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Author: Donald Sobol
Format: 90-100 pages, drawings.
Reading level: grades 1 to 4


Summary:

This an older series of books (started in the early 60s), each with several mysteries to solve. Encyclopedia Brown is a detective boy who solves mysteries and crimes. Each mystery is only a few pages long, and the readers are to solve the cases themselves by figuring out the details of each case. Each book as the answers and explanations at the end. Very simple reads that are attractive and enjoyable to little inquisitive minds.

Titles:

(1) Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective

(2) Encyclopedia Brown Strikes Again (the Case of the Secret Pitch)

(3) Encyclopedia Brown Finds the Clues

(4) Encyclopedia Brown Gets His Man
(5) Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All
(6) Encyclopedia Brown Keeps the Peace
(7) Encyclopedia Brown Saves the Day
(8) Encyclopedia Brown Tracks Them Down
(9) Encyclopedia Brown Shows the Way
(10) Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case
(11) Encyclopedia Brown Lends a Hand
(12) Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Dead Eagles
(13) Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Midnight Visitor
(14) Encyclopedia Brown Carries On
(15) Encyclopedia Brown Sets the Pace
(15½) Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Cake
(16) Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Mysterious Handprints
(17) Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Treasure Hunt
(18) Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Disgusting Sneakers
(19) Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Two Spies
(20) Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of Pablo's Nose
(21) Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping Dog
(22) Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Slippery Salamander
(23) Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Jumping Frogs
(24) Encyclopedia Brown Cracks the Case
(25) Encyclopedia Brown, Super Sleuth