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Title: 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
6
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
7
  • 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

10
  • 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

12
  • 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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