Middle Reader 8-12 > Mystery and Adventure
A genre of stories that involve a secret or crime that needs to be solved, usually by the end of the story.
Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens
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Category: Middle Reader 8-12 | Series: Murder Most Unladylike
The first gripping, Agatha Christie-style mystery starring a brilliant new double act: feisty, funny schoolgirl detectives, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong. When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own deadly secret detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls, they struggle to find any truly ...Show more
Mistletoe and Murder by Robin Stevens
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Category: Middle Reader 8-12 | Series: Murder Most Unladylike | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are spending the Christmas hols in snowy Cambridge. Hazel has high hopes of its beautiful libraries and inviting tea-rooms - but there is danger lurking in the dark stairwells of ancient Maudlin College. Two days before Christmas, a brutal accident takes place - but the Detect ...Show more
Arsenic For Tea by Robin Stevens
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Category: Middle Reader 8-12 | Series: Murder Most Unladylike
"I looked at Daisy. Her eyes were glittering and her cheeks were pink. This was Daisy with a Plan. Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy's home, Fallingford, for the holidays. Daisy's glamorous mother is throwing a tea party for her birthday, and the whole family is invited, from eccentric Aunt Saskia ...Show more
Camp Jupiter Classified: A Probatio's Journal by Rick Riordan
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Category: Middle Reader 8-12 | Series: The Trials of Apollo
A brand-new story in the world of Rick Riordan! Mysterious incidents are wreaking havoc throughout Camp Jupiter. And if the Romans don't find out who-or what-is behind the episodes soon, the Twelfth Legion could implode. Suspicion falls on Claudia, the Fourth Cohort's newest probatio. After all, the mis ...Show more
Henrie's Hero Hunt (#2 House of Heroes) by Petra James
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Category: Middle Reader 8-12 | Series: House of Heroes
A girl. A boy. A great aunt. A mystery! The second book in the exciting House of Heroes series! Henrie Melchior, the first girl born into the House of Heroes in 200 years, is on a Hero Hunt. When Marely Hart phones on the Hero Hotline, Henrie, Marley and Alex Fischer are in a race against time to find ...Show more
The Kid Who Came From Space by Ross Welford
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Category: Middle Reader 8-12 | Reading Level: very good
The stunning new story from the bestselling and award-winning author of TIME TRAVELLING WITH A HAMSTER, for anyone who loved the humour of WALL-E, the action of STAR WARS and the deeply touching emotion of ET. A small village in the wilds of Northumberland is rocked by the disappearance of twelve-year- ...Show more
Freefall (#5 Kensy and Max) by Jacqueline Harvey
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Category: Middle Reader 8-12 | Series: Kensy and Max 5
Back at Alexandria with their friend Curtis Pepper visiting, Kensy and Max are enjoying the school break. Especially when Granny Cordelia surprises them with a trip to America! It's meant to be a family vacation but the twins soon realise there's more to this holiday than meets the eye - the chase for D ...Show more
The Endsister by Penni Russon
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Category: Middle Reader 8-12 | Reading Level: near fine
I know what an endsister is,' says Sibbi again.We are endsisters, Else thinks, Sibbi and I. Bookends, oldest and youngest, with the three boys sandwiched in between.Meet the Outhwaite children. There's teenage Else, the violinist who abandons her violin. There's nature-loving Clancy. There's the insepar ...Show more
The World's Worst Children 2 by David Walliams
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Category: Middle Reader 8-12 | Series: The World's Worst Children | Reading Level: very good
From the world's favourite author, David Walliams - ten cautionary tales and a delightfully dreadful cast of characters; all in a gorgeously gifty FULL COLOUR format! Are you ready to meet the World's Worst Children? Five beastly boys and five gruesome girls! * Like Sofia Sofa - a TV super-fan so stuck ...Show more
The World's Worst Children 3 by David Walliams
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Category: Fun | Series: The World's Worst Children | Reading Level: very good
From the phenomenal number-one bestseller David Walliams comes another collection of more hilariously horrible children! Illustrated in glorious and gruesome colour by artist genius, Tony Ross, these stories will appal and delight young readers. Just when you thought it was safe to go back to your books ...Show more
The Beast of Buckingham Palace by David Walliams
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Category: Middle Reader 8-12 | Reading Level: very good
Fly into a fiery and fantastical future with No. 1 bestselling author David Walliams, in an epic adventure of myth and legend, good and evil, and one small boy who must save the world… Illustrated by the artistic genius Tony Ross! It is 2120 and London is in ruins. The young Prince Alfred has never know ...Show more
The Ice Monster by David Walliams
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Category: Middle Reader 8-12
From No. 1 bestselling children's author, David Walliams comes his biggest and most epic adventure yet! This is the story of a ten-year-old orphan and a 10,000-year-old mammoth... Read all about it! Read all about it! ICE MONSTER FOUND IN ARCTIC! When Elsie, an orphan on the streets of Victorian London, ...Show more