Books for Middle School Readers: Mystery

In this mystery filled with puzzles, Avery, a teenage girl finds out she is the heir to a fortune worth billions - and she has no idea why! In order to claim her fortune she must live in a twisty, puzzling mansion with a twisty, puzzling family and figure out if she is a player in the game or merely a part of the puzzle.

The Inheritance Games ended with a bombshell, and now heiress Avery Grambs has to pick up the pieces and find the man who might hold the answers to all of her questions - including why Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery, a virtual stranger, rather than to his own daughters or grandsons...

To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. Her life is intertwined with theirs. She knows their secrets and they know her.

This classic whodunit mystery takes place on a train. See Christie's other mysteries too.

This super twisty and suspenseful novel tells the story of four friends whose friendship turns destructive. See also Lockhart's

...in which the story is told backwards in time!

This realistic novel with some mystery mixed in follows three girls as they start seventh grade and navigate issues including social media, friendship, and dating. We also recommend other books by Stead, including...

This realistic mystery-novel tells the story of Rico, a teenge girl who works as a cashier and may have just sold a winning lottery ticket. She and her wildly rich classmate Zan embark on an adventure to try to hunt down the ticket-winner, who might not realize she won. Themes include class, privilege, family responsibility, friendship, and love. See also Stone's other realistic fiction

Beautifully written, intricately plotted, and meticulously researched, Girl in the Blue Coat is an extraordinary novel about bravery, grief, and love in impossible times.

Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal, her mind feels broken. And her life is completely shattered: Three years ago, she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else--her parents, her grandmother, radiant Aunt Maja--they went left. Zofia's last words to her brother were a promise: Abek to Zofia, A to Z. When I find you again, we will fill our alphabet. Now her journey to fulfill that vow takes her through Poland and Germany, into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past.