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Detective Jeffery Bones and Grandpa visit Grandpa’s friend Sally—the best apple pie baker around. Today, she’s practicing for the pie contest held at the county fair. But when it’s finally time to eat the pies, they are nowhere to be found—not in the oven, on the counter, or on the table. Did Sally’s dog Oliver eat them? Detective Jeffery Bones is on the case!

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Is there a creepy creature lurking in Mossy Lake? Is an evil plot stirring? Is something shocking happening to Caitlin's cat Zappy - and can he be de-zapped? Would-be scientists and detectives will want to slip into their lab coats, dust off their test tubes and get on the case with Drake Doyle and Nell Fossey. To find the answers, kids will have to use such scientific principles as buoyancy and static electricity.

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Doyle and Fossey are on a mission - a monster mission! It seems there's a giant bloodsucking monster gasping and gurgling in their friend Gabby's garbage can. Can they figure out what's up before the creature gobbles Gabby for lunch? This and four more cool cases will have kids checking out the clues - and learning great science too, including facts about the life cycle of a frog and chromatography.

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Detective Jeffrey Bones is having fun eating cake and watching a clown perform tricks at his friend's birthday celebration. But when the clown can't find her street clothes at the end of the party, it's up to Bones to solve this Easy-to-Read mystery!

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