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By David A Adler. 1980
Eric Shelton is planning to enter the Junior News Photography Contest, and his friend Cam is helping him search for…
a subject. When mysterious lights appear floating above the trees, Eric snaps away and Cam puts her photographic memory to use. Is the U.F.O. real or only a prank? Cam and Eric decide to find out. For grades 3-6By David A Adler. 1984
Cam, her parents, and her friend Eric go to the theater on Sunday afternoon to see "Shoe Escape." The first…
half is great, but the second half is...missing! The manager is convinced that Mr. Bender's Bargain theater took it. But Cam's photographic memory tells her that it was really someone else. The police are on the way to arrest Mr. Bender. Will Cam be able to find the real thief in time? For grades 3-5By David A Adler. 1981
As Cam, her friend Eric, and Eric's twin sisters Donna and Diane wait in line at Lee's Bookstore for an…
autograph by Poochie, the famous television dog, a suspicious-looking man in line just ahead is holding a dog that looks exactly like Poochie. After a commotion, Cam's photographic memory tells her that the dogs have been switched. Will Cam, Eric, Donna, and Diane be able to rescue the real Poochie? For grades 3-5By David A Adler. 1982
On the way to school with their science fair projects, Cam and her friend Eric stop so that Cam can…
take a picture with her homemade box camera of Eric with his big wooden sundial. A man in a red plaid shirt leaves the coin shop where they are standing, and rudely bumps into Cam. When her box camera disappears from the science fair, and two valuable gold coins vanish from the coin shop, Cam and Eric must use their sleuthing skills to solve both crimes. For grades 3-5By David A Adler. 1980
While sitting on a bench in the shopping mall, Cam Jansen and her friend Eric see a tall, heavy man…
with a mustache run from Parker's Jewelry Store just as the burglar alarm sounds. When the police capture him, the witnesses inside the store are sure that it is the wrong man. Can Cam's photographic memory help to capture the real thieves? For grades 3-5By David A Adler. 1982
At the community hobby show Cam and Eric, her friend, test her photographic memory at the Babe Ruth exhibit. When…
the prized item, a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth, turns up missing, Cam's memory is put to a real-life test as she and Eric become super-sleuths in search of the thief. For grades 3-5By David A Adler. 1984
Cam, her friend Eric, and Eric's twin sisters Donna and Diane are anxious to test their luck and have fun…
at Button Jar Guess, Water Gun Shoot, Beanbag Toss, and the other booths at the fifth-grade carnival. Cam and Eric soon become suspicious when the same boy and girl keep winning the prizes at the Dime Toss booth, while the other children are loosing. Will Cam's photographic memory help them to find the real winners and loser? For grade 3-5By David A Adler. 1981
When Cam and her friend Eric visit the museum with their class, Cam's photographic memory tells her that something is…
wrong with the Coelophysis dinosaur skeleton. Ms. Tyler, the museum guide, and even the museum director tell her that she is wrong. When Cam and Eric see an off-brand milk truck mysteriously making an evening pick-up, they are soon on their way to finding the missing bones and the culprits. For grades 3-5By David Adler. 1986
The two sets of twins, Gary and Kevin and Diane and Donna, use their super sleuthing skills at the train…
station to track down missing suitcases and catch the thief, all the while watching little brother Howie, who insists on wandering off. For grades 2-4By David Adler. 1987
When twins Donna and Diane Shelton and their neighbors Gary and Kevin Young visit the Kurt Daub Museum, they are…
shocked to see that their favorite piece of sculpture is missing. Then they find an open door and a mysterious group of construction workers, and are well on their way to solving the mystery. For grades 2-4By David Kherdian. 1983
While illegally hunting squirrels, Sam and Howie discover a stash of diamond rings in a hollow tree. Laughed at by…
the local police, they decide to capture the thief themselves. For grades 5-8 and older readersBy David Adler. 1985
When the fourth-floor twins, Donna and Diane Shelton and Gary and Kevin Young, go to apartment 3C to welcome their…
new neighbor, Mrs. Lee, she gives them each a fortune cookie. Just as they read the message "Beware of a man wearing a blue hat," a suspicious-looking man in a blue hat passes by. Little do the twins know that they will soon help the police to crack a cat- and dog-snatching operation. For grades 2-4By David Adler. 1985
Two sets of twins, Donna and Diane, and their apartment building neighbors, Gary and Kevin, team up to solve a…
twin mystery: who is stealing newspapers delivered to their apartment building in the early morning, and why is Barry, the neighbors' nephew, behaving strangely? For grades 2-4By Marjorie Sharmat. 1986
When Oliver loses the Superweed he bought at Rosemond's adopt-a-weed sale, he asks Nate the Great for help. Lacking any…
interest in weeds, Nate is reluctant to take the case. But, the puzzling clues are irresistible, and soon the young detective and his dog Sludge are hot on the case. For grades 2-4By Marjorie Sharmat. 1977
When Nate the Great finds a torn piece of paper on his doorstep with "vita" written on it in ink,…
he and his dog Sludge set off to find out why. Before the mystery is solved they must deal with Big Hex the cat, a phony clue, and a three o'clock deadline. For grades 2-4By Ann Cameron. 1988
Julian, his little brother Huey, and their friend Gloria have decided to become "crimebusters." They rescue a dog from a…
hot, stuffy car. They find a toddler in the hospital fountain and return him to his mother. But just when they think that they are about to nab a bank robber with a $25,000 reward on his head, they are in for a very big surprise! For grades 2-4By Robert Quackenbush. 1986
While on vacation in Texas, Miss Mallard, the world-famous ducktective, is left stranded on the prairie when her horse runs…
off without her. Soon she is hard at work on the mysterious theft of historical documents and treasures from homes throughout the state. For grades 4-7By David Adler. 1985
When Cam Jansen and her friend Eric Shelton set out for a day at the Jackson Park Zoo, they meet…
Billy Adams, the new boy in Eric's apartment building. Soon they're having loads of fun watching the monkeys at the monkey house. Later, when the monkeys are missing, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the case. For grades 3-6By Doug Cushman. 1987
Aunt Eater just loves mystery stories. She takes her mystery books with her wherever she goes. Aunt Eater loves mysteries…
so much that she sees a mystery everywhere--on the train, at Eliza's party, and at Mr. Chumly's house next door. Easy reading for grades 2-4By Laura Hope. 1989
During their vacation at the seashore, the Bobbsey twins become involved in a mystery in an amusement park and help…
to find a missing airplane pilot. For grades 3-6. A Bobbsey twins book