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The alien invasion in my backyard

an EMU club adventure
2015
Stuart Tennemeier and his friends of the EMU Club (Exploration-Mystery-Unbelievable Club) solve different mysteries around their neighborhood.

Andi under pressure

2014
While attending a prestigious Science Camp, twelve-year-old Andi and her new best friend, Colin Carter, investigate a series of practical jokes being blamed on the mysterious janitor, Polk, which result in a lab explosion that injures a professor.

Cam Jansen

the ghostly mystery
1996
Cam, Eric, and Aunt Molly go to a rock concert when Cam has to use her photographic memory to catch a thief disguised as a ghost.

The mudhole mystery

1997
Dunkum's persistence in digging out a mysterious object that he discovers in a mudhole yields some interesting information about previous residents in the neighborhood.

The escape

Avery, the police chief's daughter, risks her life to uncover the truth about the murder of a friend, Adam, who disappeared during a hike in the woods with his neighbor, Fletcher, whom she later found covered in blood and with no memory of what happened.

Encyclopedia Brown finds the clues

Contains ten brief cases in which the reader puts his wits against Encyclopedia Brown, the boy detective.

Encyclopedia Brown boy detective

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

Picture Me Gone

2014
Twelve-year-old Mila travels with her father to upstate New York to visit friends and family, who may lead them to clues to the whereabouts of her father's best friend, who has gone missing.

The Berenstain Bears and the missing watermelon money

2003
The Bear Detectives go to work when someone steals the money Farmer Ben has made from selling his delicious and popular watermelons.

Nooks & Crannies

Eleven-year-old Tabitha Crum, whose parents were just about to abandon her, is invited to the country estate of a wealthy countess along with five other children and told that one of them will become her heir.

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