The Pizza Mystery
When their favorite pizza restaurant almost goes out of business, the Alden children try to help their friends stay open while they find out who is behind all their problems.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 36
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: boxcar children (fictitious characters), orphans, family, mystery and detective stories, restaurants, restaurants, bars, etc, brothers and sisters, families [X], family life, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories, boxcar children (fictional characters), siblings, pizza, detective and mystery fiction [X], adaptations, readers (publications)
Fancy Nancy
"In this collection of twelve . . . stories, join Fancy Nancy as she puts on her own dog show, learns to ice skate, goes on a camping adventure, and more! With each story timed to be a five-minute read-aloud, this storybook makes anytime the .
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 237
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 420
subjects: individuality, clothing and dress, manners and customs, family, costume, parties, schools, hundredth day of school, school stories, vocabulary, sisters, dolls, fancy nancy (fictitious character), beaches, sandcastles, costume and dress, family life, domestic fiction, books and reading, friendship, readers, surprise birthday parties, fancy nancy, families [X], humorous fiction, helping behavior, detective and mystery stories, helpfulness, mystery and detective stories, detective and mystery fiction [X], adaptations, readers (publications), picture books, christmas fiction
My Life As A Book
"Summer's finally here, and Derek Fallon is looking forward to pelting the UPS truck with water balloons, climbing onto the garage roof, and conducting unusual investigations.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 184
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
subjects: summer, secrecy, families [X], books and reading, animals, family life, secrets, children's art, family, mystery fiction, first person narratives, detective and mystery fiction [X], children's audiobooks
The Yellow House Mystery
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.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 63
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 440
subjects: boxcar children (fictitious characters), canoes and canoeing, orphans, brothers and sisters, detective and mystery stories, mystery fiction, mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, spanish language materials, boxcar children (fictional characters), siblings, bilingual books, detective and mystery fiction [X], families [X], missing persons, family life, readers (publications), adaptations, family
The Boxcar Children
One night, during a storm, the children find an old red boxcar that keeps them warm and safe.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 175
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 490
subjects: boxcar children (fictitious characters), orphans, family, brothers and sisters, mystery and detective stories, boxcar children (fictional characters), siblings, brother and sisters, orphans and orphans homes, families [X], family life, readers (publications), homeless persons, grandfathers, detective and mystery stories, detective and mystery fiction [X]
Mystery Ranch
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
subjects: boxcar children (fictitious characters), mystery and detective stories, boxcar children (fictional characters), mystery fiction, suspense, mystery, orphans, family life, cartoons and comics, mystery graphic novels, comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, detective and mystery stories, family, families [X], warner, gertrude chandler, mystery comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, ranches, readers (publications), adaptations, brothers and sisters, ranch life, aunts, detective and mystery fiction [X], mystery fiction
Mike's Mystery
Henry, Jessie, Benny, and Violet Alden meet Mike Wood and a strange chain of events begins.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 41
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 370
subjects: boxcar children (fictitious characters), orphans, family life, mystery and detective stories, families [X], readers (publications), detective and mystery stories, detective and mystery fiction [X], adaptations, brothers and sisters
Ordinary Grace
Thirteen-year-old Frank Drum is living with his family in New Bremen, Minnesota, in the summer 1961, when tragedy strikes hard and frequently and Frank is thrust into an adult world of secrets, lies, and betrayal.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Bridget Wilder, Spy-in-training
"An adopted middle child receives an unexpected package on an otherwise unremarkable birthday inviting her to join a super-secret division of the CIA"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: adoption, middle-born children, family life, spy stories, families [X], detective and mystery fiction [X], spy fiction
Nearly Found
High school senior and science whiz Nearly Boswell, called Leigh, is thrilled when she gets an internship in a forensic science lab, since it is a step toward college and a way out of the trailer park--but soon she finds herself the target of a serial killer, one who seems to know a lot about the residents of Sunny View Trailer Park as well as her absent father's secrets.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: families [X], high schools, trailer camps, crime laboratories, criminal investigation, serial murderers, murder, family life, detective and mystery fiction [X], mystery and detective stories, serial killers, trailer parks, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories, homicide, electronic books, electronic books
The Goldfish Boy
Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors doings from his window--but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child's life .
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 65
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: missing children, obsessive-compulsive disorder, guilt, family life, neighbors, london (england), england, detective and mystery fiction [X], families [X], missing persons
Baseball Genius
An everyday kid with a talent for predicting baseball pitches is caught stealing baseballs from his favorite New York Yankees player, who agrees not to press charges if the boy will help him recover from a difficult batting slump.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 85
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: boys, prediction (psychology), families [X], friendship, baseball players, baseball stories, family life, baseball, sports fiction, detective and mystery fiction [X], theft, forecasting, mystery fiction, mystery fiction, large print books
The Bad Kid
In the Brooklyn neighborhood of Sunset Park, eleven-year-old Claudeline Feng LeBernardin hopes to take over the "family business" previously run by her mobster grandfather, but first, she must try to uncover a local scam artist and salvage her friendship with her best friend and partner in crime, Fingerless Brett"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: gangsters, families [X], friendship, racially mixed people, family life, juvenile fiction / social issues / new experience, juvenile fiction / family / general (see also headings under social issues), juvenile fiction / social issues / friendship, brooklyn (new york, n.y.), detective and mystery fiction [X], humorous fiction, gangs
The Secret Files Of Fairday Morrow
When eleven-year-old Fairday Morrow and her family move from Manhattan to the infamous Begonia House in the quiet country town of Ashpot, Connecticut, weird clues could lead to big trouble for Fairday and the rest of the Detective Mystery Squad.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: haunted houses, moving, household, families [X], family life, connecticut, detective and mystery fiction [X]
Things Too Huge To Fix By Saying Sorry
"A family mystery leads Dani Beans to investigate the secrets of Ole Miss and the dark history of race relations in Oxford, Mississippi"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: civil rights movements, race relations, vendetta, family life, families [X], oxford (miss.), detective and mystery fiction [X]