Mysteries by Katie https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78 Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library en-us 2017-01-20 20:08:57 UTC 2023-02-05 02:15:07 UTC hello@padlet.com 100 Year Old Secret kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148741449 Xena and Xander Holmes, an American brother and sister living in London for a year, discover that Sherlock Holmes was their great-great-great grandfather when they are inducted into the Society for the Preservation of Famous Detectives and given his unsolved casebook, from which they attempt to solve the case of a famous missing painting.]]> 2017-01-23 15:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148741449 The Invention of Hugo Cabret kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148790322 When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.]]> 2017-01-23 17:16:51 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148790322 London Eye Mystery kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148790626  The facts seem simple enough. While their mothers have coffee, Ted and his older sister, Kat, and their cousin, Salim, wait in a queue to ride the London Eye, an observation wheel that allows those locked in the glass-and-steel capsules to see 25 miles in every direction. A stranger from the front of the line offers one free ticket, and since Salim is the visitor, stopping in London before moving with his mum to New York, he takes it. Ted and Kat see him enter the capsule and follow his ride, but to their shock, he doesn’t exit with his fellow riders. ]]> 2017-01-23 17:17:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148790626 The Houdini Box kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148790850 2017-01-23 17:18:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148790850 The Calder Game kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148791123 2017-01-23 17:19:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148791123 UnExplained Series: kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148791472 Bermuda Triangle]]> 2017-01-23 17:19:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148791472 The Clockwork Three kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148791920 As mysterious circumstances bring Giuseppe, Frederick, and Hannah together, their lives soon interlock like the turning gears in a clock and they realize that each one holds a key to solving the others' mysteries.]]> 2017-01-23 17:21:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148791920 Half Moon Investigations kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148792170  Twelve-year-old online detective school graduate Fletcher Moon--who suffers the nickname "Half Moon" because of his small stature--helps solve crimes for classmates and others in his Irish town, but things start to go wrong when he is asked to find a reportedly stolen lock of a pop star's hair and ends up an arson suspect.]]> 2017-01-23 17:21:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148792170 UnExplained Series: kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148793875 Area 51
Describes the Air Force base called Area 51 where the Air Force conducts secret tests that some people claim involve unidentified flying objects and aliens.]]> 2017-01-23 17:25:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148793875 Nancy Drew Series kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148794199 2017-01-23 17:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148794199 The Westing Game kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148795380 The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.]]> 2017-01-23 17:29:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148795380 From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148796040 Claudia Kincaid and her brother run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in order to teach their parents a lesson and embark upon a mystery involving a priceless work of art and the strange old woman who sold the piece to the museum.]]> 2017-01-23 17:30:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148796040 The Mysterious Benedict Society kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148796467 "Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?"
When this peculiar ad appears in the newspaper, dozens of children enroll to take a series of mysterious, mind-bending tests. (And you, dear reader, can test your wits right alongside them.) But in the end just four very special children will succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and resourceful children could complete. To accomplish it they will have to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules. As our heroes face physical and mental trials beyond their wildest imaginations, they have no choice but to turn to each other for support. But with their newfound friendship at stake, will they be able to pass the most important test of all?
]]> 2017-01-23 17:31:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148796467 kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148800405 2017-01-23 17:41:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/148800405 Al Capone Does My Shirts dmeske https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/149923361 Twelve-year-old Moose moves to Alcatraz in 1935 so his father can work as a prison guard and his younger, autistic sister, Natalie, can attend a special school in San Francisco. It is a time when the federal prison is home to notorious criminals like gangster Al Capone. Depressed about having to leave his friends and winning baseball team behind, Moose finds little to be happy about on Alcatraz. He never sees his dad, who is always working; and Natalie's condition-- her tantrums and constant needs--demand all his mother's attention. Things look up for Moose when he befriends the irresistible Piper, the warden's daughter, who has a knack for getting Moose into embarrassing but harmless trouble. Helped by Piper, Moose eventually comes to terms with his new situation. ]]> 2017-01-27 16:19:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/149923361 Sammy Keyes Series kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/187605920 Exciting mysteries starring the feisty and funny, smart and spunky seventh-grade ace detective, Samantha Keyes.]]> 2017-09-14 15:10:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/187605920 Last in a Long Line of Rebels kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/187610743 When the city of Zollicoffer, Tennessee, where her family lives, announces plans to seize their one hundred seventy-five year old house through eminent domain, twelve-year-old Louise Mayhew needs to come up with a way to save it--and her ancestor's Civil War diary linking the house to the Underground Railroad, as well as a hidden treasure, seem to offer her family the best chance of saving their home.



