Book reports of mystery books

Middle school mystery books are also awesome because they cover a wide range of time periods and settings, but all will encourage critical thinking and reasoning! This list focuses on middle school mystery books, and I’ve broken it down in approximate grade levels, but every kid is different and may have different reading needs!

They’re also just plain fun. Classics like Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys still have a healthy readership, but the genre has come a long way. There are so many fantastic mystery series and standalone works out there by a diverse mix of authors and illustrators.

Amongst all of her works, none has a story quite as impeccably crafted as And Then There Were None, which explains why it is the best selling mystery book of all time. The story follows ten people who are brought together, for various reasons, to an empty mansion on an island.

Lastly, while this list focuses on mystery books for kids in the fifth grade or younger, the reading level range on several titles creeps into higher grade levels, i.e. titles with a range of grades 5–7. I’ve gone ahead and included those since they do at minimum work for fifth graders.