First Clues: Mysteries for Kids is pleased to announce a selection of new mystery, suspense and thriller books (including series books) scheduled for publication during September 2010.
Due to the large number of new titles being published, we're splitting the list into two posts: this one for younger readers (ages 4 through 9) and a separate one for older readers (ages 10 and up).
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Detective Dinosaur Undercover
James Skofield
Series: Detective Dinosaur
When a detective goes undercover, it usually means they are in disguise, right? Not if it’s Detective Dinosaur!
The bumbling but bighearted star of this series is back with three new silly cases to investigate. How this charmingly clueless gumshoe goes undercover—in the most surprising ways—is the kind of irresistible goofiness beginning readers love.
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The Woodshed Mystery
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Series: Boxcar Children Graphic Novels
The Boxcar Children are spending the summer in an enormous New England farmhouse. There's an old woodshed new the house that holds a surprising secret -- a secret that dates from the Revolutionary War. Suddenly their summer becomes an adventure!
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The Lighthouse Mystery
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Series: Boxcar Children Graphic Novels
Jessie sees a mysterious woman walking on the grounds of the lighthouse late at night. Watch, Jessie's dog, wakes up growling almost every evening ... at midnight. And Henry finds a puzzling note in the sand. Adventure is always close for the Boxcar Children!
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Mountain Top Mystery
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Series: Boxcar Children Graphic Novels
The Boxcar Children climb a mountain and find a mystery! The hike up Old Flat Top was only supposed to take a day, but a dangerous rockslide changes everything -- revealing a hidden cave that just may hold a legendary treasure.
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The Case of the July 4th Jinx
Lewis B. Montgomery
Series: The Milo & Jazz Mysteries
It's the Fourth of July fair! There are fireworks, parades, pies, games ... and a jinx? When everything starts going wrong, Milo and Jazz must find out: is it really a jinx—or is it sabotage?
Read our Review of The Case of the July 4th Jinx by Lewis B. Montgomery.
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The Pumpkin Head Mystery
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Series: The Boxcar Children
This fall-flavored adventure for the Boxcar Children takes the Aldens to a New England farm that has more than its share of strange occurrences. Every year at the Beckett farm, visitors come to buy pumpkins and go on hayrides, but this year something is haunting the old place -- a mysterious specter with a glowing pumpkin head that warns guests to stay away! It's up to the Aldens to find out who -- or what -- is behind the scare.
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The Wedding Cake Mystery
David A. Adler
Series: Cam Jansen
Cam's on the case when a wedding cake goes missing hours before a wedding!
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Mummy Mayhem
Mary Labatt
Series: Sam & Friends
Sam loves a spooky mystery, but when this dog detective finds herself on the run from an ancient curse, is it more than she can handle?
When Sam notices a strange, lumpy figure wrapped in white walking by her house every day, she doesn't think much of it. Then Sam's human friends Jennie and Beth recount the story of a mummy's curse they learned about at a museum exhibit. Could the weird figure wrapped in white be a mummy on the rampage?
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Cat Burglar Caper
Carolyn Keene
Series: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew
No summary available.
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Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook
Mary Amato
First Slurpy is fishnapped, then other things from Mrs. Blackwell's room start to disappear. Odder still, whoever is committing these crimes leaves a note written in poetry. Edgar has it all covered in his "crime investigation notebook" -- but so does Patrick Chen, who has copied Edgar and is trying to solve the case first. Yet as Edgar keenly observes his surroundings, he notices many interesting things about his classmates. The more closely he watches two "suspects," the more he begins to think they might make pretty good friends.
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First Clues: Mysteries for Kids is your source for information on over 200 mystery series for children and young adults, where each series is conveniently listed under four different age categories (New Sleuths, ages 4 to 6; Future Sleuths, ages 7 to 9; Sleuths in Training, ages 10 to 12; and Apprentice Sleuths, ages 13 and older).