Mystery and Detective Stories
for Fifth and Sixth Graders

MYSTERY ACKER, R.	The Lost Treasure of Fernando Montoya by Rick Acker. While on vacation in San Francisco, sibling sleuths Arthur and Kirstin Davis are hired by Michael Franklin, a friend of their Uncle Connie, to investigate a lost treasure, putting at risk Franklin’s family business and, perhaps, Kirstin’s life.
MYSTERY ALLISON, J.	Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake by Jennifer Allison. Having earned a scholarship to a private girls’ high school, self-proclaimed psychic investigator Gilda Joyce investigates the circumstances surrounding the drowning death of a student whose ghost supposedly haunts the campus.
MYSTERY BALLARD, M.	Aunt Matilda's Ghost by Mignon Franklin Ballard. When their mother buys the family's ancestral home, a ghostly inhabitant enlists twelve-year-old Peggy, ten-year-old Rob, and their friends to solve a mystery and to right an old wrong.
MYSTERY BELLAIRS, J.	The Mansion in the Mist by John Bellairs. While spending the summer in an old house on a desolate Canadian island, Anthony Monday and Miss Eells discover a chest that can transport them to another world where a maniacal group is plotting the destruction of Earth.
MYSTERY BROACH, E.	Shakespeare’s Secret by Elise Broach. Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit sixth-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.
MYSTERY BROCKMEIER, K.	Grooves: a Kind of Mystery by Kevin Brockmeier. After a seventh-grader discovers that the grooves in his Tigpen-brand blue jeans are encoded with a cry for help, he sets out to save the factory workers from greedy entrepreneur Howard Tigpen.
MYSTERY BUCKEY, S.	The Light in the Cellar: a Molly Mystery by Sarah Masters Buckey. While volunteering as a magazine delivery girl in a convalescent hospital during the Second World War, Molly uncovers a mystery involving the theft of rationed food supplies for sale on the black market.
MYSTERY BUCKLEY, M.	Once Upon a Crime by Michael Buckley. When the fairy-tale detectives rush to New York City hoping to find an Everafter who can cure Puck, they trigger a chain of events that includes a murder mystery, and learn many new things about their mother who, along with their father, is still in an enchanted sleep.
MYSTERY CAPECI, A.	Daredevils by Anne Capeci. Living in a railroad worker’s camp in the Cascade Mountains during the 1920s, Billy, Finn, and Donnie encounter Finn’s air show pilot uncle, a troublemaking new boy, and a band of smugglers.
MYSTERY CAVENDISH, G.	Betrayal by Patricia Finney. Lady Grace Cavendish, Elizabeth I’s youngest maid of honor finds herself in the midst of a battle at sea while posing as a boy aboard the ship of Francis Drake.
MYSTERY CLEMENTS, A.	Room One: a Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements. 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.
MYSTERY CRAIG, J.	Jimmy Coates: Assassin? by Joe Craig. While escaping from the strange men that are after him in London, Jimmy discovers he possesses many unusual talents for an eleven-year-old boy.
MYSTERY DEFELICE, C.	The Ghost of Poplar Point by Cynthia DeFelice. Prompted by the ghost of a young Seneca Indian girl, twelve-year-old Allie and her friend Dub are determined, despite the oppostition of an unscrupulous property developer, that the historical pageant celebrating the founding of their town tells the truth about the fate of the Seneca people
MYSTERY EMERSON, S.	The Case of the Cat with the Missing Ear: from the Notebooks of Edward R. Smithfield, D.V.M. collected and edited by Scott Emerson. In 1887, in a San Francisco populated by dogs, retired veterinarian Dr. Edward R. Smithfield and his friend, Mr. Samuel Blackthorne, attempt to solve the mysterious disappearance of an unassuming accountant.
MYSTERY HALE, B.	Chet Gecko’s Detective Handbook (and Cookbook): Tips for Private Eyes and Snack Food Lovers by Bruce Hale. Revealed at last, secrets and surprises from ace detectives Chet Gecko and Natalie Attired’s criminal casebook.
MYSTERY HART, A.	A Spy on the Home Front: a Molly Mystery by Alison Hart. During a visit to her grandparents’ Illinois farm in 1944, ten-year-old Molly tries to prove the innocence of a German-American neighbor whom the FBI suspects of smuggling anti-American propaganda.
MYSTERY HAUTMAN, P.	Skullduggery by Pete Hautman. During a field trip in the local woods, Roni and Brian find the local archaeology professor, Andrew Dart, knocked unconscious in a cave, which leads them to investigate a land development scheme.