]]> 2017-09-14 15:19:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/187610743 Book Scavenger kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/187614266 Just after twelve-year-old Emily and her family move to San Francisco, she teams up with new friend James to follow clues in an odd book they find, hoping to figure out its secrets before the men who attacked Emily's hero, publisher Garrison Griswold, solve the mystery or come after the friends.]]> 2017-09-14 15:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/187614266 Fuzzy Mud kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/187615040 In the woods behind Woodridge Academy, in Heath Cliff, Pennsylvania, a seemingly innocuous substance grows exponentially more threatening by the hour. It’s fuzzy mud. and its discovery is nothing short of spine-tingling. While taking a shortcut home from school, fifth-grader Tamaya Dhilwaddi comes in contact with the mud and breaks out into a terrible, blistery rash. When a boy she’d seen in the woods is reported missing the next day, she knows the mud is to blame and returns to find him.]]> 2017-09-14 15:26:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/187615040 The Gallery kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/187739477 In 1929 New York City, twelve-year-old housemaid Martha O'Doyle suspects that a wealthy recluse may be trying to communicate with the outside world through the paintings on her gallery walls.]]> 2017-09-14 19:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/187739477 On the Run kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/227913924 2018-02-04 21:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/227913924 Chasing Vermeer kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/227913989 2018-02-04 21:45:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/227913989 Last Shot kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/227914232 2018-02-04 21:47:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/227914232 Isabel Feeney, Star Reporter kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/227914273 2018-02-04 21:47:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/227914273 I am Princess X kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/227914406 2018-02-04 21:48:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/227914406 Eleven kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/289144700 Sam lives with his grandfather and his 11th birthday is coming soon. He starts to snoop in the attic in hopes of discovering a birthday present. Instead, he discovers a locked box and in it is a newspaper article that says "Boy Missing" and a picture of Sam when he was young. Sam is shocked by what he is seeing and knows the article may have clues to this mystery, but to Sam words on a page looked jumbled and he can't put them together. His friend, the new girl at school, lives near by and she happens to be very smart. Sam is hoping she can help him solve this secret. ]]> 2018-10-04 14:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/289144700 Masterminds kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/289432528 Eli Frieden has never left Serenity, New Mexico...why would he ever want to? Then one day, he bikes to the edge of the city limits and something so crazy and unexpected happens, it changes everything.
Eli convinces his friends to help him investigate further, and soon it becomes clear that nothing is as it seems in Serenity. The clues mount to reveal a shocking discovery, connecting their ideal crime-free community to some of the greatest criminal masterminds ever known.
The kids realize they can trust no one—least of all their own parents.
]]> 2018-10-05 01:17:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/289432528 Last Shot a Final Four Mystery kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/289432997 2018-10-05 01:20:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/289432997 Goldfish Boy kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/355846314 Matthew Corbin suffers from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. He hasn't been to school in weeks. His hands are cracked and bleeding from cleaning. He refuses to leave his bedroom. To pass the time, he observes his neighbors from his bedroom window, making mundane notes about their habits as they bustle about the cul-de-sac. 
When a toddler staying next door goes missing, it becomes apparent that Matthew was the last person to see him alive. Suddenly, Matthew finds himself at the center of a high-stakes mystery, and every one of his neighbors is a suspect. Matthew is the key to figuring out what happened and potentially saving a child's life... but is he able to do so if it means exposing his own secrets, and stepping out from the safety of his home?]]> 2019-05-01 15:46:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/355846314 Ernestine Catastrophe Queen kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/355874890 Ernestine Montgomery is the kind of kid who gets things done. She's smart, prepared, and always knows just what to do. But there's big trouble brewing inside the walls of the rambling old mansion where she lives... and only Ernestine can decipher the clues that point in one direction-murder!
Can Ernestine solve the mystery before catastrophe strikes?
]]> 2019-05-01 16:44:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/355874890 Turn Left at the Cow kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/362971015 Thirteen-year-old Trav has always wondered about his dead-before-he-was-born dad. But when he heads from California to his grandmother's house in rural Minnesota, hoping to learn about his past, he gets more than he bargained for.

