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Here are our favorite mystery books for teens in middle school! These titles are classified as Teen Middle School (TM) and can be found in the Teen section of the library.
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Death by Whoopee Cushion
by Vicki Grant
Twelve-year-old Manya isn't like most kids. She's not interested in the cheap laughs at Pranks a Million. She loves science. She wants to save the world. The only thing she finds even vaguely interesting about her parents' shop is the science behind the pranks. When a whoopee cushion explodes, actually killing an innocent bystander, things become very serious indeed: Manya's parents are arrested for murder. It's up to Manya to prove their innocence--and she may have to use some of the science behind the pranks to do so.
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The Secret of Moonrise Manor
by Stephanie Bearce
Twelve-year-old Raven Gallows, a budding detective and mortician, investigates a mysterious death linked to her mother. A mummified body discovered in a haunted hotel holds crucial clues, which leads her and her friends to uncover a hidden stash of stolen art and a secret society.
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The Tontine Caper
by Dianne K. Salerni
Eleven-year-old Nico lives as an unpaid servant and virtual prisoner at the Precipice Inn in the Pocono Mountains– until the surviving members of a tontine check in for a meeting.
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Oddity Woods
by Kay Davault
Kid detective Marietta tries to solve the sudden disappearance of her father in a dark woodland realm inhabited by ghosts and monsters. This title can be found in the Teen Graphic Novel Collection.
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South of Somewhere
by Kalena Miller
When FBI agents swarm 12-year-old Mavis Callahan's downtown Chicago home, her mom goes on the run. With the family's house and bank accounts seized, Mavis's dad takes the family to Somewhere, Illinois to start over. Mavis can't help but wonder--is her mom truly guilty? She isn't sure if she's ready for the truth, but she'll do anything to find it.
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The Picture Visitors
by Christina Wolff
When the painting The Thunderstorm is stolen from a London mansion, 13-year-old Vincent, who can jump into paintings, decides to track it down with Holly, who has the same talent. As they search for the painting, Vincent discovers something is wrong with Van Gogh's painting Starry Night.
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The Mystery of Locked Rooms
by Lindsay Currie
With her family on the verge of losing their home, Sarah searches for a rumored treasure inside an abandoned funhouse, which is unlike any escape room she's ever attempted. When things take a dangerous turn, she refuses to turn back.
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The No-Brainer's Guide to Decomposition
by Adrianna Cuevas
Frani loves living with her dad at the Central Texas Forensic Anthropology Research Facility, though having bodies buried in her backyard doesn't exactly make her the most popular kid in school. But when a hand snakes across the ground and grabs her ankle, Frani realizes she's got bigger problems. Now she must help the teenage zombie--before he gets too hungry. As more and more zombies begin to appear, they seem to get less and less friendly. Can Frani solve the body farm's mystery before it's overrun with the undead?
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The Cookie Crumbles
by Tracy Badua
While competing in the Golden Cookie Competition for a full ride to the prestigious Sunderland boarding school, Laila gets mixed up in a mystery as she and her best friend, Lucy, search for the truth after one of the celebrity judges collapses after sampling her showpiece.
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The Storyteller
by Brandon Hobson
To discover what happened to his mother, one of many Native women who've mysteriously gone missing, anxiety-riddled Ziggy, his sister Moon, and his friends Alice and Corso set out on a mind-bending adventure where he learns the lessons of the Cherokee storytellers.
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Princess Private Eye
by Evelyn Skye
Whisked away to the kingdom of Raldonia, 12-year-old long-lost princess Gen Sun must crack her biggest case yet when someone sets out to dethrone her by unleashing plague-like events on the small country.
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The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
by Beth Lincoln
When during the Swift Family Reunion someone gives Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude a deadly push down the stairs, Shenanigan Swift, who has a penchant for mischief, decides to become a detective and solve this mysterious case.
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The Pear Affair
by Judith Eagle
Arriving in Paris to find her beloved old au pair Perrine—Pear—who has gone missing, Penelope enters the darkest, most mysterious parts of the city with the help of a savvy bellboy, where she stumbles upon a sinister plot.
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Tangled Up in Nonsense
by Merrill Wyatt
Searching for the two million dollars that went missing at Tangled Glen mansion years ago, teen sleuths Sloan and Amelia are determined to solve this mystery before their rival detectives do, but strange things, such as murder dolls, keep getting in their way.
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Can You Survive the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Become classic literature's most famous detective, and make choices to survive. You are Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective. You have been approached by three desperate clients, each of whom presents a compelling case for you to solve. Now, you must choose which mysteries are worth investigating and which might be too dangerous.
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Jennifer Chan is Not Alone
by Tae Keller
When Jennifer Chan, a new girl who believes she can find aliens, goes missing, Mallory Moss sets out to find her and must figure out why Jennifer might have run and face the truth inside herself.
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Linked
by Gordon Korman
When swastikas begin appearing all over town, Link, Michael, and Dana, the only Jewish girl in town, must face crimes both past and present to find the truth.
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Drew Leclair Gets a Clue
by Katryn Bury
When a cyberbully posts embarrassing rumors about other students at school, Drew, to protect her own secret, puts her sleuthing skills to good use to find the culprit, who just might be one of her closest friends.
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Scritch Scratch
by Lindsay Currie
Haunted after helping her father on his ghost-themed Chicago bus tour, twelve-year-old Claire must discover what the spectral boy from the bus wants before it is too late.
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