mystery and detective stories

The Boxcar children uncover a mystery on a train trip from Boston to San Francisco.

Asks the reader to choose the path of the plot in a story about a valuable tea bowl that is stolen in Japan.

First, eleven-year-old Megan is astonished when her mother insists on taking her and her younger brother up to the lake cottage a week before school is out; then they find mysterious strangers following them.

KC and Marshall run across a forgotten cubbyhole while painting a closet at the White House and find a box of toy horses that once belonged to Thomas Jefferson; when they go to Monticello to return the horses, the box disappears, and they explore the building and grounds to find the thief.

Jeff, already worried about losing his place on the hockey team because of low grades, suddenly finds himself the victim of sabotage in the form of forged papers.

Third-grader Dink and his detective friends hope to receive a big reward by finding the person whose video recorder picked up a picture of the local bank robber.

The Alden children plan to ride in their boxcar at the Greenfield Founders' Day Parade, but the newly refurbished boxcar is stolen a couple of days before the big event.

The Alden children, isolated in a storm at a small bus station, are led into a mystery centering on a polluted river.

Dawn and her friend Lizzie are eager to get started on the camp treasure hunt.

At Green Lawn Elementary, the entire school becomes involved in a mystery when Mr. Bones, the skeleton in the nurse's office, disappears.