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Mystery
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Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery by Peter Abrahams
Ingrid, a Sherlock Holmes fan, finds herself caught in the middle of a murder mystery. Is there a connection between the murder and the local theater group Ingrid belongs to?

Fake ID by Walter Sorrells
After a lifetime of moving and assuming new identities, sixteen-year-old Chass begins to piece together the disturbing past that haunts her and her mother and which involves a mysterious tape, a deceased popular singer, and the secrets of several people in a small Alabama town.

Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City by Kirsten Miller
Life becomes more interesting for Ananka Fishbein when, at the age of twelve, she discovers an underground room in the park across from her New York City apartment and meets a mysterious girl called Kiki Strike who claims that she, too, wants to explore the subterranean world.

Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox by Bennett Madison
When a mysterious person called the Fox begins to threaten young starlets, Lulu Dark investigates, even though she suspects that her own mother--an aging actress--might be behind it all.

Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls by Bennett Madison
When someone steals her purse and her identity, high-school junior and reluctant girl sleuth Lulu Dark investigates.

Montmorency by Eleanor Updale
In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself.

The Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier
Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts.

So B. It by Sarah Weeks
After finding some old photographs, Heidi travels across the country to discover the truth about her mentally disabled mother (and the strange word she repeats continuously) and her own mysterious background.

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