Theme: detective story

Wilma Tenderfoot: The Case of the Frozen Hearts

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

Wilma Tenderfoot, a ten-year-old orphan who lives at Cooper Island’s Lowside Institute for Woeful Children, dreams of escape and of becoming the apprentice of the world-famous detective Theodore P. Goodman, whose every case she follows devotedly in the newspaper.

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Haunting Violet

By Book Importer | Published: December 5, 2011

Violet Willoughby doesn’t believe in ghosts. But they believe in her. After spending years participating in her mother’s elaborate ruse as a fraudulent medium, Violet is about as skeptical as they come in all matters supernatural. Now that she is being visited by a very persistent ghost, one who suffered a violent death, Violet can [...]

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The Spaghetti Detectives

By Book Importer | Published: September 7, 2011

Living with his mother in a Berlin apartment house, Rico, a young boy with ADHD, enjoys playing detective games but when his friend Oskar suddenly disappears, possibly taken by a serial kidnapper, Rico determines to use his skills to find his friend.

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Lost Boy

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

New house, new school, new friends–but Matt Lanchester knows it won’t all be that easy when he moves to the town of Hay-on-Wye. Almost as soon as he arrives, he is drawn into a mystery when he sees a roadside memorial marked by a little wooden cross with the initials M.L. carved into it. His [...]

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Mouse Noses on Toast

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When Paul Mouse overhears a customer in a restaurant ordering mouse noses on toast, he assumes it must be a joke. Mouse noses on toast is a myth. But when the waiter asks if that would be with or without whiskers, Paul knows it’s no joke. So begins a laugh-out-loud funny ride involving mouse activists [...]

Descriptors: England (UK), Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , » Leave a comment

The Traitors’ Gate

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, fourteen-year-old John Huffman must take on unexpected responsibilities, from asking a distant relative for help to determining why people are spying on him and his family.

Descriptors: England (UK), Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Mystery » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment