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The case of the burgled blessing box

1975
Twelve-year-old Inspector Tearle investigates the missing receipts of a revivalist religious group.

Trixie Belden and the mystery of the whispering witch

1980
Trixie and the Bob-Whites help prove that neither their new friend nor the house that she lives in are haunted by an evil spirit.

Destinos

An introduction to Spanish
1992
Embark on this exciting mystery-adventure and discover how quickly you can learn to understand and speak Spanish while immersed in the richness of Latino cultures. Raquel Rodriguez, an attorney from Los Angeles, is hired by an aging Mexican industrialist to investigate a long-buried secret about his past.

Tales from Ellery Queen's mystery magazine

short stories for young adults
1986
A collection of seventeen short stories of mystery, detection, and suspense, emphasizing young protagonists such as a computer genius who breaks a failsafe security system on his trusty Apple computer and a selfish teenager who meets her mother's teenage ghost.

Where's the big bad wolf?

2004
Detective Doggedly, a pair of cows, and a sheep who looks very familiar are all nearby each time three pigs get in trouble, but the big bad wolf is conspicuously absent.

Still waters

1991
When reporter Lauren Sterling is asked to uncover the facts about an environmental time bomb in Oakwood, she finds the scoop of a lifetime, but might it cost her her life?.

The freshman detective blues

1987
Eddie, age fourteen, and Jack, age seventeen, find a skeleton weighted down in Muir Lake, and Jack thinks it just might be his father who's been missing for nine years.

The island

1984
A teenager goes to visit wealthy relatives on a Caribbean island where the atmosphere soon becomes ominous, and then life-threatening.

The Chinese puzzle

1988
In London of the 1890s, two children set out to find their guardian who has disappeared along with his friend, a master magician, and find themselves captive in an opium den with very dangerous characters.

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