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The rooftop mystery

1968
When Sam is asked to carry his sister's big doll to their new home on moving day, his errand results in embarrassment and mystery.

The homework caper

1966
Ken tries to solve the mystery of his friend's missing homework, but his young sister keeps bothering him.

The case of the dumb bells

1966
Four boys solve a mystery involving telephones and a neighborhood prankster.

Encyclopedia Brown and the case of the treasure hunt

2002
America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.

Scooby-Doo!

shiny spooky knights
2000
Scooby-Doo and his friends are trapped in a haunted castle.

Meg Mackintosh and the Mystery at the Medieval Castle

1989
Meg and her classmates visit a medieval castle and become eyewitnesses to the theft of a priceless silver chalice. The reader is asked to solve the mystery before Meg, using cluesfound in the text and illustrations.

The case of the fire alarm

2010
Buddy, working as a therapy dog in a school, investigates when someone falsely pulls the fire alarm.

White House white-out

2008
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose head out to see the sights of Washington, D.C. in the snow in December, and meet KC, the president's stepdaughter, and her friend Marshall, and when the president's dog goes missing, the kids head into the dusk to search as the snowstorm increases.

Close to a killer

1999
Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders that are somehow connected to her mother's hair salon.

The white Mercedes

1993
Seventeen-year-old Chris, living and working in Oxford, falls in love with an elusive girl and while searching for her discovers the devastating consequences of placing his trust in the wrong person.

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