Challenge: Clue Hunters / Cazadores de Pistas

Dig into a good mystery with these for-kids mystery stories! Read 2 in order to complete the challenge and earn 20 extra points. If you don't want to read 2, there are other literacy activities to do, too! ¡Sumergirse en un buen misterio con estas historias de misterio para niños! Lea 2 para completar el desafío y ganar 20 puntos extra. Si no quiere leer 2, ¡también hay otras actividades de alfabetización que hacer!

When you complete 2 tasks, you will earn 20 points and a badge.

A circle surrounds a magnifying glass, which is hovering over one of two dinosaur tracks. Below the magnifying glass reads "Clue Hunters."
A circle surrounds a magnifying glass, which is hovering over one of two dinosaur tracks. Below the magnifying glass reads "Clue Hunters."
Task

Read one of the A to Z Mysteries by Ron Roy!

Some are available as eBooks and eAudiobooks, too!

Read one of The Boxcar Children books by Gertrude Chandler Warner! Book 1 is available in Spanish.

Some are available in English as eBooks and eAudiobooks, too!

¡Lee uno de los libros de Chicos del vagón de carga por Gertrude Chandler Warner! El primer libro está disponible en español.

¡También, algunos están disponibles en inglés como libro electrónico y audiolibro!

Read The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart!

This book is also available on Libby as an eAudiobook!

Read an Encyclopedia Brown book by Donald J. Sobol and try to figure out one of the mysteries before reading the answers! Then read the story out loud to your family and see if they can guess!

Read a Cam Jansen book by David A. Adler and discuss with your family what it means to have a photographic memory!

Read a Trixie Belden book by Julie Campbell!

Some are available as eBooks and eAudiobooks, too!

Read a Nancy Drew Mystery Stories book by Carolyn Keene!

Some are available as eBooks and eAudiobooks, too!

Read a Hardy Boys book by Franklin W. Dixon!

Some are available as eBooks and eAudiobooks, too!

Read any kids' mystery book and discuss it with your family as you go! What did you enjoy? Did you see the twists coming?

¡Lee cualquier libro de misterio para niños y coméntalo con tu familia mientras avanzas! ¿Qué es lo que más te ha gustado? ¿Viste venir los giros de la trama?

Participate in the scavenger hunt at Perry Library and come up to the desk for your prize!

¡Participa en el juego de búsqueda de la Biblioteca Perry y acércate al mostrador para tu premio!

Read a book about fingerprints to discover why they're so valuable in solving mysteries! Then, with a parent, make fingerprints on a blank piece of paper to see how your fingerprints are unique!

¡Lee un libro sobre huellas dactilares para descubrir por qué son tan valiosas a la hora de resolver misterios! Luego, con un padre, haz tus huellas en una hoja de papel en blanco para ver cómo son únicas.

Try writing a mystery of your own!

¡Intenta escribir tu propia novela de misterio!