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Author
Series
Echo Falls mystery volume 1
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Like her idol Sherlock Holmes, eighth-grader Ingrid Levin-Hill uses her intellect to solve a murder case in her hometown of Echo Falls.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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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 café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the small city of Strattenburg there are many lawyers, and thirteen-year-old Theo Boone thinks he is one of them, but his inside knowledge of the justice system means trouble when a cold-blooded killer is about to go free and only Theo can stop him.
4) Ghost
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
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Description
Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team -- a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. Ghost has a crazy natural talent, but no formal training....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Formats
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
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's New Books: February 2023 Middle Grade Chapter Books
Children's Recommended: 7th Grade 2023
Children's Recommended: 7th Grade 2023
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
Series
Bowser and Birdie novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
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.
8) Wanted!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When her father is murdered and the police obtain an e-mail confession that implicates her, Alice Robie realizes she will have to flee and prove her innocence.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Though Rob saw Mrs. Calloway fall to her death, he wants to believe that it was an accident. He wants to pretend he didn't see the hands that pushed her out of the window. Then a flowerpot almost falls on him. And three bullets just miss him. And someone tries to poison his food. When Rob tries to tell his family that he thinks there has been a murder, they're to busy with his sister's wedding to care. Could Rob be the killer's next victim?
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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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.
11) Jackaby
Author
Series
Jackaby volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature.
12) King of murder
Author
Series
Herculeah Jones mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Sleuth/Viking
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Herculeah meets a murder mystery writer, and has the uneasy feeling that he knows more about murder than he should.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Egg volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
It's tough to be thirteen, especially when somebody's trying to kill you. Not that Egg's life was ever easy, growing up on sweaty, pirate-infested Deadweather Island with no company except an incompetent tutor and a pair of unusually violent siblings who hate his guts. But when Egg's father hustles their family off on a mysterious errand to fabulously wealthy Sunrise Island, then disappears with the siblings in a freak accident, Egg finds himself...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Vickery twins, Lee and Felix, live in a house in Poplar Wood, where, because of the "Agreement," their mother serves Memory, and their father assists Death, and only Lee is allowed to leave the house, except for Halloween; but when a local girl is murdered, Gretchen Whipple, daughter of the mayor, offers the boys a deal--help her solve the crime and she will help them break the Agreement, and regain their freedom.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 5
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
On a field trip to Washington, DC, Theo spots a familiar face on the Metro: Duffy, who jumped bail and was never seen again. Theo's quick thinking helps bring Duffy back to Strattenburg to stand trial. But now that Duffy knows who he is, Theo is in greater danger than he's ever been in before. Even when everything is on the line, Theodore Boone will stop at nothing to make sure a killer is brought to justice.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
At an English boarding school in the 1930s, crime-solving friends Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells struggle to find an exciting mystery to investigate until Hazel discovers the dead body of Miss Bell, the science teacher.
Author
Series
Swallowtail legacy volume 2
Publisher
Pixel+Ink, an imprint of TGM Development Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Swallowtail Island is hosting the Swallowtales Writer's Conference. Lark's ecstatic to be chosen as a "page" for her favorite author, Ann E. Keyhart. But they say you should never meet your idols. When Keyhart arrives with her personal assistant in tow, she is nothing but a terror. And within a few hours, the assistant is dead! But the explanation isn't sitting well. Not when lots of people had reasons to want to be rid of Keyhart, and especially...
19) Dead letter
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Sleuth
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Herculeah Jones and her best friend Meat set out to crack the case of the mysterious note which she finds in the lining of a second-hand coat.
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