(Part 2) Best mystery & spy books for children according to redditors
We found 1,345 Reddit comments discussing the best mystery & spy books for children. We ranked the 73 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Hmmm, if you can find them, I'd definitely recommend My Father's Dragon and its sequels Elmer and the Dragon and The Dragons of Blueland.
They're wonderfully imaginative stories about a young boy who, when he hears about a baby dragon being kept unjustly by the denizens of Wild Island, resolves to go and rescue it.
They're not particularly advanced reading, but they're also not particularly intense, and thus not frightening (if he read Roald Dahl, I can't imagine this troubling him).
Does he like animals? The Shiloh series may be a good idea. A boy and his dog, but also more contemporary than a lot of the classics.
And then there's the Great Brain stories. These were among my favorites.
Or, if you're so inclined, Encyclopedia Brown is always good, if a bit of an unintentional time piece.
Hi folks,
Thanks for everything - I've been working on a number of projects recently and am hoping to share some new material with you soon! In the meantime, please feel free to sign up to my newsletter to keep up to date with everything! I've also been working hard on a novel set somewhere a little different...
 
For anyone who's keen to check out the entire Inspector Ambrose series in countries outside the US, please find some handy links below!
 
Series Links
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Book I: What Went Wrong With Mrs Milliard's Mech?
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Book II: The Vanishing Villa:
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Book III: The Murder at Mansfield Manor:
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Book IV: The Clockwork Dungeon:
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For other Amazon country stores more than .com:
Canada http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0133SORMC
Australia http://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0133SORMC
India http://www.amazon.in/dp/B0133SORMC
UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0133SORMC
Italy http://www.amazon.it/dp/B0133SORMC
Germany http://www.amazon.de/dp/B0133SORMC
France http://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0133SORMC
Spain http://www.amazon.es/dp/B0133SORMC
Netherlands http://www.amazon.nl/dp/B0133SORMC
Japan http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0133SORMC
Brazil http://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B0133SORMC
Mexico http://www.amazon.com.mx/dp/B0133SORMC
I dont think so, but the woman who wrote the Nancy Drew books (under a pen name) did write a book called The Whispering Walls. Maybe it is like a little in-joke/ easter egg / shout out.
https://www.amazon.com/Whispering-Walls-Penny-Parker-Mystery-ebook/dp/B004JF4OB8
Could it be The Valley series? The first one, The Game...
>The famous Grace College, located in a remote valley in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, is an elite school for the highly gifted. But to Julia and her brother, it's the perfect place to hide. When they stumble upon a dead body their first week they'll learn they can only run so far from their past—and that the valley has secrets of its own.
The second one The Crash...
>Mount Ghost looms high above Grace College, and holds as many secrets as The Valley itself. Secrets of missing students, lies and betrayal. Julia has barely scratched the surface of The Valley's secrets and she's determined to discover what connects her father to the mysterious Grace College. The answer, she's sure, lies on Mount Ghost, so when Katie suggests that they investigate the students who went missing there forty years ago, Julia jumps at the chance. But Julia can no longer hide from her past in The Valley. And she's not the only one...
Edogawa Ranpo is a classic of Japanese detective fiction! He even founded the Mystery Writers of Japan association.
There are a few translated to English so far of his Detective Akechi works: The Early Cases of Akechi Kogoro, The Fiend with Twenty Faces and The Black Lizard and Beast in the Shadows.
You ALL still have Zoidberg!
I am currently reading the Night Circus.
Ebook.
Thanks for the contest!
Here are all the local Amazon links I could find:
amazon.co.uk
amazon.ca
amazon.com.au
amazon.in
amazon.com.mx
amazon.de
amazon.it
amazon.es
amazon.com.br
amazon.nl
amazon.co.jp
amazon.fr
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The Three Detectives and the Mystery of the Broken Window?
https://www.amazon.com/Detectives-Mystery-Broken-Reading-together/dp/1981194525
Released Book #2 in my Medical Kidnap Files series!
$2.99
EDS https://www.amazon.com/Eds-Medical-Kidnap-Files-2/dp/1988390338
With a long string of unbelievable stories to explain her frequent injuries, Social Services sees Katt is the stereotypical abused child. When she is admitted to hospital with yet another broken bone, they do the only logical thing to protect her, removing Katt from her mother’s custody.
But Katt and her mother know that something is wrong, and it has nothing to do with abuse, and the longer Katt stays in foster care, the worse her health gets. Can they get the answers they need before it is too late? Can they get the answers and get Katt back home?
—Reading EDS brought awareness to me of some real medical issues that get overlooked by the public and in our medical system. Although [P.D. Workman’s] books are fiction, they hold a remarkable amount of information.
—I didn't want to put any of [the Medical Kidnap Files] down.
—I loved it... awesome to see what the friends had planned in book one start coming together, with a few bumps along the way. It was amazing.
I recently read Intermediate short stories by Lingo Mastery, they have an audio book on audible.com and a pdf to read along with it and I found it really good, they were giving away some codes for reviews last week here. Usually I go to the library and pick up novels aimed at 12 year olds (I started with books for younger ages and worked my way up) but I try not to look up words I don't know and just guess them and keep reading, probably what I would've done with English at that age. As an example, the last book I read was this one and I quite enjoyed it
Website:
http://www.pinevilleheist.com/
Paperback eBook Version on Amazon (.99 cents):
http://www.amazon.com/The-Pineville-Heist-ebook/dp/B005DST2U8/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1
It's been a long week already (after a stressful weekend), so I'm coddling my brain with Fortune's Fool by Mercedes Lackey.
Next up, probably this Thursday when I have some spare braintime on the 4th, is The Watcher in the Shadows by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. He does some of the best YA books ever.
Did some Googling and this seems to match some of your description? Prom Date by Diane Hoh
I presume you're aware the author of that book, Matt Ainsworth, is not only a redditor, but recently released the second book in the series (http://www.amazon.com/Disneyland-Quest-Dizzys-California-Adventure-ebook/dp/B00COE73KK/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394189309&sr=1-2). :)