Mystery fiction 
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Munchem Academy volume 1.
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5 stars
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When Mattie Larimore is sent to reform school he uncovers a creepy conspiracy, led by Headmaster Rooney, to fix all the problem children, including Mattie's brother--for good.
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Bridget Vanderpuff volume 1.
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The first in a hilarious middle-grade series about a whip-smart inventor and amateur sleuth with a taste for adventure-a recipe for fun sprinkled with mystery, villainy, silliness, heart, and hope. Bridget Baxter is the very last orphan at the Orphanage for Errant Childs, left at the mercy of the awful Ms. Acrid and her foul-smelling fish sandwiches. Ms. Acrid's mission is to make Bridget's life a misery. But Bridget is more than a match for her....
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Wollstonecraft Detective Agency volume 1.
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4.8 stars
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"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects"--
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 1.
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3.9 stars
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Encyclopedia Brown, a ten-year-old detective, uses his intelligence to help solve ten puzzling crimes.
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League of Unexceptional Children volume 1.
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2.7 stars
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Evanston, Virginia, twelve-year-olds Jonathan Murray and Shelley Brown are completely average and forgettable until they are recruited to help the League of Unexceptional Children save the Vice President of the United States, who has been kidnapped along with an important code.
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Key hunters volume 1.
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5 stars
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Neither Cleo nor Evan like the new school librarian, Ms. Crowley, but they are very curious about where she disappears to at the back of the library, so one day they follow her--and find a secret door, a magical library full of locked books, and a letterfrom the previous librarian telling them that she is trapped somewhere between the covers of one of the enchanted books, and they must travel through the stories in order to save her.
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Tupelo Landing volume 1.
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4.8 stars
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Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.