# Fantasy books about mystery and detective stories

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

**Genre:** Fantasy  ·  **Theme:** mystery and detective stories
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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

## Fantasy mystery and detective stories reading list

- [A Deadly Game of Magic](https://readinglist.school/book/a-deadly-game-of-magic) by Joan Lowery Nixon _(Grades 6–8 · pub 1983)_
- [Running Out of Time](https://readinglist.school/book/running-out-of-time) by Margaret Peterson Haddix _(Grades 3–8 · pub 1995)_
- [Stranger with My Face](https://readinglist.school/book/stranger-with-my-face) by Lois Duncan _(Grades 6–8 · pub 1981)_

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