Mr. Chickee's Funny Money
Steven Carter, his friend Russell, and Zoopy the dog, members of the Flint Future Detective Club, investigate a suspicious quadrillion-dollar bill given to them by Mr.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 49
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1010
subjects: money, dogs, african americans [X], mystery and detective stories, flint (mich.), large type books, mystery fiction [X]
The Mystery Of Drear House
An African-American family living in the house of long-dead abolitionist Dies Drear must decide what to do with his stupendous treasure, hidden for one hundred years in a cavern near their home.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540
subjects: african americans [X], mystery and detective stories, haunted houses, underground railroad, mystery fiction [X]
The House Of Dies Drear
Thomas Small and his family move into an old house that was once used as part of the Underground Railroad and soon realize that the house, where two fugitive slaves and Dies Drear himself had been killed by bounty hunters, continues to hold many secrets.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 90
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: large type books, mystery fiction [X], african americans [X], large print books, mystery and detective stories, underground railroad, children's stories, american, ohio, audiobooks, afro-americans, compact discs
Circle Of Fire
In 1958, Mendy puts herself in danger when she discovers that the Ku Klux Klan is planning to bomb the Highlander Folk School in order to disrupt a visit from Mendy's hero, Eleanor Roosevelt.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: roosevelt, eleanor, african americans [X], prejudices, historical fiction, mystery and detective stories, tennessee, mystery fiction [X]
Fake Id
Nick Pearson, in the Witness Protection Program, moves to Stepton, Virginia, where he becomes friends with Eli Cruz.
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year:
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: african americans [X], conspiracies, detective and mystery stories, witnesses, mystery fiction [X], witness protection programs
Out Of Bounds
The girls face a tough challenge trying to keep the Movie House from closing and at the same time dealing with an out-of-control soccer mom.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: teenage girls, friendship, junior high schools, motion picture theaters, girls, schools, drew, nancy (fictitious character), mystery and detective stories, drew, nancy (fictional character), mystery fiction [X], basketball, neighbors, neighborhoods, african americans [X], neighborhood
The Buried Bones Mystery
After the neighborhood basketball court is vandalized, Ziggy and his friends decide to form a club called the Black Dinosaurs and build their clubhouse in Ziggy's backyard where they find a mysterious cache of buried bones.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 56
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
Shadows On Society Hill
When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy, a former slave, discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she escaped from only two years earlier.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: african americans [X], detective and mystery stories, mystery and detective stories, historical fiction, philadelphia (pa.), mystery fiction [X]
The Cameo Necklace
Eleven-year-old C?cile Rey searches through many corners of 1854 New Orleans seeking a necklace, borrowed from her Tante Tay, that disappeared as she was exiting a crowded showboat.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: lost articles, detective and mystery stories, mystery and detective stories, lost and found possessions, african americans [X], new orleans (la.), mystery fiction [X], french americans, mystery fiction
The Secret Of Gumbo Grove
While helping restore the cemetery of the old Baptist church, eleven-year-old Raisin solves the mystery surrounding the founding of her home town and gains pride in her family's past.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: african americans [X], mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction [X], south carolina, afro-americans
Smiffy Blue
Famous crime fighter Smiffy Blue blunders his way to solving the mystery of a missing formula and three other cases.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540
subjects: african americans [X], mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction [X], afro-americans, arabic language
Cuando Muere Un H?roe
When friendly Mr. Jefferson is murdered, Tony sets out to find the killer, putting his own life at risk.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
And I Heard A Bird Sing
Eighteen-year-old Imamu's newly-found contentment, with his job and the apartment he shares with his frail mother, is shattered when he is inadvertently drawn into the sinister events taking place in a wealthy household where he has been delivering groceries.
FIC
year: 1987
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Easier To Kill
Newark private detective Tamara Hayle finds herself trapped in a maze of secrets and half-truths when she agrees to try and discover who has been stalking respected radio talk-show host Mandy Magic, a woman who has literally talked herself out of poverty.
FIC
year: 1998
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
New England White
The marriage of Lemaster Carlyle, president of a small, prestigious New England university, and his wife Julia, dean of the university's divinity school, is put to the test when they discover the murdered body of economics professor Kellen Zant, Julia's former lover, and she refuses to accept the ruling that he was a victim of a random robbery.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: african american college teachers, colleges and universities, african americans [X], mystery fiction [X], new england