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The unwilling umpire

2004
When the umpire at the baseball game fundraiser is accused of stealing a collection of autographed baseballs, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose try to prove his innocence.
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The talking T. Rex

2003
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the theft of a great deal of money from the belly of a nearly life-size Tyrannosaurus Rex model that their friend, Jud Wheat, is using to raise money for a dinosaur museum.
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Watcher in the piney woods

2000
In 1865, while helping her family keep their Virginia farm going through the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Cassie meets a Confederate deserter and a Yankee prisoner of war and tries to discover who has been stealing from the farm.
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Every dog has his day

2003
Thomas and his bionic superdog McGrowl investigate a plot to destroy their hometown by activating a secret volcano.
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Dive. Book One

The Discovery
2003
Four adolescents interning as research divers for the summer find themselves searching for a centuries-old treasure and fending off killer sharks. Interweaves their story with that of Samuel Higgins, a boy who died in a shipwreck in the same waters in 1665.
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Dive. Book Two

The Deep
2003
Diving interns Kaz, Dante, Adriana, and Star take desperate measures to reclaim the sunken treasure that has been stolen away from them by their supervisor Tad Cutter.
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The runaway racehorse

2002
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the disappearance of a valuable racehorse that Dink's uncle and his friend, Forest Evans, have just bought and entered in a race at Saratoga.
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The school skeleton

2003
At Green Lawn Elementary, the entire school becomes involved in a mystery when Mr. Bones, the skeleton in the nurse's office, disappears.
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The case of the mummy mystery

1999
Jigsaw investigates when Joey reports that his worm had been stolen by a mummy.
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The quicksand question

2002
When someone steals the money the town has been collecting to help the ducks, Josh and his friends try to find the thief.
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