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Moon Princess

After her mother disappears and her mean housekeeper starts to act suspiciously, Sienna and her invisible dog Rufus set out to find answers and encounter Feng and other companions on their journey.
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Recipe for trouble

2007
While Natasha and Peichi cope with Shawn's growing obsession with cheerleading and welcome a new girl to their Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood, Molly and Amanda help solve a food-related mystery during a family trip to New Orleans. Includes recipes for Crawfish Louise, Pasta La Lou, and pecan pie.

Jackaby

2014
Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature.
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The pawloined paper

1998
While helping Joe protect a top-secret note, Wishbone remembers the brilliant French detective, C. Auguste Dupin, who lived in Paris in the nineteenth century and solved crimes using psychological reasoning.

Phantom outlaw at Wolf Creek

2005
While visiting a ranch in Montana, Ricky finds God's presence comforting when his investigation of disappearing livestock puts his life in danger.

The downtown desperadoes

2004
Twelve-year-old Ricky receives a strange phone call from a street preacher he knows in New York City and is drawn into a confusing tangle of arson, blackmail, and kidnapping.

Sunrise at the Mayan temple

2004
While on an archaeological dig in central Mexico, Ricky, Old Lady Bugsby, and the Jamesville gang investigate the mysterious disappearance of a Mayan girl's father.

The mystery of the too crisp cash

1998
Ty, Gabe, and their friends try to track down the source of counterfeit money in the neighborhood.
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The mystery of the icky icon

2001
Abe, Jade, and Toby try to track down the person who has been terrorizing the school through the computer.
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Mystery lights of Navajo Mesa

1994
While investigating the robbery of a local museum, four young friends see some mysterious lights that they believe belong to a UFO on the mesa near the fictional town of Ambrosia, Arizona, and find themselves in real danger.
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