# Adventure books about mystery

**3** adventure books that explore mystery, drawn from the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from Common Core exemplars, AP, IB, Cambridge, and 50 state ELA curricula.

**Genre:** Adventure  ·  **Theme:** mystery
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**Primary source — Common Core ELA exemplars:** https://www.nysed.gov/sites/default/files/programs/standards-instruction/appendix-b-text-exemplars-and-sample-performance-tasks.pdf

## Adventure mystery reading list

- [Cryptid Hunters](https://readinglist.school/book/cryptid-hunters) by Roland Smith _(Grades 5–8 · pub 2005)_
- [Skeleton Key](https://readinglist.school/book/skeleton-key) by Anthony Horowitz _(Grades 3–5 · pub 1999)_
- [The Lumbering Giants of Windy Pines](https://readinglist.school/book/the-lumbering-giants-of-windy-pines) by Mo Netz _(Grades 3–6 · pub 2024)_

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