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Best friends Fiction Best friends Juvenile fiction Characters in literature Fiction Criminal investigation Juvenile fiction Detective and mystery stories Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 Fiction Missing persons Fiction Missing persons Juvenile fiction Murder Fiction Mystery and detective storiesLane, Andrew
Summary: Kidnapped and taken to China, young Sherlock Holmes enjoys adventure on the high seas before encountering a puzzling case of three men bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai. Includes historical notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LANSpringer, Nancy
Summary: When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPRHur, June
Summary: While investigating a series of grisly murders, eighteen-year-old palace nurse Hyeon navigates royal and political intrigue and becomes entangled with a young police inspector. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HURMang, Veronica
Summary: "It's a dark and stormy night when three sleuthing little girls get pulled into a web of mystery. They have mistakenly uncovered a secret society of some of the most famous female spies in history. A glamorous spy named Josephine Baker enlists the girls to find out who has kidnapped Chiquita, her precious pet cheetah. Do the girls have what it takes to become spies themselves?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MANWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: The Aldens are excited to learn about beekeeping, but when equipment goes missing, they have more than honey to harvest--they have a mystery to solve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2023
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Summary: Enola Holmes, Sherlock Holmes's younger sister and self-declared finder of lost persons and things, is determined to find her friend, Lacy Cecily, a confused young Baronet's daughter on the run from her father's devious schemes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPRAdler, Irene
Summary: Whisked out of Paris ahead of the Prussian army in 1870, twelve-year-old Irene Adler is reunited in London with her friends, Sherlock Holmes and Arsène Lupin--but Arsène's father has been arrested for murder and the kidnapping of a famous opera singer, and it is up to the three young detectives to solve the mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ADLAdler, Irene
Summary: In London, at Christmas time in 1870, a strange message in the classified ads leads the three young detectives to murders that appear to be connected with the Scarlet Rose Gang, whose leader was killed years before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ADLHur, June
Summary: In 1426 in Joseon, a year after her father vanishes while investigating the disappearance of thirteen girls, eighteen-year-old Min Hwani returns to the island of Jeju to pick up his trail with the help of her estranged sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HURBarrows, Annie.
Summary: After watching a movie about a detective on the television, Bean decides to set up shop as a private investigator--and she and Ivy start looking for mysteries to solve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BARBarrows, Annie.
Summary: After watching a movie about a detective on the television, Bean decides to set up shop as a private investigator--and she and Ivy start looking for mysteries to solve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD Fiction Barrows 2013Bunce, Elizabeth C.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. Armed with her fathers law books and her mums microscope, Myrtle studies toxicology, keeps abreast of the latest developments in crime scene analysis, and observes her neighbors in the quiet village of Swinburne, England. When her next-door neighbor, a wealthy spinster and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BUNBuckey, Sarah Masters
Summary: While visiting an old castle in England, Samantha and Nellie solve mysteries involving a ghost and some missing rare books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BUCLawson, Jessica
Summary: Eleven-year-old Tabitha Crum, whose parents were just about to abandon her, is invited to the country estate of a wealthy countess along with five other children and told that one of them will become her heir.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LAWBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: A shipment of dinosaur bones meant for a new exhibit at the Capitol City Natural History Museum has disappeared, and so have the five paleontologists who were working late at the museum, including Wilson Kipper's mother--so Wilson and his museum friends set out to solve the mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BREBalliett, Blue
Summary: When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BalSteele, Michael Anthony
Summary: When the whale-watching cruise they are on sails into an area which is supposedly cursed, and is immediately attacked by a group of apparently aquatic monsters, the Mystery Inc. crew set out to find the villain behind the attack, with some timely help from Batman and Robin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE STESnider, Brandon T.
Summary: On the first day of middle school, Principal Kim announces that the school is going to throw a Contraption Convention--the perfect opportunity for young inventor Rube Goldberg to show off his inventions and get out of his summer-long funk. But after a fight with his friends Pearl and Boob about where his priorities really lie, Rube's Con Con entry gets off to a rocky start, and then strange...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SNISkurzynski, Gloria.
Summary: While their mother investigates a series of bear attacks in and near Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Jack and Ashley learn about country music and Cherokee people from two new friends, one of whom is keeping a secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SKUSumner Johnson, Janet
Summary: "Hope Smith can’t stand rich people—the dictionary magnate family the Wintertons most of all. Not since she and her twin brother, Gordon, learned that their dad was one. So when Gordon enters the family into the Winterton’s charity spelling bee, Hope wants nothing to do with it. But with their mom losing her job and the family facing eviction from the motel where they live, they desperately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pixel+Ink 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUMWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: Can the Aldens figure out who's responsible for the bad press before the center gets shut down for good? Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are excited to learn more about raptors when they volunteer at a rehab center for wild birds. But not long after they arrive, a series of strange events makes it seem like someone might be trying to sabotage the center. Who could the culprit be, and why would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: When the spacesuit of famous astronaut Sally Ride disappears from a traveling exhibit, Amal Farah, daughter of the Air and Space Museum's archivist, and her three friends, are determined to find the culprit before the exhibit is cancelled.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRESkurzynski, Gloria.
Summary: The Landon family travels to Glacier National Park to investigate why grizzly bear cubs are disappearing and become involved with a ten-year-old Mexican runaway boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2001
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SkurzSpringer, Nancy
Summary: Enola Holmes, now independent and pursuing her profession as a scientific perditorian, joins forces with her brother Sherlock to solve the mysterious disappearance of Wolcott Balestier, a friend of Rudyard Kipling, as they uncover the ruthless world of book publishing and seek to bring him back safely.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023