Kids Books - Detectives

Have you ever tried to solve a murder mystery and just find your self going in circles while the anwswer is stading right in front of you? In Notorious by Gordan Korman you get to experience boths of those situations from tons of different points of views. Keean, after coming down with tuberculosis, has just moved to centerlight an island that is half Michaigan and half Canada. Zeebee who has lived in centerlight found Keean a couple months after her tragic loss of her dog Barney. No one but Keean believes her when she says Barney was murdered. The antagonist in this book is the never ending evidence that points them in different directions but always meets in the same spot. Keean and Zeebee find conflicts from turning into enemies to overthinking it while the answer is right under their nose. Anyone that is looking for a mystery filled book that makes you find yourself trying to figure out the mystery before them this book would be a perfect book. I love this book, but this book has some strong language. I would recommend this book for 7th grade and up

I love this book I'm reading it for something at school called battle of the books and I get to read this awesomebook

My friend Teah recommended this series to me. Now I am happy she did! I love the boxcar children mysterys!

I would like to know who likes mysteries?! Well, this book is a really cool mystery! It's about 3 kids that are trying to figure out who dug up the graves in the graveyard.If you read this book, I hope you like it!

This is another amazing adventure of the Thea Sisters. This time, the Thea Sister' friend, Ashwin calls from Chennai, India. He was talking and suddenly a buzzing gray screen takes over. The Thea Sisters race to India and find monkeys all over. The find Ashwin and he told them about the chaotic monkeys. Also, the Maharaja, the king, is coming with his son, Lakshan, who is a good friend of Ashwin in a few days. When Lakshan comes, the monkeys see an emerald and steal. The Thea Sisters split up and find the monkey trainers capturing and train monkeys to steal gold. The Thea Sisters save the day once more!

Our favorite Holmes is back! Enola needs a new disguise and name. Sherlock knows her Ivy Meshel one, but now Enola will be a whole new person, who nobody will expect, even her brothers. But when Dr. Watson, who is Sherlock's right hand man, goes missing, Enola knows that she needs to put her detective skills to the work. When she goes to Dr. Watson's house and talks to Mrs. Watson, she notices the weirdest bouquet. White poppies, hawthorn, and asparagus! Knowing the language of the flowers, this is quite a shocking message. Trying to solve the mystery of the disappearance of Dr. Holmes and trying to hide from her brothers - this is just another mystery for Enola! Fast paced and trilling, Enola Holmes will put you on the edge of your seat! Happy reading!

If you like books that have troublemakers and drama, you will love this book! Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief will keep you guessing. In this book, Sammy is looking out the window with her binoculars and checking out what's going on below when all of a sudden, she sees someone robbing someone at the Heavenly Hotel. Sammy was now on a mission to find out who it was! If you want to go on an adventure read Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief. I give this book 5 stars!

Enola is back and with a new mystery! When Enola sees Lady Cecily- a friend of hers who she helped- with a pink fan, Enola knows something is wrong. Lady Cecily seems like she's not doing to good. So when Lady Cecily sneaks a clue to Enola, Enola finds out that Cecily is being held hostage! If Cecily doesn't do what she is told to do, she'll be starved and locked up. But what Lady Cecily has to do is something horrible, and Enola will not give up to save her friend. Several run ins with her brothers is making Enola's job even harder. Nancy Springer does it once again, making the reader root for Enola till the very end. Happy reading!

Artemis Fowl is a genius. He's outsmarted and befriended an entire race of elves and dwarves, assisted in stopping the goblin rebellion, foiled the Russian mafia, and saved his presumably dead father. He is now only 14. But when Artemis discovers he is not the only teenager with knowledge of the fairy races, he must once again team up with former LEP captain Holly Short, and travel through time and space to stop this teen from exposing the secrets of Magic, and prevent the invasion of a species that's been gone 10,000 years. And it's comes down to one question: who is the real enemy? In the fifth installment of the Artemis Fowl series, written by Eoin Colfer, we are once again introduced to new characters, both funny, scary, and sad. One of the best parts of this series is how the author gives us a new way to look at things, unveiling some of the "truth" about Earth's history. This book is definitely one to read, but of course I recommend the first four books as well.

There is a lot to love about Loot. Jewel heists? Master plans? Kid criminals? Yes, please! I love stories about kid spies or criminals (both would be even better!) and this book had potential. Sadly, I can't call it a favorite. I don't love it, but I don't hate it either. The main characters were Jules, March, Darius and Izzy. They were all pretty awesome and even though the likelihood of kids having their abilities is practically non-existent, I enjoyed the humor and energy between them. The teamwork is incredible. For example, even though Darius is the stereotypical "tough guy," he is very protective of Izzy, who is practically a younger sister to him. I think my main issue I have with this book is that the whole story is highly improbable, particularly the ending. This book is meant to be entertaining. I get it. But these kids are easily breaking into heavily-guarded places with merely a few hours of planning. How likely does that sound? Not very probable. The ending was also highly unrealistic. This ruined the reading experience for me. That being said, there were many aspects of Loot that I enjoyed a lot. Besides stellar action scenes, this book could also be very funny. I don't laugh out loud very often but this book cracked me up sometimes. Here's an example taken from the ARC in which Jules and March are visiting Hamish, one of their father's business associates. "Jasmine, can you cover the register?" "You told me to concentrate on e-commerce orders today," she said. "Change messes up my aura." "The universe has many paths, and yours leads to the cash register," Hamish said. "Peace out," she answered with a shrug, and left. See? Funny. Before beginning Loot, I wasn't sure how the whole "being a criminal" thing would be handled. This is a MG novel after all! In real life, criminality is absolutely horrible. Gang wars, drugs, guns, etc. It wasn't all covered, but Jude Watson didn't do a bad job of representing the backstabbing and treachery of the criminal world without going into gruesome details It was an entertaining and funny read that I can recommend to MG fans of Gordan Korman.