Mysteries for Tweens

Whether you prefer your mysteries cozy or creepy, puzzling or paranormal, the library has them all. This list features a wide array of middle grade mysteries.

Updated July 23, 2024
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Super puzzletastic mysteries : short stories for young sleuths from Mystery Writers of America
Grabenstein, Chris
Paper Book
Bestselling author Chris Grabenstein and the Mystery Writers of America bring together twenty peerless puzzles--from bestselling authors such as Peter Lerangis, Stuart Gibbs, Lauren Magaziner, Kate Milford, and, of course, Grabenstein himself--in an anthology of mystery short stories that invite...
Puzzleheart
Reese, Jenn
Paper Book
Get ready to solve the mystery at the heart of this captivating new middle grade adventure about family--and a house with a mind of its own--from the award-winning author of Game of Fox & Squirrels and Every Bird a Prince, Jenn Reese. Twelve-year...
The Fairfleet affair
Saxton, K. H.
Paper Book
 Follow clues, solve puzzles, crack the code... find the missing millionaire.   The celebrated museums of the Fairfleet Institute are known for curating the mysteries of humanity. But they don't solve mysteries. Luckily, twelve-year-old friends Alex...
Murder is bad manners
Stevens, Robin
Paper Book
Discover the first gripping, award-winning murder mystery in the million-copy bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series, starring schoolgirl detectives, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong. 'Ripping good fun' The Times 'Plotting is what sets...
The ghost of midnight lake
Strange, Lucy
Paper Book
  A thrilling Gothic tale from the author ofOur Castle by the Sea, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. 'Told in deft and luminous language, The Ghost of Gosswater is storytelling at its very best.'Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of THE GIRL OF INK & STARS<...
Malamander
Taylor, Thomas
Paper Book
Nobody visits Eerie-on-Sea in the winter. Especially not when darkness falls and the wind howls around Maw Rocks and the wreck of the battleship Leviathan, where even now some swear they have seen the unctuous Malamander creep... Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, knows...
Wretched waterpark
White, Kiersten
Paper Book
A middle-grade mystery series that's spooky, creepy, and filled with gothic twists!Meet the Sinister-Winterbottom twins, who solve mysteries at increasingly bizarre summer vacation destinations in the hopes of being reunited with their parents-or at the very least finally finding a good churro....
Tangled up in luck
Wyatt, Merrill
Paper Book
"A sweet, heart-squeezing story!" -- Jaleigh Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of The Mark of the Dragonfly When seventh grade enemies research a missing set of jewels for a class project, they realize that the answers to the unsolved case might be much...

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