mystery and detective stories

Seventeen-year-old Jared leads a group of younger boys to Eagle Point, but their planned fishing trip turns into an investigation of strange events surrounding the caretaker's cabin.

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.

Christina's summer in a spooky, isolated Victorian house with her grumpy uncle turns into a ghostly adventure.

Depicts the adventures and misadventures of Nathan Abercrombie, a zombie, and his friends Mookie and Abigail. After Nathan develops a strong, awful-smelling odor, he and his friends try to solve the mystery of the horrible smell. Includes writing and research activities for readers and provides discussion questions.

Half-dead zombie spy Nathan is assigned to investigate the green goop that is oozing from every faucet in town. Nathan isn't sure that he's ready for his mission and things get more complicated when his mother make a doctor's appointment for him. The doctor is bound to discover that Nathan is dead.

Wiff and Dirty George investigate a mysterious incident on the 7:25 train when all the passengers' pants fall down and in the process they stumble upon Basil King's plot to kidnap the Queen of England.

When their softball equipment bag goes missing, Eva and Becca decide to try and catch the thief in the act.

An unsupervised goose, missing family heirlooms, and some suspicious characters turn the annual cucumber festival into a robbery investigation for three sixth-grade friends.

In June 1907, twelve-year-old Samantha looks forward to a happy summer with Nellie and her younger sisters at Grandmary's country home in the Adirondacks but a series of mysterious accidents on the property lead Samantha to suspect that someone is deliberately causing trouble.

As the war continues into May 1945, eleven-year-old Molly finds herself pulled in many different directions trying to cope with her troubled father's return from war, the abrupt resignation of her favorite Red Cross volunteer, a scrap-paper drive, and a mysterious neighborhood prowler.