Auckland Council Libraries: Kids crack the case

Kids crack the case

​Have you read all the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books? Do you enjoy old-fashioned mystery and detective stories? These selected reads feature young sleuths and tell of their adventures as they race against the clock to solve their mysteries!

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Eye spy

Tessa Buckley

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Alex and Donna live in the seaside town of Holcombe Bay with their father and their grandmother, a school dinner lady. When the twins set up Eye Spy Investigations to earn some money, they become involved in the case of Kiki, a missing lap dog.

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The mystery of the pirate's treasure

Penny Warner

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Cody, Quinn, Luke, and M.E. love playing around with codes. In fact, they love codes so much they have their own club, with a secret hideout and passwords that change every day. Now the Code Busters are on the trail of a new prize: pirate gold!

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The Titanic mission

Dan Gutman

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Four very different kids are picked by a mysterious billionaire to travel through time and photograph some of history's most important events. This time, Luke, Julia, David, and Isabel are headed to the deck of the doomed Titanic.

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3 of a kind

Rohan Gavin

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An extraordinary solver of crimes, with immense powers of deduction, regularly found bedecked in tweed, Darkus Knightley is anything but the average 13-year-old. But he is the person to call when strange goings-on are afoot!

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Violet and the mummy mystery

Harriet Whitehorn

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Join amateur detective Violet Remy-Robinson as she tries to track down a stolen mummy. It's up to Violet and the gang to save the day!

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The Silver Serpent

Lena Jones

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Agatha Oddlow is on the case with yet another adventure! An assistant at the National Gallery has gone missing, but when Agatha begins investigating, she uncovers a plot bigger than she could ever have imagined.

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The book case

Dave Shelton

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Daphne is off to St Rita's, an exclusive girls' boarding school. She loves to read and is delighted to be offered the chance to interview for the role of librarian's assistant's assistant immediately upon arrival.

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Bitter enemies

R. A. Spratt

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When four former headmasters arrive at Highcrest Academy to take part in the school's anniversary celebrations, the students are warned to be on their best behaviour. Unfortunately, no one told the headmasters to stay out of mischief too!

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The case of the missing moonstone

Jordan Stratford

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Jordan Stratford imagines an alternate 1826, where Ada Lovelace and Mary Shelley meet as girls and form a secret detective agency! Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a fake confession, and an array of fishy suspects.

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The ultimate truth

Kevin Brooks

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When Travis Delaney's parents die in a car crash, he is devastated. To pull himself out of his grief, he starts to investigate the last case they were working on at the private investigation agency they ran.

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The case of the bogus detective

Caroline Lawrence

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When P. K’s father, Robert Pinkerton, suddenly appears in Virginia City, P.K.'s life turns upside down. Suddenly she's having to learn how to be a 'girly-girl' in a cunning plot to outwit silver thieves. But it seems the thieves are one step ahead!

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The copycat caper

John V. Madormo

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Super-sleuth Charlie Collier is thinking about taking a hiatus from his detective agency to play a private eye in a school play. However when some real robberies stump the police, Charlie realizes that detective work really is his true calling.

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Murder is bad manners

Robin Stevens

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Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are best friends who have enjoy solving mysteries and they form their own detective agency. When Hazel discovers their science teacher’s body, and it disappears, she and Daisy are certain a murder must have taken place.

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Harriet the spy

Louise Fitzhugh

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Eleven-year-old Harriet M. Welsch writes down in her notebook what she considers the truth about everyone in and around her New York City neighbourhood. When she loses track of her notebook, it ends up in the wrong hands.

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Snakehead

Anthony Horowitz

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Teen spy Alex Rider is back for his seventh adventure where he is forced into the Australian secret service! Start with the first book Stormbreaker.

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Auckland Council Libraries:Book list Recommended reading lists about different topics and genres to help you find new books to read.