Keats, Moses Mosaic, Archie Flock & Caddy Cello (The Navigator Kids)

Created by Christopher Radke (1987--) For those of you who miss The Three Investigators, (with or without Alfred Hitchcock), Christopher Radke may have come up with a thoroughly modern solution: THE NAVIGATOR KIDS, a sly and far grittier update on the kid-run detective agency. Forget the Scooby-style "ghosts," secrets passages, haunted mansions and Jupiter Jones' … Continue reading Keats, Moses Mosaic, Archie Flock & Caddy Cello (The Navigator Kids)

Kat Dylan

Created by Chris Wieland Adding a little much-needed grit and ooomph to the middle grade reading level is KAT DYLAN, a smart, feisty 13-year-old girl detective. Kat and her kid brother Alec are the children of divorced parents (daddy's an LAPD homicide cop, mom's an Army nurse), but when Mom gets deployed, she and her … Continue reading Kat Dylan

Joe Sabuni (aka Jonas Kilmani)

Created by Tish Farrell JONAS KILMANI  is a young man in the fictional African nation of Mbogono, and he's by no means a natural detective. But when his uncle Micah offers him a job tracking down a guy who owes him money, Jonah jumps at the chance -- after all, he has student loans to pay, … Continue reading Joe Sabuni (aka Jonas Kilmani)

John Daka

Created by John Chitambo Private investigator JOHN DAKA is on the trail of a beautiful missing woman, in this YA novel from the 1990s, part of the "Pacesetters" series, written by Zimbabwe author John Chitambo. The Pacesetters series was a collection of works of popular fiction for young adult readers written by notable African authors, and published … Continue reading John Daka

Nancy Drew

Created by Carolyn Keene House pseudonym of the Stratemeyer Syndicate NANCY DREW is arguably the most famous fictional female sleuth of them all, the ultimate girl detective. A feminist icon and an inspiration to women everywhere, including Oprah Winfrey, Sandra Day O'Connor, Sara Paretsky, Sonia Sotomayor, Barbara Walters, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Barbra Streisand, Beverly … Continue reading Nancy Drew