Tuesday, September 28, 2010

5th Grade Mystery Book Report -Martha Jones


There is plenty to explore in the world of Mystery! To help you with the Mystery Book report assignment we have compiled a list of mysteries that you can find below. Just click on the title and it will bring you to the Westwood Library's catalog and you will be able to see if the book is available and where it is in the library.


Click here to check out the Mystery page on FactMonster website for information on what makes a mystery a mystery!


Come visit us in the library for help on choosing a mystery and to take home one of our helpful mystery fact sheets that have important words to know and list the major ingredients for a mystery.


Mystery Book List

Abbott The Postcard

Allison Gilda Joyce series

Alter Ghost Letters

Anderson The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen

Avi Who Stole the Wizard of Oz?

Windcatcher

Balliett Chasing Vermeer

The Wright 3

Calder Game

Barrett The Sherlock Files

Bauer The Red Ghost

Berlin The Puzzling World of Winston Breen

Blackwood Shakespeare’s Spy

Bosch The Name of this Book Is Secret

Broach Shakespeare’s Secret

Buckley The Sisters Grimm series

Bunting Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island

Burns Wright and Wong series

Byars Herculeah Jones series

Colfer Artemis Fowl series

Cooney The Face on the Milk Carton

Corbett 12 Again

Curtis Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money

DeClements Wake Me at Midnight

DeFelice The Missing Manatee

Dixon The Hardy Boys series

Dowd The London Eye Mystery

Doyle The Book of Sherlock Holmes

Edwards Dragon, Hound of Honor

Ellis Odd Man Out

Fleischman Jim Ugly

Gold Harriet the Spy, Double Agent

Gutman Qwerty Stevens Back in Time: The Edison Mystery

Hahn The Dead Man in Indian Creek

Following the Mystery Man

Hale Chet Gecko series

Hamilton The House of Dies Drear

Hass Incognito Mosquito Flies Again!

Incognito Mosquito Takes to the Air

Hechtman Blue Schwartz and Nefertiti’s Necklace

Hiasson Hoot

Hobbs Ghost Canoe

Hoeye Time Stops for No Mouse

The Sands of Time

Holm The Stink Files series

Hope The Bobbsey Twins series

Horowitz The Falcon’s Malteser

Public Enemy Number Two

Three of Diamonds

South by Southeast

Jennings The Beastly Arms

Johnson The Secret of Dead Man’s Mine

Karbo Minerva Clark Gives Up the Ghost

Minerva Clark Goes to the Dogs

Keene Nancy Drew series

Konigsburg From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Korman Kidnapped

Laliicki Danger in the Dark

Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Lanthier The Mystery of the Martello Tower

Lawrence The Roman Mysteries series

Lawrence The Seance

L’Engle Troubling A Star

McCall Smith The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean

Max and Maddy and the Chocolate Money Mystery

Mitchell The Traitor King

Murphy Belltown Mystery series

Napoli Sly the Sleuth series

Naylor Carlotta’s Kittens and the Club of Mysteries

Polo’s Mother

Newbery Lost Boy

Nickerson How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found

Nixon The Name of the Game was Murder

Don’t Scream

Potter Olivia Kidney series

Raskin The Westing Game

The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues

Roberts Scared Stiff

Runholt The Mystery of the Third Lucretia

St. George The Ghost, the White House, and Me

Santopolo The Nina, The Pinta, and the Vanishing Treasure

Schirripa Nicky Deuce: Welcome to the Family

Shaw Match Wits with Sherlock Holmes series

Shearer Canned

Simmons The Raven League: Sherlock Holmes is Missing

Simner Secret of the Three Treasures

Simon Einstein Anderson series

Singer A Nose for Trouble

Skurzyniski National Parks Mystery series

Snyder The Egypt Game

Sobol Encyclopedia Brown series

Springer The Case of the Missing Marquess

The Case of the Left-handed Lady

The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets

Stanley The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy

Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society

Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

Strickland The House Where Nobody Lived

Tate The Secret of Gumbo Grove

Titus Basil of Baker Street

Basil in the Wild West

Umansky Solomon Snow and the Stolen Jewel

Van Draanen, Sammy Keyes series

Warner The Boxcar Children series

Yep The Case of the Lion Dance

The Case of the Firecracker


Authors with lots of mystery titles:

Arthur, Bellairs, Hildick, Hoobler,

Howe, Kehret, Nixon,



Westwood Public Library

Fall 2010

Monday, September 20, 2010

KidSpace @ the internet public library

Check out the website kidSpace @ the internet public library for quick information for all your homework needs. You can also drop by the Westwood library for any other questions you may have or with suggestions about what to read next, we are always here to help!

