• Books for Younger Readers
• Aliens Are Coming! - Lilsa Thiesing
  Peggy becomes very worried when she hears that the Aliens are coming, but then she learns that they are a rock band.
  
• Bookstore Burglar - Barbara Maitland
  Cobweb the cat and her best friends, who are mice, save the spooky Black Cat Bookstore from a burglar who says he doesn’t believe in ghosts.
  
• Captain Raptor and the Moon Mystery - Kevin O'Malley
  When something lands on one of the moons of the planet Jurassica, Captain Raptor and his spaceship crew go to investigate.
  
• Mysterious Collection of Dr. David Harleyson - Jean Cassels
  When a world-famous artist disappears, his nephew pieces together the clues found on the backs of a group of portraits, which feature characters from Mother Goose, Grimm, and Aesop, to decipher where the artist went and where to send the pictures.
  
• Sly the Sleuth and the Pet Mysteries - Donna Jo Napoli and Robert Furrow
  There’s only one person who can solve the mysteries of the neighborhood: Sly the Sleuth, grade-schooler by day and private detective by afternoon, who uses sharp wit and reasoning skills to get to the bottom of these odd goings-on.
  
• Spying on Dracula - Mary Labatt
  Jennie Levinsky has an amazing secret — and only her best friend, Beth, knows about it. Jennie can “hear” what her neighbor’s sheepdog, Sam, is thinking! And what Sam is usually thinking is how to find fame and fortune as a world-famous detective.
  
  
  
• Mystery Series for Younger Readers
• A to Z Mysteries - Ron Roy
• Bunnicula Series - Deborah Howe
• Chet Gecko Mysteries - Bruce Hale
• Fletcher Mysteries - Elizabeth Levy
• Geronimo Stilton - Geronimo Stilton
• Herculeah Jones Mysteries - Betsy Byars
• High-Rise Private Eyes - Cynthia Rylant
• Nancy Drew Notebooks - Carolyn Keene
• Nate the Great - Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
• Stevie Diamond Mysteries - Linda Bailey
• Young Cam Jansen - David Adler
  
  
• Books for Older Readers
• Abduction! - Peg Kehret
  Thirteen-year-old Bonnie has a feeling of foreboding on the very day that her six-year-old brother Matt and their dog Pookie are abducted, and she becomes involved in a major search effort as well as a frightening adventure.
  
• Big House - Carolyn Coman
  When Ivy and Ray’s parents are sent to jail and they are left in the custody of their parents’ accusers, they decide to look for evidence that will “spring” their parents.
  
• Blood Trail - Nancy Springer
  After his best friend is murdered, 17-year-old Booger realizes he is the only one who has any idea who might have committed the crime — but he doesn’t dare tell anyone.
  
• Case Closed: 40 Mini-Mysteries for You to Solve - Jurg Obrist
  Use the visual clues and your deductive reasoning to solve 40 puzzling mysteries.
  
• Chasing Vermeer - Blue Balliett
  When strange and seemingly unrelated events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, 11-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
  
• Curse of the Blue Figurine - John Bellairs
  Johnny Dixon is plunged into a terrifying mystery-adventure when he removes a blue figurine called a shawabti from church.
  
• Dark Hills Divide - Patrick Carman
  When she finds the key to a secret passageway leading out of the walled city of Bridewell, 12-year-old Alexa realizes her lifelong wish to explore the mysterious forests and mountains that lie beyond the wall.
  
• Dovey Coe - Frances O'Roark Dowell
  When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a strong-willed 12-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother.
  
• Flush - Carl Hiaasen
  When their father is jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah and his sister Abbey must prove that the owner of a floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected water around their Florida home.
  
• From Charlie’s Point of View - Richard Scrimger
  Life is very dark for Charlie. He is blind, and his dad has just been arrested for a crime he didn’t commit. Charlie and his friends are determined to find the real bandit.
  
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E. L. Konigsburg
  Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 12-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
  
• Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator - Jennifer Allison
  During the summer before ninth grade, Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of a distant cousin, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion’s boarded-up tower.
  
• In Darkness, Death - Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
  In 18th-century Japan, young Seikei becomes involved with a ninja as he helps Judge Ooka, his foster father, investigate the murder of a samurai.
  
• London Eye Mystery - Siobhan Dowd
  When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings work together to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.
  
• Minerva Clark Gets a Clue - Karen Karbo
  Minerva is filled with self-doubt, but after she is zapped by a lightening bolt her fears evaporate and she sets out with confidence to solve a murder mystery.
  
• Missing Manatee - Cynthia DeFelice
  While coping with his parents’ separation, 11-year-old Skeet spends most of Spring Break in his skiff on a Florida river, where he finds a manatee shot to death and begins looking for the killer.
  
• Mystery at Blackbeard’s Cove - Audrey Penn
  Billy, Daniel, Stefanie and Mark are exhausted from their trip to sea to give their eccentric friend a pirate burial. How will they face Blackbeard’s ghost and other skeletons, secret tunnels, a hurricane and much more in their search for hidden treasure?
  
• Nobody's There - Joan Lowery Nixon
  Following an act of vandalism against her father’s girlfriend, a 17-year-old girl is paired by the court with an eccentric senior citizen whose hobby as a sleuth turns deadly.
  
• Room One - Andrew Clements
  A young boy living in rural western Nebraska investigates the connection between a mysterious face in the window of an empty house and the possible closing of the one-room school he attends.
  
• The Money Pit Mystery - Eric Walters
  Sam’s summer holiday with his Grandfather on Oak Island turns out to be more exciting than he ever thought it would be — a buried scull and a search for buried treasure are just part of the adventure he faces.
  
• The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
  The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
  
• Time Stops for No Mouse - Michael Hoeye
  When Linka Perflinger, a jaunty mouse, brings a watch into his shop to be repaired and then disappears, Hermux Tantamoq is caught up in a dangerous search as he tries to find out what happened to her.
  
• Truth and Lies - Nora McClintock
  When a boy from Mike’s high school is found dead in a nearby park, and Mike was seen close to that park in the early morning hours, the cops pull him in for questioning. Now he’s the number one suspect.
  
• Within a Painted Past - Hazel J. Hutchins
  Allison steps into a painting in her aunt’s guest room and embarks upon a series of interesting adventures with her ancestors, a 19th-century mining family in Canmore, Alberta.
  
  
  
• Mystery Series for Older Readers
• Cam Jansen Adventures - David Adler
• Encyclopedia Brown - Donald J. Sobol
• Marty Chan Mystery series - Marty Chan
• Nancy Drew Mystery Stories - Carolyn Keene
• Sammy Keyes Mysteries - Wendelin Van Draanen
• The Boxcar Children - Gertrude Chandler Warner
• The Diamond Brothers Mysteries - Anthony Horowitz
• Tom and Liz Austen Mysteries - Eric Wilson

updated May 2008