MYSTERY

Mystery• Realistic fiction • Everything in the story revolves around a puzzle

or an unusual problem to solve.• The author drops hints that might help the

reader solve the mystery.• There might be distractions in story to lead the

reader away from the correct solution.• The story ends with a credible, realistic solution

to the mystery.

A Series of Unfortunate Events – Lemony Snicket

• Follow Violet and Sunny after their parents’ mysterious death

• Violet and Sunny are placed with their distant cousin Count Olaf

• 13 books in series

Stevie Diamond Mystery – Linda Bailey

• How come the best clues are always in the garbage?• How can I be a detective if I have to baby-sit?• How can a frozen detective stay hot on the trail?• How can a brilliant detective shine in the dark?• What’s a daring detective like me doing in a

doghouse?• Who’s got Gertie? And how can we get her back!

Stevie Diamond Mystery

• Stevie’s her name. Detection’s her game! 12 year old detective living in Vancouver. Stevie and her partner, Jesse, track down suspicious characters, including international smugglers, runaways, thieves and many more. You will keep guessing until the last page.

Raven Hill Mysteries – Emily Rodda’s

• The Ghost of Raven Hill• The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

• Revolves around 6 teenagers who have set up a part-time job agency, Teen Power Inc. Each book revolves around one main mystery for the characters to solve.

Xtreme Mysteries – Laban Hill

• Each book features xtreme sports and a mystery.

Crossed Tracks• As Nat and her friends prepare for the Bear

Claw Mountain Bike Race, they discover someone is sabotaging Miners Road Trail. It is up to them to find out who and why.

Half Pipe Rip-Off• Wall and the crew have just finished building a

half pipe in Wall’s backyard. The half pip is so popular with the skate rats at school that kids start tagging it with some cool graffiti. Wall’s English teacher finds that someone is tagging her classroom and her house, and since Wall is just scraping by in English, they are beginning to suspect him.

Rocked Out• While volunteering at the Summer X games in

San Diego, Wall and Kevin become involved in mysterious happenings just as the sports competition heats up.

The Mystery of the Martello Tower – Jennifer Lanthier

• Hazel and Ned are home for summer vacation and looking forward to long, lazy days of sleeping late, shooting hoops, building stink bombs, and spending time with their art-dealer father. But when he disappears without saying good-bye, their summer plunges into chaos. The babysitter leaves town, their apartment is burgled, and two menacing thugs start turning up everywhere. Ned and Hazel try escaping to an island castle belonging to long-lost relatives, only to find there’s no escaping this adventure. As the siblings work to untangle the threads that ensnare their father, they learn of a second, darker secret-one that surrounds their mother’s death years ago. Only by solving both mysteries can the bring their father home.

Not Suitable for Family Viewing – Vicki Grant

• Robin has everything a girl could want. Thanks to her mother – the internationally beloved talk show host Mimi Schwartz-Robin’s got the money, the means and the connections to make even her wildest dreams come true. So why, then, does she choose to sit alone in a dark room watching endless reruns of you and Mimi? She doesn’t know until the bizarre discovery of an old high school ring propels her to ditch New York for a tiny Nova Scotian fishing village. In her quest to solve the mystery behind the ring’s origin, Robin finds more than a renewed joie de vivre (joy of living). She discovers love, the truth of her own background and the shocking secret that helped make her mother a star.

Until the End – Christopher Pike

• Final Friends 1-3• It’s the start of the school year, and the popular girls have

decided to thro the best party, one their friends will never forget. But hooking up and hanging out are the farthest things from their minds when the unthinkable happens: Someone doesn’t make it out of the party alive. The death is declared a suicide, but nothing quite adds up. Convinced there’s a murderer on the loose, no one knows who they can turn to or who they can trust. Nowhere is safe, not the homecoming dance, not even graduation. The truth will terrify them, but it must be revealed. Their lives depend on it.

Sally Lockhart Mysteries –Philip Pullman

The Ruby in the SmokeIn 1872, Sally becomes involved in numerous intrigues involving the identity of her father, the British opium trade in India, and a mysterious ruby.

The Shadow in the NorthIt is 1878. Following a fraudulent medium's

ramblings, a Scottish magician's visions, and a transport ship's disappearance, Sally finds that she must seek help from old friends, and finds

herself losing all she holds dear trying to uncover the truth behind the North Star, the

Steam Gun, and Bellman

The Tiger in the WallIt is 1881. A trap has been sprung, a trap which has been in preparation for years. The barely human Tzaddik is behind this, and his demons are far greater than anything Sally Lockhart can muster. With the law, the Tzaddik's henchmen, and luck against her, she is forced to go undercover, leaving behind her family and friends as she is sucked into the well

The Tin PrincessIt is 1882. Jim finds Adelaide, a girl who went missing as a poor urchin during Sally's first encounter with danger, and finds that she has married into the royal family of Razkavia, a small country near Germany. However, resentment is rife within the palace, and plots develop to dethrone the family and join Germany. Only the Eagle can stop them.