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Martha Jones Newbery Book Report


Take a look at this complete list of Newbery winner and honor books, and check out the selection we have at the library linked from the list below. If the book you want is checked out, we can order a copy from another library for you. You can choose from newer books, like 2010 winner When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, or honor book Savvy by Ingrid Law; or, older classics like Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, or Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Come by the Library if you have any questions or need a book recommendation!

Newbery Award Book List

2010 When You Reach Me-Stead, Rebecca
2009 The Graveyard Book-Gaiman, Neil
2008 Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! -Schlitz, Laura Amy
2007 The Higher Power of Lucky- Susan Patron
2006 Criss Cross - Perkins, Lynne Rae
2005 Kira-Kira - Kadohata, Cynthia
2004 The Tale of Despereaux - DiCamillo, Kate
2003 Crispin: The Cross of Lead -Avi
2002 A Single Shard- Park, Linda Sue
2001 A Year Down Yonder - Peck, Richard
2000 Bud, Not Buddy - Curtis, Christopher Paul
1999 Holes - Sachar, Louis
1998 Out of the Dust - Hesse, Karen
1997 The View from Saturday - Konigsburg, E.L.
1996 The Midwife's Apprentice - Cushman, Karen
1995 Walk Two Moons - Creech, Sharon
1994 The Giver - Lowry, Lois
1993 Missing May -Rylant, Cynthia
1992 Shiloh -Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
1991 Maniac Magee - Spinelli, Jerry
1990 Number the Stars - Lowry, Lois
1989 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices-Fleischman, Paul
1988 Lincoln: A Photobiography - Freedman, Russell
1987 The Whipping Boy - Fleischman, Sid
1986 Sarah, Plain and Tall - MacLachlan, Patricia
1985 The Hero and the Crown - McKinley, Robin
1984 Dear Mr. Henshaw - Cleary, Beverly
1983 Dicey's Song -Voigt, Cynthia
1982 A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for
Innocent and Experienced Travelers
- Willard, Nancy
1981 Jacob Have I Loved - Paterson, Katherine
1980 A Gathering of Days: A New England
Girl's Journal, 1830-1832
- Blos, Joan W.
1979 The Westing Game -Raskin, Ellen
1978 Bridge to Terabithia- Paterson, Katherine
1977 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Taylor, Mildred D.
1976 The Grey King - Cooper, Susan
1975 M. C. Higgins, the Great- Hamilton, Virginia
1974 The Slave Dancer - Fox, Paula
1973 Julie of the Wolves- George, Jean Craighead
1972 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - O'Brien, Robert C.
1971 Summer of the Swans -Byars, Betsy
1970 Sounder -Armstrong, William H.
1969 The High King - Alexander, Lloyd
1968 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler- Konigsburg, E. L.
1967 Up a Road Slowly- Hunt, Irene
1966 I, Juan de Pareja - de Treviño, Elizabeth Borton
1965 Shadow of a Bull -Wojciechowska, Maia
1964 It's Like This, Cat - Neville, Emily
1963 A Wrinkle in Time - L'Engle, Madeleine
1962 The Bronze Bow - Speare, Elizabeth George
1961 Island of the Blue Dolphins - O'Dell, Scott
1960 Onion John - Krumgold, Joseph
1959 The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Speare, Elizabeth George
1958 Rifles for Watie- Keith, Harold
1957 Miracles on Maple Hill - Sorensen, Virginia
1956 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch - Latham, Jean Lee
1955 The Wheel on the School - DeJong, Meindert
1954 ...And Now Miguel- Krumgold, Joseph
1953 Secret of the Andes- Clark, Ann Nolan
1952 Ginger Pye - Estes, Eleanor
1951 Amos Fortune, Free Man - Yates, Elizabeth
1950 The Door in the Wall - de Angeli, Marguerite
1949 King of the Wind - Henry, Marguerite
1948 The Twenty-One Balloons -du Bois, William Pène
1947 Miss Hickory- Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin
1946 Strawberry Girl - Lenski, Lois
1945 Rabbit Hill - Lawson, Robert
1944 Johnny Tremain- Forbes, Esther
1943 Adam of the Road - Gray, Elizabeth Janet
1942 The Matchlock Gun - Edmonds, Walter
1941 Call It Courage - Sperry, Armstrong
1940 Daniel Boone- Daugherty, James