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Mystery & Suspense
3rd through 5th Grade | Middle School

3RD THROUGH 5TH GRADE

Who Stole the
Wizard of Oz?

by Avi
Y MYSTERY AVI

 

Becky and her brother use some ingenious clues to identify the person who stole five children's books from the town's library.

Freddy the Detective
by Walter R. Brooks
J MYSTERY BRO

 

Freddy the Pig does some detective work in order to solve the mystery of a missing toy train.
Jennifer the Jerk
is Missing

by Carol Gorman
Y MYSTERY GOR

Thirteen-year-old Amy is baby-sitting Malcolm, an eight-year-old with a reputation for making up stories. When he tells her he's witnessed the kidnapping of a schoolmate, Amy doesn't know if she should believe him.

 

Mr. Pin: The
Chocolate Files

by Mary Elise Monsell
J MYSTERY MON

 

Mr. Pin, the rockhopper penguin who has traveled from the South Pole to be a detective in Chicago, investigates two cases involving chocolate.

Ghost of a
Hanged Man

by Vivian Vande Velde
Y FICTION VAN

 

An outlaw condemned to be hanged threatens to wreak vengeance from the grave on those responsible for his death.
Dollhouse Murders
by Betty Ren Wright
J MYSTERY WRI
A dollhouse filled with a ghostly light in the middle of the night and dolls that have moved from where she last left them lead Amy and her mentally handicapped sister to unravel the mystery surrounding grisly murders that took place years ago.
MIDDLE SCHOOL
The Playmaker
by J.B. Cheaney
Y FICTION CHE
While working as an apprentice in a London theater company in 1597, fourteen-year-old Richard uncovers a mystery involving the disappearance of his father and a traitorous plot to overthow Queen Elizabeth.
Killing Mr. Griffin
by Lois Duncan
Y MYSTERY DUN
A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English teacher, but did he intend it to end with murder?
Eyes of a Stranger
by Sharon E. Heisel
Y MYSTERY HEI
Marissa, a shy self-conscious girl with a twisted leg, is attracted to a strikingly handsome visitor to her uncle's carousel but begins to suspect that he is a psychotic serial killer.
Silent to the Bone
by E.L. Konigsburg
Y FICTION KON
When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really happened.
The Other Side
of Dark

by Joan Lowery Nixon
Y MYSTERY NIX
Seventeen-year-old Stacy awakens from a four-year coma ready to identify, locate, and prosecute the young man who murdered her mother and wounded her.

 

 

 

 

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