mystery and detective stories

Joe Hardy gets off to a bad start on the first day at his new school when he inadvertently implies that one of his classmates is guilty of pulling the fire alarm.

Frank and Joe investigate the destruction of science fair projects.

Sixteen-year-old Lorelei is not happy when her family moves into an old bed-and-breakfast in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania--and that is before she meets the Civil War ghost, Nathaniel, who needs her help, and discovers that some of the hotel staff are not what they seem to be.

Xena and Xander Holmes, an American brother and sister spending a year in England, use clues in their ancestor Sherlock Holmes' casebook as they try to solve the mystery of a monster threatening a peaceful country village where a documentary film is being made.

Frank and Joe go undercover to discover why teen seamen on an old fishing boat keep going missing.

In his latest adventure in eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old samurai apprentice Seikei, with the help of a servant girl and an imperious old man, sets out to rescue the young Emperor Yasuhito from his kidnappers.

When a mysterious stranger appears during an October storm, all of the dogs in town lose their ability to bark, causing Mike and Annie to search for clues to secrets from the past that will allow them to break the curse.

When sixteen-year-old Baoliu is wrongfully accused of murdering his stepmother, his father pays someone else to die in his place, leaving Baoliu to fend for himself on the streets of twelfth-century China.

On her way to England from Nantucket aboard a British man-o'-war, Dido has many adventures when the ship is diverted to the land of New Cumbria in the southern hemisphere.

Captain Casket rescues young Dido Twite from a watery grave off the coast of England while chasing the pink whale. She is brought to Nantucket but longs to return to her homeland.