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Series
Marsh Road Mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Meet Piotr, Minnie, Andrew, Flora and Sylvia - true friends and even better mystery-solvers! When Minnie's gran comes to stay, all the way from Nigeria, Minnie knows there will be trouble. And straight away Gran notices she's picked up the wrong suitcase at the airport. This one is full of boy's clothes, and she's not at all happy about it! But when their house is burgled and the only thing taken is the suitcase, Minnie realises there'll be much more...
2) Ali Cross
Author
Series
Ali Cross volume 1
Language
English
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Description
My dad is a famous detective who taught me everything he knows. My friend has been missing for days. I'm going to find him. Everyone tells me I'm just like my father. When your dad is Alex Cross, that's a lot to live up to. But I've got to try. This is my very first case and my friend's life is on the line. If I inherited any of my dad's detective skills, it's time for them to kick in. Like father, like son. Alex Cross - the brilliant DC detective...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Shelby Jane Cooper is 17, pretty and quiet. It's just Shelby and her mom, Shaylene, a court stenographer who wears pyjama jeans, stitches tapestry, eats ice-cream for dinner and likes to keep Shelby safe. So safe she barely goes out. So safe she doesn't go to school. Because anything could happen, to a girl like Shelby. When Shelby gets knocked down by a car, it's not just her leg that's broken: Shelby's world is shattered. Her mom turns up to collect...
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Series
Sally Lockhart volume 2
Language
English
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Description
The breathtaking return of daredevil detective Sally Lockhart. These days, Sally is twenty-two, an entrepreneur and expert financial advisor. But amid the mist-shrouded streets of Victorian London, strange news meets Sally's ears: rumours of the disappearance of steamship Ingrid Linde. As she investigates the loss, a clairvoyant mentions the name of Europe's richest man. Who is financier Axel Bellmann? What is behind the mysterious bad luck that has...
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Series
Enola Holmes volume 3
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
Follow London's newest and greatest detective, Enola Holmes, in her third captivating adventure - from the series that inspired the film, starring Millie Bobby Brown. Enola Holmes is still on the run from her brother and world's most famous detective Sherlock Holmes. After one close encounter too many with him, Enola must abandon her disguise and find a new way to avoid discovery. But when Sherlock's right-hand man, Dr Watson, goes missing without...
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Series
Jake Atlas volume 2
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Jake Atlas and his family are on the run, hunted by international police while chasing the mysterious People of the Snake to stop them from hiding the secret history of humankind. But when the family?s friend, Sami, is poisoned, the People of the Snake force the Atlases to work for them in exchange for a cure. Their mission: to locate a legendary lost city and the tomb of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl in the jungles of Honduras - home to bandits, big...
7) Malamander
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Series
Legends of Eerie-on-Sea volume 1
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Nobody visits Eerie-on-Sea in the winter. Especially not when darkness falls and the wind howls around Maw Rocks and the wreck of the battleship Leviathan, where even now some swear they have seen the unctuous Malamander creep... Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, knows that returning lost things to their rightful owners is not easy - especially when the lost thing is not a thing at all, but a girl. No one knows what happened...
Author
Publisher
Polygon
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Here, in this delightful, new, enchanting tale for children, we see how the young Precious became the crafty and intuitive private investigator we all know and love! Find out as Alexander McCall Smith tells the story of in another adventure featuring Precious Ramotswe.
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Series
School of Alyxa volume 1
Publisher
Willow Tree Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Superhuman kids, a missing girl and a thousand-year-old mystery. The gripping adventure begins ... Finn's world is turned upside down when he and his older brother, John, are ripped from their normal lives and sent to Alyxa, an island school that doesn't appear on any map. As the unusual lessons at Alyxa begin, the brothers learn about their super-senses, but nothing can prepare them for the perils to come. To conquer their fears, they must master...
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Series
Diamond Brothers volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When vertically challenged Johnny Naples entrusts Tim Diamond with a package worth over three million pounds, he's making a big mistake.
12) The secret city
Author
Series
Thames and Tide Club volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
An exciting new adventure series for young readers from Carnegie Medal winner Katya Balen, author of October, October and The Light in Everything Clem and her friends Ash and Zara are members of the Thames and Tide Club! Every weekend they go mudlarking by the river, searching for treasures that have washed up on the shore. Clem has found old things, new things and a whole heap of rubbish. But one day, she finds something really special. Something...
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Series
Lockwood and Co volume 3
Publisher
RHCP Digital
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Lockwood & Co. might be the smallest (some might say shambolic) Psychic Detection Agency in London. But its three agents - Lockwood, Lucy and George - are exceptional Talents. And they get results. When an outbreak of ghostly phenomena grows to terrifying levels in Chelsea, Scotland Yard is left baffled. Even more baffling is that Lockwood & Co appear to have been excluded from the huge team of Agents investigating the Chelsea Outbreak. Surely this...
14) Wildcard
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Series
Warcross volume 2
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
IT'S TIME FOR A REMATCH All bets are off. This time the gamble is survival. Emika Chen barely made it out of the Warcross Championships alive. Now she can no longer trust the one person she's always looked up to, the one person she thought was on her side - Hideo Tanaka. His plan: to wipe out all crime on Earth by ending the free will of its citizens. Emika is determined to put a stop to him, but she soon finds a new threat lurking on the neon-lit...
Author
Publisher
Usborne Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Sarah has played many roles. Dutiful daughter. Talented gymnast. Persecuted Jew. Lost orphan. But now she faces her most challenging role of all. Now she must become the very thing she hates. For the only way she can survive as a spy at a boarding school for the cream of Nazi society is to become a monster like them. A monster who can destroy them.
16) Thunderhead
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Series
Arc of a Scythe volume 2
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
The stakes are high in this chilling sci-fi thriller, in which professional scythes control who dies. Everything else is out of human control, managed by the Thunderhead. It's a perfect system - until it isn't. It?s been a year since Rowan went off-grid. Hunted by the Scythedom, he has become an urban legend, a vigilante snuffing out corrupt scythes in a trial by fire. Citra, meanwhile, is forging her path as Scythe Anastasia, gleaning with compassion....
17) The Secret Seven
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Series
The Secret Seven volume 1
Language
English
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Description
It's their first adventure and the Secret Seven super-sleuths are already on the trail of a mystery! The gang are dressed in disguise, following a lead to a spooky old house in the snow ... Solve the mystery!.
Author
Series
Jake Atlas volume 3
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Jake Atlas and his family are searching for the fifth emerald tablet that will reveal the secret to the history of humankind. At China's Terracotta Army Museum, Jake retrieves a clue to a safe passage into a nearby tomb, where the tablet is believed to be hidden. But when a helicopter appears and blows up the tomb, the Atlases know they are being pursued by the People of the Snake. They must decode the rescued tablet and journey to the Crystal Mountain...
Author
Series
Secret Seven volume 2
Language
English
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Description
A priceless pearl necklace goes missing. The Secret Seven are first off the mark to catch the thief. Why? Because they saw him making his escape! Now all they have to do is find the necklace ... Solve the mystery!.
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Series
Agent Zaiba Investigates volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Determined to be the world?s greatest detective, Zaiba is always on the lookout for a crime to solve. She knows everything there is to know about running an investigation - in theory... At her cousin?s Mehndi party, Zaiba gets her first challenge: to discover the identity of the VIP staying at the same hotel. With the help of her best friend Poppy and brother Ali, Zaiba puts her sleuthing skills to the test. And when the celebrity?s precious dog disappears,...
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