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Author
Series
Gollywhopper Games volume 1
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Twelve-year-old Gil Goodson competes against thousands of other children at extraordinary puzzles, stunts, and more in hopes of a fresh start for his family, which has been ostracized since his father was falsely accused of embezzling money from Golly Toy and Game Company.
22) Who done it?
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The simple text asks the reader a series of questions about the characters on each page, and the child must seek out the visual clues to answer.
23) Floors
Author
Series
Floors volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Leo's future and the fate of the extraordinary Whippet Hotel, where his father is the maintenance man, are at stake when a series of cryptic boxes leads Leo to hidden floors, strange puzzles, and unexpected alliances.
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Formats
Description
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see--yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins...
26) Dragon magic
Author
Series
Magic books (Andre Norton) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Four boys of Scandinavian, Welsh, Chinese, and African origin, respectively, find a puzzle in an abandoned house whose magic power takes each of them back to a time related to their ethnic history.
28) A box of bones
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After receiving a wooden puzzle box at a town festival, twelve-year-old Kallie figures out how to open the box and finds that her fate seems to be connected to a young bone carver from another time.
Author
Pub. Date
2007, c1986
Description
Originally published in an anthology collection called "Night Visions", this long novella was the basis for the film "Hellraiser". Considered by many Barker fans to be among his best, the story introduces Pinhead, the leader of a group of hell-spawned demons called Cenobites, as he (it?) tries to secure the soul of Uncle Frank, who foolishly thought that he could arrive at the gateway to ultimate pleasure without traveling a path of grisly torture...
31) Winterhouse
Author
Series
Winterhouse volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Orphan Elizabeth Somers's malevolent aunt and uncle ship her off to the ominous Winterhouse Hotel, owned by the peculiar Norbridge Falls. Upon arrival, Elizabeth quickly discovers that Winterhouse has many charms-most notably its massive library. It's not long before she locates a magical book of puzzles that will unlock a mystery involving Norbridge and his sinister family. But the deeper she delves into the hotel's secrets, the more Elizabeth starts...
Author
Series
Floors volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Leo and Remi have gotten used to the strangeness of the Whippet Hotel, but when the entire top floor is hoisted into the sky and transported to the field of wacky inventions, they find that they must compete against a number of foes to solve a puzzle or lose their beloved hotel forever.
Author
Series
Hide and Geek volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
After eleven-year-old Gina Sparks and her fellow GEEKs, Edgar, Elena, and Kevin save thier otwn of Elmwood, New Hampshire, someone from the next town says the GEEKS are frauds, but the GEEKs are determined to prove thier-puzzle solving skills.
Author
Series
Winterhouse volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Back at the Winterhouse hotel for another holiday season, Elizabeth and Freddy, who love puzzles, dig deeper into the mystery surrounding a hotel guest who left behind odd artifacts, including a magical book that evil Gracella Winters once attempted to use to gain destructive power over the entire Falls lineage.
37) The new champion
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Tired of living in his brother Spencer's shadow, twelve-year-old Cameron Schein considers taking an unfair advantage to win the second Golly Toy and Game Company's Gollywhopper Games, in which the brothers and other children compete by solving puzzles, answering riddles, and doing stunts.
38) 3 below
Author
Series
Floors volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Having explored every part of the fantastical Whippet Hotel, Leo discovers that it hides even more amazing secrets beneath its foundation, in an adventure that puts the hotel's fate in Leo's hands.
40) Super Why
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Readers join Super Why and his friends as they meet challenges in their storybook adventures.