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CALL #	AUTHOR	TITLE	SUMMARY	LEXILE
F COL	Coleman, Michael	Internet detectives: speed surf	The message on the computer screen is nonsense. But it's the last message Josh Allan, Rob Zanelli, and Tamsyn Smith receive over the Internet from a yachtsman alone at sea-and they're sure it contains a clue to the identity of an international art thief.
F ADL	Adler, David A.	Cam Jansen and the mystery of the monster movie	Fifth-grader Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to find a missing reel of film
F All	Allison, Jennifer.	Gilda Joyce, psychic investigator	During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower.	1000
F ARD	Arden, William	The Three Investigators in the mystery of Wrecker's Rock
F AVI	Avi	Wolf rider; a tale of terror
F BAL	Balliett, Blue	Chasing Vermeer	When strange and seemingly unrelated events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.	770
F BEA	Beatty, Patricia,	The coach that never came	While spending the summer with his grandmother in Colorado,thirteen-year-old Paul becomes involved in a dangerous adventure when he tries to trace the history of an unusual gold and ruby belt buckle that his grandmother claims is a family heirloom.	720
F BEL	Bellairs, John	The treasure of Alpheus Winterborn		800
F Bel	Bellairs, John.	The chessmen of doom	Johnny Dixon, Fergie and Professor Childermass comply with a strange will left by the Professor's brother, which requires them to spend the summer at a desolate estate where they encounter a madman bent on destroying the world.
F BEN	Bennett, Jay	The dark corridor	At the end of the summer disrupted by three teenage suicides in their town, eighteen-year-old Kerry's girlfriend apparently kills herself, leaving him obsessed with death and strange doubts.	340
F BRO	Jeremy Brown	Crime Files: Four-Minute Forensic Mysteries
F Bur	Burchett, Jan.	Deception	Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, maid of honor to Queen Elizabeth I, describes in her diary her efforts to discover who is counterfeiting the new English silver coin.	900
F BUT	Butler, Beverly.	Ghost cat	Visiting for the first time on the family farm with relatives she doesn't quite feel comfortable around, fourteen-year-old Annabel gradually unravels a mystery involving a crying cat, an abandoned house, a forty-year-old feud, suspicions of murder, and her own grandparents.	860
F BYA	Byers, Betsy	Death's Door	Super sleuth Herculeah Jone's investigation of the attempted murder of Meat's uncle leads them to a mystery bookstore named Death's Door.	520
F CAM	Cameron, Eleanor	The court of the stone children	Aided by the journal of a young woman who lived in nineteenth-century France, Nina solves a murder mystery dormant since the time of Napoleon.	1110
F CAP	Capeci, Anne.	The Halloween joker	As Halloween approaches, a practical joker targets the kids of Oakdale, and the jokes are starting to get out of hand, so Wishbone and his friends set out to find the joker before the special costume party is ruined.
F CAR	Carey, M.V.	The mystery of the cranky collector
F CAR	Caroselli, Remus F.	Mystery at Long Crescent Marsh
F CHR	Christopher, Matt	The hockey machine	Thirteen-year-old hockey superstar Steve Crandall is suddenly abducted by a strange fan and trapped in the fast-paced and dangerous world of professional junior hockey	790
F CHR	Christopher, Matt	Red-hot hightops	Normally fearful to play basketball in front of a crowd, Kelley becomes a confident and agressive player when she dons a mysterious pair of red sneakers that she finds	730
F CHR	Christopher, Matt	Tackle without a team	When marijuana is found in Scott Kramer's duffel bag and he's thrown off the football team, the star player is determined to clear his name and sets out to discover who planted the drug	670
F CHR	Christopher, Matt.	Top wing	Dana Bellamy searches for the truth behind the fire for which his father is being blamed.	630
F COL	Coleman, Michael	Internet detectives: escape key	With the help of brilliant detective work by their friends on the Net, Rob and friends start to track down their mysterious suspect.
