Kids Books - Detectives

How would you feel if you had to leave your home and move into your grandparents house, To find a mystery that happened even before you were born? The book Yours Truly by Heather Vogel Frederick is about a 13 year old girl. That had to move away from her home in Texas and move into her grandparents house , in Pumpkin Falls New Hampshire, and one day her and cousin discover a mystery that leads back to the civil war. The book takes place in the early fall in a town called Pumpkin falls New Hampshire. In the book the don't say the main character's name the main character tells the whole story and she tells us that she is thirteen. Early in the book the main character tells that on her birthday how had to help out her family with an event they called (Maple madness). While she was there, she meet a boy that she knows and he kissed her on the lips, and throughout the book, she kind of tried to stay away from that boy. In the book the main characters cousin came up to visit and they both found diaries from one of their family members and its Pumpkin Falls private eyes to solve this mystery. I recommend this book to a type of reader that likes mysteries, and like books that put you on the edge of your seat!!

Do you like riddles? In Kat Zhang’s ‘The Emperors Riddle’ Mia, the protagonist (main character) loves riddles and adventure. Mia’s mother even calls her “A grand adventure”. When Mia visits Modern China, her mother's home-country, on a summer trip, her Aunt Lin pulls out a an old picture that belonged to Mia’s grandmother, on the back is an incomplete map to an ancient treasure that hasn’t been found ever. When Aunt Lin tells her old friend Ying she might have found the map to the treasure, Ying kidnaps Lin. Aunt lin, and Ying had be sent to the Fuzhou countryside when they were teenagers to be laborers and they searched for the treasure there. Aunt Lin wanted to put the treasure in a museum but Ying wanted to sell it to make money. They never find the treasure and eventually go back to China. Years later, Ying's wife is extremely sick. After she finds out Lin has been kidnapped, Mia, and her brother go to find, and rescue Lin. They find the old map, and try to solve they riddles that have been left behind to finish the map. When they do find Lin, they have Ying to deal with. I would recommend this book to people who like adventure books. I really liked this book because it had a sibling team working together to find their aunt, and the adventure they go on is incredible. They go all around China and a lot of chinese temples and monuments are incorporated into the story. This book is basically one giant adventure.

This book is about a boy who has to live with his uncle, a detective. When the uncle's nemesis, who used to be his partner and is now the best detective, holds a contest. Uncle doesn't want to go but the boy enters and pretends the uncle is there. Whoever solves the "murder mystery " wins the title "the worlds greatst detective" but when there is a real murder, everyone race to find out who did it. I got this book from a shipment called Owlcrate Jr. It sends you a brand new book so you've never read it before and it sends you things and trinkets that go with the book theme. Check out this book and owlcrate jr sometime!

This book is about a girl detective, her ghost mother, and a makeup kiosk mystery. Someone has been adding strange things in the makeup-chili sauce in the lipstick, cactus prickles in the hand creme, and hair removal in the hair cream! Along with her mother (who is a ghost that talks to her), Sherry Baldwin solves the mystery of the crazy makeup.

I have not yet read this book but it indeed looks very interesting. I'm looking foreword to reading this book. I've played a game called mystery case files 13th skull and this really caught my eye because it reminded me so much of that I couldn't resist checking it out. You will here from me eventually about how this book turned out to me. Please look for more of my reviews and follow me!!

OMG my favorite book so far. A really good and interesting read. So mysterious, gives me the chills.

It's a good book. One of the best Hardy Boys series yet, I think. It's pretty cool. I recommend this book.

i think the book was very good it has interesting detail and i like it because the auther of the book really went into detail about the writing and the charecters and the diologue is amazing

this a good book

I just ran out of books to read and recently I just had a Disney obsession so I read this book series and it was the right choice