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The no-good knight

2008
Velma asks young readers to help Scooby-Doo and the gang determine who is posing as a ghost knight and haunting the Ticklewell estate and pillow factory by reviewing her notes, examining the crime scene pictures, and solving puzzles to find clues and suspects.

The karate mouse

2005
Geronimo Stilton gets caught up in the World Karate Championships, thanks to the efforts of Bruce Hyena and Piccolo Tao, Bruce?s super-sporty cousin. Geronimo only has a week to become real champion material! Will Geronimo manage to overcome his fears in order to win the competition?.

Murder in the middle pasture

1984
When a calf is murdered, Hank, the wiley Cowdog and Head of Ranch Security, pursues a gang of wild dogs and a clan of coyotes to find the killer.

Let sleeping dogs lie

1985
Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, pursues an elusive chicken murderer.

Blue Bay mystery

1961
Grandfather takes the Alden family on a trip to an uninhabited South Sea island, where they find beauty and a mystery.

Blue Bay mystery

2009
A graphic adaptation of Gertrude Chandler Warner's story in which the Alden children find an unusual mystery when they spend a vacation on a supposedly deserted South Seas Island.

Mystery ranch

2009
A graphic novel adaptation of Gertrude Chandler Warner's story in which eccentric Aunt Jane needs help on her ranch, so the Aldens, affectionately known as the Boxcar Children, get help from a private detective.

The ghost and Mrs. Hobbs

2003
Hindered by a fight with her friend Dub and a series of mysterious fires, eleven-year-old Allie investigates the fire seventeen years earlier which claimed the lives of the husband and infant son of a school cafeteria worker, as well as the handsome young man whose ghost asks Allie for help.

The hand of the necromancer

1998
Thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon and his friend Professor Childermass battle an evil wizard for possession of a bewitched hand which can be used to rule the world.

The detective's assistant

In 1859, eleven-year-old Nell goes to live with her aunt, Kate Warne, the first female detective for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. Nell helps her aunt solve cases, including a mystery surrounding Abraham Lincoln, and the mystery of what happened to Nell's own father.

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