F Coo	Cooney, Caroline B.	The terrorist	Sixteen-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the person responsible for the death of her younger brother Billy, who has been killed by a terrorist bomb.	710
F COR	Corcoran, Barbara	Mystery on ice	A family outing to Camp Allegro during the Christmas holidays is overshadowed by a series of mysterious threats that soon escalate into dangerous and frightening events. Children's stories, American.
F CUR	Curry, Jane Louise	The great flood mystery	Gordy and his friends find secret rooms, mysterious burglaries, and a shadowy villain on the trail of a treasure supposedly lost in Johnstown's flood of 1889.
F DIX	Dixon, Franklin	The Hardy boys
F DOR	Dorris, Michael	Sees Behind Trees	A Native American boy with a special gift to "see" beyond his poor eyesight journeys with an old warrior to a land of mystery and beauty.	840
F DUN	Duncan, Lois	The twisted window	Tracy, a high school junior, becomes embroiled in the problems of a strange boy, who asks her assistance in "snatching" his half-sister from her father who has allegedly kidnapped her.	950
F Dun	Duncan, Lois	Down a dark hall	Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding school, fourteen-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other three students at the school were selected.	750
F Dun	Duncan, Lois,	Don't look behind you	Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.	1020
F Dun	Duncan, Lois,	Killing Mr. Griffin	A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English teacher, but did he intend it to end with murder?	720
F Dun	Duncan, Lois.	I know what you did last summer	Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.	760
F Fin	Finney, Patricia,	Assassin	Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, favorite maid of honor of Elizabeth I, must solve a murder mystery and clear the name of her betrothed.	910
F Fin	Finney, Patricia,	Betrayal	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, where she and Masou stowed away in hopes of finding the kidnapped Lady Sarah.	910
F Fin	Finney, Patricia,	Conspiracy	Queen Elizabeth escapes injury in a series of mysterious accidents while on the Royal Court's summer travels. Grace Cavendish, maid of honor to the Queen, investigates who may be behind the conspiracy, which could turn out to be a faithful friend or the latest suitor.	980
F Geo	George, Jean Craighead,	The missing 'gator of Gumbo Limbo	Sixth grader Liza K., one of five homeless people living in an unspoiled forest in southern Florida, searches for a missing alligator destined for official extermination.	740
F HAM	Hamilton, Virginia	The house of Dies Drear	A black family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.
F HAM	Hamilton, Virginia	The mystery of drear house	Sequel to: The house of Dies Drear. A black family living in the house of long-dead abolitionist Dies Drear must decide what to do with his stupendous treasure, hidden for one hundred years in a cavern near their home.
F HIL	Hildick, Edmund Wallace	The case of the wandering weather-vanes
F Hoe	Hoeye, Michael.	Time stops for no mouse :	When Linka Perflinger, a jaunty mouse, brings a watch into his shop to be repaired and then disappears, Hermux Tantamoq is caught up in a world of dangerous search for eternal youth as he tries to find out what happened to her.	640
F HOO	Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas	The ghost in the Tokaido inn		740
F HOP	Hope, Laura Lee	The Bobbsey Twins and the Talking Fox Mystery
F Hor	Horowitz, Anthony,	The Falcon's Malteser	Clumsy detective Tim Diamond relies on his brother to help him safeguard a five million dollar package.	640
F Hor	Horowitz, Anthony,	Public enemy number two	When thirteen-year-old Nick is framed for a jewel robbery, he and his brother, the bumbling detective Tim Diamond, attempt to clear his name by capturing the master criminal known as the Fence.	580
F Hor	Horowitz, Anthony,	Three of diamonds	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.	620
F HOW	Howe, Deborah	Bunnicula: a rabbit-tale of mystery		700
F Kar	Karbo, Karen.	Minerva Clark gets a clue	A thirteen-year-old girl in Portland, Oregon loses all self-doubt when she is zapped by lightning and uses her newfound courage to solve a murder mystery.
F KEE	Keene, Carolyn	A crime for Christmas: a Nancy Drew and hardy Boys super mystery
F KEE	Keene, Carolyn	Nancy Drew: the clue in the crossword cipher
F KEE	Keene, Carolyn