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A trio of friends – Christie, Maggie, and Victoria – teams up to solve the mystery of a saboteur at Maggie’s family inn in Maine.

A young detective duo investigates a sophisticated ring of luggage thieves threatening an airline, reminiscent of the popular Hardy Boys series in its premise and tone, featuring classic Hardy Boys characters such as Frank and Joe, and the series' hallmark of suspense and adventure in a high-stakes world of mystery and crime-solving gone wrong for children and young adults alike.

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Learn to read and write Chinese with Chineasy a groundbreaking approach that transforms key Chinese characters into pictograms for easy recall and comprehension. Chinese is one of the oldest written languages, and one of the most difficult to master, especially for Westerners. With Chineasy, learning and reading Chinese has never been simpler or more fun. Breaking down the Great Wall of Language, iShaoLan Hsueh draws on her entrepreneurial and cultural background to create a simple system for quickly understanding the basic building blocks of written Chinese. Working with renowned illustrator Noma Bar, she transforms Chinese characters into charming pictograms that are easy to remember. In Chineasy, she teaches the key characters, called radicals, that are the language s foundation, and then shows how they can be combined to form new words and even phrases. Once you ve mastered these key characters, you can practice your skills with three stories a fairy tale, an Asian legend, and a contemporary fable told using the radicals. With Chineasy, readers of all ages will be able to navigate a Chinese menu, read signs and billboards, and grasp the meaning of most articles in a Chinese newspaper. > VIDEO "ShaoLan's Chineasy: Lesson 1" > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5FNvW19GbA*

A tale of an Englishman shipwrecked in a land of tiny people, leading to fantastical adventures and a mystery involving giants and castaways.

A mystery about three white wolf cubs stolen from a Maine family.

On a Maine island, Chris Fossett tests his survival skills while joining Joellen Roth in a puffin research project—and together they unravel a century‑old ghost mystery.

A diary‑based mystery set on a college campus, where a student detective unravels intrigue among Greek letter societies, blending investigation, adventure, and suspense in a fresh juvenile fiction backdrop.