Misterios

Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake....

Ben Ripley is recruited for a top secret mission to bring down his nemesis, Murray Hill, once and for all. But when things go horribly wrong, Ben ends up lost in an extremely dangerous wilderness with Murray—and confronting a new, devious enemy—with none of his friends to help him.

Can an undercover nerd become a superstar agent? Ben Ripley sure hopes so - and his life may depend on it....

Three complete stories in one collection! This volume includes The Boxcar Children, Surprise Island, and The Yellow House Mystery....

A bizarre chain of events begins when 16 unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will....

"Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?" Dozens of children respond to this peculiar ad in the newspaper and are then put through a series of mind-bending tests, which readers take along with them. Only four children—two boys and two girls—succeed....

Three complete stories in one collection! Includes Mystery Ranch, Mike's Mystery, and Blue Bay Mystery....

When Ben gets kicked out of the CIA's spy school, he enrolls with the enemy....

A stunning collaboration between award-winning and bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin, this middle grade historical adventure follows two siblings at Bletchley Park, the home of WWII codebreakers, as they try to unravel a mystery surrounding their mother’s death....

Before Jake’s grandfather died, he was on the trail of a centuries-old mystery. And he has entrusted that mystery to Jake, leaving behind a set of hidden codes, riddles, maps, and other clues that lead Jake and his friends on a scavenger hunt....

Ben goes undercover in the White House to take on a SPYDER operative determined to assassinate the president....

When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn't just want to run from somewhere; she wants to run to somewhere....

Three complete stories in one collection! Includes The Woodshed Mystery, The Lighthouse Mystery, and Mountain Top Mystery....

In this second installment in the New York Times best-selling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies returns for another international adventure perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for Girls....

The author of the blockbuster Bartimaeus series delivers another amusing, chilling, and ingeniously plotted entry in the critically acclaimed Lockwood and Co. series....

Something strange is happening at the Clarksville City Zoo. Late at night, monkeys are scaling the walls and searching the neighborhood—but what are they looking for....

Thanks to the evidence Ben uncovered in his investigation of the Croatoan, the CIA has tracked his nemesis, Murray Hill, to Central America, where they believe he is boarding the world’s biggest cruise ship, The Emperor of the Seas, on its maiden voyage around the world....

One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are orphans. Can they find a home where they can stay together as a family?....

A sinister problem has occurred in London: all nature of ghosts, haunts, spirits, and specters are appearing throughout the city, and they aren't exactly friendly. Only young people have....

Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley is not exactly the best student spy school has ever seen - he keeps flunking Advanced Self Preservation. But outside of class, Ben is pretty great at staying alive....

Kyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids, (if not the teachers), and an ardent fan of all games: board games, word games, and particularly video games....

The Brothers Grimm meets Knives Out in this unexpected, hilarious, and wholly original fantasy-murder-mystery....

Stranded in Mexico after nearly capturing the leaders of SPYDER, 13-year-old Ben Ripley desperately needs to take a shower. But even more so, he and his spy school friends need to come up with a new plan to defeat their enemies, their only clue a key that opens...something....

Ben Ripley has been caught in the snares of SPYDER more than once and knows to be suspicious of anything that seems too good to be true. So when Murray Hill offers to hand over the SPYDER elite, Ben knows there must be something going on. But his hesitation doesn’t stop the assignment....

Ben Ripley’s longtime nemesis, Murray Hill, has put a price on Ben’s head and accused him of being at the center of a conspiracy on the internet. Now Ben finds himself in his greatest danger yet, on the run from both assassins and conspiracy theorists....

Belle lives in a beautiful castle with a Beast and Enchanted Objects that have come to life. But that isn’t the strangest thing about the castle. Rose petals and leaves have begun to mysteriously appear in random places, leading Belle and her companions Cogsworth the clock and Lumiere the candelabra on a hunt for an intruder.

The super secret agency fights video game monsters that have leaked into the real world. Together, with an unhinged, talking spaceship sidekick, an agency that isn’t set up to work with child agents, and a war wagon chock-full of royally epic gear, Max and Zoe face an endless supply of video game baddies. And if that isn’t crazy enough, they discover secrets of their past, unraveling a mystery around their missing mother.

