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The yellow house mystery

2021
The boxcar children travel to Maine, take canoes into the wilderness and live in a house exactly like the one on Surprise Island, except the Maine house is brown, not yellow. They untangle the mystery of the two houses.

Surprise Island

2021
Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny share a mysterious island for the summer with their grandfather.

Mystery ranch

2021
Eccentric Aunt Jane needs help on her ranch so the Aldens, affectionately known as the Boxcar Children, get help from a private detective.

Mike's mystery

2021
Henry, Jessie, Benny, and Violet Alden meet Mike Wood and a strange chain of events begins. Mike's house is mysteriously burned down, a man in a blue hat appears, and the Aldens' uranium mine is in danger of being sabotaged.

The boxcar children

2021
Four orphaned children, afraid to go live with their grandfather, set up housekeeping in an abandoned boxcar and are doing fine until one of them becomes ill.

Mike's mystery

2020
Henry, Jessie, Benny, and Violet Alden meet Mike Wood and a strange chain of events begins. Mike's house is mysteriously burned down, a man in a blue hat appears, and the Aldens' uranium mine is in danger of being sabotaged.

A dog-friendly town

2020
"Epic Esquival and his two siblings race to solve the mystery of a missing bejeweled collar at their parents' dog-friendly hotel"--Provided by publisher.

Samantha Spinner and the boy in the ball

2020
"After finally finding Uncle Paul, Samantha realizes her brother Nipper is now missing and must find him. But while hunting him down, she must elude the mysterious and nefarious CLOUD that's hot on her heels"--Provided by publisher.

Sam the Man & the secret detective club plan

2019
Second-grader Sam starts a detective club at school and, because there are no mysteries to solve, gets permission to seek the owners of three items from the lost and found closet.

The Boney Hand

2019
"When a Castle-on-the-Hudson school legend suddenly goes missing, Charlie is the prime suspect but he and his best friend, Frog, are determined to find the real culprit"--Provided by publisher.

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