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Mysteries for Kids

Created on July 5, 2022, 11:31 am

Last Updated July 5, 2022, 11:55 am

Develop your powers of deduction and reasoning with these entertaining mysteries for kids! Created by Miss Terri July 2022.

1) Treasure in the lake

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"Grand adventure stories often begin where you least expect, Iris knows this because she's read them all. However, as a thirteen-year-old stuck in the tiny country town of Bugden, real adventure seems a distant dream. That doesn't bother Sam, Iris' best friend. For him, catching bugs and swimming in the lake is exciting enough. But when Iris and Sam stumble upon an unusually dry river on the outskirts of town, they're led to a discovery beyond anything...

2) Shirley & Jamila save their summer

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"When ten-year-olds Shirley and Jamila meet, Jamila is simply hoping for a friend in her new neighborhood but Shirley is a detective and together they seek a missing gecko." -- (Source of summary not specified)

3) Something smells fishy

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"Prince Bubbles, the prince of New Sealand, comes to Pawston to recieve an award. Everything goes swimmingly well until Rider and the PI pack realize something smells fishy about their royal vistor"-- Provided by publisher.

4) The secret of the old clock

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Nancy Drew solves her first mystery when the accidental rescue of a little girl who lives with her two great-aunts leads to an adventurous search for a missing will.

5) Nancy Clancy, super sleuth: Nancy Clancy, secret admirer

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At school before Parents' Day, Nancy and Bree are on the case when a prized possession goes missing, and Nancy decides to make her guitar teacher and her favorite babysitter fall in love on Valentine's Day.

6) The tower treasure

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Dixon, Franklin W

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After a dying criminal confesses that his loot has been stashed "in the tower," the Hardy boys make an astonishing discovery.

7) My name is Stilton, Geronimo Stilton

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Stilton, Geronimo

8) The boxcar children

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Warner, Gertrude Chandler, 1890-1979

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Four orphaned children run away and live in a boxcar, until they are found by their grandfather. Includes a biography and photographs of the author.

9) The absent author

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Roy, Ron, 1940-

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Dink Duncan and his two friends investigate the apparent kidnapping of famous mystery author Wallis Wallace.

10) 39 clues: Book 1, The maze of bones

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The first book in the #1 bestselling phenomenon sends readers around the world on the hunt for the 39 Clues!

Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her will, leaving her decendants an impossible decision: "You have a choice - one million dollars or a clue."Grace is the last matriarch of the Cahills, the world's most powerful family. Everyone from Napoleon to Houdini is related to the Cahills, yet the source of the family power is lost....

11) Encyclopedia Brown, boy detective

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Sobol, Donald J., 1924-2012

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Fifth-grader "Encyclopedia" Leroy Brown solves ten mysteries and, by putting the solutions at the back of the book, challenges the reader to do the same.

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Sachar, Louis, 1954-

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"Two middle-grade kids take a shortcut home from school and discover what looks like fuzzy mud but is actually a substance with the potential to wreak havoc on the entire world"-- Provided by publisher.

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In Washington, D.C., twelve-year-old Florian Bates, a consulting detective for the FBI, and his best friend Margaret help thwart the biggest art heist in United States history.

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Patterson, James, 1947-

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Alex Cross' son, Ali, is eager to follow in his father's footsteps as a detective, but when his best friend goes missing, what price will he have to pay to solve the mystery?

15) The mystery in the Smoky Mountains

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Christina, Grant, Mimi, and Papa head to the Great Smoky Mountains and end up in an A+ Appalachian mystery complete with an eerie mountain haze, spectacular scenery, a boisterous bear, confounding clues, and mystifying folklore. Contains online eBook access.

16) Chirp

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Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.-- Provided by Publisher.

17) Greenglass House

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At Greenglass House, a smuggler's inn, twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his winter holidays relaxing but soon guests are arriving with strange stories about the house sending Milo and Meddy, the cook's daughter, on an adventure.

18) The case of the time-capsule bandit

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Spencer, Octavia

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Twelve-year-old Randi, unhappy about moving from Brooklyn to Deer Creek, Tennessee, after her mother's death, soon finds new friends and a case to solve surrounding a stolen time capsule and rumors of a centuries-old treasure.

19) The Westing game

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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.

20) The Blackthorn key

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In 1665 London, fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe, apprentice to an apothecary, and his best friend, Tom, try to uncover the truth behind a mysterious cult, following a trail of puzzles, codes, pranks, and danger toward an unearthly secret with the power to tear the world apart.