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Tale of the missing mascot

1999
Wishbone and Samantha suspect a rival player is responsible for stealing the head from the Oakdale Bulldogs' mascot costume, but the more they investigate, the stranger the case becomes.

Clues at the carnival

2001
A rebus-style story in which Scooby-Doo and the gang go to a carnival and find themselves searching for a magician's magic hat, which has been stolen by a monster. Includes twenty-four vocabulary flash cards.

Bunnicula

a rabbit-tale of mystery
2004
Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire.

Young Cam Jansen and the dinosaur game

1996
When fifth-grader Cam Jansen and her friend Eric go to a birthday party, she uses her photographic memory to solve the puzzle of the dinosaur count.

Partners in crime

2012
Assigned to create an imaginary business for a school assignment, best friends Darcy and Norah organize a make-believe detective agency that unexpectedly receives a real case when someone goes missing under sinister circumstances.

Howling on the playground

2000
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery, Inc. gang investigate rumors of werewolves at the site where a playground is being built.

The mystery of Mr. Nice

from the tattered casebook of Chet Gecko, private eye
2000
When the principal of his school begins acting nice to him, Chet Gecko realizes that he is an imposter and so sets out to find the real one.

The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle

1990
Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle, the only passenger on a voyage from England to America in 1832, must take serious matters into her own hands when she learns that the captain is murderous.

The Everglades poacher who pretended

2013
While their sixth-grade class is on a field trip to Everglades National Park, James "Gum" Shoo and his friends find a suspicious park ranger and a gang of poarchers.

The burglar who bit the Big Apple

2011
Samantha Archer and her sixth grade class take a field trip to New York City, where they encounter a burglar with a mysterious motive.

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