Mysteries for Tweens
Several times each week I meet with parents and tweens who feel like they have exhausted the children’s section and are ready to move on to the teen section, but maybe are not quite ready for everything in the teen section. Starting <checking watch> right this minute, I will be featuring something new on the Children’s and Teen blogs: Tween Reads! This week the focus will be on mysteries (mostly because I am a mystery junkie), but keep your eyes peeled for other genres as the weeks go by. This list isn’t meant to be exhaustive, but to give tweens and parents some initial guidance as they make their way over to the young adult shelves. And some of these are titles that are new to the Children’s shelves or might have flown under the radar. What are your favorite tween mysteries?
Mer’s Tween Mystery Picks:
- Gilda Joyce: Psychic Investigator by Jennifer Allison (series)
- Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett (series)
- The Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour by Michael D. Beil (series)
- Masterpiece by Elise Broach
- Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman (series)
- The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney (series)
- The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
- Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery by John Feinstein (series)
- The Big Splash by Jack D. Ferraiolo
- The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding (series)
- Doppelganger by Pete Hautman & Mary Logue (series)
- Scat by Carl Hiaasen
- Jade Green by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Puppet Master by Joanne Owen
- The Fourth Stall by Chris Rylander
- The Romeo and Juliet Code by Phoebe Stone
- Johnny Swanson by Eleanor Updale
- Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief by Wendelin Van Draanen (series)
- Missing Abby by Lee Weatherly
- Adam Canfield of the Slash by Michael Winerip (series)
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