is the offset of five books in The Secret Serial and is well-nigh certainly non nigh a couple of xi-year-olds chasing a missing magician. Nope, no adventurous pursuit of villains here, folks. Goose egg to run into at all.
The Way to Bea by Kat Yeh (Grades 3-seven)
Beatrix Lee is going through some stuff. Her best friend has ghosted her right at the start of seventh form and a new baby is about to end her reign as an only kid. Feeling isolated, Bea finds comfort in the haiku she crafts in invisible ink, poems she hides in a surreptitious hiding spot. Then one 24-hour interval, she's shocked to observe that someone has started writing back. She sets out to try and figure out who her secret pen pal might be and finds her style back to herself in the process. Annotation: I don't recall this volume is normally classified equally a mystery. The secret verse form pen pal and a mysterious labyrinth requite it a mystery vibe though.
Explorer: The Mystery Boxes edited by Kazu Kibuishi (Grades 3-vii)
The Explorer series is comprised of iii volumes to date, all edited by Kazu Kibuishi. Each volume is a collection of seven graphic stories from vii different comics creators around a central theme. Explorer: The Mystery Boxes is a creative, clever collection of stories about boxes of mysterious origin, but the stories could non exist more dissimilar both in written content and artistic style. In 1 story, a young girl hears a tapping racket under her bed and discovers a box with a cryptic note; inside she finds a wax doll who seems sweetness at first only…Some other story follows a Japanese girl whose grandmother is convinced that spirits are stealing butter from the kitchen. Thing is, Obaasan miiiight not be wrong. Then fun!
Chasing Vermeer
by Blue Balliet (Grades iii-7)
Gear up in Hyde Park, this art mystery opens with a mysterious alphabetic character sent to three unknown recipients from an bearding sender. The letter of the alphabet asks each of them to solve a crime that has wronged one of the world'south greatest painters. Side by side we meet Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay, students in the aforementioned sixth grade class who aren't exactly friends. A mysterious book brings them together and they soon detect themselves wrapped upwards in an international art scandal. They'll take to follow a trail of complicated clues and coded messages to go to the truth.
The Mysterious Bridegroom Guild series by Trenton Lee Stewart (Grades 3-vii)
A mysterious advert in a local newspaper reads: "Are y'all a gifted child looking for special opportunities?" Many children reply just only 4 are called later on numerous rounds of vigorous testing. The 4 are introduced to Mr. Nicholas Benedict; he reveals that they've been enlisted to take downward an evil force backside a mind-control plot. To do this, they must go underground to penetrate a shady org called the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened. Underground and societies and child espionage—what's not to beloved?
The Sammy Keyes series by Wendelin Van Draanen (Grades three-7)
When we outset see Sammy in Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief, she'southward got a lot going on—she's managed to brand an enemy of the meanest mean daughter at schoolhouse, she'south been expelled, and she's living with her grandma in a seniors-but building considering her mom is off trying to make it as a motion-picture show star. Things go from bad to worse when she witnesses a break-in at the hotel across the street, and now the thief is after her. Can't go enough of Sammy? Follow her adventures in the 17 other books in this series.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil Eastward. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (Grades 4-5)
I'm pulling this blurb directly from my shelf talker at the bookstore where I work. It's one of my favorite books ever! " I probably read this twenty times when I was a kid. It is just and so good! Little Claudia Kincaid decides she wants to run away, but not just anywhere: she'due south going to run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and find a mode to alive there. She bamboozles her little brother into going along for the ride and pulls off her master plan. The ii end up stumbling upon a headline-making mystery in the procedure. I've been reading mysteries (and trying to live inside a swanky museum, sssh) always since."
Smashie McPerter and the Mystery of Room 11 by Northward. Griffin, Illustrated by Kate Kindley (Grades 4-6)
"The day Patches was stolen from Smashie McPerter's class started out like any other day. Well, except for the fact that her instructor was out ill and Smashie'south grade was stuck with the worst substitute in the world. And except for the mysterious concern with the glue. And except for the fact that Patches himself had become Smashie'south new archenemy." Patches, naturally, is her class's all-time hamster, and Smashie is rather distraught about his disappearance. I would have been all over these books equally a child, both because how tin can you not love the name Smashie McPerter and because the plot is just so Ramona-esquely relatable.
