Thursday, April 17, 2008

First Clues: More Mini-Mysteries for Kids

First Clues: Mysteries for Kids

We've updated our website by adding a few more mini-mystery series.

Lawrence Treat has written five books in the Crime and Puzzlement series. Each book contains 24 illustrated puzzles that will challenge your amateur sleuth!

Though all the books follow the same format (a story with a picture, both of which contain clues to the solution of the mystery), the fourth title features the author's precocious cousin Phoebe, while the fifth title is set entirely on Martha's Vineyard, an island off the Massachusetts coast, and features Sam, chief of the All-Island Regional Police Department.

The  are appropriate for kids aged 9 and older.

There are currently two books in the series by Ludy Leimbach.

While appropriate for casual reading, these mini-mystery books were written to assist teachers in teaching deductive reasoning to their students. The books come with complete instructions for the teacher and answers to the puzzles. All mysteries are presented on attractive reproducible worksheets that include entertaining dialogue and clues needed to solve the mystery.

The Detective Club mini-mysteries are appropriate for young sleuths aged 7 to 10.

In addition to the already available on the website, we've added by Mary Carr.

Each book in the One-Hour Mysteries series contains five motivating mysteries that your young armchair detective can solve using clues and logical reasoning. As with the Detective Club mini-mysteries, these books also come with teacher instructions and blackline masters that may be photocopied for educational use.

The first two books in the series contain standard solve-them-yourself mysteries. The third book is positioned as a course for private investigators and is appropriately titled The Private Eye School. All books are intended for readers aged 8 to 11.

Hy Conrad is the author of an eclectic collection of whodunit mini-mysteries that we've grouped under the category .

Included in this collection are historical whodunits that take place around the world and at various times, from ancient Rome to 1940s Hollywood, aptly named kids whodunits featuring brainy pre-teen Jonah Bixby, two books (crime mysteries and crime puzzles) that feature Sherman Oliver Holmes, the great-great-grandson of the famous consulting detective himself, and the official puzzles of the MENSA society.

All of these whodunit mini-mysteries are fun to solve and age-appropriate for readers 9 and older.

is pleased to provide information on nearly 100 mystery series for children and young adults. Each series is conveniently listed under three different age categories (New Sleuth, ages 4 to 7; Future Sleuth, aged 7 to 10; and Sleuth in Training, ages 10 and older). If you have a favorite mystery series you'd like to see added to our site, please contact us.

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1 comment:

  1. Hi,

    Here's one my daughter, age 10, read first and then insisted I read -- "Bitter Tastes" by V.B. Rosendahl. It reminded me of the great Nancy Drew series from when I was a kid. The author writes so well that we couldn't wait to see what happens next.

    Her characters are very true-to-life and you can get a sneak peek at them here. The author knew how to design a site (and a book) that probably is aimed for kids, ages 8-12.

    Hope you like the book as much as we did!!

    Cheers,
    Linda

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