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Steve Brezenoff
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…
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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…
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…
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…
Wormwords invade the school, draining the students' mental energy and causing them to repeat themselves, so the Librarian works to exterminate the pests before they zombify the students.
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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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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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…
Clementine Wim spots a famous painting being carried away from the Capitol City Art Museum. But when she arrives at the museum, the painting is hanging right where it should…
A ghost has been spotted lurking around Capitol City’s American History Museum. Can Raining Sam, the son of the head of educational programs at the museum, and his friends figure…
Raining Sam and his friends must figure out who is responsible for the vandalism at the Capitol City Museum of American History.
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…
Gum has to figure out who’s poaching in the Everglades.
Things get mysterious when Cat and her friends visit Mount Rushmore.
When a priceless sculpture is stolen from the Capitol City Art Museum, it’s up to Clementine and her friends to figure out who’s responsible.
It’s up to Wilson Kipper and his friends to get to the bottom of the mysterious haunting at the Natural History Museum before it’s too late.
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Amal and her friends must solve the mystery of the missing flying machine plans before it costs her father his job at the Air and Space Museum.
A shipment of dinosaur bones has been stolen from the Capitol City Natural History Museum! But even worse, a group of paleontologists has disappeared too–and among them is Wilson Kipper’s…
Cat and her friends are on a field trip to see seals. Why has the show been cancelled?
James Gum Shoo and his friends thought their trip to the symphony would be mystery-free. Nope!
Egg finds out that caves are a perfect place for a mystery.
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.
When you’re sixteen and no one understands who you are, sometimesyou haveto run. If you’re lucky, you find a place that takes you in. For Kid, the streets of Greenpoint…
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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?
James Gum Shoo’s art class heads to the museum. They’ve been learning about forged art, but they never expected to find a fake in the gallery!
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…
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…
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!
