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After Black Beauty is stolen and taken to a barn far out in the countryside, he breaks free and tries to make his way back to his owner in the city.

Dink and his two friends help Lucky find the culprit who stole Lucky's winning lottery ticket.

"One missing suspect. One stolen supercomputer. Two amateur investigators. 48 hours to solve the crime. Vicious thieves smash a cursed Medusa statue and steal the supercomputer Sapphire in a terrifying museum raid. Jazz and Phoenix are first on the scene and they soon find themselves in the midst of a dangerous mystery. Their friend and museum owner, Dr Zhang, is the prime suspect, but he is nowhere to be found. Determined to prove him innocent and...

Sam the gorgeous golden Labrador puppy is the best Christmas present Emily has ever had. When he is stolen, a heartbroken Emily is hot on the trail of the thieves-will she ever find her beloved puppy?

Eleven-year-old Amelia thinks of herself as devoid of talent, but when the dragonfly staff goes missing seven days before the Dragonfly Day Festival, she takes it upon herself to catch the thief and save her town.

Santa's Workshop Holiday Spectacular at the Colchester mansion is a long standing tradition in Cedarville, however Griffin, Ben, and Antonia are not happy to find that they have been volunteered as elves by their friend Logan and can not get out of it--but this year the pageant seem plagued by frequent electrical outages, and during one of them the valuable antique known as the Star of Prague disappears from the giant Christmas tree, and as they are...

While their sixth-grade class is on a trip to the River City Conservatory the four young detectives, Sam, Egg, Gum, and Cat, investigate the theft of a rare fruit from the botanical garden, and it is up to the reader to determine the course of their adventure.

When Koko Dodo's secret chocolate sauce is stolen just before an important cooking contest Didi, a dodo bird, devises a daring plan to help--whether he wants her to or not.

"Watch out on your next walk through the forest, because you just might encounter a real rapscallion in the form of a tiny bird! In this hilarious tale, Chickadee recounts how he went from a normal bird 'childhood' to a daring life of crime. One cold, snowy morning, shivering and hungry, he discovers a vault of gold -- and steals from it! His natural colouring resembling a mask helps him blend in as he makes his rounds of the forest. It's an exciting...

Elsa Roth is delighted with the sanctuary's five new river otters, but much less thrilled with the new volunteers, especially a sullen, troubled boy named Anson with a badly scarred face--and when the otters start going missing one of the other volunteers accuses him of stealing them, but Elsa is sure that he is not responsible, and she is determined to clear him, and find the real thief.--