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Can You Solve It?

These realistic fiction mysteries feature strong storytelling and BIPOC amateur sleuths on a mission to uncover the truth!

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  • Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure.…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2018. — J JOHNSON
  • Mars Patel's friend Aurora has disappeared! His teachers are clueless. The clues seem to point toward eccentric tech genius (and Mars's hero) Oliver Pruitt, whose popular podcast now seems to be commenting on their quest! But when the friends…
    Book, 2020Somerville, Massachusetts : Walker Books, 2020. — J CHARI
  • Shenice Lockwood dreams of leading the Fulton Firebirds to the U12 softball regional championship. But Shenice's focus gets shaken when her great-uncle Jack reveals that a career-ending-and family-name-ruining-crime may have been a setup. It's up…
    Book, 2021New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2021] — J STONE
  • Eleven-year-old Chester and his classmate Skye, tasked with a complex puzzle-solving mission, discover the key to their spy assignment is to stop a heist, but cracking the code could mean finding out things are not always what they seem.
    Book, 2022New York : Wendy Lamb Books, [2022] — J MAGOON
  • In a predominately white California beach town, the only two black seventh-graders, Alberta and Edie, find hidden journals that uncover family secrets and speak to race relations in the past.
    Book, 2020New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — J COLBERT
  • Eleven-year-old Neela must solve the mystery when her beautiful but cursed, veena - a classical Indian musical instrument - goes missing.
    Book, 2011New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, 2011. — J CHARI
  • When a gun is found at a neighborhood hangout, Thelonius and his pals become instant suspects. Thelonius may be guilty of pulling crazy stunts at school, but a criminal? T isn't about to let that label stick.
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019. — J BROADDU
  • When a diamond goes missing from the Louvre, it is up to nine-year-old Julieta to identify the thief, exonerate her father, and return home to Boston before her baby brother is born.
    Book, 2020New York : Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc., [2020] — J DUARTE
  • During a family trip to China, eleven-year-old Mia Chen and her older brother, Jake, follow clues and solve riddles in hopes of finding their missing Aunt Lin and perhaps a legendary treasure.
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Aladdin, 2018. — J ZHANG
  • Sam, Otter, Atim, and Chickadee are four inseparable cousins growing up on the Windy Lake First Nation. When a visiting archaeologist goes missing, the cousins decide to solve the mystery of his disappearance.
    Book, 2019Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Second Story Press, [2019] — J HUTCHIN
  • When Lizzie and Gael share an irresistible challenge to find the peacock ring that once belonged to artist Frida Kahlo, Paloma decides it is the perfect way to honor her father.
    Book, 2018New York : Scholastic Press, 2018. — J CERVANT
  • Seventh-graders Jin, Alexandra, and Elvin come from very different backgrounds and circumstances, but they all live in Harlem. When Elvin's grandfather is attacked, they band together to find out who is responsible.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Scholastic Press, 2017. — J TARPLEY