Series: A To Z Mysteries
by Author John Steven Gurney
The Deadly Dungeon (1998)
“The Deadly Dungeon” is a book written about three kids Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose who are going to visit their friend Wallis Wallace. The journey starts off with the three riding in a bus on the way to Belfast, Maine where they would be picked up by Wallis. To their surprise Wallis does not pick ...
The Runaway Racehorse (2002)
This book is about three friends who are visiting Forest Evens, who owns a winning race horse. People begin to get fureous that Forest's horse, Whirlaway, is winning and a friend of Forest steals WHirlaway. Whirlaway just so happens to have a twin who is much slower than he is and the man who sto...
The Missing Mummy (2015)
I thought this book was predictable and somewhat ridiculous. However, my 6 and 9 year olds loved it. They found it exciting and also liked that it was possible to solve it. It has sparked some new interests for them. Overall, I have found all of the books in this series (so far) to be fun for sh...
The Lucky Lottery (2015)
Title: The Lucky LotteryAuthor: Ron RoySeries: A to Z Mysteries #12Rating: ★★★★Summary: L is for Lucky...And that's just how Lucky O'Leary feels when the lottery ticket his grandfather sends him for Christmas turns out to be a million-dollar winner But before Lucky can cash it in, someone sneaks ...
The Falcon's Feathers (1998)
In this book, Dink sees a family of falcon birds. It is the first falcon family in Green Lawn. They climb the tree and look at the birds with binoculars. One day, they climbed the same tree where the falcons live and the falcons disappeared! So they went to the pet store to tell the owner abo...
The Quicksand Question (2015)
Title: The Quicksand QuestionAuthor: Ron RoyOpinions and feelings about storyI feel that this story is very interesting. They describe the characters using good phrases. I will recommend this book to my friends.What is the story about?Everyone in Green Lawn is in a quake about the ducks that keep...
The Vampire's Vacation (2015)
When I was young I read all of the A to Z Mysteries religiously. I loved them.But I love "The Vampire's Vacation" all the more now because I have used it in the classroom. As an ESL teacher in Tajikistan, I selected this book because it was one of the few the American Embassy's library in our tow...
The Haunted Hotel (1999)
Title: The Haunted HotelAuthor: Ron RoySeries: A to Z Mysteries #8Rating: ★★★★Summary: A ghostly guest has checked into the Shangri-la Hotel! It's almost Halloween and reports of strange sounds and even stranger sights are coming from Green Lawn's only hotel. Hotel guests and neighbors are being ...
The School Skeleton (2003)
I read this book with my children (10 and 6). Though I thought this was as interesting as the others, my children didn't find it as captivating. My 6-year-old actually thought it was boring when we were about half way through. They ended up liking it at the end. They still want to continue wi...
The Zombie Zone (2005)
My niece enjoys these A to Z Mysteries by Ron Roy, so we decided to try reading a few in anticipation of Halloween.My niece said that she enjoyed Zombie Zone and said that it was pretty scary. At first I didn't think that she was going to really care much for this story because she seemed to hav...
The Absent Author (1997)
I read “The Absent Author” by Ron Roy. It is a cute kids book about an Author who gets kidnapped. The story takes place in a town called Green Lawn during the summer. The whole story happens within two days. The main characters of the book are Dink, Ruth Rose, Josh, and Mavis Green. Dink, Rut...
The Jaguar's Jewel (2000)
Title: The Invisible Island (A-Z Mysteries)Author: Ron RoyGenre: Mystery – Children’sChallenges: To Be Continued…Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, Read and Review Challenge 2010, 2010 Support Your Local Library Reading Challenge, 100 + Reading Challenge, Audio Book Challenge 2010, ...
The X'ed-out X-ray (2005)
This book is really awesome. It is about Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose ,who are having an excellent time at the Penelope Gwinn concert. During intermission, Dink injures his arm and at the same time, the singer's diamond necklace is stolen. It was very mysterious. The thing I really like is , how th...
The Yellow Yacht (2005)
The Yellow Yacht was a nicely, put together short story. It had a good plot and resolution altough the resolution was short and quick. There were many parts of thought were you could wonder, who did it. I woudn't call this book beautiful rather a smaller version of inturging with its story-line a...