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List of Mystery Books for Kids

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Book	Author
11 Birthday's	Wendy Mass
A Series of Unfortunate Events	Lemony Snicket
A to Z Mystery Series	Ron Roy
A Whole Nother Story	Dr. Cuthbert Soup
Chasing Vermeer	Blue Balliett
Deep and Dark and Dangerous: A Ghost Story	Mary Downing Hahn
Diamond Brothers Mysteries	Anthony Horowitz
Encyclopedia Brown	Donald J. Sobol
Flush	Carl Hiaassen
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler	E.L. Konigsburg
Geronimo Stilton Series	Geronimo Stilton
Hardy Boys Series	Frank W. Dixon
Holes	Louis Sachar
Hoot	Carl Hiaassen
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life	Wendy Mass
Moon Over Manifest	Clare Vanderpool
Nancy Drew Series	Carolyn Keene
Nate the Great	Marjorie Sharmat
Pretty Darn Scary Mysteries	Carole March
Real Kids, Real Places Series	Carole March
Sammy Keyes	Wendelin Van Draanen
Shadow Children	Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Face on the Milk Carton	Caroline B. Cooney
The Ghost Mystery Series	Cynthia DeFelice
The Mystery at the Dog Show: Boxcar Children	Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Runaway Racehorse	Ron Roy
The Samurai Mysteries Series	Dorothy Hoobler
The Secret Series	Pseudonymous Bosch
When You Reach Me	Rebecca Stead

Mystery books offer a great opportunity to play detective. Do you like to try and figure things out? This list has the classic kid's mysteries like the Hardy Boys by Frank W. Dixon or the Nancy Drew Books by Carolyn Keene as well as new series like the Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch and The Thirty Nine Clues Series.

The Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch is a favorite kids mystery writer of mine because the author sometimes directly addresses the reader. The titles in this series are; The Name of this Book is Secret, If you are Reading this it is too Late, This Book is not Good for You, and This Isn't What it Looks Like. The titles alone made we want to see what these books were all about.

The Thirty Nine Clues books are a fun way to read mystery books from a lot of your favorite authors. The books are written by different authors but they all follow the same story. There are several famous kid's book authors involved including Rick Riordan, Gordon Korman, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Peter Lerangis, Jude Watson, Patrick Carman, and Linda Sue Park. Each has written at least one book in the series.

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Today In History

Who was born on this day:
1952 Mr. T (Actor)
1981 Josh Hamilton (Baseball player)

What happened today in history:
1881 The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.
1927 Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.