by James Becket (1992)
As an anchor for the Passport News team, the reader is assigned to cover the Tour de France and uncovers a plot to sabotage the twenty-five day race.
Norah McClintock
"A shallow grave ... human remains ... an unsolved murder from years ago ... It looks like the past is coming back to spin Mike's new life out of control. What's making the usually cool Riel so rattled? And what does a beautiful but manipulative girl have to do with it all?"--
[story written by Sharon Jennings
After recovering his mother's lost purse, Franklin decides to put his newfound detective skills to work for his friends. Can he solve the mysterious case of the missing baseball? This Level 2 first reader contains longer stories, varied sentences, increased vocabulary, more difficult visual clues and some repetition.
Helen Moss
When thieves raid the house of a neighbour, Emily, Jack and Scott are ready to investigate. But, strangely, the neighbour doesn't seem to want the thieves to be caught! The burglars didn't escape with much this time but could the raid be connected to a much older crime involving millions of pounds? The friends begin to uncover the truth, but are they leading themselves into serious danger?
Carolyn Keene
The Dean of Emerson College enlists Nancy to investigate the thefts of a valuable substance being used in a top-secret experiment. But when Nancy discovers that the experiment involves biological mutations, she knows she must find the culprit before the lives of everyone on campus are endangered.