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.
Animal Train: Wolf Girl 6 by Anh Do
$15.99 AUD
Category: Mystery and Adventure | Series: Wolf Girl | Reading Level: 18
Wolf Girl and her pack are back for another hackle-raising adventure! When Gwen and her dogs jump on a train bound for the mountains, they are surprised to find the carriages are full of weird and wonderful animals! With the help of new and old friends, Gwen is determined to give the wild creatures thei ...Show more
Into the Sideways World by Ross Welford
$14.99 AUD
Category: Mystery and Adventure
When twelve-year-olds Willa and Manny hear of a mysterious animal prowling their town, they are determined to prove it is real. Following the creature into a cave one full moon, they are swept into an alternate, ideal, world – one where pollution and conflict have been conquered decades ago and even the ...Show more
A Case Of Misfortune (#2 The Violet Veil Mysteries) by Sophie Cleverly
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Category: Mystery and Adventure | Series: The Violet Veil Mysteries
Violet Veil is ready for her next big case and with trouble afoot at the Grecian Theatre, Violet and her dog Bones are hot on the trail. But just who is the mysterious fortune-teller, Lady Athena, whose predictions keep coming true? Is it all just a case of smoke and mirrors? Or is there something more ...Show more
Mickey and the Trouble with Moles (#2 Mickey and the Animal Spies) by Anne Miller
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Category: Mystery and Adventure | Series: Mickey and the Animal Spies
This is the second story following Mickey and her escapades in the extraordinary world of undercover animals! Disaster strikes when someone (or some thing . . .) robs a bank famed as the most secure bank in the world. There aren't any signs of a break in - it's as though the jewels from the vault simp ...Show more
The Orchard Underground by Mat Larkin
$17.99 AUD
Category: Mystery and Adventure
An explosive, suspenseful and utterly brilliant middle-grade mystery for fans of Louis Sachar's Holes. Not-quite twelve year-old Pri Kohli knows the town of Dunn's Orchard better than anyone. After all, he was the first kid ever to live there. He knows its mysteries (none), its secrets (also none) and ...Show more
The Song of Lewis Carmichael by Sofie Laguna
$16.99 AUD
Category: Mystery and Adventure
A beautiful, illustrated adventure story with a classic feel, about a quiet boy and a talking crow on an extraordinary hot-air balloon ride to the Arctic. Matthew stood on the snowy peak and stared out at the world spread before him. Every picture in his books had been limited by the size of the page, ...Show more
Alice-Miranda On Holiday: Alice-Miranda 2 by Jacqueline Harvey
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Category: Mystery and Adventure | Series: Alice-Miranda
The ever so exciting sequel to Alice-Miranda at School Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones has survived her first term at Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale. And now Jacinta Headlington-Bear, the school's second best tantrum thrower, is joining Alice-Miranda's family for term break. Who would have t ...Show more
Tilly and the Lost Fairytales (#2 Pages & Co.) by Anna James
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Category: Mystery and Adventure | Series: Pages & Co
A magical adventure to delight the imagination. The curl-up-on-the-sofa snuggle of a series from a uniquely talented author. Tilly Pages is a bookwanderer; she can travel inside books, and even talk to the characters she meets there. But Tilly's powers are put to the test when fairytales start leaking b ...Show more
Tilly and the Bookwanderers (#1 Pages & Co.) by Anna James
$16.99 AUD
Category: Mystery and Adventure | Series: Pages & Co | Reading Level: very good
A magical adventure to delight the imagination. A curl-up-on-the-sofa snuggle of a debut from a uniquely talented author. Eleven year-old Tilly has lived above her grandparents' bookshop ever since her mother disappeared shortly after she was born. Like the rest of her family, Tilly loves nothing more t ...Show more
Mim and the Baffling Bully (The Travelling Bookshop, #1): CBCA Notable Book 2022 by Katrina Nannestad
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Category: Mystery and Adventure | Series: The Travelling Bookshop
The right book might just change your life ... Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arriv ...Show more
Fireborn: Twelve and the Frozen Forest (#1) by Aisling Fowler
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Category: Mystery and Adventure | Series: Fireborn | Reading Level: near fine
Twelve has spoken the Pledge and now she is a Huntling. She has given up her name to train in the art of fighting monsters and keeping the peace, and she won’t get to choose a new one until she has earned it. But when the Lodge’s walls are breached for the first time, and a little girl is taken, Twelve ...Show more
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma (The Mysterious Benedict Society #3) by Lee Trenton Stewart
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Category: Mystery and Adventure | Series: The Mysterious Benedict Society
Book 3 in the New York Timesbestselling series! 'This book reminded me of some of the children's books I grew up with, like Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryand The Phantom Tollbooth.'RICK RIORDAN, author of the PERCY JACKSON series on book 1 Reynie, Kate, Sticky and Constance are back - but so is Mr Cu ...Show more