Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Nate the Great solves the mystery of the missing picture.

Nate the Great investigates two cases that may be connected, involving a missing valentine and a valentine that came from nowhere.

These chapter books introduce beginning readers to the detective mystery genre. Perfect for the Common Core, kids can problem-solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve mysteries! 
A giant turkey is on the loose! Nate, the great detective, and his dog, Sludge, hear the news on the radio. But Nate doesn't want to take a case that everyone in town is on. Not even when Claude claims that he saw the turkey, then lost him in the woods....

Even a deep snow the week before Christmas can't keep Nate the Great and his dog Sludge from finding the special card sent to Annie's dog Fang by his mother.

On Career Day Santa Claus visits school and tells the children how he was trained for his job by the old Santa.

While traveling on the train to San Francisco with his cousin Olivia's owl, Nate the Great and his dog Sludge must use all of their detective skills when the owl suddenly disappears.

A New York City boy's preconceived ideas of life in the West make him very apprehensive about the family's move there.

Though it means Nate can't get his dog ready for the smartest pet contest, he agrees to search for the missing prize for the contest.

Nate the Great searches for a missing weed after it disappears from a pot on Oliver's porch.

Jason Bear thinks he's terrific and even awards himself gold stars for superior performance in his chores. His friends don't like to be around him.