Thematic Reading List:Mysteries in the Mansion

Spooky mansions are the perfect setting for an unsolved mystery. These 13 titles take readers into spooky, secretive halls for hours of engaging storytelling. A list geared towards 8 to 12-year-old readers.
 
 
   
 
  
  
  
  

	Angel of the Battlefield (The Treasure Chest series #1) By: Ann Hood When their parents divorce, twelve-year-old twins Felix and Maisie move with their mother to live in the attic of a historic Newport, Rhode Island, mansion where they discover a hidden room that carries with it an intriguing secret.
	Christina’s Ghost By: Betty Ren Wright After Grandma gets sick, Christina must spend lonely days with her grumpy Uncle Ralph in a spooky, isolated Victorian mansion, but things change when she meets the ghost of a little boy, who may be linked to a thirty-year-old murder.
	Deep Secrets (Raven Hill Mysteries Case #4) By: Emily Rodda Elmo and his friends investigate when Aunt Vivien mysteriously disappears from her old house known as Mistfall Mansion.
	Hannah West on Millionaire’s Rowe By: Linda Johns Pre-teen sleuth Hannah West gets caught up in a mystery involving feng shui and missing antiques while housesitting a mansion on Seattle’s famed Millionaire’s Row.
	Mystery at Malachite Mansion (Nancy Drew mystery) By: Carolyn Keene When the polluted beach at their Malibu condo forces them to relocate to a holistic spa next door, Nancy Drew and her friends investigate the spa’s motivational guru, whom they believe may be responsible for the local ocean garbage dumping.
	Mystery in the Mansion(Case Closed #1) By: Lauren Magaziner Carlos and his friends must uncover who is sending death threats to a wealthy eccentric or Carlos’ mother may lose her business, and the reader decides which clues they will follow.
	The Mystery of Biltmore House By: Carole Marsh Set at America’s largest private residence-250 rooms-with real secret passages! Readers learn about the Victorian era when electricity & other “newfangled” things kids take for granted today first came to be. Napoleon, the Vanderbilts, & some of America’s greatest writers figure into the plot, as does natural resource conservation.
	The Puzzler’s Mansion By: Eric Berlin Winston attends a weekend of puzzles at a famous musician’s mansion, but when he and other young guests pursue a thief, they find themselves in big trouble. Puzzles for the reader to solve are included throughout the text.
	The Secret of Goldenrod By: Jane H. O’Reilly Fifth-grader Trina, who has never lived anywhere long enough to call home, is excited about moving into Goldenrod, an abandoned mansion, with her dad. But soon Goldenrod brings its secrets to her attention, including a forgotten doll, leaving Trina wondering what the old house wants from her.
	Secrets at the Chocolate Mansion: a Maggie Brooklyn mystery By: Leslie Margolis Maggie Brooklyn is distracted from solving the mystery of who is out to sabotage the new sweet shop in the neighborhood because her new dogsitting job has her and her twin brother Finn spending time in what may be a real haunted mansion.
	Serafina and the Black Cloak By: Robert Beatty In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina’s Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner’s young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.
	The Shadows (The Books of Elsewhere series #1) By: Jacqueline West When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.
	The Water Castle By: Megan Frazer Blakemore Moving into an inherited mansion in Maine with their mother and stroke-afflicted father, three siblings uncover a mystery involving hidden passageways, family rivalries, and healing waters.