Mini Mysteries: 20 Tricky Tales to Untangle

Rick Walton. American Girl Publishing Inc, $7.95 (80pp) ISBN 978-1-58485-871-3

Continuing the mini theme, Mini Mysteries: 20 Tricky Tales to Untangle by Rick Walton, illus. by Lauren Scheuer, prompt readers to follow clues in the 20 short mysteries happening at Lincoln Middle School. Perforated flaps at the back of the book hide the answers to each of the riddles: Who is trying to sabotage the student council campaign? Who really wrote a secret love letter to Matt?

Featured Children's Reviews

Freya Finch

A fledgling teen Valkyrie tries to avert Ragnarök in Finch’s spirited, Norse mythology–inspired debut. Most assume Bryn Martel, her older sisters Prima and Reagan, and their Continue reading »

Deke Moulton

White-cued Benji Zeb—on the cusp of making his bar mitzvah—is struggling to keep many secrets as well as live up to the expectations of his kibbutz family. His first secret—he Continue reading »

Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

Contemporary Charleston, S.C., provides the backdrop for this cunning mystery by Tubb (Luna Howls at the Moon), in which a grieving tween’s often laugh-aloud misadventures in Continue reading »

Katherine Rundell

Writing in the tradition of rumbustious British children’s classics, Rundell (One Christmas Wish) introduces Mink, a headstrong city-dwelling child who “did not believe in Continue reading »