Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective series/Donald Sobol ...

1 Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective series/Donald Sobol Fifth grader Leroy Brown solves ten mysteries and, by putting the solutions at the back of the book, challenges the reader to do the same. 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 to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Konigsburg Two suburban children run away from their Connecticut home and go to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where their ingenuity enables them to live in luxury. Wrinkle in Time/Madeleine L Engle Three extraterrestrial beings take Meg and her friends to another world.

2 When You Reach Me (Newbery Winner 2010) As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source. Scat/Carl Hiassen Nick and Marta are both suspicious when their biology teacher, the feared Mrs. Bunny Starch, disappears, and try to uncover the truth despite the police and headmaster's insistence that nothing is wrong. Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief series/Wendelin VanDraann Thirteen-year-old Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery at the "seedy" hotel.

3 Things Not Seen/Andrew Clements When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it. Mysterious Benedict Society/Trenton Lee Stewart After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened. Cam Jansen: The Birthday mystery series Cam searches for the thief who robbed her grandparents on their way to her parents' suprise birthday party. A to Z Mysteries: The Absent Author series Dink Duncan and his two friends investigate the apparent kidnapping of famous mystery author Wallis Wallace.

4 Skull of Truth/Bruce Coville Charlie, a sixth-grader with a compulsion to tell lies, acquires a mysterious skull that tells only the truth. Windcatcher/AVI While learning to sail during a visit to his grandmother's at the Connecticut shore, 11-year old Tony becomes excited about the rumors of sunken treasure. Bud, Not Budd/Christopher Paul Curtis Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression,escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father. Bad Beginning Book 1: Series of Unfortunate Events After the sudden death of their prents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative is determined to get their fortune.

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