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Author
Series
Myrtle Hardcastle mystery volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old aspiring detective Myrtle Hardcastle learns her neighor in quiet Swinburne, England, a breeder of rare flowers, has died she is certain it was murder and that she must find the killer.
Author
Series
Masterminds trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment, and they must find a way to prove it to the rest of the world"--
3) Minion
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Michael Morn is a supervillain-in-training and the adoptive son of the brilliant criminal mastermind whose sense of right and wrong is thrown into question when a new superhero arrives in town"--
4) Watchdog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphaned and homeless, fourteen-year-old twins Vick and Tara, who is autistic, go up against a crime lord and her four-legged robotic army, with help from their robotic dog, Daisy.
5) Ikenga
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In southeastern Nigeria, twelve-year-old Mnamdi is determined to avenge his police chief father, who was murdered while trying to rid the town of criminals, but Nnamdi feels powerless until he receives a magical object which gives him superpowers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pete, a lonely and timid eleven-year-old who has just made friends with an adventurous girl named Rootie, hides out on Cutlass Island with his alcoholic father, waiting for the gunman his father fears will kill him.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 128
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nancy, Bess, and George are on a winter vacation in Wisconsin and they find that the lodge where they are staying is full of spine-tingling surprises and strange secrets.
9) On the run
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Ben, who aspires to be a police officer, struggles to do the right thing when his parents suddenly take him and his little sister "on vacation," and he learns they took a large amount of money that was mistakenly deposited in their bank account.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Lenny Flem Jr. is the only one standing between his evil-genius best friend, Casper, and world domination as Casper uses a spectacularly convincing fake mustache and the ability to hypnotize to rob banks, amass a vast fortune, and run for president.
12) The Hanging Hill
Author
Series
Haunted mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While working at a summer stock theater, eleven-year-old Zack and his stepmother encounter the ghost of one of Connecticut's most notorious criminals.
13) The switch
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When wealthy, spoiled, thirteen-year-old Tad Spencer wishes he were someone else, he awakens as Bob Snarby, the uncouth, impoverished son of carnival workers, and as he is drawn into a life of crime he begins to discover truths about himself and his family.
14) Urban outlaws
Author
Series
Urban Outlaws volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Deep beneath London, five extraordinary youths, orphans who bonded over their shared sense of justice, have formed the Urban Outlaws and dedicated themselves to outsmarting criminals and performing Random Acts of Kindness (R.A.K.s), but they are in serious trouble when the face a genius super-computer, Proteus.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Megan does not realize that feeding a group of feral cats living in a field near her house will involve her as a witness to a traffic accident and in the dangerous plan of an unstable criminal.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 151
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The Hardy Boys look to bring the criminals down to earth and solve the mystery of the three kidnappings.
18) Justice
Author
Series
Lawless volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"M Freeman thought she had finally found a place where she belonged: the Lawless School, where the children of master criminals trained to become master criminals themselves. But now that life is behind her. Faced with the existence of a weapon that could threaten all life on Earth, M Freeman is ready to fight the good fight for a change. That means joining the Fulbright Academy. In their ancient cops-and-robbers conflict against the Lawless School,...
19) Wild blues
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lizzie relates, through a victim statement, her harrowing journey through the Adirondacks seeking her disabled friend, Matias, who was kidnapped by escaped convicts.