It turns out his dad was involved in a bank robbery right before he mysteriously disappeared, and the loot from the take is still missing. Along with Kenny and Iz, the kids next door, Trav embarks on a search for the cash. But the trio’s adventure quickly turns dangerous when it becomes clear that someone else is looking for the money—someone who won’t give up without a fight!
]]> 2019-05-23 15:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/362971015 Space Case kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/362973936 Like his fellow lunarnauts—otherwise known as Moonies—living on Moon Base Alpha, twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson is famous the world over for being one of the first humans to live on the moon.

And he’s bored out of his mind. Kids aren’t allowed on the lunar surface, meaning they’re trapped inside the tiny moon base with next to nothing to occupy their time—and the only other kid Dash’s age spends all his time hooked into virtual reality games.

Then Moon Base Alpha’s top scientist turns up dead. Dash senses there’s foul play afoot, but no one believes him. Everyone agrees Dr. Holtz went onto the lunar surface without his helmet properly affixed, simple as that. But Dr. Holtz was on the verge of an important new discovery, Dash finds out, and it’s a secret that could change everything for the Moonies—a secret someone just might kill to keep...]]> 2019-05-23 15:19:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/362973936 The Strangers kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/362991788 The Greystone kids thought they knew. Chess has always been the protector over his younger siblings, Emma loves math, and Finn does what Finn does best—acting silly and being adored. They’ve been a happy family, just the three of them and their mom.

But everything changes when reports of three kidnapped children reach the Greystone kids, and they’re shocked by the startling similarities between themselves and these complete strangers. The other kids share their same first and middle names. They’re the same ages. They even have identical birthdays. Who, exactly, are these strangers?

Before Chess, Emma, and Finn can question their mom about it, she takes off on a sudden work trip and leaves them in the care of Ms. Morales and her daughter, Natalie. But puzzling clues left behind lead to complex codes, hidden rooms, and a dangerous secret that will turn their world upside down.

]]> 2019-05-23 16:01:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/362991788 Lost Girl kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/380625208 When fifth grade arrives . . . it's decided that [identical twins] Iris and Lark should be split into different classrooms, and something breaks in them both. Iris is no longer so confident; Lark retreats into herself as she deals with challenges at school. And at the same time, something strange is happening in the city around them, things both great and small going missing without a trace. As Iris begins to understand that anything can be lost in the blink of an eye, she decides it's up to her to find a way to keep her sister safe]]> 2019-09-05 19:28:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/380625208 The Parker Inheritance kconnelly3 https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/380690471 The letter waits in a book, in a box, in an attic, in an old house in Lambert, South Carolina. It's waiting for Candice Miller.

When Candice finds the letter, she isn't sure she should read it. It's addressed to her grandmother, after all, who left Lambert in a cloud of shame. But the letter describes a young woman named Siobhan Washington. An injustice that happened decades ago. A mystery enfolding the letter-writer. And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle. Grandma tried and failed. But now Candice has another chance.

So with the help of Brandon Jones, the quiet boy across the street, she begins to decipher the clues in the letter. The challenge will lead them deep into Lambert's history, full of ugly deeds, forgotten heroes, and one great love; and deeper into their own families, with their own unspoken secrets. Can they find the fortune and fulfill the letter's promise before the summer ends?]]> 2019-09-05 23:30:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kconnelly3/mta7cv2wwk78/wish/380690471