Mystery Genre - Greensburg

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Realistic fiction
Everything in the story revolves around
a puzzle or an unusual problem to
solve.
The author drops hints (clues) that
might help the reader solve the
mystery.
There might be distractions in story to
lead the reader away from the correct
solution.
The story ends with a credible, realistic
solution to the mystery.
 Who Did It?
 What Is It?
 How Did It
Happen?
Thirteen-year-old Sammy
must call upon her detective
skills to solve the mystery
when a dog she is watching
disappears from a city parade
and the owner receives a
ransom note.
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Van
In small-town Michigan,
twelve-year-old Zoomy
and his new friend Lorrol
investigate the journal
found inside a mysterious
box and find family secrets
and a more valuable
treasure, while a
dangerous stranger
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watches and waits.
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Hal
Is it just Chet, or is everyone acting
just a little bit strange? One by one,
the students at Emerson Hicky
Elementary are becoming mindless
goody-goodies. No one talks in
class, no one complains about
homework, the line to clean the
chalkboard erasers is out the door!
Everyone is acting like . . . well, a
zombie. Chet loves a good nap-but
this is one he's got to avoid at all
costs. Can he save the school? Or
will Chet and Natalie be the next in
line at the chalkboard?
The mysterious death
of an eccentric
millionaire brings
together an unlikely
assortment of heirs
who must uncover
the circumstances of
his death before they
can claim their
inheritance.
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Ras
An African-American
family moves into a
house once used as a
hiding place for runaway
slaves and soon come to
believe that their new
home is possessed by
the spirit of a murdered
abolitionist, Dies Drear.
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Ham
Xena and Xander Holmes have just
discovered they're related to
Sherlock Holmes and have
inherited his unsolved casebook!
The siblings set out to solve the
cases their famous ancestor
couldn't, starting with the mystery
of a prized painting that vanished
more than a hundred years ago.
Can two smart twenty-first-century
kids succeed where Sherlock
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Holmes could not?
Bar
Brothers Jeff and
David, along with their
cousin Claire, plunge
into a dangerous
mystery after spotting
someone dumping a
large bundle into the
lake at Cabin Creek in
the middle of the night.
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Gre
Twelve-year-old online
detective school graduate
Fletcher Moon--who suffers
the nickname "Half Moon"
because of his small stature-helps solve crimes for
classmates and others in his
Irish town, but things start to
go wrong when he is asked to
find a reportedly stolen lock
of a pop star's hair and ends
up an arson suspect.
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