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BOOK LIST

17 Mystery Books for Amateur Detectives

Beginning readers and budding detectives will love these mystery books and series about other supersleuths.

Calling all student sleuths! If you've got a classroom full of detectives, then this book list is for you. Reading mysteries not only boosts your students' literacy skills, it also helps encourage them to analyze details and develop critical thinking strategies along the way. The only mystery left here is why these books aren't already on your classroom shelves!

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Ready, Freddy!: Tooth Trouble

Grades 1 - 2
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Freddy Thresher has a problem: a really, really big problem. He's the only one in his class who hasn't lost a tooth!

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Encyclopedia Brown Carries On

Grades 3 - 5
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Once again, America's 10-year-old Sherlock Holmes in sneakers is called upon to help his police-chief father and the neighborhood children solve 10 mysteries.

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How can a contest this sweet turn so sticky? Nancy and the Clue Crew are determined to find out.

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A whodunit that will keep readers guessing until the end, this witty farmyard mystery stars a canine detective and a family of crazy chickens that desperately need his help.

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Author E.L. Konigsburg's modern classic tale of a young girl's escape into a search for identity in one of the world's greatest museums. This book is the Winner of the 1967 Newbery Medal and named an American Library Association Notable Book and "Best of the Best" by the School Library Journal.