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CRRL Kids: Mysteries for Beginning Readers

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Central Rappahannock Regional Library

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  • When Sally's entry in the Best Pie Contest goes missing, young Detective Jeffrey Bones looks for clues.
    BookNew York : Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2013. — FICTION Adl
  • In their latest case, animal detectives Bunny and Jack help Mabel the duck find out who stole the sugar cubes from her tea room.
    BookNew York : Greenwillow Books, [2005], ©2005. — FICTION Ryl
  • Investigative reporter Dirk Bones sets out to discover who is stealing books in the town of Ghostly.
    BookNew York : HarperCollinsPublishers, [2009], ©2009. — FICTION Cus
  • Dot and Jabber, mouse detectives, try to solve the mystery of the disappearing insects.
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. — FICTION Wal
  • Working on his uncle's farm in the fall, Flat Stanley searches for answers when pumpkins start to disappear right before the county fair.
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017. — FICTION Hou
  • Little penguin has found something. But he's not sure what it possibly cound be. Luckily, penguins are great detectives--and he and his friends are on the case! Will they be able to solve the case?
    BookNew York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — FICTION Dri
  • Huckle Cat learns about different words that sound alike when he tries to unscramble a mysterious call for help on the police radio.
    BookNew York : Simon Spotlight, [2011], ©2011. — FICTION Sha
  • When Okapi discovers a hole in his hammock, Detective Murilla Gorilla must find out what happened.
    BookVancouver : Simply Read Books, 2014. — FICTION Llo
  • Nate the Great and his dog, Sludge, would like to take a break from detective work, but new cases - cases they do not want - await them.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, 2014. — FICTION Sha
  • Eric's Grandma Minnie and Grandpa Max keep hearing someone knock at their door, night and day, but find no one there, so Cam tries to solve the mystery using her amazing memory.
    BookNew York, New York : Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2014. — FICTION Adl