Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: Mystery
The Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds
Adler, David A.
Also available in Overdrive and RB Digital. A fifth-grader with a photographic memory and her friend...
Inspector Flytrap
Angleberger, Tom
Also available in Overdrive, Hoopla, and RB Digital. Hoping to become the greatest detective that e...
The Case of the Haunted History Museum
Brezenoff, Steven.
When a series of accidents and other strange happenings at the Capitol City Natural History Museum l...
The Case of the Lost Boy
Butler, Dori Hillestad.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. While searching for his mysteriously lost human family, Budd...
The Chicken Squad : the First Misadventure
Cronin, Doreen.
Also available in RB Digital. When the squirrel Tail comes barreling into the chicken coop ranting a...
The Magic Box
Falcone, L. M.
Also available in Hoopla. Ten-year-old Max Monroe teams up with his bumbling great-uncle's ghos...
Operation Bunny
Gardner, Sally.
"When Emily Vole inherits an abandoned shop, it is up to her to battle a fairy-snatching witch ...
Kidnap at the Catfish Cafe
Giff, Patricia Reilly.
Assisted by her cat Max, sixth grader Minnie starts up her new detective agency by investigating a k...
The Mysterious Moonstone
Luper, Eric.
Neither Cleo nor Evan like the new school librarian, Ms. Crowley, but they are very curious about wh...
The Great Cake Mystery : Precious Ramotswe
McCall Smith, Alexander.
Also available in Overdrive. Before becoming the first female private investigator in Botswana, eigh...
The Case of the Stinky Socks
Montgomery, Lewis B.
Detectives-in-training Milo and Jazz join forces to tackle their first big case--finding out who sto...
The Case of the Missing Carrot Cake
Newman, Robin.
When Miss Rabbit's carrot cake goes missing on Ed's farm, Detectives Wilcox and Griswold d...
The First Case
Nilsson, Ulf.
Also available in Hoopla. Someone's stealing the squirrel's nuts, and it's up to Dete...
Gus & Gertie and the missing pearl
Nixon, Joan Lowery.
Arriving for a vacation on Holiday Island, penguins Gus and Gertie stumble into a hotel full of Bad ...
Super Sleuth
O'Connor, Jane.
Also available in Overdrive. "In her chapter book debut, Nancy Clancy must find the culprit whe...
The Mystery of the Gold Coin
Paris, Harper.
Second graders Ethan and Ella are sad about moving away from their hometown to travel the world with...
The Case of the Perfect Prank
Preller, James.
Jigsaw's brothers love to play practical jokes. But Jigsaw does not have time for games. He has...
The Puzzle of the Pretty Pink Handkerchief
Stanley, George Edward.
Todd uses clues from earwax and a pink handkerchief in order to discover which of his schoolmates ha...
Lulu's Mysterious Mission
Viorst, Judith.
Also available in RB Digital. When Lulu's parents go on vacation, the formidable Ms. Sonia Sofi...
The Case of the Stolen Sixpence
Webb, Holly.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Junior sleuth Maisie Hitchins, who lives in her grandmother&...