Throughout a series of adventures, ten-year-old David "Ali Baba" Bernstein spends most of his time thinking about becoming a detective and getting a dog.
The Dixon twins try to discover who put the snake in the school cafeteria flour bin on April Fool's Day, clearing an unjustly suspected classmate in the process.
Arrthur's friend Buster is searching for a crime to solve, so when the quarters Arthur has collected for Mrs. MacGrady's charity drive disappear, Buster is on the case. Will he be able to prove Arthur's innocence so that he can attend the class picnic?
When Arthur hears his sister singing a catchy tune, he wonders if he could call that jingle his own and enter it in the Crunch Cereal Contest.
There are other titles in the Marc Brown Arthur chapter book series.
"The merry-go-round is missing from the playground! KC enlists Clifford and the gang to help solve the mystery. Together they tail a suspect, sniff out clues, and find a big surprise!"
A group of multi-ethnic and differently abled children form a club called the Screech Owls to solve mysteries like what happened to Mrs. Kolanski's blanket.
Other mystery titles by this author in the advanced easy reader collection.
A group of multi-ethnic and differently abled children form a club called the Screech Owls to solve mysteries like what happened to Mrs. Kolanski's blanket.
Howie the wirehaired dachshund tries his paw at writing a new kind of novel, a mystery in which he imagines himself as a private investigator and Delilah as the "mysterious dame."
"Everyone loves the new teacher, Mr. Merlin. Mr. Merlin used to be a spy, and he knows all about secret codes and the strange and gross ways the police solve mysteries..."
Flatfoot Fox and his faithful friend, Secretary Bird, help Principal Porcupine solve the mystery of the missing school.
Other mystery titles by this author in the advanced easy reader collection.
Arriving for a vacation on Holiday Island, penguins Gus and Gertie stumble into a hotel full of Bad Guys and have a beautiful, valuable deep-sea pearl stolen from them.
After Fletcher, a salami-loving basset hound, is wrongly accused of eating a pet rabbit, he and his sidekick, Jasper the flea, must find the true culprit before Fletcher is sent back to the dog pound.
Assisted by her cat Max, sixth grader Minnie starts up her new detective agency by investigating a kidnapping and a thief who will steal anything, even a hot stove.
Brian and his younger sister Penny become involved in a mystery at the science museum where they are working on a woolly mammoth display for a science fair.
Marty Frye, a seven-year-old who likes to read poetry and talk in rhymes, solves three separate mysteries for a classmate, a toy store owner, and his younger sister.
Mr. Pin, the rockhopper penguin who has traveled from the South Pole to be a detective in Chicago, investigates two cases involving chocolate. Sequel to "The Mysterious Cases of Mr. Pin."
There are other mystery titles by this author.
When Arthur and his friends ride their bikes to school, Francine is embarrassed by her old hand-me-down bicycle. But when she reports her bike is stolen, her friends rally to find the thief. Will they discover the true fate of Francine's bicycle?
"The principal of Jill and Gwen's school promised to spend the morning on the roof if the kids read one thousand books during their reading marathon--and they did! Now he's on the roof, and he's going to read an original science fiction story Gwen wrote..."
Mysterious attacks on Chummy the Wonder Dog lead canine detective Sebastian to go undercover as a stunt performer in the making of Chummy's new movie.
There other mystery titles in the Sebastian, super sleuth series by this author.
After he sees some unusual late-night deliveries, Martin's active imagination has him and his friends convinced that the man who has recently moved into the attic apartment should be watched.
Willie and his best friend, Kyle, who has moved to Ohio, start a detective agency, and their first case is to spy on the girl who has moved into Kyle's old house.
