detective and mystery stories

Alexa and Jose reunite at the ruins of an ancient Mayan temple and discover a sinister plot to sell priceless Mayan artifacts to the highest bidder that pulls them into a dangerous jungle adventure.

From the cover: Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life -- dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge -- he follows. After their all-nigher ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, alway an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues -- and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees of the girl he thought he knew.

Word Girl struggles to come up with the secret code word that can stop Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy's giant sandwich press from smashing city hall.

Nancy Drew and her friends become caught up in a dangerous investigation when they agree to help search for a diamond thief while on a cruise around the Great Lakes.

"Nineteen-year-old Signa Farrow must solve a duke's murder and contend with a seemingly all-powerful deity, Fate"--Provided by publisher.

One year after her best friend, Audrey, went missing, Paige enters a world far darker than she ever could have imagined to find the truth after discovering a burner phone hidden in Audrey's old room that links her disappearance to that of another girl.

"Nancy investigates a string of incidents at a sailing resort"--Provided by publisher.

"In 30 BCE, Cleopatra and her husband, Marc Antony, lost their war against Octavian for control of the Egyptian Empire. However, Cleopatra knew Octavian was really after the mysterious item that was the source of all her wealth and influence, so she hid it before committing suicide. She left a series of devious clues behind for her children to find it, but they were lost to history--until now. . . . Charlie must fight for her life against ruthless enemies, match wits with Cleopatra, and solve the two-thousand-year-old mystery to prevent the most powerful treasure of the ancient world from falling into the wrong hands"--Provided by publisher.

"Asia and Ring Wilde have rescued endangered vaquitas in the Sea of Cortez and freed their mom from kidnappers in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but nothing can prepare them for the adventure that comes with returning to captivity. Live at the Wilds--their family's conservation park for rare and endangered animals--is supposed to be safe. But Ring and Asia have barely put down their bags before they and their team are confronted by angry protestors, menacing trespassers, and violent robbers. There's a plot afoot to bring down the Wilds . . . but who's behind it? When someone starts setting wild cats loose, putting both people and animals directly in harm's way, the Wilde siblings must decide who to trust if they want any chance at saving the home that they love"--Provided by publisher.

"A creepy creature in a creepy well in the creepy basement of a creepy old house isn't all that's creepy in the small town of Feral. Tying together and continuing several tales from 'Welcome to Feral' (2022), the search for the ghost of a long-vanished teacher leads intrepid young investigators Freya and Monica to free children trapped in a haunted playground, the even more haunted middle school basement, and other sinister locales. They also explore a labyrinth of spooky tunnels, resulting in encounters with a hulking "franken-farmer," a hideous witch who is eager to turn children into rats, and other subterranean terrors on the way to a climactic struggle with a raving, tentacled well monster"--Kirkus reviews.