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82) Jingle
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Santa's Workshop Holiday Spectacular at the Colchester mansion is a long standing tradition in Cedarville, however Griffin, Ben, and Antonia are not happy to find that they have been volunteered as elves by their friend Logan and can not get out of it--but this year the pageant seem plagued by frequent electrical outages, and during one of them the valuable antique known as the Star of Prague disappears from the giant Christmas tree, and as they are...
84) To catch a thief
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Urchin Beach, a town known for its good luck, faces a crisis when the dragonfly staff, which represents their good fortune, is stolen. Eleven-year-old Amelia MacGuffin, despite lacking any special skills, takes it upon herself to solve the theft and recover the staff before the upcoming Dragonfly Day Festival is cancelled and the town loses its necessary tourist money. She has only a week to solve the crime and save her town, her family, and a stray...
86) The crazy clues
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Dot the Diplodocus is puzzled by the strange behavior of her family and friends, but when she investigates she finds a trail of popcorn that leads her to an answer.
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Having read all the Nancy Drew stories, and having heard a Russian spy has infiltrated her small town, young Hazel Kaplansky decides that she can stop the Russian's plans--especially now that a cute boy named Samuel has moved into her town as well, who seems to share her love for sleuthing.
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When Fluffington, the most famous cat in Hollywood, goes missing during a movie shoot, the Clue Crew, who are cast as extras in the film, spring into action to track down the feline.
Look out, the Clue Crew is headed to Hollywood to meet the most famous cat in movies, Fluffington, but when Fluffington vanishes, the Clue Crew springs into action, because a movie is not a movie without its star!
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As a mysterious schooner approaches their island, the castaway monkeys, fearing that it is looking for them, use different units of measurement to help them track the schooner's speed and direction so that they may hide more effectively, unaware that the mysterious monkeys who watch them have other plans.
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Sixth-grader Theo leaves everything behind to live with his Uncle Chester, a Vietnam War veteran and loner, in Destiny, Florida, but he is drawn to play the piano in Miss Sister's dance school and soon makes friends with the feisty Anabel, a baseball fanatic who invites Theo to help solve a mystery.
93) Cam Jansen
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Contains six stories featuring the character Cam Jansen, a young detective who uses her photographic memory to solve crimes.
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Eleven-year-old Pearl Moran cannot imagine life without the historic but under-utilized branch of the New York Public Library where she was born (in the Memorial Room) and where her single mother works as the circulation librarian; the other librarians, the neighborhood people, the raccoons, and most of the 41,000 plus books all form the structure and essence of her life--but when someone cuts off the head of the library's statue of Edna St. Vincent...
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Freddy von Frankenstein is dealing with a trouble-making prankster wrecking havoc on his home, and everyone thinks he is the one behind the practical jokes, so he, his monster big brother, F.M., and his adopted werecat sister, Riya, investigate to capture the culprit.
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As the only members of the Midnight Owl Detective Agency, friends Parker and Lucas have taken it upon themselves to investigate the strange phenomenon in their home town of Wolver Hollow, beginning with using a local book of legends to piece together clues about a mustache purportedly haunting the area each October 19.