The School Skeleton

This is a super cute mystery series...it's perfect for beginner sleuths! It's sort of a modern day Nancy Drew meets Goosebumps...... but, unlike Goosebumps, the possible monsters never turn out to be real.... the jr detectives always figure out the logical truth...like the Scooby Doo gang.... so, it's a good option for children who find real monsters too scary.

There are some highly unrealistic elements, and inaccurate info in some of them.... so, I'd recommend parents read through first and make sure there's nothing thats important enough to them personally to correct. There's also some odd carelessness from the adults in the series....ie; allowing the children to go off with strangers, etc......so, parents may want to reiterate show more stranger danger.

Overall, the series is cute, entertaining, and should keep kiddos interested. show less

While a cute series and concept, these books are riddled with child neglect and endangerment… often times the parents are absent and allow the children to travel with strangers or spend the night in questionable places. Fun to read but not the best example of parenting…

I enjoyed these episodes in the A to Z mystery series.  This set of stories seemed to be about playing tricks on the child detectives.  That was a lot of fun to see them work those puzzles out.  I also liked Talking T-Rex".  I would love to see that presentation come to my elementary school!  These were more fun stories in a fun children's series."

I always jump out of my seat whenever something surprising happened. A to Z mysteries keep me interested and always makes me want to read the whole series. In fact, I have read the whole series. You should start with the first one and not this one.

This is a realistic fiction short novel (one of the twenty six book series) about three friends, Dink, Josh, and Ruth who seek to solve their school's mystery. One day when Dink gets a paper cut and goes to the nurses office for a bandaid he notices the skeleton the nurse always has in her office missing. From that the principal holds a school assembly and says that whatever class finds/solves the mystery of the missing skeleton will get a free trip to the new local aquarium. As the student's begin to solve the mystery of the missing skeleton they find many clues and begin solving. One day they put all the pieces together and found the skeleton in a closet. However, the skeleton was holding a note saying "April Fools." As it turns out show more the principal played a fun prank on the whole school and everybody was going to get to go to the local aquarium. show less

The entire school becomes involved in a mystery when the school skeleton disappears.

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