Myrtle Hardcastle would rather stay at home to keep close tabs on criminals and murder trials than go on a relaxing vacation with her aunt Helena. Once on board the luxurious private railway coach, Myrtle is thrilled to meet Mrs. Bloom, a professional insurance investigator who is tasked with protecting the priceless Northern Lights tiara. But before the train reaches its destination, both the tiara and Mrs. Bloom vanish. Then a dead body is discovered...

Griffin Bing is in big trouble when a Super Bowl ring disappears from his middle school's display case, replaced by Griffin's retainer, and the more he and his friends investigate, the worse his situation becomes.

Dwayne and his mom get a fresh start on life when they move to a new apartment and a new school. However, Dwayne misses his friends, and after having trouble connecting with new classmates, Dwayne decides to act out. He begins breaking and entering into other people's houses while he is supposed to be at school.

Accused of stealing the god of love's bow and arrow, Aru has ten days to find the real thief or risk being kicked out of the Otherworld.

Stuck in the afterlife after an unfortunate lab accident, Zenith and her friends set out to steal a machine that could return them to the land of the living, hoping to pull off the score of their deathtimes.

"The eighth graders are stoked. Their trip to an amusement park will be epic. Marlon and his crew cannot wait. But then the trip money is stolen from the school office. Who stole the money? Marlon and his crew investigate."--Back cover.

In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon.

With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...

When Mary Shelley is kidnapped by a mad scientist, Nikki Tesla and the other members of the Genius Academy team are forced to agree to steal a priceless, lethal high-tech ring in order to free her; but Nikki also plans to use the heist to get closer to her long-lost father who claims he is not the criminal mastermind she believes him to be.

When Cody and his friends are approached by gang members with whom the older brother he still mourns was involved, stealing a park bench seems like a harmless prank, until he learns he may have risked his chance to write for the school paper.