New Year, New Sleuths!

Celebrate the New Year and start a new mystery series! These series are great for those venturing into chapter books for the first time and have further adventures for sleuths to read. The best part is, you don’t even have to read the books in order! 

 Inspector Flytrap

Inspector Flytrap, a venus flytrap, wants to become the world’s greatest detective! Hopefully, he can find all the clues and solve the mystery before his assistant, Nina the Goat, eats them.

The Boxcar Children

The Alden kids begin their adventure by living in a boxcar. They want to stay together, and after finding their grandfather, they are able to! They then go on many adventures and solve mysteries.

The Field Trip Mysteries

This series follows a class full of detectives, including James ‘Gum’ Shoo, ‘Egg’ Garrison, and Cat Duran, as they go on field trips and find themselves in the middle of mysteries!

A to Z Mysteries

Dink Duncan and his friends, Josh and Ruth, solve mysteries from A to Z around their town in this long-running series.

Clubhouse Mysteries

While building their own clubhouse, Ziggy, Rico, Rashawn, and Jerome discover a mystery! Their further adventures take them to cool places like Space Camp and the tunnels under their school.

Cam Jansen

Cam Jansen uses her amazing photographic memory to solve mysteries with her friend Eric.

The Buddy Files

Buddy the dog solves mysteries with other animals as he settles into his new life after being adopted.

The Ballpark Mysteries

Kate and her cousin Mike solve mysteries set at the different Major League Baseball stadiums. They go to Camden Yards in book fifteen, The Baltimore Bandit!

Encyclopedia Brown

Mac B. is a super cool spy kid tasked by the Queen of England to solve mysteries in this hilarious series. 

Mac B., Kid Spy

Mac B. is a super cool spy kid tasked by the Queen of England to solve mysteries in this hilarious series.