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BOOKS FOR SLEUTHS GRADES 1-4

• Adler, David A.
  CAM JANSEN AND THE CATNAPPING MYSTERY **
  While visiting Aunt Molly at a fancy downtown hotel, Cam uses her photographic memory to help one of the guests find her stolen luggage and pet cat, and to catch the thief.
  (JE)

• Brown, Marc
  ARTHUR ACCUSED! **
  Arthur's friend Buster is searching for a crime to solve, so when the quarters Arthur has collected for Mrs. MacGrady'S charity drive disappear, Buster is on the case. Will he be able to prove Arthur's innocence so that he can attend the class picnic?
  (JE)

• Giff, Patricia Reilly
  MARY MOON IS MISSING **
  Assisted by her cat Max and her friend Cash, Minnie tries to find Mary Moon, a valuable racing pigeon that has disappeared just before a big race.
  (JE)

• Keller, Holly
  ANGELA'S TOP-SECRET COMPUTER CLUB
  Angela and her friends in the Top Secret Computer Club use their knowledge of computers and email to discover who is causing all the problems with the school's computer.
  (JE)

• Landon, Lucinda
  MEG MACKINTOSH AND THE MYSTERY AT THE SOCCER MATCH **
  Meg and her friends are playing in the championship soccer match to see who will win the gold medal. However, by half-time, the medal had disappeared. See if you can solve the mystery before Meg, using clues found in the text and illustrations.

• Maitland, Barbara
  THE BOOKSTORE GHOST
  The cat which Mr. Brown gets to catch the mice in his bookstore comes up with a very unusual way to attract customers.
  (JE)

• Park, Barbara
  JUNIE B. JONES AND SOME SNEAKY PEEKY SPYING **
  Six-year-old Junie B.'s penchant for spying on people and her curiosity about the private life of her teacher get her in trouble at kindergarten.
  (JE)

• Roy, Ron
  THE CANARY CAPER **
  Dink and his friends investigate why pets, like Mrs. Davis's canary, Mozart, are mysteriously disappearing all over town. An A to Z mystery.
  (JE)

• Sachar, Louis
  MARVIN REDPOST: KIDNAPPED AT BIRTH? **
  Red-haired Marvin is convinced that the reason he looks different from the rest of his family is that he is really the lost prince of Shampoon.
  (JE)

• Sanvoism, Eric
  THE INK DRINKER
  A boy who hates books discovers an ink-drinking vampire in his father's bookshop and follows him to his underground vault.
  (JE)

• Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman
  NATE THE GREAT AND ME: THE CASE OF THE FLEEING FANG **
  The reader is asked to help Nate the Great solve the mystery of his friend Annie's missing dog Fang.

BOOKS FOR SLEUTHS GRADES 4-8

• Adams, Cynthia
  THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
  Discusses the life and work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his famous creation, Sherlock Holmes. Why did Doyle dislike his creation so much that he killed him off at the peak of his popularity?
  (J921)

• Avi
  WOLF RIDER: A TALE OF TERROR
  After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, fifteen-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him.
  (J YA)

• Bellairs, John
  THE REVENGE OF THE WIZARD'S GHOST
  While thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon lies dying, possessed by an evil spirit, his friends, an elderly professor and a schoolmate, try to find some way to free him.
  (J)

• Byars, Betsy
  DISAPPEARING ACTS **
  Herculeah stumbles onto the trail of her friend Meat's long-lost father while she and Meat are investigating the disappearance of a dead body from the men's room of a comedy club.
  (J)

• Christopher, Matt
  PENALTY SHOT
  Jeff, already worried about losing his place on the hockey team because of low grades, suddenly finds himself the victim of sabotage in the form of forged papers.
  (J)

• Cooney, Caroline B.
  THE TERRIORIST
  Sixteen-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the person responsible for the death of her younger brother Billy, who has been killed by a terrorist bomb.
  (YA)

• Dexter, Catherine
  I DREAM OF MURDER
  Fourteen-year-old Jere is haunted by a recurring dream about a murder he may have witnessed ten years earlier.
  (J)

• Doyle, Arthur Conan
  ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
  Various stories of one of the most intriguing detectives of all times.
  (J)

• Hamilton, Virginia
  HOUSE OF DIES DREAR
  Thomas knew that the house his family moved into held many secrets-would he meet the ghosts of the three who had been murdered there?
  (J)

• Hildick, E.W.
  THE PURLOINED CORN POPPER
  Ten-year-old Tim is worried when a popcorn popper containing a wad of money is stolen from his kitchen and his friend Freddie is suspected of the crime.
  (J)

• Howe, James
  RETURN TO HOWLIDAY INN **
  In this sequel to "Howliday Inn," the Monroe family pets are again boarded at Chateau Bow-Wow, where some spooky goings-on serve as a distraction from the kennel's poor food.
  (J)

• Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas
  THE GHOST IN THE TOKAIDO INN
  While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.
  (J)

• Klise, Kate
  LETTERS FROM CAMP
  Sent to Camp Happy Harmony to learn how to get along with each other, pairs of brothers and sisters chronicle in letters home how they come to suspect the intentions of the singing family running the camp.
  (J)

• Nixon, Joan Lowery
  MURDERED, MY SWEET
  Jenny and her mother hunt a killer while fearing for their own safety, after the reading of their millionaire cousin's will leads to the murder of another cousin.
  (J)

• Osborne, Mary Pope
  SPIDER KANE AND THE MYSTERY UNDER THE MAY-APPLE **
  With the help of a spider, a moth, and two ladybug friends, a young butterfly tries to uncover the mystery involving a gossamer-winged butterfly with whom he has fallen in love.
  (J)

• Page, Katherine Hall
  CHRISTIE & COMPANY IN THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON **
  Three roommates and amateur sleuths try to deal with a Chinese gang that is threatening the family of a friend.
  (J)

• Roberts, Willo Davis
  THE KIDNAPPERS: A MYSTERY
  No one believes eleven-year-old Joey, who has a reputation for telling tall tales, when he claims to have witnessed the kidnapping of the class bully outside their expensive New York City private school.
  (J)

• Sobol, Donald J.
  ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN AND THE CASE OF THE SLEEPING DOG **
  America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
  (J)

• Van Draanen, Wendelin
  SAMMY KEYES AND THE SKELETON MAN **
  On Halloween night, seventh grader Sammy stumbles onto a mystery involving a twenty-year-old family feud and some heirlooms stolen by a man in a skeleton costume.
  (J)

• Vande Velde, Vivian
  NEVER TRUST A DEAD MAN
  Wrongly convicted of murder and punished by being sealed in the tomb with the dead man, seventeen-year-old Selwyn enlists the help of a witch and the resurrected victim to find the true killer.
  (YA)

• Wright, Betty Ren
  THE DOLLHOUSE MURDERS
  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 retarded sister to unravel the mystery surrounding grisly murders that took place years ago.
  (J)

• Yep, Laurence
  THE CASE OF THE LION DANCE **
  When $2000 is stolen during the opening of a restaurant, Lily and her aunt, a Chinese American movie actress, search for the thief throughout San Francisco's Chinatown.
  (J)

Compiled by Meg Cupman , (2000)