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The secret of Skullcracker Swamp

2008
Tabitha, a young girl from the city, goes to spend the summer in southeast Georgia with her father, and along with Mable, a woman who lives near the Okefenokee Swamp, try to solve the mystery of why someone wants to lay claim to Mable's homestead in the swamp.

The riddle of the missing puppies

2006
Leah, Sara, and Aimee come together to help solve the mystery of the missing puppies.

The puzzle of the shark surfer girl

2006
Leah, Sara, and Aimee come together to solve the mystery of the Shark Surfer Girl.

The mystery at the Roman Colosseum

2006
Christina, Grant, and their new friends, Luigi and Francesca, explore Italy as they try to figure out a puzzling newspaper advertisement and who the mysterious men dressed in black are.

Return to Howliday Inn

2004
The Monroe family pets are again boarded at Chateau Bow-Wow, where some spooky goings-on serve as a distraction from the kennel's poor food.

The skate patrol and the mystery writer

1982
Handwriting analysis and some fast roller-skating help Milton and James close in on the vandal who's been defacing their apartment building with red paint.

The s?eance

2008
In 1926, magician Harry Houdini arrives in the city to perform magic and to expose fradulent mediums but thirteen-year-old Scooter King, who works for his mother making her seances seem real, needs Houdini's help to solve a murder.

The mystery of the solid gold kicker

1993
Nancy faces one of her toughest investigations when evidence suggests that football star Chip Garvey is guilty of homicide.

Mysteries in our national parks

valley of death
2002
What s causing the deaths of desert bighorn sheep in Death Valley National Park? Wildlife veterinarian Olivia Landon has been called in to investigate. The plot thickens when her daughter, Ashley, is kidnapped by militants who mistake her for Leesa, a mysterious girl temporarily in the Landons care. Tension builds to a spine-chilling climax when a showdown in the desert leads the family to a missile testing site and the key to what is killing the sheep.

The Haunting of Captain Snow

2003
In their second mystery, the four yacht club girls solve a century-old mystery surrounding a sea captain and his strange family. In the process they discover a haunted house, a coven of witches, and more supernatural occurrences than they thought a summer could contain.

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