Upper Elementary - Mystery

Anderson, M.T. Whales on stilts. (JUV M) 188p.
Racing against the clock, shy middle-school student Lily and her best friends, Katie and Jasper, must foil the plot of her father's conniving boss to conquer the world using an army of whales.

Balliett, Blue. Chasing Vermeer. (JUV M) 254p.
When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, 11 year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.

Broach, Elise. Shakespeare’s secret. (JUV M) 250p.
Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit 6th-grader Hero becomes interested in exploring this unusual connection because of a valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new house, an intriguing neighbor, and the unexpected attention of the most popular boy in school.

Brockmeier, Kevin. Grooves: a Kind of Mystery. (JUV M) 199p.
After a seventh-grader discovers that the grooves in his Thigpen-brand blue jeans are encoded with a cry for help, he sets out to save the factory workers from greedy entrepreneur Howard Thigpen.

Buckley, Michael. The Unusual Suspects. (JUV FIC) 290p.
Although filled with anger over her parents' disappearance, eleven-year-old Sabrina Grimm-- along with her grandmother, sister, and several fairy-tale characters-- tries to discover who has killed her teacher. This is book two of the sisters Grimm series.

Clements, Andrew. Room One: a Mystery or Two. (JUV M) 168p.
Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family.

Colfer, Eoin. Half-Moon Investigations. (JUV M) 290p.
When Fletcher Moon, the youngest detective in the world, is framed for a crime he did not commit, he must team up with the unlikeliest of allies, run from the authorities, and solve the case within twelve hours to clear his name.

Curtis, Christopher Paul. Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money. (JUV M) 151p.
Flint Future Detective Club members Steven Carter, his friend Russell, and Russell’s huge dog Zoopy solve the mystery of a quadrillion-dollar bill with the image of James Brown on it.

Defelice, Cynthia. The Missing Manatee. (JUV FIC) 181p.
While coping with his parents' separation, eleven-year-old Skeet spends most of Spring Break in his skiff on a Florida river, where he finds a manatee shot to death and begins looking for the killer.

Hale, Bruce. Murder, My Tweet: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko, Private Eye. (JUC M) 117p.
Detective Chet Gecko, and his associate Natalie Attired, take a case tailing what they think in a cheating boyfriend but are instead led to a school mystery that involves blackmail and robots. This is the tenth book in the Chet Gecko mystery series.

Hamilton, Virginia. The House of Dies Drear. (JUV M) 246p.
A black family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.

Holms & Hamel. The Postman Always Brings Mice. (JUV M) 129p.
A dashing British feline spy is dismayed to find himself stranded in New Jersey and adopted by a typical suburban family, until he puts his skills to good use for his new human. This is Dossier 001 of the Stink files series.

Horowitz, Anthony. The Falcon’s Malteser: A Diamond Brothers Mystery. (JUV M) 191p.
After his older brother, a fledgling private detective, agrees to safeguard a package for a dwarf who does not live long, thirteen-year-old Nick scampers to solve the mystery while also trying to stay one step ahead of an assortment of thugs.

Howe, James. Bunnicula: A Rabbit-tale of Mystery. (JUV M) 98p.
Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire.

Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game. (JUV M) 185p.
When an eccentric millionaire dies mysteriously, 16 very unlikely people are gathered together for the reading of the will--and what a will it is. A Newbery Medal-winning novel.

Reiche, Dietlof. Ghost Ship. (JUV M) 313p.
An eighteenth-century figurehead, the journal of a ship's quartermaster, and supernatural occurrences at a seaside resort lead twelve-year-old Vicki and her friend Peter on a quest to lift a curse and set right a horrible deed committed two hundred and thirty years in the past.

Springer, Nancy. The Case of the Missing Marquess: an Enola Holmes Mystery. (JUV M) 216p.
A new series featuring Sherlock Holmes' much-younger sister Enola begins. When her mother disappears, Enola is determined to find her and sets out to the heart of London. There Enola becomes involved in the kidnapping of a young marquess.

Yep, Laurence. The Case of the Goblin Pearls. (JUV M) 179p.
Lily and her aunt, a Chinese American movie actress, join forces to solve the theft of some priceless pearls and stop the operator of a sweatshop in San Francisco’s Chinatown. This is the first book in the Chinatown mystery series.

Suspense

Aiken, Joan. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. (JUV FIC) 168p.
Bonnie Green and her cousin Sylvia come under the power of a wicked governess when Bonnie's parents leave on a sea voyage.

Avi. Strange Happenings: Five Tales of Transformation. (JUV FIC) 147p.
Newbery Medalist Avi presents characters who experience startling transformations in this collection of thought-provoking short stories that is by turns chilling, ethereal, and surreal.

Bruchac, Joseph. Skeleton Man. (JUV FIC) 114p.
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange “great-uncle”, Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even her life.

Gopnik, Adam. The King in the Window. (JUV FIC) 410p.
Eleven-year-old Oliver, an American boy residing in Paris, discovers, much to his astonishment, that phantoms live within the windowpanes and have selected Oliver to lead a war against the “soul stealers” that inhabit mirrors.

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. The House on the Gulf. (JUV FIC) 201p.
Twelve-year-old Britt’s older brother, Bran, arranges a house-sitting job for the summer, but Bran starts acting strangely after his family moves in, and Britt begins to suspect they are not supposed to be there.

Ibbotson, Eva. The Star of Kazan. (JUV FIC) 405p.
After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.

Kehret, Peg. Nightmare Mountain. (JUV M) 164p.
12-year-old Molly’s visit to her aunt and uncle’s llama ranch in the state of Washington leads her into unexpected danger and suspense.

Lawrence, Iain. Lord of the Nutcracker Men. (JUV FIC) 212p.
An English boy during World War I comes to believe that the battles he enacts with his toy soldiers control the war his father is fighting on the front.

Peyton, K.M. Stealaway. (JUV FIC) 86p.
Nicky moves to an old castle in Scotland with her mother, a horse trainer, and becomes involved with ghosts from some five hundred years in the past.

Roberts, Willo Davis. The Kidnappers: A Mystery. (JUV M) 137p.
No one believes 11-year-old Joey, who has a reputation for telling tales, when he claims to have witnessed the kidnapping of the class bully outside their expensive New York City private school.

SanSouci, Robert. Dare to be Scared: Thirteen Stories to Chill and Thrill. (JUV FIC) 159p.
Thirteen stories about ghosts, monsters, spirits and other scary creatures will give the reader thrills and chills.

Wright, Betty Ren. Crandall’s Castle. (JUV FIC) 177p.
Charli’s impulsive uncle, Will Crandall, decides to buy the town’s abandoned, possibly haunted, castle and fix it up as a bed-and-breakfast, but Charli and Sophia, a clairvoyant orphan who has come to stay with the Crandall family, know his plan is somehow dangerous.