Kids Mystery Suspense

Adventure has a way of finding Calvin and his loyal beagle, Pudge. This time, it comes wrapped in storm clouds, dragon eggs, and doors that aren’t supposed to exist. When a baby dragon hatches high on a cliffside during a thunderstorm, Calvin and Pudge are the first to discover him—and the first to realize that not everyone wants the little creature safe. With hunters on their heels, hidden tunnels opening at the sound of a whistle, and the town of Maplewood revealing secrets it has kept for centuries, Calvin and Pudge must summon every ounce of courage, humor, and curiosity they ...

Deep in the Amazon jungle lies a plantation unlike any other—where bananas gleam like glass, hum with strange energy, and hide secrets older than explorers’ maps. When Calvin and his beagle Pudge stumble into the mystery, they find more than fruit: they uncover doorways to another world, guarded by shadowy figures called the Watchers. With journals from a missing explorer, glowing symbols carved into trees, and an ancient Keeper guiding their steps, Calvin and Pudge must face traps, shifting paths, and the greatest test of all: whether courage and promises are enough to bring someone ...

Viva Durant, New Orleans’ youngest detective, is on a quest to solve a jazzy mystery. Every summer, Viva heads to New Orleans to spend time with her loving but stern Grandmother, known as Gram. After Gram reads Viva an article in the local paper about a missing treasure related to the world-famous song, “Miss Mary Mack”, Viva heads through the Crescent City on an epic adventure to track down the treasure. The clues lead Viva to the French Quarter, a jazz club, a creepy cemetery, and even the circus.

When pumpkins vanish, bells ring in the night, and a scarecrow seems to walk on its own, only one detective duo can face the mystery: Calvin and his faithful beagle, Pudge. Together with their friends, they uncover secrets older than the town itself—and learn that legends don’t always play by the rules. Packed with suspense, humor, and just the right touch of Halloween spookiness, Calvin and Pudge and the Scarecrow That Wouldn’t Stay Still is an unforgettable adventure about courage, friendship, and the power of standing together when the lights flicker low.

When Pleakley learns of a mosquito sanctuary in West Virginia, he convinces his ‘ohana to embark on a road trip so he can continue his audio-journal study into Earth’s most important species—and prove to Jumba that he is a real scientist. But they quickly realize that everything is not as it seems. Confronted with suspicious scientists, rumors of a mosquito cryptid terrorizing their campsite, and a new friend in need, it will take all of their investigative skills—and a little hypnotism—to get to the bottom of this Mansquito mystery.

KID DETECTIVE ZET: The World's Favorite Way To Learn About Ancient Egypt 12-year-old Zet is on the trail of his latest mystery: priceless amulets are disappearing all over ancient Egypt. Worse, his best friend is being treated more like a prisoner than a student at a secretive jewelry apprentice school. Are the evil teachers and jewel thefts related? When Zet receives a desperate message hidden inside an amulet, he's determined to rescue his friend. Armed with a brainy sister who can read and write hieroglyphics, Zet searches for clues. Can he expose the wicked plot and take down the ...

Ages 8-12 ◆ For Kids Who Love Minecraft and Video Games Kids who love playing Minecraft will love this book! Jayden “Minecraft” Montgomery's arm and hand suddenly change into blocks. Now he’s got to navigate through the Minecraft world with the help of a fox. But first he’ll have to save a village by fighting pillagers, zombies, creepers, skeletons, facing an iron golem, and warding off an evil hacker. Most of all, he must earn the trust and friendship of the villagers as he navigates this world he’s only ever seen from a screen. Only then will he discover who he was always ...

Halloween is supposed to be about costumes, candy, and fun—not midnight stakeouts, raccoon gangs, and mysterious glowing eyes in the woods. But when candy begins vanishing all across town, Calvin and his faithful beagle Pudge launch the Neighborhood Candy Watch with their best friends Maya, Jamal, and Nora. What starts as a simple mystery quickly unravels into something much bigger: tunnels beneath the graveyard, wrapper-covered hideouts, and the chilling legend of the Candy Goblin—a greedy, laughing shadow that’s haunted the town for over a hundred years. Armed with flashlights, air ...

Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Goofy are excited to attend the event of the year! Dr. Emu Noskape has invited all of Mouseton to witness the unveiling of her newest terrifically technical invention. But when the day takes an unexpected turn, Mickey and friends find themselves trapped inside Dr. Noskape’s mansion—which she’s launching to the moon! Will they escape the maze of a mansion before it blasts off, or are they doomed to live on the moon forever?

