Into the Dark

Peter Abrahams

Thirteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes aficionado Ingrid Levin-Hill tries to clear her grandfather's name when he is accused of murdering an environmental activist found dead on his farm.

The Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour

Michael D. Beil

Catholic-schooled seventh-graders Sophie, Margaret, Rebecca, and Leigh Ann help an elderly neighbor solve a puzzle her father left for her estranged daughter twenty years ago.

The Puzzling World of Winston Breen

Eric Berlin

Winston Breen loves solving puzzles; and when his sister uncovers a twenty-five-year-old scavenger hunt—which leads to a ring worth thousands of dollars—he and his family jump at the opportunity to solve it.

The Black Circle

Patrick Carman

Siblings Amy and Dan Cahill continue their global search for the clues that will unlock the Cahill family's secret power while also working to evade Irina Spasky.

Skeleton Creek

Patrick Carman

Although housebound following an eerie accident, teenaged Ryan continues to investigate the strange occurrences in his hometown of Skeleton Creek, recording his findings in a journal and viewing email video clips sent by fellow detective Sarah.

Room One: A Mystery or Two

Andrew Clements

Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family.

They Never Came Back

Caroline B. Cooney

When fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tiny Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occurred five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life.

The London Eye Mystery

Siobhan Dowd

When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.

Change-up: Mystery at the World Series

John Feinstein

While covering the World Series, teen reporters Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol uncover some inconsistencies in the life story of a popular, new pitcher and begin to investigate.

The Circle of Blood: A Forensic Mystery

Alane Ferguson

As she uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to investigate the death of a young runaway, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney, an assistant to her coroner father, worries that her secretive mother may be involved.

Death by Bikini

Linda Gerber

Sixteen-year-old Aphra Behn Connolly investigates why her father let an unknown family stay at their exclusive tropical island resort, who strangled a famous rock star's girlfriend with her own bikini top, and what a smoldering teenaged guest is hiding.

Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer

John Grisham

Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone, who knows every judge, police officer, and court clerk in the small town of Strattenburg, finds himself involved in a murder trial because of knowledge he might have about a cold-blooded killer.

The Diamond of Drury Lane: A Cat Royal Adventure

Julia Golding

Set in eighteenth-century London, this mystery follows orphan Cat Royal as she searches for hidden treasure in the Drury Theater where she lives with the playwright who raised her, Mr. Sheridan.

Closed for the Season

Mary Downing Hahn

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.

Double or Die: A James Bond Adventure

Charlie Higson

Teenage James Bond is on the case when a professor is kidnapped in a north London cemetery, and an encoded letter arrives which, once deciphered, leaves James with just forty-eight hours to rescue the captured scholar and save the world.

The Big Dip

Melanie Jackson

Joe Lumby is determined to find the mysterious treasure, "Margaret Rose," after his kid sister is kidnapped.

The Sword Thief

Peter Lerangis

Orphans Amy and Dan Cahill, continuing their worldwide quest to track down the thirty-nine clues that will reveal the secret of the Cahill family's power, follow a link to one of the planet's strongest fighters, and have a run-in with the unreliable Alistair.

The Viper's Nest

Peter Lerangis

Amy and Dan travel to a distant land to follow in the footsteps of their most formidable ancestor yet, a military leader who teaches them the art of ancient warfare.

The Hunt for the Seventh

Christine Morton-Shaw

Jim moves with his dad and sister to Minerva Hall where a ghostly voice urging him to "find the Seventh" draws him into a sort of macabre treasure hunt for clues to an ancient prophecy that threatens them all.

The Haunting of Swain's Fancy

Brenda Seabrooke

Eleven-year-old Taylor spends the summer with her father and his new family in a historic house in West Virginia and, while contending with hostility from her stepsister Nicole, attempts to solve the mystery of ghosts who haunt the site.

The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets

Nancy Springer

Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes, disguised as a beautiful woman, finds clues in floral bouquets as she searches for the missing Doctor Watson, a companion of her famous older brother, Sherlock.

The Case of the Left-Handed Lady

Nancy Springer

Pursued by her much older brother, famed detective Sherlock Holmes, fourteen-year-old Enola, disguised and using false names, attempts to solve the kidnapping of a baronet's sixteen-year-old daughter in nineteenth-century London.

Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash

Wendelin Van Draanen

Thirteen-year-old Sammy meets a mysterious man who dies of a heart attack after telling her to get rid of the large amount of money he is carrying, leading her to investigate who the man was and how he came to be carrying so much cash.

In Too Deep

Jude Watson

Amy and Dan cross the oceans on the trail of a famous aviator, but they find more than they're looking for. Their enemies are becoming more vicious, and the truths they discover more crushing than ever.

So Yesterday

Scott Westerfeld

Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer culture.

Mirrorscape

Mike Wilks

In a world where all pleasures are severely restricted, Melkin Womper is apprenticed to a master painter when he discovers the Mirrorscape, a world inside paintings, and becomes entangled in a war between the restrictive Fifth Mystery and the rebels fighting to stop them.

Prophecy of the Sisters

Michelle Zink

In late nineteenth-century New York State, wealthy sixteen-year-old twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe find that they are on opposite sides of an ancient prophecy that has destroyed their parents and seeks to do even more harm.