There's a thief at MontroseMiddle School. Teachers are reporting money mysteriously missing from their desks. Who's responsible? Could it be Ashley Krupps, the principal's spoiled daughter? She's been spotted recently at the mall splurging on trendy clothes. Or is it Max, who shows up at school one day sporting expensive basketball shoes? Maybe it's Kevin, Jenny's new boyfriend. He's unexpectedly begun to lavish her with extravagant gifts. The Snob Squad is on the case and their suspicions stop at no one - not even each other.

Jessie’s soccer teammate Kayla is such a talented player that she’s invited to be the mascot at an International soccer tournament in Brazil! But then an anonymous letter arrives insisting she doesn’t deserve to have the honor. Who is trying to ruin Kayla’s reputation? The Boxcar Children must find out!

Lucy James, a sleuth wannabe, is drawn into the intrigue of a bygone war. The French speaking parrot she is caring for shrieks out clues that lead Lucy to a mysterious diary and an elderly man with a secret. Her hands are full when a friend's dog disappears and she's asked to find out what happened to that dog and others. Although she works part-time at a movie theater, she also interns at a detective agency, but it is not going well. With trusty dog Baskerville at her side, Lucy picks up tips from her mentor Sherlock to unravel the confusing threads of the mystery at hand.

A Wall Street Journal reporter confronts the most difficult source she’s ever encountered, her own father, in this unsparing interrogation of the ways we deceive ourselves and others A stunning debut, perfect for fans of searing family memoirs that lift the veil of childhood, as in books by Nicole Chung and Ashley C. FordFrancesca's parents represented opposing world-views. Her mother always slid her way out of questions about the past, saying only “My life started when you were born.” Her dad, an absent bodybuilder, loved telling stories about his seemingly larger-than-life past. He said he would tell her anything she wanted to know. But more often than not, it was a total lie. When Francesa was 9, he went to prison, and her mother, the grounding center of Francesca's world, moved her half a continent away...The first in her family to attend college, The Family Snitch started as a youthful experiment in...