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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As he grieves his best friend Benny's death, Mason and his friend Calvin, who are targeted by the neighborhood bullies, create an underground haven for themselves, but when Calvin goes missing Mason finds himself in trouble.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old aspiring detective Myrtle Hardcastle learns her neighor in quiet Swinburne, England, a breeder of rare flowers, has died she is certain it was murder and that she must find the killer.
3) Hamlet
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of the greatest plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the tormented young prince of Denmark continues to capture the imaginations of modern audiences worldwide. Confronted with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, and with his mother's infidelity, Hamlet must find a means of reconciling his longing for oblivion with his duty as avenger. The ghost, Hamlet's feigned madness, Ophelia's death and burial, the play within a play, the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When best friends Abbi and Skylar witness a clandestine meeting between a mysterious woman and someone in a dark van, they're thrilled. Finally, a mystery to spice up the summer! Who could these people be? Why are they meeting? Are they spies? Criminals? The two girls are determined to find out. But then a local woman goes missing and is found dead in the woods. And Abbi and Skylar realize that their detective work could hold the keys to solving...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When someone commits robbery and murder aboard the luxurious train on which Myrtle Hardcastle, her Aunt Helena, her governess Miss Judson, and cat Peony are traveling, Myrtle is determined to find the culprit.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone has always dreamed of being a great trial lawyer someday, but a sensational murder trial forces him into the arena sooner than expected, and he is determined to see that justice prevails.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Logan and his family move into a run-down old house in rural Virginia, he discovers that a woman was murdered there and becomes involved with his neighbor Arthur in a dangerous investigation to try to uncover the killer.
Author
Series
Bowser and Birdie novels volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Birdie Gaux's dog, Bowser, considers himself in charge of security at 19 Gentilly Lane, so when the house is broken into Bowser wants to find the man with the limeade aftershave (and the cat) responsible--but nobody seems to know what the culprits were looking for, or why a strange girl is asking questions about Birdie's father, a policeman who was killed in the line of duty years before Bowser was adopted.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Detectives' Row is full of talented investigators, but Toby Montrose isn't one of them. He's only an assistant at his uncle's detective agency, and he's not sure he's even very good at that. Toby's friend Ivy is the best sleuth around -- or at least she thinks so. They both see their chance to prove themselves when the famed Hugh Abernathy announces a contest to choose the World's Greatest Detective. But when what was supposed to be a game turns into...
11) Quicksand Pond
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jessie spends the summer with her family on Quicksand Pond, a New England vacation spot, where she develops a star-crossed friendship with independent Terri, and meets a reclusive old lady whose connection to a murder that took place decades ago still informs her present--and affects Terri in ways that Jessie gradually comes to understand the more time they spend together.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Thirteen-year-olds Cooper Goodman and Justice and Liberty Gordon investigate the eccentric residents of Windy Bottom, Georgia, after the remains of Coop's long-missing grandmother are uncovered and his Gramps is the prime suspect.
Author
Series
Seven volume 5
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
No one is more surprised than Rennie to hear that his late grandfather, whom he hardly knew, has left a mission for him to fulfill. Rennie is to fly to Iceland and deliver a message from beyond the grave, but when he gets there, nothing is simple or straightforward. For one thing, Brynja, the teenage daughter of the family he's staying with, is downright hostile. Her father Einar, who is to be Rennie's guide in Iceland, is preoccupied with looking...
14) Paws vs. claws
Author
Series
Queenie and Arthur volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Queenie the cat has a BIG problem. And for once, it's not the slobbery, overly-excited creature who also lives at Blackberry Hill Inn. Sweet Lady Emsworth, the neighbor's prize cow, has disappeared, meaning no morning cream for Queenie. And when Queenie's not happy, NO ONE is happy . . . Things aren't looking great for Arthur the dog, either. His beloved humans, twins Harmony and Bro, are distressed about the strange activity in their town. Mysterious...
Author
Series
Tupelo Landing volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafe and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
16) Ruff vs. fluff
Author
Series
Queenie and Arthur volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Queenie is a cat, deeply aware of her own perfection, and Arthur is a dog who normally likes everyone (except Queenie who is devoted to making his life a misery), and they both live at the Blackberry Hill Inn in the Northeast in snow country with their human twins (Harmony and Bro), and Mom; but one winter's day an unpleasant and suspicious stranger comes to stay at the inn, and soon the twin's uncle is framed for murder--and Queenie and Arthur must...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Nola and her mother have unusual abilities that have always set them apart from others, but when Nola sees a murder using her power to call up images using water and a person's hair, she finds herself in the worst danger ever.
18) The undrowned
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Samantha and Rachel used to be friends. But then Rachel betrayed Samantha . . . and Samantha decided to make her life a living nightmare. Then one day, Sam and Rachel found themselves in a fight by a lake. Samantha pushed Rachel . . . and watched as Rachel fell back. And back. Into the water. And gone. No way to save her. No way she could be alive. The next day, Rachel shows up to school as if nothing happened. And now she's the one who wants to...
19) A deadly fall
Author
Series
Publisher
Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Stu hears a voice calling him late at night, follows it to the haunted house down the road, and sees the ghost of a boy who was murdered fifty years before, he feels compelled to find out why the ghost is reaching out to him--even if it means risking his own life.
20) In Myrtle peril
Author
Series
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Myrtle Hardcastle's search for a missing heiress, presumed lost at sea, runs aground when a murder in plain sight has no apparent victim"--Provided by publisher.
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