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Mystery Genre

Mystery Genre. Mystery Genre. Characters: detective, investigators, spies, police, suspicious people, every day people Setting: could be a crime scene, detective agency, creepy house, realistic place Plot: crime or mysterious event to solve & clues = a solution to the mystery.

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Mystery Genre

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  1. Mystery Genre

  2. Mystery Genre • Characters: detective, investigators, spies, police, suspicious people, every day people • Setting: could be a crime scene, detective agency, creepy house, realistic place • Plot: crime or mysterious event to solve & clues = a solution to the mystery

  3. What Is Mystery?????? • Realistic fiction • Everything in the story revolves around a puzzle or an unusual problem to solve. • The author drops hints that might help the reader solve the mystery. • There might be distractions in story to lead the reader away from the correct solution. • The story ends with a credible, realistic solution to the mystery.

  4. Mystery: A Problem To Solve • Who Did It? • What Is It? • How Did It Happen?

  5. Sammy Keyes Series While celebrating the New Year with a friend, Sammy encounters a mystery involving an elderly neighbor, a pioneer cabin, and a century-old family feud. Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 4.6 Point Value: 8.0

  6. Sammy Keyes Series A Hollywood actress, who had been competing with Sammy's mother for an important role, is murdered, but thirteen-year-old Sammy and her friend Marissa are on the case. Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 4.9 Point Value: 9.0

  7. Sammy Keyes Series Sammy continues to make life with her grandmother interesting as she tries to discover who is stealing from St. Mary's church, befriends a homeless girl, and plays in a softball tournament against a bitter rival. Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 5.2 Point Value: 8.0

  8. When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal. Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 5.4 Point Value: 6

  9. Herculeah stumbles onto the trail of her friend Meat's long-lost father while she and Meat are investigating the disappearance of a dead body from the men's room of a comedy club. Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 3.8 Point Value: 3

  10. 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. Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 5.3 Point Value: 8

  11. An African-American family moves into a house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves and soon come to believe that their new home is possessed by the spirit of a murdered abolitionist, Dies Drear. Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 4.8 Point Value: 9

  12. When their mother disappears, two brothers go to stay with a great uncle in a mobile home park next to an abandoned amusement park and begin a search which puts them in danger. Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 5 Point Value: 7

  13. When Julian, his little brother Huey, and their friend Gloria decide to be "crime busters," they find themselves in one adventure after another. Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 3.1 Point Value: 1.0

  14. Thirteen-year-old Ellsworth leaves his father to visit the relatives he has never met and eventually joins forces with Jess, his distant cousin, to uncover family secrets and search for their ancestor's hidden treasure. Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 4.1 Point Value: 9.0

  15. Noticing that a popular series of horror novels is having a bizarre effect on the behavior of its readers, Franny and Beamer set out to find the mysterious author. Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 4.5 Point Value: 6.0

  16. Three adventurous mice escape from their home at Macy's department store and spend an exciting week in the Guggenheim Museum, creating a sensation in the art world. Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 4.0 Point Value: 4.0

  17. The Chet Gecko Mystery Series When hired by a fellow fourth-grader to find her missing brother, Chet Gecko uncovers a plot involving a Gila monster's revenge upon the school football team. 1st book in this series. Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 3.5 Point Value: 2

  18. Doyle and Fossey: Science Detectives Series Fourth-graders Drake Doyle and Nell Fossey combine their detective and scientific investigation skills to solve a variety of cases, involving a hungry cat, endangered penguins, a fish-stealing monster, and a dirty election. Includes a section of scientific experiments and activities. Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 3.8 Point Value: 1.0

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