Children’s / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction

Elizabeth, Alexis, Bailey, Sydney, Kate, and McKenzie come from different parts of the country and different backgrounds.

Elizabeth, Alexis, Bailey, Sydney, Kate, and McKenzie come from different parts of the country and different backgrounds.

Elizabeth, Alexis, Bailey, Sydney, Kate, and McKenzie come from different parts of the country and different backgrounds.

Elizabeth, Alexis, Bailey, Sydney, Kate, and McKenzie come from different parts of the country and different backgrounds.

Sydney and Elizabeth are on-site in the nations capital when odd happenings occur at the Vietnam Memorial.

When Bailey and McKenzie arrive to help at a horse ranch in Montana, theyre immediately entrenched in mysteries: a horse disappearing into thin air, spookiness in an abandoned western town, and ranch hand upheaval.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words.

What can be tamer than spending time with a bunch of sheep?

If dinosaurs are extinct, then why do they seem to come to life each night?

The Truants are back in class, and that means new mysteries abound!

Cody, Quinn, Luke, and M.

An infamous prison may hold a secret only the Code Busters can uncover.

Readers will have tons of fun creating the codes right along with the characters in this interactive series.

Egyptian secrets take center stage in this interactive mystery where boys and girls can solve codes and puzzles right along with the multicultural cast of characters.

Dawn Buckle spends most of her days trying to get people to notice her.

When Jason Milwaukee's best friend Sunshine vanishes, Jason knows that something is terribly wrong, but solving her disappearance will require pushing through all the voices in his head and then getting the world to listen to him.

The year is 2140.

This young Nancy Drew is back in a second Maggie Brooklyn mystery that shines a spotlight on her super-sleuth skills.

Sarah Weaver, a jaded seventeen-year-old from a broken family, leaves California to attend an all-women's college in Massachusetts.

What if Victorian London were an amusement park where the inhabitants were actors hired to entertain visitors from the twenty-first century?

Nancy Drew fans will fall for the first title in Leslie Margolis's pitch-perfect middle-grade series, The Maggie Brooklyn Mysteries.

The only thing Avery Hood can remember about the night her parents died is that she saw silver-deadly silver, moving inhumanly fast.

Lucy Sexton is stunned when her mother's identical twin sister shows up at the family's front door one day.

The ultimate unreliable narrator takes readers on a thrill ride in this highly acclaimed novel.

In the deep woods of Pikes Landing, New York, on a Seneca reservation a girl is found murdered with an arrow through her heart.

In this exciting mystery, thirteen-year-old Nick and his faithful dog, Wags, are mixed up in a scheme even more exciting, and dangerous, than they have ever been in before.

Fourteen-year old Frank Hollahan moves to Florida in 1943, at the height of World War II, to join his father, a navy seaman.

Legend has it that a paymaster lost his gold during the War of 1812, and Sam, Eadie, and Ben are determined to find it.

Legend has it that a paymaster lost his gold during the War of 1812, and Sam, Eadie, and Ben are determined to find it.

Fourteen-year-old Jake MacRae's life is spinning out of control.

2012 Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award - Shortlisted2010 Cybils Award - Shortlisted A Victorian garden, a fishing lure, and a ghost named John Absolutely nothing is going right for Max Green.

A brother and sister find a man entombed in ice in a Rocky Mountain glacier.

While camping in Ontario's Algonquin Park with their fathers, best friends Dani and Caitlin spend the night by themselves at an isolated site on Canoe Lake, rumoured to be the favourite spot of the famous Canadian painter Tom Thomson.

Sarah Martin is bored.

Sarah Martin isn't the only outsider in her small Muskoka town.

After the success of Seeds of Time and Secret of Light, kc dyer returns with Shades of Red, the final instalment in the Eagle Glen Trilogy.

Short-listed for the 2004 Chocolate Lily Book Award Darrell Connor is back for another term at Eagle Glen, but is shocked to find that along with her friends Brodie and Kate, her nemesis, Conrad Kennedy, has enrolled at the school.

Commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens Annie Berkley, a schoolmate of Shelby's who has appeared in previous books, lives in a foster home and has become depressed.

Thirteen-year-old Darrell Connor is a troubled girl, still haunted by the motorcycle accident that took her father's life and part of her leg three years ago.

Short-listed for the 2009 Silver Birch Award, commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens Due to circumstances beyond her control, 12-year-old Peggy Henderson has to move to the quiet town of Crescent Beach, British Columbia, to live with her aunt and uncle.

Short-listed for the 2003 Red Maple Award and Arthur Ellis Award for best Juvenile Book, commended for the 2003 Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Selection Shelby Belgarden isn't exactly thrilled when people start thinking Greg is her boyfriend.

Short-listed for the 2009 Golden Eagle Book Award To the Gwich'in First Nation, Shildii Rock near Fort McPherson in the Northwest Territories is a place of deep mythological significance.

Dani and Caitlin, two 12-year-old Ottawa girls, have a talent for meeting ghosts.

When Shelby Belgarden's peaceful hometown of Little River is shaken by a series of robberies, suspicion falls on Amber Chapman, a new girl in town who has alienated others with her standoffish attitude.

Thirteen-year-old Casey Templeton has recently moved with his family to the southeastern Alberta town of Richford.

With school over, Greg visiting relatives, and Betts on vacation with her family, it's looking like it will be a quiet summer for Shelby Belgarden.

An unexpected delivery from the florist points to a secret admirer for Shelby Belgarden, but when an ominous phone call and a disturbing email follow, the teenaged sleuth and her family realize that the dangerous obsession of a stalker lies behind them.

Jessica Marsh, who is fifteen and "e;hasn't lost her baby-fat yet,"e; lives with her mother on the top floor of a hundred-year-old triplex in Parkdale, a multicultural area in Toronto.

A mysterious white horse, a quirky parrot, a haunted house, an ancient curse, something frightening in the attic.

It's the summer of 1988 and 15-year-old aspiring artist Adam Zapotica has a big problem.