Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: Mystery Novels for 4th-6th
The case of the time-capsule bandit
Spencer, Octavia.
Twelve-year-old Randi, unhappy about moving from Brooklyn to Deer Creek, Tennessee, after her mothe... More
The Harlem charade
Tarpley, Natasha, author.
Seventh-graders Jin, Alexandra, and Elvin come from very different backgrounds and circumstances, b... More
Cat detective
Greenfield, Amy Butler, 1968- author.
In ancient Egypt, the Pharaoh's pampered cat Ra and his scarab-beetle sidekick question the ro... More
The great Greene heist
Johnson, Varian, author.
Jackson Greene has a reputation as a prankster at Maplewood Middle School, but after the last disas... More
The Parker inheritance
Johnson, Varian, author.
Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house ... More
Mystery in the mansion
Magaziner, Lauren, author.
Carlos and his friends must uncover who is sending death threats to a wealthy eccentric or Carlos... More
Belly up
Gibbs, Stuart, 1969-
Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo's star attraction--Henry the hippo... More
Chasing Vermeer
Balliett, Blue, 1955-
When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappe... More
The disappearance of Emily H.
Summy, Barrie, author.
Eighth-grader Raine, a new girl at Yielding Middle School, uses her supernatural ability to see oth... More
Floors
Carman, Patrick.
Ten-year-old Leo's future and the fate of the extraordinary Whippet Hotel, where his father is... More
The Great Shelby Holmes
Eulberg, Elizabeth, author.
Nine-year-old Shelby Holmes, the best detective in her Harlem neighborhood, and her new easy-going ... More
Greenglass House
Milford, Kate.
At Greenglass House, a smuggler's inn, twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son,... More
A Hitch at the Fairmont
Averbeck, Jim, author.
When his aunt is kidnapped, an eleven-year-old boy staying at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel i... More
Kid lawyer
Grisham, John.
With two attorneys for parents, thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone knows more about the law than most... More
Last shot : a Final Four mystery
Feinstein, John.
After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cov... More
The London Eye mystery
Dowd, Siobhan.
When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings ... More
Murder is bad manners
Stevens, Robin, 1988- author.
At an English boarding school in the 1930s, crime-solving friends Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells strugg... More
Pie
Weeks, Sarah.
After the death of Polly Portman, whose award-winning pies put the town of Ipswitch, Pennsylvania, ... More
The scandalous sisterhood of Prickwillow Place
Berry, Julie, 1974-
"Seven very proper Victorian young ladies conspire to hide a murder from the authorities at th... More
Scat
Hiaasen, Carl.
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildli... More
Three times lucky
Turnage, Sheila.
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best... More
Under the egg
Fitzgerald, Laura Marx.
Her grandfather's dying words lead thirteen-year-old Theodora Tenpenny to a valuable, hidden p... More
Unstoppable Octobia May
Flake, Sharon G, author.
In 1953 ten-year-old Octobia May lives in her Aunt's boarding house in the South, surrounded b... More
Who could that be at this hour?
Snicket, Lemony.
Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretiv... More
Woof
Quinn, Spencer, author.
Bowser is a mutt, just adopted by eleven-year-old Birdie Gaux and her grandmother, but when they al... More