In dreams, Wren can see her again: her eyes, her hair, her smile. She can even hear her laugh. Her mother, one of hundreds of Native Americans considered missing or murdered in Oklahoma. Sometimes it seems like Wren and her grandmother are the only people still looking. Even more frustrating, Wren's overprotective father won't talk about it. Wren refuses to give up, though. And an opportunity to find lost pets seems like a real way to hone her detective skills. But everything changes when one of the missing pets is found badly hurt. Soon, there are others.

Noah loves his nighttime reading ritual with his dad. Stuck in a small new town after the pandemic caused his parents’ marriage to fracture, the curious thirteen-year-old happily explores the peculiar local bookstore. But when the lonely youngster takes home a firefighter’s old diary, he’s amazed when it transforms him into the book’s owner and transports him across space and time to a blazing building.

Quando Mortina sale in soffitta a caccia di costumi di Halloween per gli amici, trova una cartolina dei suoi genitori! L'ultima volta erano in partenza per un lungo viaggio... ma non hanno mai fatto ritorno. Dove saranno finiti? Per scoprirlo serviranno abilità da investigatori e parecchia fantasia. Con l'aiuto del fedele Mesto, di Dilbert e di tutti i suoi amici, Mortina si mette sulle tracce di mamma e papà... Li troverà? Una nuova avventura della bambina zombie che è diventata un successo internazionale, pubblicata in trenta Paesi.

In the summer, Waldameer is like Seth and Julia's second home. The amusement park provides an unexpected thrill when new construction unearths an old locket near the carousel. Armed with only the locket's faded black-and-white photo of a young girl, Seth and Julia must track down its owner. Their investigation leads to new friends and new enemies. Like the greedy pickpockets eyeing the locket like hungry sharks.

Hannah Wild never spoke. With everyone around her too busy to listen, her words had slowly faded away until one day she stopped talking altogether. But everything changed the day the animals started to disappear…Hannah has a plan, but she can't do it alone. Can she find her voice to save the animals before it’s too late?

Lila the cockroach has been robbed! A pan of lasagna she was making for her son has been stolen. Sergeant Salamander and Officer Iguana are on the case! Will they be able to catch the thief?

It’s another ordinary Friday night in the suburbs for the Garcia-Jackson family: Mateo and Valentina’s favorite show is on TV. Mateo’s best friend, Booker, is over. And their babysitter, Jennica, is definitely keeping an eye on them and not playing with her phone. But when Elvis, the family’s dog, bolts out of the house, barking uncontrollably at someone—or something—in the backyard, the kids go investigate…only to watch Elvis disappear through a mysterious portal!

Shona and her dad are moving house, and at Shona's new school, the rules are pretty confusing – she keeps getting into trouble without realising! It's a lot like how it is for Oliver Twist, that boy she's reading about in English class. After Shona is unexpectedly given a mobile phone, she begins to suspect there's something fishy about the new boys she's met. Where did the phone come from? And some gifts, she soon learns, aren't exactly free.

Follow along as a young detective searches for his baby brother's lost toy ducky. Questioning the eyewitnesses and searching for clues are all in a day’s work for this aspiring detective. But who could the culprit be?

I liked the school in Forgotten. The teachers were nice, and the classrooms were much cleaner than my school in Ft. Worth. But the kids were hateful. They called me names because I was quiet and kept to myself. Especially Abby Frost. She was the meanest and most popular girl in sixth grade. But it was fine. I didn't want to make friends with anyone—and I didn’t. At least…not until the black cat showed up.

Sherlock Holmes is on the case! A crime is committed at the British Museum, and Holmes must use his famous detective deduction skills and work together with John Watson to parse out the clues and find the culprit. When surprise guest H.G. Wells makes an appearance, however, everything Holmes knows to be true is thrown into question!

What do you get when you mix some albino terrier fur and sand from Alum Bay? Timothy Pinkerton knows, and he’ll do anything to get his grubby hands on more of what he needs for his secret formula. Anything, including hypnotising the town’s residents and stealing their homes.

Quando Carla torna a casa il suo gatto sonnecchia sul divano. Come sempre, a casa degli zii (Carla vive con loro da quando... a questo preferisce non pensare) non c'è nessuno, a parte il gatto. Ma oggi Cucco è strano. Ha le zampe bagnate. E lascia delle impronte. Rosse. Di sangue? All'improvviso in casa fanno irruzione due agenti, in divisa e senza distintivo: sarà perché sono in missione speciale? Carla non sa se fidarsi, ma non c'è tempo: la fanno salire in macchina e portano via anche il gatto. Si ritrova così al centro di un'indagine per omicidio.