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Steve Brezenoff
While cramming for her spelling test at an old library, Avery suddenly finds the words of her vocabulary workbook coming alive and wrapping around her. It is a cursed book…
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Shay Isley loves to read, but she’s become bored by the usual stories, so she turns to the horror section and finds the book Attack of the Moon Beast. When…
When middle school students Whitney and Ben visit a college library for a research project they venture through a door marked Special Collection Sinister History and meet the evil Archivist…
In search of a new and exciting read, a girl checks out some scary books. She's loving one about a werewolf. But this story packs more bite than she realizes…
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A student sits in an old library, revising for her spelling test. Suddenly, the word lists in her vocabulary workbook start to peel off the page. They reach out and…
A boy finds a strange book hidden away in an antique dresser. When he opens it, ancient symbols swirl off the pages. They form a floating, inky mass. The Oldest…
On a field trip, two friends discover a hidden door that leads into an ancient library. Strange snarls echo in the maze of shelves. Just as the pair searches for…
A boy wasn't able to finish the dense reading assignment for class, but that's the least of his troubles. Because he's drawn the attention of the wicked Sentencer and his…
A girl can't stop saying the same word over and over again. "Teacup, teacup, teacup," she says. Repeated words also fill the halls at school. "Phone, phone, phone." "Glue, glue…
Twelve-year-old Bea Voss isn't happy about her father's new job as personal librarian of a wealthy, odd man, and after she sees him acting strange in the creepy mansion she…
Two students find an old book from which an evil spirit is trying to escape, so they call on the mighty Librarian for help.
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Four fun kids find themselves in the middle of a mystery on every school field trip they take! In this title, visual and verbal clues are sprinkled throughout the story…
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Gum has to figure out who’s poaching in the Everglades.
Things get mysterious when Cat and her friends visit Mount Rushmore.
Yellowstone National Park is the scene of a mystery that Sam Archer and her friends must solve!
Egg finds out that caves are a perfect place for a mystery.
James Gum Shoo and his friends thought their trip to the symphony would be mystery-free. Nope!
Cat and her friends are on a field trip to see seals. Why has the show been cancelled?
When his best friend, Wilky, completes twelve-year-old Jason’s collection of Greek god figurines, Jason is thrilled, especially after his Aunt Amy’s gift of a Medusa doll proves dangerous.
Twelve-year-old twins Hunter and Maeve are puzzled when their parents take them to western Canada’s creepy looking Full Moon Resort, but the truth is more hair-raising than the inn.
Asher Symon falls behind in his reading assignments and is summoned before the ominous Sentencer for reading crimes. Will the boy face a lifetime sentence of punishment, or can the…
A local politician and millionaire is donating the money for a new wing for the Capitol City Air and Space Museum, which will exhibit some of the earliest devices for…
Someone is messing with the Museum of Natural History, mixing human models from the new Pleistocene Megafauna in with the dinosaur exhibits, and Wilson Kipper, whose mother works in the…
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Eighth-grade bass player Terence Kato quickly locates a singer and keyboardist. Can he keep the rhythm going and find a guitarist?
Catalina Cat Duran and her class are off to the recycling center for what seems like the worst field trip ever. But when they arrive, they find out that the…
Edward G. Garrison, better known as Egg, is excited about the trip to the zoo to see a rare display of Island Foxes, an endangered species. But the foxes have…
Samantha Archer couldn’t be more excited about her class trip to Scrub Brush, the cool frontier town. But from the second they arrive, it’s clear someone’s trying to make the…
While in New York City, Samantha Archer and her friends find themselves immersed in a run of crimes at sightseeing locations.
In Washington, D.C. on a field trip, Edward \u0022Egg\u0022 Garrison and his friends solve a haunting mystery.
On a class trip to New Orleans, Catalina Duran and her friends find themselves in the middle of a voodoo mystery!
Egg finds out that the Grand Canyon is a perfect place for a mystery.
Three friends cheat on a math test and get away with it – until a strange substitute teacher starts asking questions.
Do vampires really exist in Ravens Pass? Collin doubts it – until a new friend gives him a tour.
When crime hits a baseball stadium, the game shuts down and the kids have a mystery to solve.
Cat and friends are suspicious when a champion bowler’s balls keep ending up in the gutter.
A trip to the natural history museum turns into a mystery when a dinosaur goes missing.
When the spacesuit of famous astronaut Sally Ride is stolen from a traveling exhibit, there’s no shortage of suspects in Capitol City. Amal Farah and her friends are on the…
When Franklin Middle School’s sixth grade class visits the River City Museum of Moving Pictures, Sam, Egg, Gum, and Cat discover three mysteries to investigate.
When Franklin Middle School’s sixth grade class visits the public library, Sam, Egg, Gum, and Cat investigate scratching noises and a book series that is always on hold but never…
