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The Case of the Sneaker Sneak (Jigsaw Jones Mystery #16)
By James Preller. 2001
It's girls against boys in the biggest football game ever. But when one boy's sneakers disappear, the players stop the…
clock. Jigsaw and Mila take the field to find out why someone wanted to stop the big game.The Case of the Double Trouble Detectives (Jigsaw Jones Mystery #26)
By James Preller. 2005
There's a new detective in town. And two detectives mean double trouble! But Reginald Pinkerton Armitage III is nothing like…
Jigsaw. He uses fancy gadgets and a charming attitude to get his work done. Gadgets don't make the detective, though, and Jigsaw is determined to prove it! Is Jigsaw's town big enough for two detectives? It's time for a showdown. May the best sleuth win!The Case of the Bear Scare (Jigsaw Jones Mystery #18)
By James Preller. 2002
Missing hamsters, lost coins, haunted houses...Jigsaw Jones has seen it all before. With his top secret detective journal, eye for…
detail, and ace partner Mila, Jigsaw is always ready to take on a new case.Is a bear on the loose in Jigsaw's town, or is someone trying to scare Ms. Gleason's class silly?Bonjour Alex! (The Secret World of Alex Mack #17)
By Cathy East Dubowski. 1997
Look Past
By Eric Devine. 2016
Someone brutally murdered Mary Mathison, daughter of a prominent and very conservative local pastor, and Avery, a transgender boy who…
loved Mary, is bent on finding her killer. He goes to the crime scene to do some investigating, but is quickly put in harm's way. Reluctantly, Avery must move to the sidelines to wait for the police to do their job.However, following Mary's funeral, Avery receives the first in a series of disturbing text messages that can only come from the killer, revealing that Avery is now a target. The killer claims that Mary's murder was revenge for her relationship with Avery. The killer's demands are simple and horrific: Avery must repent for changing his gender identity, or he will be the next one killed.Now Avery is torn between finding the murderer and protecting himself from a killer who is playing a disturbing cat-and-mouse game. Can Avery deny who he is to catch Mary's killer? Or will sacrificing himself be the ultimate betrayal?The Case of the Candy Cane Clue (The New Adventures of Mary Kate and Ashley)
By Judy Katschke, Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen. 2002
There is only one Sing-along Sammy doll left on Earth and it is missing! Sammy was stolen during Patty's slumber…
party at a really cool toy store Toy World. Now all at the party are suspect! Mary-Kate and I have to find the real crook before morning.Bernie Magruder and the Disappearing Bodies
By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. 2001
Dead bodies which appear and disappear mysteriously are threatening to lose Bernie's father his- job as manager of the Bessledorf…
Hotel. What can be done? How do you find a ghost?Uncertain Glory
By Lea Wait. 2014
Joe Wood has dreams. Big dreams. He wants to be a newspaperman, and though he's only fourteen, he's already borrowed…
money to start his own press. But it's April, 1861, and a young nation is teetering on the brink of a civil war. As effects of war begin to spread over Joe's hometown of Wiscasset, Maine, he must juggle his personal ambitions with some new responsibilities. He has to help Owen, his young assistant, deal with the challenges of being black in a white world torn apart by color. He needs to talk his best friend, Charlie, out of enlisting. He wants to help a young spiritualist, Nell, whose uncle claims she can speak to the dead. And when Owen disappears, it's up to Joe to save him. Lea Wait skillfully draws on the lives of real people in Maine's history to tell this story of three young adults touched by war and the tension it brings, forcing them into adulthood--before they may be ready.The Case of the Spooky Sleepover (Jigsaw Jones Mystery #4)
By James Preller. 1999
Nutty and the Case of the Mastermind Thief (Nutty Nutsell #2)
By Dean Hughes. 1985
Nutty put the sack with the school Christmas collection into his locker, and someone took eighty dollars and left the…
rest of the money. Why take only part? And who could it be? Who even knows Nutty's locker combination? These questions face Nutty, president of the student council, and his three friends--Orlando, Bilbo and Ritchie. And they had to have answers soon. Because Nutty has to produce the money at the student council meeting. Nutty's sure who the thief is. The problem is to prove it. Only Nutty and his friends, along with their genius friend and former classmate, William Bilks, come up with many devious and funny ways to trap a thief, funny to the boys but methods that get them in serious trouble with the school principal. There are clues, but no thieves. Soon all five, but especially Nutty and William, are in deep trouble before William, with his usual aplomb, solves the problem. As always, not in a way anyone else expects. Fans of, The Hobbit., will be less confused than Nutty who realizes he really doesn't want to fail as student council president. Look for 7 other books in this series in the Bookshare Collection. Book one is, Nutty For President, and book 3 is, Nutty and the Case of the Ski-Slope Spy.The Case of the Giggling Ghost (The New Adventures of Mary Kate and Ashley)
