Mysteries And Detective Stories category: 4904 books

Mary America is now the first girl president of the United States. The inauguration has come and gone, the bells are over, and it's time for the new leader of the free world and the commander-in-chief to get to work! Mary's still getting used to a retired teacher being her secretary, the Secret Service...

When a volcano blows, where do you go? The other way - unless you're one of the Master's of Disasters! Sort-of-crazy scientist dad Artemis and his brainy kids Nick and Curie head to Yellowstone National Park and Mount St. Helens to check out "volcanoland" when they hear that a mountain with...

What do a brother and sister do when their mad scientist dad takes them along the San Andreas Fault and other earthquake prone places? They are there for the “Big One” of course! Earthshaking adventure leads them to learn all about the famous earthquakes of the past and how we might predict them...

Tabitha, a city girl, has to spend her summer vacation with her professor and Swampmaster father, Mable–a real "swamp thing" of a woman, heat and mosquitoes, but she also helps solve the mystery of why someone is trying to lay claim to Mable's homestead in the swamp. Learn The Secret of...

Thousands of miles from home, Grant Christina, Mimi, and Papa look out the window of their airplane at the winding-snake wall – endless as far as they can see. When Grant finds a treasure map in the seat pocket, the mystery begins. The treasure hunt takes Grant, Christina and their Chinese pen pals...

Alpine McAlpine School is all in a dither! The students in Ms. Bogus' class are going on a fantasy field trip to the planet Mars! Join the clever kid, the clumsy one, the athlete, the bookworm, and more as they whisk off on an out-of-this-world adventure, learn about Mars, and try to figure out how...

It happens every spring. The air and the earth begin to warm…Mother Nature wakes up from her long winter's nap, yawns, stretches…and Tornado season is born! This science family chases the tornadoes to learn more about these dangerous storms as part of Dad's research. Believe it or not, there's...

Papa is very patriotic, brags Grant. “Mimi says he was a strong constitution,” adds Christina. But the Constitution in jeopardy is the real U.S. Constitution! Is it lost? Stolen? Fake? Real? And how are they supposed to know! It's a spy vs. spy kind of mystery as Christina, Grant and their new...

Four funny friends, 250 spooky rooms, three secret passages, too many gargoyles, lots of clues but only 10 seconds to live! In 1981, Carole Marsh (a real writer) took four real kids on a visit to the famous Biltmore House in Ashville, NC. They went to learn about George W. Vanderbilt; the Victorian...

Perfect for tween readers who enjoy mysteries and puzzles and books like Chasing Vermeer, this page-turning debut novel is filled with adventure, intrigue, and heart. After their father, a video-game inventor, strikes it rich, the Smithfork kids find they hate their new life. They move from...

Elizabeth, Alexis, Bailey, Sydney, Kate, and McKenzie come from different parts of the country and different backgrounds. But when they meet at Camp Discovery, they learn they all share one thing: an aptitude for intrigue! Soon they’re embroiled in a search for lost jewels…and that’s only the...

Elizabeth, Alexis, Bailey, Sydney, Kate, and McKenzie come from different parts of the country and different backgrounds. But when they meet at Camp Discovery, they learn they all share one thing: an aptitude for intrigue! Soon they’re embroiled in a search for lost jewels…and that’s only the...

Thumb and his best friend, Susan, love movie nights, when the entire community of New Auckland gathers in the school gym to eat popcorn and watch videos. Mostly they are movies about bad guys being tracked down by cool detectives. It's the villains, Thumb realizes, that make life interesting. If only...

Dinah Galloway, budding diva, enthusiastic gourmand and amateur detective, is back. This time she has taken to the high seas with a gig in the lounge of an Alaska-bound cruise ship. Also aboard are her mother and her older sister Madge, a moody professor of First Nations art, an elderly woman with...