Students follow clues, find facts, make inferences, and solve each caper! This 3-book series featuring fascinating mysteries set in locations that are rich with historical, cultural, and geographic details. To increase fluency, pre-reading exercises introduce vocabulary and help students establish prior knowledge by providing background information. Each mystery features short, high-interest reading passages full of clues to keep even the most reluctant of readers captivated. Follow-up comprehension questions target specific reading skills including main idea, inference, drawing conclusions, sequence, reading for details, and more!

Contains three mini-mystery stories for readers to solve with solutions found on designated pages in the book.

Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable. Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that used to be a church, with a cemetery in the backyard. If that's not bad enough, Heather starts talking to a ghost named Helen and warning Molly and Michael that Helen is coming for them. Molly feels certain Heather is in some kind of danger, but every time she tries to help, Heather twists things around to get her into trouble. It seems as if things can't get any worse. But they do—when Helen comes.