The Great Cake Mystery
Before becoming the first female private investigator in Botswana, eight-year-old Precious Ramotswe tracks down a thief who has been stealing her classmates' snacks.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: blacks, mystery and detective stories [X], mystery fiction [X], botswana, detective and mystery stories, mystery fiction [X]
The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd
A murder in a small English village leads Hercule Poirot into a strange mystery involving a determined, curious spinster, the local doctor, and a wide range of suspects with possible motives and mysterious relationships.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: poirot, hercule (fictitious character), private investigators, poirot, hercule (fictional character), mystery fiction [X], england, mystery, detective and mystery stories, mystery and detective stories [X], fiction, poirot, hercule, fiction, mystery fiction [X]
The Name Of The Game Was Murder
When she visits her great-uncle, a successful and self-centered author, at his fortress-like home on Catalina Island, fifteen-year-old Samantha becomes involved in his manipulative game that leads to murder.
FIC
year: 1994
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890
subjects: large type books, mystery and detective stories [X], murder, authors, mystery fiction [X], mystery fiction [X], homicide
In Search Of Watson
The Baker Street Irregulars return to help Sherlock Holmes with a strange mystery involving murder, abduction, and a search for lost treasure, and when a personal friend of Holmes disappears, the gang tries to determine whether there is a traitor in their ranks.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: holmes, sherlock (fictional character), watson, john h. (fictional character), missing persons, mystery fiction [X], historical fiction, great britain, holmes, sherlock (fictitious character), watson, john h. (fictitious character), mystery and detective stories [X], detective and mystery stories, mystery fiction [X], historical fiction
The Mystery Of The Conjured Man
The ragtag group of orphan boys known as the Baker Street Irregulars faces shady characters and seemingly real ghosts when they assist the famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, in investigating the mysterious death of Greta Berlinger during a s?ance.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: holmes, sherlock (fictional character), spiritualism, swindlers and swindling, mystery fiction [X], historical fiction, great britain, holmes, sherlock (fictitious character), mystery and detective stories [X], detective and mystery stories, mystery fiction [X], historical fiction
The Big Dip
Joe Lumby is determined to find the mysterious treasure, "Margaret Rose, " after his kid sister is kidnapped.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 530
subjects: buried treasure, kidnapping, mystery fiction [X], mystery and detective stories [X], treasure troves, detective and mystery stories, mystery fiction [X]
Rosebush
A woman named Jane awakes the day after a party to find herself tangled in a rosebush, paralyzed, and unable to remember the previous night.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: accident victims, mystery and detective stories [X], mystery fiction [X], hit-and-run drivers, friendship, mystery fiction [X]
The Symphony That Was Silent
On a class trip to the symphony, James "Gum" Shoo and his friends solve the mystery of the stolen flute.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 470
subjects: flutes, theft, field trips, orchestra, mystery fiction [X], flute, stealing, school field trips, mystery and detective stories [X], mystery fiction [X]
I So Don't Do Mysteries
Thirteen-year-old Sherry is visited by the ghost of her mother, who asks Sherry to help solve a case that involves rhinoceros poaching at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, and Sherry's involvement not only helps save the rhinos, but it also brings mother and daughter closer together than ever before.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
subjects: ghost stories, mother-daughter relationship, rhinoceroses, mystery fiction [X], san diego (calif.), mothers and daughters, ghosts, mystery and detective stories [X], detective and mystery stories, mystery fiction [X]
Freaks
In Victorian London, a lonely band of misfits trapped in a sideshow decides to put their extraordinary talents to use to solve the mysteries that no one else cares about, starting with the stealing of poor children from the banks of the Thames.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: abnormalities, human, freak shows, mystery and detective stories [X], london (england), great britain, detective and mystery stories, birth defects, mystery fiction [X], mystery fiction [X]
Turn Left At The Cow
"Thirteen-year-old Trav feels like a fish out of water in rural Minnesota in this coming-of-age mystery about a boy who discovers his dad may have been a bank robber"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: fathers, mystery and detective stories [X], mystery fiction [X], minnesota, mystery fiction [X]
Troubling A Star
As she tries to stay alive after being left on an iceberg in the Antarctic, sixteen-year-old Vicky recalls the series of events that brought her to the bottom of the world and involved her in a dangerous mystery.
FIC
year: 1995
copies: 32
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: mystery and detective stories [X], mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories, antarctica, friendship, mystery fiction [X]
Buried Alive
While their parents study why wolverines are disappearing from Alaska's Denali National Park, Jack and Ashley are stranded in a remote area with their mysterious new foster brother when a hit man's bullet triggers an avalanche.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: wolverine, avalanches, national parks and reserves, mystery and detective stories [X], wolverines, denali national park and preserve (alaska), mystery fiction [X], mystery fiction [X]
Rebel Glory
Craig McElhaney, a young all-star defenseman with the Western Hockey League, decides to investigate when a series of odd incidents threatens to derail his team's chances to make the playoffs.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: hockey, sabotage, mystery and detective stories [X], conduct of life, red deer (alta.), mystery fiction [X], hockey stories, detective and mystery stories, mystery fiction [X]
Jasper Jones
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, dysfunctional families, mystery and detective stories [X], mystery fiction [X], mystery fiction [X]