Kids Mystery

It's a Super Saturday sleepover! That means best friends Eddie and Molly-Jean (who prefers to be called MJ) are going to play outside, create obstacle courses for MJ's newts, and watch their favorite movies - and then they'll travel to India to solve a mystery and help save a school - all before bedtime!

You’re home alone, and there’s a knock on the door. You find two kids on the doorstep, and they demand you let them inside. But something is very wrong because their eyes are completely black. College professor and paranormal investigator Rand Casey doesn’t believe in the black-eyed kids. Stories of the alleged sinister, otherworldly kids knocking on doors and tricking people into letting them inside are unsubstantiated.

What started out as fun just turned dangerous. When 14-year-old Jeffrey's high school teacher hires him to find the driver responsible for a hit-and-run car accident, he thinks it's an easy case—until his investigation leads to a harrowing encounter with a ruthless criminal and the clues to an ancient treasure. Now he and his friends Pablo, Marisol, and Susie are in a race against time with a trio of sinister treasure hunters who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the prize. Exciting Mystery Books for Kids, Teens, and Everyone in Be-Tween! If you like action-packed stories of ...

There is something going on in Applewood ... Haunting lights hover above the apple orchards at night and the animals of the neighborhood are disappearing. Explore this middle grade mystery through the eyes of the scrappy Westie Gus and his friends Ethan and Eva. Follow them as they uncover the truth and expose dastardly villains who place the orchard and all its inhabitants in peril. First in the middle grade mystery series, The Westie Chronicles, The Tale of the Haunted Orchard encourages girls and boys of all ages to take action within their communities to fight corruption, protect ...

The year is 1910. Nate Cooper is an old-school cowboy. He sees the change brought by the turn of the century and reckons none of it to be good. Even after spending nearly 30 years in a Montana prison for a wrongful murder conviction, Nate’s moral compass is true and unwavering: He does all the wrong things for all the right reasons. So when he returns to his northern Montana ranching town to find the Blackfoot Indians - the people he went to prison trying to defend - are still being cheated out of their territory by ranchers, Nate can’t rest on his laurels.

Thar she blows! Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are on an Alaskan whale watching adventure. On their first day, they see a mother orca and her calf. But the next day, the baby orca is missing! The calf needs its mother’s milk. Can the kids solve this whale of a mystery?

Someone has been plotting to bring down the Spencers ever since Kensy and Max were thrust into the secret world of Pharos, but they've always managed to stay one step ahead of their attackers...until now. As the twins' inner circle - and Pharos's top agents - start going missing, it quickly becomes clear that someone is staging a coup. Soon Kensy and Max are on their own, racing to get to the bottom of the terrible situation before the organisation completely falls apart. And before their family is gone forever.

Rosamond has started a book club called Rosamond’s Ready Readers. But she claims there’s an evil page monster on the loose. This monster has ripped and ruined a page of the cookbook Rosamond uses to make treats for the club.

An intricate twisted plot with moral ambiguity. Considered one of his best stories.

Jerry was walking in the woods several yards from the home of his grandparents when a fierce windstorm appeared on the horizon. It was piercing as it nipped his nose and cheeks. Jerry attempted to elude the wind by hiding inside a hollow tree. But he soon discovered that he wasn’t in the tree alone. It contained a sound, and it held him captive. In an attempt to free himself, Jerry saw the Daring Escape. The Krenshaw Children loathed farm life and were in search of painting jobs so that they could purchase tickets back to their home in Maine. When their first customer suspected that ...

Are you a Law & Order or CSI crime junkie? In these You Solve It mini mysteries, you get to be the lead detective who takes on the case. You will read the case file, collect the evidence and solve the crime. Become an iDetective.

Omar is going on his biggest adventure yet - a trip to Pakistan! But his excitement about the trip is interrupted by some shocking news: his amazing teacher is not coming back to school, and no one will say why. When Omar and his friends start investigating, the hints they overhear and clues they find lead them to an alarming conclusion - it must be aliens!

What ten-year-old boy doesn’t want to be a detective? Fourth grade is out. Finn wants to spend his summer doing something more important than playing baseball and swimming. He wants to start a neighborhood watch for kids. After all, his friends and he will be outside a lot and can easily pay attention for strange happenings. All he has to do is get the kid-hating president of the homeowner’s association to approve his idea. When his best friend Colby's cat disappears, and neighbors begin reporting burglaries, Finn decides he doesn't need anyone's permission to investigate. Find out how ...

Nothing ever seems out of place in the safe, suburban town of Cowslip Grove. Lawns are neatly mowed, sidewalks are tidy, and the sounds of ice cream trucks fill the air. But now...kids have been going missing - except no one even realizes it, because no one remembers them. Not their friends. Not their teachers. Not even their families.

While sleeping on the roof of his father's hotel-spy school, 13-year-old Lucas Benes finds a baby alone and learns that the Good Company has restarted its profitable brainwashing business. Brainwashed (Crime Travelers Spy Series book number one) tracks the secret urban adventures of the new resistance, a school of international teenage spies. Lucas leads a group of friends through the hotspots of Paris - from the catacombs to the Eiffel tower - in an all-out effort to sabotage a brainwashing ceremony that could potentially turn them all into "good" kids.

Age Level: 10-13 U.S. Grade Level: 5-7 Unleash the Adventure with "The Perfect Heist"! Are you looking for a way to keep young readers engaged and excited about reading? "The Perfect Heist" is the perfect solution—a fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat journey that’s sure to captivate young readers and keep them turning pages! Follow Jake, the fearless leader, and his dynamic crew—including the mysterious Diamond King and the cunning thieves Emma and Ava—as they embark on a daring mission to pull off the ultimate heist. With every twist and turn, they face a gauntlet of challenges in a ...

In this Black Mirror-style series, each Witching Hour thriller will take you on an edge-of-your-seat journey that can be finished in a single sitting. After the death of his wife, Joe Santos was ready to settle into a quiet life in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. But, when an unidentified object crashes near the local military base, he is thrown into a mystery of astronomical proportions. In this winding tale of mourning, conspiracy, and violence, There Is Something In The Sky will take you from the quiet reaches of space to the quiet spaces you can't quite reach.

Sam Moon investigates the strange phenomena of prisoners recommitting the crimes they were locked up for—all while never leaving their cells. When a suspect fits the description of an inmate who’s in solitary confinement, Sam correctly deduces foul play. But the deeper that Sam and her partner, Brent Cole, investigate, the more perplexing the mystery becomes. And when Sam is threatened by a civilian prison worker, she has no choice but to delve even deeper into the prison's past—and its warden...and uncovers something evil preying upon the inmates. Sam is about to face-off against ...

What started out as fun just turned dangerous. When 14-year-old Jeffrey's high school teacher hires him to find the driver responsible for a hit-and-run car accident, he thinks it's an easy case—until his investigation leads to a harrowing encounter with a ruthless criminal and the clues to an ancient treasure. Now he and his friends Pablo, Marisol, and Susie are in a race against time with a trio of sinister treasure hunters who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the prize. Exciting Mystery Books for Kids, Teens, and Everyone in Be-Tween! If you like action-packed stories of ...

While visiting her cousin in Australia, Abbi learns that a valuable carved emu egg has been stolen. Who is the thief? Could it be Abbi's aunt who hates the egg? Or the visiting couple who likes to collect rare items? Or. . . is it Abbi's favorite cousin? With the help of her friends, Abbi and her friends, Lydia and Daniel, will crack this case wide open!