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Summer Reading Program List for Grades 3 – 6

RC = Book on Cassette            BR = Braille         

  1. The Case of the Fantastic Footprints: a McGurk Mystery by E. W. Hildick.
    The McGurk detectives investigate puzzling footprints around town.    RC41531
  2. The Case of the Phantom Frog by E. W. Hildick.
    The McGurk detectives solve the mystery of a phantom “werefrog.”    RC16245, BR4277
  3. The Case of the Secret Scribbler by E. W. Hildick.
    The McGurk detectives think a crime will be committed in 3 days.       RC15000, BR4437
  4. Coffin On a Case by Eve Bunting.
    Henry Coffin, 12, helps a 11-year-old girl search for her mother.    RC38015
  5. A Couple of April Fools by Gregory Maguire.
    Vermont elementary school students search for missing teacher. RC59131
  6. Encyclopedia Brown Shows the Way by Donald Sobol.
    Encyclopedia Brown, 5th grade detective, solves 10 cases. RC55431
  7. Five Alien Elves by Gregory Maguire.
    Aliens invade Vermont and think Santa Claus, played by the Mayor, is an evil dictator and plot to kidnap him. C59211
  8. Freddy the Detective by Walter Brooks.
    Freddy, a pig, sets up his own detective bureau.            RC26285
  9. The Ghost Boat by Jacqueline D. Jackson.
    During a lunar eclipse, kids see a half-sunken boat belonging to a ghost.     RC10402
  10. Give My Regrets to Broadway: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko, Private Eye by Bruce Hale.
    Chet the Gecko & his partner investigate the disappearance of an actor in a school play.     RC59073  
  11. The Malted Falcon: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko, Private Eye by Bruce Hale.
    Chet and his mockingbird partner try to find a missing ticket for a free dessert.      RC57596

  12. Mike’s Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner.
    The Boxcar children investigate their friend’s house fire. RC38942, BR9678
  13. The Mystery of the Purple Pool by Gertrude Chandler Warner.
    The Boxcar children investigate mysteries plaguing a hotel. RC51133
  14. Orp and the FBI by Suzy Kline.
    Two investigators try to discover who the shadowy figure is in their neighbor’s house.      RC44431
  15. Our House: The Stories of Levittown by Pam Conrad.
    Boy puts footprints on new patio at his house & falls through the kitchen ceiling in just one of the stories in this book.      RC44202
  16. Stories to Solve: Folktales From Around the World by George Shannon.
    Each tale contains a riddle to solve. RC25059
  17. Tarot Says Beware by Betsy Byars.
    Girl finds palm reader Madame Rosa’s dead body & her parrot missing. RC45316
  18. Tracks in the Snow by Lucy Jane Bledsoe.
    Girl searches for missing babysitter & faces a raging snowstorm. RC47853
  19. The Trespassers by Zilpha Keatley Snyder.
    Neely, 11 and her brother Grub, 8, explore a haunted house. RC42585
  20. Trouble Is My Beeswax: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko, Private Eye by Bruce Hale.
    Chet investigates a student accused of cheating.   RC59494

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