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Twisted summer

Fourteen-year-old Cici hopes for a romantic summer at the beach but instead finds herself trying to solve a murder which had occurred there the previous year.
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Storm tide

A mysterious stranger visits the island where Simon and his sister Ellen live, bringing with him an unexpected storm and a riddle that may lead to treasure.
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Fast slide

Lifeguard Clay Gibson tries to clear his friend's name when he is suspected of stealing forty thousand dollars from the water park for which they work.
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Trash

Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country's dump.
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Windcatcher

While learning to sail during a visit to his grandmother's at the Connecticut shore, eleven-year-old Tony becomes excited about the rumors of sunken treasure in the area and starts following a couple who seem to be making a mysterious search for something.
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How come the best clues are always in the garbage?

When a thief steals money from her mom's Garbage Busters project, Stephanie, a sixth grader, identifies herself as "Stevie Diamond, Detective" and sets off to find the culprit.
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Monster mutt madness

The Liberty Dog Show is being haunted by two monster mutts with glowing red eyes, and the Mystery Inc. gang are called in to investigate--but the gang suspects that these ghost dogs are too well trained to be real ghosts.
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Skeleton crew showdown

Fred's friend invites the Mystery Inc. gang on a "vacation" on the old pirate ship he just bought, but there seems to be another crew on board--a crew of skeleton pirates who intend to take their ship back.
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The zombie zone

Reports of zombies and grave-robbers alarm the people of a Louisiana swampland village, but Ruth Rose, Josh, and Dink begin to suspect that the supernatural may not be the cause of the eerie occurrences.
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