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Jasper Jones

author: Silvey, Craig
In small-town Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when one asks the other to help him cover up a murder until they can prove who is responsible.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: interpersonal relations, secrets, murder, family problems, recluses, australia, secrecy, homicide, hermits, detective and mystery stories [X], dysfunctional families, mystery and detective stories [X], mystery fiction [X], mystery fiction

Sammy Keyes And The Showdown In Sin City

author: Van Draanen, Wendelin
"When youth sleuth Sammy Keyes travels to Las Vegas to stop her mom from marrying her boyfriend's dad, she never expects she'll learn the identity of her absent father in the process"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770

Encyclopedia Brown Shows The Way

author: Sobol, Donald J., Sobol, Donald
Encyclopedia Brown, brilliant fifth-grade amateur detective, solves ten crimes.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: brown, encyclopedia (fictitious character), mystery and detective stories [X], brown, encyclopedia (fictional character), mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories [X]

The Curse Of The Blue Figurine

author: Bellairs, John
Johnny Dixon is plunged into a terrifying mystery-adventure when he removes a blue figurine called a ushabt.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: mystery fiction [X], horror fiction, dixon, johnny (fictitious character), mystery and detective stories [X], detective and mystery stories [X], churches, church buildings

Kiki Strike

author: Miller, Kirsten
Fourteen-year-olds Ananka Fishbein, Kiki Strike, and the other Irregulars encounter a Chinese mummy, a ghost, trained squirrels, and old enemies as they try to stop an art forgery ring and safeguard the secret streets hidden beneath New York City.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: underground areas, crime, identity (psychology), new york (n.y.), individuality, identity, identity (philosophical concept), mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories [X]

The Proof That Ghosts Exist

author: Matas, Carol
In this first book of the trilogy, siblings Molly and Adam learn that men in their family die the day before their thirty-fifth birthday.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: ghosts, mystery and detective stories [X], brothers and sisters, siblings, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories [X], ghost stories

Clues In The Shadows

author: Ernst, Kathleen
As the war continues into May 1945, eleven-year-old Molly finds herself pulled in many different directions trying to cope with her troubled father's return from war, the abrupt resignation of her favorite Red Cross volunteer, a scrap-paper drive, and a mysterious neighborhood prowler.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: world war, 1939-1945, interpersonal relations, mystery and detective stories [X], historical fiction, illinois, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories [X], mystery fiction

Mystery Ranch

author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler, Long, Christopher E, Clester, Shane
A graphic novel adaptation of Gertrude Chandler Warner's story in which eccentric Aunt Jane needs help on her ranch, so the Aldens, affectionately known as the Boxcar Children, get help from a private detective.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 440

Caboose Mystery

author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler, Warner
Describes the adventures of the Alden family as they ride across country in a caboose that has a strange history--or is it a mystery?.
FIC
year: 1966
copies: 32
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 440
subjects: railroads, mystery and detective stories [X], mystery fiction [X], boxcar children (fictitious characters), boxcar children (fictional characters), detective and mystery stories [X], railroad trains

Mystery In The Sand

author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler, Dunn, Joeming W
A graphic novel adaptation of the Boxcar Children mystery involving a friendly writer with a metal detector, the mysterious inhabitants of a tower house, and the discovery of a locket in the sand.
FIC
year: 1971
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 520

Still More Two-minute Mysteries

author: Sobol, Donald J.
A collection of sixty-three short mysteries filled with tricky clues.
FIC
year: 1975
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: mystery and detective stories [X], plot-your-own stories, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories [X], literary recreations, short stories

The Mystery Of The Singing Ghost

author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler
While helping fix up the old house their cousins have bought, the Aldens hear stories about its being haunted and find evidence suggesting that there may be a ghost there.
FIC
year: 1992
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540
subjects: boxcar children (fictitious characters), haunted houses, ghosts, mystery and detective stories [X], boxcar children (fictional characters), mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories [X], ghost stories, mystery fiction, ghost stories

Sleepover Sleuths

author: Keene, Carolyn
Eight-year-old Nancy Drew is thrilled to be invited to Deirdre's City Girls-themed sleepover party, but her investigative skills are needed when Deirdre's Hollywood Heather doll goes missing.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 35
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 580
subjects: drew, nancy (fictitious character), dolls, sleepovers, theft, mystery and detective stories [X], drew, nancy (fictional character), mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories [X]

The Drum, The Doll, And The Zombie

author: Bellairs, John
When thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon and his friend Professor Childermass try to uncover what is draining the life from the elderly Dr.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
subjects: mystery and detective stories [X], supernatural, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories [X]

Flatfoot Fox And The Case Of The Nosy Otter

author: Clifford, Eth
Mrs. Chatterbox Otter asks Flatfoot Fox to find her missing son.
FIC
year: 1992
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 310
subjects: mystery and detective stories [X], foxes, animals, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories [X]

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