A boy. A beagle. A sky worth saving. When the stars begin to vanish one by one, Calvin and his loyal beagle Pudge stumble into an extraordinary mystery. Stolen constellations, bridges made of light, and a masked thief with a hunger for the moon itself draw them into a cosmic adventure unlike anything they’ve ever known. Together, boy and beagle must uncover the secrets of the sky, outwit the thief, and prove that courage and friendship can shine brighter than any star. The stars are disappearing… One quiet night turns extraordinary when Calvin notices constellations vanishing from the ...

Hitching a ride cross-country, Reacher manages to thwart an unsavory criminal hiding out in a sleepy backwater town in rural Texas …

Eleven-year-old Harry Mancini is not Harry Houdini - the famous escape artist who died in 1926. But Harry does live in Houdini's old New York City home, and he definitely knows everything there is to know about Houdini's life. What is he supposed to do, then, when someone starts texting him claiming that they're Houdini, communicating from beyond the grave? Respond, of course.

With the snow falling fast on a New Hampshire mansion, seven 20-somethings gather for a weekend that will change their lives irrevocably. The extravagant trip to celebrate Will and Jessica's upcoming nuptials brings together a cast of characters who know each other from Ivy League schools and childhood Upper East Side haunts. There is Lulu, an LA-based Instagram influencer; Maxie, a former Park Avenue princess, now Midwestern housewife; Yael, an ER doctor from Ohio; Rob, a colorless Wall Street trader; Will, a morality-obsessed lawyer; Jessica, Will’s perfectionist bride-to-be....

No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world's great storytellers presents a surprising tale that explores the nature of mystery itself.

Calvin never planned on saving the world. He just wanted to explore with his best friend, Pudge the beagle, and their fearless ally Sky. But when glowing mushrooms, broken vows, and shadowy forces threaten to unravel reality itself, the three of them must step forward. From volcano summits to thorn-choked orchards, from shattered bridges to fractured glasslands, every step they take weaves hope—or risks breaking the world apart forever. This isn’t just another adventure. This is the one that will test everything Calvin, Pudge, and Sky believe about courage, friendship, and what it means...

Book 2 in the UNKNOWN series! From the author of the mystery thriller THE UNKNOWN comes a riveting sequel that climaxes with another shocking twist that you'll never see coming. NINE NIGHTS AGO, EIGHT CHILDREN WERE KIDNAPPED. NOW, THEY ARE ABOUT TO FACE THE GREATEST CHALLENGE OF THEIR LIVES. THE HAVEN is book two in a completed series of two novels that tell the tale of eight kids, ages nine to seventeen, who are taken from their homes in the middle of the night and wake up in a mysterious world full of secrets. Books in the UNKNOWN series: Book 1: THE UNKNOWN Book 2: THE HAVEN THE UNKNOWN ...

In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he’s only 13 years old, Theo Boone thinks he’s one of them. Theo knows every judge, policeman, court clerk - and a lot about the law. He dreams of being a great trial lawyer, of a life in the courtroom. But Theo finds himself in court much sooner than expected. Because he knows so much - maybe too much - he is suddenly dragged into the middle of a sensational murder trial.

A famous writer is coming to Green Lawn! Dink rushes to the bookstore to meet his favorite author, Wallis Wallace, and get all his books signed. But the author never shows up! Where is Wallis Wallace? It’s up to Dink and his friends Josh and Ruth Rose to track him down.

What people don’t know is that Calvin’s father, Kirk, is a government time traveler—on missions so secret even the president rarely knows. For Calvin, life has always seemed ordinary, but in truth, his family has been caught in the tug-of-war between the Archivists, who seek to bind every life to their ledger, and the Watchmen, who patch the breaks in time. When Calvin discovers the briefcase storm—alive, dangerous, and listening to him—he learns he was never just a bystander. He was always the Margin: the unwritten choice the Builders never planned for. This is Calvin’s story. ...

When Calvin and his faithful beagle Pudge stumble upon a forest that breathes, whispers, and remembers, they find themselves tangled in a covenant older than the town itself. A powerful corporation arrives with shiny shoes and sharper contracts, determined to strip the land of its secrets. But the bell in the steeple, the wells in the woods, and the very floor beneath their feet know a different story—one bound by three simple verbs: Ask. Keep. Return. In a world where progress wears the mask of profit, Calvin and Pudge must anchor their town against forces that would steal its very ...