By Melinda Metz, Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen. 2002
Mary-Kate and Ashley are excited to attend their town's annual Halloween Carnival. This year, few people are riding the rides…
or playing the games. That's because there's a ghost at the carnival that's scaring all the kids away!Busman's Honeymoon
By Dorothy L. Sayers. 1965
Everything is perfect when the newly wedded couple Lord Peter and Harriet arrive at their honeymoon cottage. The honeymoon takes…
an untoward turn as the house owner is found dead and they start investigating the death.Strangers on the Beach
By Josh Pahigian. 2012
Billionaire Ferdinand Sevigny is brave, bold, and brash. But his latest stunt--to sail blindfolded, single-handed, across the Atlantic--goes horribly awry,…
depositing him onto the summer tourist town of Old Orchard Beach, Maine. His sudden arrival triggers a series of sinister events that even he cannot forestall: a naked woman washes up on a beach; a confused teen-aged boy stumbles upon a crime; a naive policeman struggles with a deadly conflict of interest. Now, Sevigny, and all those whose lives he touches, must make decisions that will define them forever.The Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan
By Gia Cribbs. 2018
No one wants me to tell you about the disappearance of Sloane Sullivan.Not the lawyers or the cops. Not her…
friends or family. Not even the boy who loved her more than anyone. And most certainly not the United States Marshals Service. You know, the people who run the witness protection program or, as it’s officially called, the Witness Security Program? Yeah, the WITSEC folks definitely don’t want me talking to you.But I don’t care. I have to tell someone.If I don’t, you’ll never know how completely wrong things can go. How a single decision can change everything. How, when it really comes down to it, you can’t trust anyone. Not even yourself. You have to understand, so it won’t happen to you next. Because you never know when the person sitting next to you isn’t who they claim to be…and because there are worse things than disappearing.The Case of the Secret Valentine (Jigsaw Jones Mystery #3)
By James Preller. 1999
The Case of the Snowboarding Superstar (Jigsaw Jones Mystery #29)
By James Preller. 2006
Jigsaw and his family bond during a wintry weekend getaway complete with snowboarding and sledding -- but a real detective,…
like Jigsaw Jones, is never truly off-duty. When trouble hits the slopes, Jigsaw gears up to solve a puzzling mystery, and all without the aid of his partner, Mila. Can Jigsaw solve the case before his family packs their bags for home?The Case of the Ghostwriter (Jigsaw Jones Mystery #10)
By James Preller. 2000
A surprise mystery author is coming to visit Ms. Gleason's class. Ms. Gleason won't say who it is, but some…
of the kids think it could be a ghostwriter who is really a ghost! The class hires detectives Jigsaw and Mila to solve the case.Enough Rope: A Hakim And Arnold Mystery
By Barbara Nadel. 2015
Private investigator and ex-soldier Lee Arnold and police superintendent Paul Venus are by no means friends, but when Venus' son…
Harry is kidnapped and ransom demands arrive from an address in Arnold's patch in east London, the superintendent doesn't know who else to turn to. Arnold and his Muslim assistant Mumtaz Hakim soon find themselves chasing leads into several of the East End's uneasily coexisting communities. Mumtaz uncovers a link to one of the area's powerful Bangladeshi families, whose property empire has always seemed suspicious, while Arnold suspects the involvement of more old-fashioned East End gangsters, and wonders if some of the nastier rumours about Venus himself might be true. And neither Mumtaz nor Lee like the look of the children of the super-rich, arriving in droves in the trendy parts of Hoxton and Shoreditch and living in luxury just a stone's throw from grinding urban poverty. The truth, however, is stranger and more dangerous than either Arnold or Hakim imagine. Enough Rope is a powerful and thrilling novel of London's ever-evolving dark side.When You Leave
By Monica Ropal. 2015
Cass is positive that the people she cares about most will eventually leave her. Her father is gone, her mother…
doesn’t notice Cass exists, and her best friend’s battle with cancer was too close of a call. So when she begins her year at a wealthy new private school, Cass’s plan is to suffer through it in anonymity. However, when her cute locker neighbor, Cooper, shows an undeniable attraction toward Cass, keeping him at a safe distance isn’t easy. Even though her Frogtown skater world and his do-gooder preppy one are so different, Cass and Cooper somehow mesh. But once Cass lets her guard down, the unthinkable happens: Cooper is mysteriously murdered--thus proving her original theory. When Cass’s close friend is suspected as the killer, she isn’t sure who she can trust anymore. Between investigating Cooper’s murder and trying to understand what they really meant to each other, will Cass even find what she is looking for?The Case of the Cheerleading Tattletale (The New Adventures of Mary Kate and Ashley)
By Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Jacqueline Carroll. 2004