Mystery Genre

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Mystery Genre
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What Is Mystery??????

• Realistic fiction
• Everything in the story revolves around a puzzle
  or an unusual problem to solve.
• The author drops hints that might help the reader
  solve the mystery.
• There might be distractions in story to lead the
  reader away from the correct solution.
• The story ends with a credible, realistic
  solution to the mystery.

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Mystery A Problem To Solve

• Who Did It?
• What Is It?
• How Did It Happen?

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Sammy Keyes Series

• While celebrating the New Year with a friend,
  Sammy encounters a mystery involving an elderly
  neighbor, a pioneer cabin, and a century-old
  family feud.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level 4.6 Point
Value 8.0
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Sammy Keyes Series

• A Hollywood actress, who had been competing with
  Sammy's mother for an important role, is
  murdered, but thirteen-year-old Sammy and her
  friend Marissa are on the case.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level 4.9 Point
Value 9.0
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Sammy Keyes Series

• Sammy continues to make life with her
  grandmother interesting as she tries to discover
  who is stealing from St. Mary's church, befriends
  a homeless girl, and plays in a softball
  tournament against a bitter rival.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level 5.2 Point
Value 8.0
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• When seemingly unrelated and strange events
  start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting
  disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder
  combine their talents to solve an international
  art scandal.
• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Level 5.4
• Point Value 6

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• Herculeah stumbles onto the trail of her friend
  Meat's long-lost father while she and Meat are
  investigating the disappearance of a dead body
  from the men's room of a comedy club.
• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Level 3.8
• Point Value 3

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• The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire
  brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs
  who must uncover the circumstances of his death
  before they can claim their inheritance.
• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Level 5.3
  Point Value 8

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• An African-American family moves into a house
  once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves
  and soon come to believe that their new home is
  possessed by the spirit of a murdered
  abolitionist, Dies Drear.
• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Level 4.8
  Point Value 9

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• When their mother disappears, two brothers go to
  stay with a great uncle in a mobile home park
  next to an abandoned amusement park and begin a
  search which puts them in danger.
• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Level 5
• Point Value 7

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• When Julian, his little brother Huey, and their
  friend Gloria decide to be "crime busters," they
  find themselves in one adventure after another.
• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Level 3.1
• Point Value 1.0

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• Thirteen-year-old Ellsworth leaves his father to
  visit the relatives he has never met and
  eventually joins forces with Jess, his distant
  cousin, to uncover family secrets and search for
  their ancestor's hidden treasure.
• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Level 4.1
• Point Value 9.0

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• Noticing that a popular series of horror novels
  is having a bizarre effect on the behavior of its
  readers, Franny and Beamer set out to find the
  mysterious author.
• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Level 4.5
• Point Value 6.0

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• Three adventurous mice escape from their home at
  Macy's department store and spend an exciting
  week in the Guggenheim Museum, creating a
  sensation in the art world.
• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Level 4.0
• Point Value 4.0

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The Chet Gecko Mystery Series

• When hired by a fellow fourth-grader to find her
  missing brother, Chet Gecko uncovers a plot
  involving a Gila monster's revenge upon the
  school football team. 1st book in this series.
• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Level 3.5
• Point Value 2

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Doyle and Fossey Science Detectives Series
Fourth-graders Drake Doyle and Nell Fossey
combine their detective and scientific
investigation skills to solve a variety of cases,
involving a hungry cat, endangered penguins, a
fish-stealing monster, and a dirty election.
Includes a section of scientific experiments and
activities. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
3.8 Point Value 1.0
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