mystery fiction

Fifth-grade sleuth Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to catch a thief during a department store sale.

Fifth-grade sleuth Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to solve a monkey smuggling mystery at the city zoo.

Benny wants adventure and finds it as he and the other Alden children help uncover the plan of those who would prevent ballooning from coming to Lloyd's Landing.

When they help out at a guide dog training school, the Alden children meet several people who seem obsessed with a particular dog named Ginger.

The ten-year-old detective continues his war on crime in Idaville through ten more cases, for which the reader is invited to guess the solution before it is revealed.

Once again America's 10-year-old Sherlock Holmes in sneakers is called upon to help his police-chief father and the neighborhood children solve 10 mysteries.

When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.

Dawn and her friend Lizzie are eager to get started on the camp treasure hunt.

Rob admits having seen a murder, but no one believes him--except the murderer.

When fifth-grader Cam Jansen and her friend Eric go to a birthday party, she uses her photographic memory to solve the puzzle of the dinosaur count.