mystery and detective stories

Nate the Great searches for a missing weed after it disappears from a pot on Oliver's porch.

When he finds a torn piece of paper with only part of a word on it, boy detective Nate sets out to find the missing pieces.

When her can of blue paint mysteriously disappears, Belinda is determined to find out which one of the children took it.

When Ruth Rose and her friends, vacationing in Florida, discover that her grandmother is about to invest in a project to recover sunken treasure, they stumble upon evidence that the entire plan may be a fraud.

While learning detective skills at a sleep-away camp, Dink and his friends undercover a real mystery involving stolen paintings.

Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose help catch the thieves who have stolen gold from Sammi's parents, the king and queen of Costra.

Ruth Rose, Josh, and Dink attend a concert during which someone steals the star's diamond pendant, and they are soon on the trail of the thief.

Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the kidnapping of the new baby panda at the petting zoo.

Noelle and her friend Todd decide to investigate when her dog Rover is unjustly accused of tearing up Mrs. Ruston's tomato plants.

Third-grader Todd, suffering from a run of bad luck, brightens up when he learns that the unit on spiders he has been forced into at school--Todd hates spiders--may actually teach him a way to find the thief of his beloved baseball card collection.