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The Echo Falls series is a set of mysteries that are pretty unknown but which are great for this age. There are real crimes and some real scary stuff, but the protagonist is a kid and they're age appropriate.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Down-Rabbit-Hole-Falls-Mystery-ebook/dp/B0020Q3FUO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1489111241&sr=8-2&keywords=echo+falls

 

Some other thoughts...

 

Westing Game

Chasing Vermeer, The Wright 3, and The Calder Game - art mysteries

Shakespeare's Secret - another art mystery

The London Eye Mystery

Alex Rider series - action spy mysteries

 

I can probably think of more. Does it need to be a certain sort of mystery?

 

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The Echo Falls series is a set of mysteries that are pretty unknown but which are great for this age. There are real crimes and some real scary stuff, but the protagonist is a kid and they're age appropriate.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Down-Rabbit-Hole-Falls-Mystery-ebook/dp/B0020Q3FUO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1489111241&sr=8-2&keywords=echo+falls

 

 

Some other thoughts...

 

Westing Game

Chasing Vermeer, The Wright 3, and The Calder Game - art mysteries

Shakespeare's Secret - another art mystery

The London Eye Mystery

Alex Rider series - action spy mysteries

 

I can probably think of more. Does it need to be a certain sort of mystery?

These are great! No certain kind requested. He's interested in doing a "detective" project and says he likes mysteries. He read a couple elementary age mysteries that were on kindle unlimited and was trying to find harder to solve mysteries.

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What about mini-mystery collections:

- Two Minute Mysteries; More Two Minute Mysteries; Still More Two Minute Mysteries (Sobol)

- Little Giant Book of Whodunits (Conrad)
- Whodunit: You Decide! (Conrad)
- Almost Perfect Crimes (Conrad)
- Historical Whodunit (Conrad)

- Little Giant Book of Whodunits (Conrad)

- Dr. Quicksolve series (Sukach)

- You Be the Jury series (Miller)

- Solv-a-Crime Puzzles (Singer)

- Case Closed, and sequels (Obrist)
- Dr. Quicksolve series (Sukach )
 

Other YA mystery ideas:

- Shakespeare Stealer, and sequels (Blackwood) -- historical setting; boy protagonist

- A Murder for Her Majesty (Hilgartner) -- historical setting; girl protagonist

- Baker Street Irregulars (Newman) -- and others by Newman

- Detectives in Togas; The Roman Ransom (Winterfeld)

 

What about Sherlock Holmes short mystery stories?

 

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My kids loved Sherlock Holmes - read as 5th and 7th graders

 

Mine, too.  One read The Hound of the Baskervilles for co-op and the entire class loved it.

 

Although this is probably geared to a lower reading level, my son also really enjoyed the first few Alfred Hitchcock "The Three Investigators" series.  This series got him hooked on detective stories and mysteries in general.

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DS10 is currently enjoying "Caves of Steel" and will be reading "The Naked Sun" later this week. Asimov's SciFi robot books are basically mysteries. WTM folks advise caution before the third "Robots of Dawn" book because of a robot sex element but otherwise they seem great for a middle school audience.

 

His other choice when choosing these was the Flavia de Luce books, so "The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie" and sequels is probably in the near future.

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