MYSTERY HOOBLER, D.	In Darkness, Death by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler. In eighteenth-century Japan, young Seikei becomes involved with a ninja as he helps his foster father, Judge Ooka, investigate the murder of a samurai.
MYSTERY HOROWITZ, A.	The Falcon’s Malteser: a Diamond Brothers Mystery by Anthony Horowitz. 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 trying to stay one step ahead of an assortment of thugs.
MYSTERY HOROWITZ, A.	Three of Diamonds: Three Diamonds Brothers Mysteries by Anthony Horowitz. A collection of three Diamond Brothers mysteries in which Tim and Nick bungle their way through a search for a missing philanthropist, find themselves in a Parisian prison, and are stranded on a Scottish island with a murderer.
MYSTERY JACKSON, M.	The Man in the Moonstone by Melanie Jackson. When Dinah gets a part in the musical adaptation of Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone, she stumbles onto a plot to steal a priceless ring.
MYSTERY JENNINGS, R.	Mystery in Mt. Mole by Richard W. Jennings. While twelve-year-old Andrew J. Forrest searches for Mr. Farley, the very unpopular assistant principal at Mt. Mole Middle School, strange things are happening on the town’s namesake hill.
MYSTERY LAWRENCE, C.	The Charioteer of Delphi by Caroline Lawrence. Flavia and her friends go to Rome to celebrate the Festival of Jupiter at Senator Cornix’s town house, where they befriend the young charioteer, Scopas, and quickly find themselves embroiled in a campaign to sabotage one of the rival racing factions.
MYSTERY MACGRORY, Y.	Emma and the Ruby Ring by Yvonne MacGrory. A magic ring transports eleven-year-old Emma to nineteenth-century Ireland, where she and two young girls unravel a mystery at Moylough Castle.
MYSTERY NICKERSON, S.	How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found by Sara Nickerson. With a swimming medal, the key to a mansion, and a comic book about a half-man/half-rat as her only clues, a twelve-year-old girl seeks the true story of her father’s mysterious death four years earlier near an island in the Pacific Northwest.
MYSTERY REISS, K.	Blackthorn Winter by Kathryn Reiss. An idyllic seaside artists’ colony in England is the scene of murder, and fifteen-year-old American-born Juliana Martin-Drake attempts to solve the crime while unraveling the mystery of her own past.
MYSTERY RICHARDS, J.	Ghost Soldiers by Justin Richards. While investigating a haunted house, the Cannoiers discover a group of scientists who are creating an army of indestructible mutant soldiers to fight the Germans in pre-World War II London.
MYSTERY ROBERTS, W.	Rebel by Willo Davis Roberts. When her grandmother decides to ditch assisted living and start a boarding house, fourteen-year-old Amanda Jane Keeling, or Rebel, signs on for the work crew, where she meets a teenage boy and embroils them both in a mystery.
MYSTERY SIMMONS, A.	The Raven League: Buffalo Bill Wanted! by Alex Simmons. In late nineteenth-century London, young Archie Wiggins and the Raven League—a poor but plucky band of junior detectives—meet Buffalo Bill Cody and try to save him from being framed for an attack on a police constable.
MYSTERY SPRINGER, N.	The Case of the Missing Marquess: an Enola Holmes Mystery by Nancy Springer. Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother.
MYSTERY SKURZYNSKI, G.	Buried Alive by Gloria Skurzynski. While their parents study the disappearance of wolverines in Alaska’s Denali National Park, Jack Ashley and a new foster brother are stranded in an avalanche triggered by a hit man’s bullet.
MYSTERY VAN DRAANEN, W.	Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway by Wendelin Van Draanen. While investigating why someone is trying to force people from their homes to expand a recreation center, Sammy is distracted by the lies she must tell to cover an accident she caused, but which was blamed on her nemesis, Heather.
MYSTERY VANDRAANEN, W.	Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things by Wendelin Van Draanen. While on her first hiking and camping trip, thirteen-year-old Sammy tries to solve a mystery involving endangered condors while avoiding scorpions, ticks, and embarrassment.
MYSTERY WRIGHT, B.	Too Many Secrets by Betty Ren Wright. Nine-year-old Chad and his friend Jeannie try to discover who is breaking into their neighbor's house, while Chad also deals with his suspicions about why his father has been spending so much time away from home.
MYSTERY YEP, L.	The Case of the Lion Dance by Laurence Yep. When $2000 is stolen during the opening of a restaurant, Lily and her aunt, a Chinese American movie actress, search for the thief throughout San Francisco's Chinatown.