Entries Categorized as 'Mysteries'
Posted by Sarah
Categories: Adventure, All Ages, Fantasy, Fiction, Mysteries, Review
Tags:Betty Brock, Cats, Dogs, Quick Read
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No Flying in the House is a fun book about a young girl named Annabel Tippens, a little white dog only three inches high and three inches long called Gloria, and Mrs. Vancourt, the hostess of the two. It all starts when Annabel breaks a little ornament swan, one of Mrs. Vancourt’s favorites. In the middle of the dilemma, a cat appears. It hints mysterious things and then promises to fix the swan if Annabel will never mention the cat’s visit to anyone else in the household. From then on, Annabel gets more and more of the story and eventually the whole story pours out. But it’s not all fun and games! At the end, Annabel must make a decision that will change the rest of her life.
Very nice mystery. You may have to go through interlibrary loans to get it, but you may find it’s worth it!
Posted by Jordan
Categories: Adventure, All Ages, Fiction, Mysteries, Review
Tags:Animals, Freddy the Pig, Pigs, Sports, Walter R. Brooks
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Mrs. Bean’s long-lost older brother Aaron Doty comes to the Bean farm to visit her and to collect his share of a large inheritance, which, if the Beans give it to him, will ruin the farm. Freddy is sure that Mr. Doty isn’t who he says he is, and when Mr. Garble comes back to town, Freddy knows something is up. But Freddy must also go to high school so that he can play football in the big game between Centerboro and Tushville.
I love the way Freddy always gets himself into problems like this. Rest assured, though. Freddy is still the pig from the previous books and always manages to get out of them.
Posted by Ruth
Categories: Adventure, All Ages, Fiction, Incredibook!, Mysteries, Review
Tags:Animals, Freddy the Pig, Pigs, Walter R. Brooks
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Mr. Boomschmidt, the circus owner, is in a quandary and a dilemma. So he calls on Freddy to help him out of it. Mr. Boomschmidt explains that when Mademoiselle Rose, the horseback rider, refused to marry Mr. Condiment, the sour-faced comic book publisher, Mr. Condiment threatened to close down the circus—forcing Rose to marry him for money. Since then, he’s been doing all sorts of things to stop the show, the newest of which is dive-bombing the circus in a plane. Freddy must summon up all of his detective skills in order to solve this growing dilemma.
This is one of the best Freddy books! Freddy gets to use some of his sidesplitting disguises, and with Sniffy Wilson, the skunk, and his family pretending to be Robin Hood and his Merry Men, the results are hilarious!
Posted by Sarah
Categories: Adventure, Fiction, Mysteries, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:David Foulds, Eleanor Estes
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Kim Chu takes her father’s special big, black umbrella with her to the library, though her grandmother warned her not to. Kim’s father’s umbrella was presented to him when he won the contest of drawing a dragon. The bamboo handle screws off and inside is an intricate scroll, that says that Mr. Lin Chu (Kim’s father) is the winner. When Kim Chu accidentally leaves the umbrella at the library and quickly returns to find it gone, it’s an adventure/mystery for both Kim Chu and Mae Lee.
A pretty good book, in my opinion. It’s a fairly short book, though not a little picture book. But it’s not as large as The Mysterious Island (which I haven’t read). Enjoy!
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