mystery and detective stories

Three children hunt for a meteorite they saw fall from outer space but run into some unexpected complications.

A shopping bag lady disappears and murder is suspected. A boy and a girl who saw a figure threatening the victim in an alley fear the murderer may be someone they know.

Eighteen-year-old Marissa visits her orphaned friend Sabrina at Darkling Farm, and becomes involved in mysteries surrounding an ancient Midlands custom known as the Deer Darkling Horn Dance.

In a California town of the future five junior high students, using the projects they made for the annual school carnival, uncover a plot to kidnap the Vice President.

Disheartened at being a newcomer in New England, Becky seeks solace in studying the marsh where she encounters a number of suspicious people, one of whom may be responsible for the town's rash of fires.

Ten-year-old Neil is involved in an unusual adventure after the bully, Trigger, forces him to hide a suspicious box in his family's toolshed.

While working in the Boston Museum for the summer, Ellen, a young art student, becomes implicated in the theft of a valuable bracelet.

A young girl is drawn into the mysterious occurrences in a coastal town in Northwest Canada.

The quiet Cornish seaport town seemed peaceful enough until a painting was stolen, and Daphne sensed hate and a kind of fear all around her.

In Salem in 1785 the activities of a ghost in a vacant house and the arrival in town of two young men drastically change sixteen-year-old Amanda's lonely life.