The Math Inspectors serial past Daniel Kenney, Illustrated by Emily Boever (Grades 4-6)
Heed up, parental figures: these books are the best of both worlds. Each one is a really fun, go along-you-guessing detective story AND a math lesson! Four sixth graders have banded together to form a detective agency. In The Case of the Claymore Diamond, the foursome hear almost the burglary of a local jewelry store. When they arrive on the scene, they find the store owner unconscious; what'due south more, his prized Claymore diamond is missing too! The police think they've solved the case, but they don't accept all the facts direct. All of this plus math—it's woven in throughout to make for a fun and educational treat for bookworms.
The Book of Elsewhere series by Jacqueline West (Grades four-vi)
You should read these books because there are iii talking cats in the series. Yep please! They're also a fast-paced, folio-turnery blend of mystery and adventure. In The Shadows, eleven-year-old Olive and her parents move into a crumbling mansion filled with all sorts of weird and interesting paintings. Olive finds a dusty pair of spectacles in some abandoned drawer and makes a startling discovery. It seems she can travel inside the paintings to a creepily silent place chosen Elsewhere! Peril awaits as she tries to unravel the mystery she'south unwittingly stepped into. And did I mention that there are talking cats??
The Chinatown Mystery series by Laurence Yeah (Grades 4-7)
In The Case of the Goblin Pearls, the first in this series, Lily Lew is excited to learn that her Great Auntie Tiger Lil, a famous flick star, is coming to visit her family in San Francisco. When Tiger Lil invites Lily to exist in Chinatown's New year's day's Parade, she of course jumps at the chance. During the parade, someone steals the priceless Goblin Pearls right from under Lily'south face. Nifty Auntie Tiger Lil decides information technology'south up to her to find the thieves and invites young Lily along for the ride.
The 39 Clues series by multiple authors (Grades 5-seven)
The books in The 39 Clues series are a risk/mystery mashup series. A collaboration of authors have written these stories, including Rick Riordan, Patrick Carman, Linda Sue Park and Sarwat Chadda. There are 5 sub-series that make upward one big series and each sub-series contains multiple volumes. The start book, The Maze of Bones , introduces us to Amy and Dan Cahill, a brother and sis duo who learn that their family is the nigh influential in all of history. The two embark on a dangerous, twisty, activity-packed quest to find the 39 clues, ingredients that are the hugger-mugger to their family'due south ability. Bonus: readers tin can get their easily on collectors cards that stand for to each book. The cards incorporate a code that when entered online will reveal that book's clue.
The Enola Holmes Mystery serial by Nancy Springer (Grades 5-eight)
Yes, I am sneaking in one final Sherlock book but hear me out! In this series, Enola is Sherlock'south sister and is trying to carve out her ain place in the world. We first meet Enola in The Case of the Missing Marquess . She'southward traveling to London to rail downward her missing mother, merely she'south pulled into a kidnapping and murder case when she arrives. She must endeavour to solve this case while also figuring out what's become of her mother. A fun, feminist branch-off with half dozen books in the series. See? Good, right?
The Harlem Deception by Natasha Tarpley (Grades 5-8)
Twelve-year-quondam Jin is studying at her grandparents' Harlem bodega when a classmate named Alex walks in. She doesn't say a word and leaves just every bit quickly every bit she came. Jin decides she has to know more almost this mysterious daughter and pairs up with her for a class project. While out delivering food to a woman's shelter, the girls see Elvin, a homeless boy whose grandfather was attacked in a community garden. The iii form an unlikely friendship as they join forces to discover his assailant. They don't expect to detect themselves involved in an even large mystery having to do with priceless works of art.
Concur Fast by Blue Balliet (Grades 5-8)
Early on Pearl's male parent is non the kind of man who'd leave his family, yet he has. At least it appears he has, leaving a mess behind that'southward put Early and her family in danger. When the three of them are forced to motion into a shelter, Early on starts asking questions. She soon discovers that there are clues to her male parent's mysterious disappearance and she may be the only ane who can crack them. And boy oh boy, does Blue Baillet's signature dear of beautiful words really sets this piece of work apart.
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