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4. Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright
While out fishing, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo hook a two-million-year-old caveman frozen in a block of ice, which the gang learns was lost at sea during a violent storm. They take the caveman to the Oceanland aquarium, but when someone melts the ice block and the caveman goes on the rampage, the gang decides to stick around and investigate.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with 'fish' in the text of the book
2. a book a severe storm in the story
3. a book set by the ocean or sea
4. a book with the letters of 'ICE' in the title
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: Divide & Conquer - Madeline Urban & Abigail Roux
Date Read: 5/2
Task:
-a book with the letters of 'ICE' in the title
-a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
How it Fits: ICE in title AND MPG mystery
Next Episode Choice: Jeepers, It's the Creeper
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3. Jeepers, It's the Creeper
While on their way to their high school's barn dance, the gang comes across a knocked-out bank guard and his ransacked car. After he mumbles to them some clues, they discover that the local banks have been robbed by a mysterious zombie-like phantom called the Creeper.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the MC attends school
2. a book where someone loses consciousness
3. a book where a money is exchanged
4. a book the MC has a nickname
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: Rendezvous With Yesterday - Dianne Duvall
Date Read: 5/5
Task: a book where someone loses consciousness
How it Fits: heroine loses consciousness after being shot
Next Episode Choice: A Tiki Scare Is No Fair
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6. A Tiki Scare Is No Fair
Shaggy and Scooby's vacation in Hawaii is interrupted by a ghostly witch doctor, who warns the tourists and natives they are on the sacred grounds of the island god Mano Tiki Tia and to stay away from the cursed village. Later, the gang's guide John Simms goes missing, so it is up to the gang to search for him in the supposedly cursed village, where they eventually run into the witch doctor, and the giant statue of Mano Tiki Tia.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the MC goes on vacation
2. a book set on an island
3. a book with a character named John
4. a book with 'statue' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: Rituals - Kelley Armstrong
Date Read: 5/6
Task: a book with 'statue' in the text of the book
How it Fits: bore little resemblance to the coblynau statue in my garden, p214
Next Episode Choice: Mystery Mask Mix-Up
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2. Mystery Mask Mix-Up
After attending a Chinese New Year parade, the gang goes shopping in a curio shop where Daphne buys a golden mask. The gang then visits Mr. Fong, and they soon learn from him that the mask was stolen many centuries ago from the crypt of a Chinese warlord named Zen Tuo, and now his ghost and his two phantom henchmen want it back.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with 'parade' in the text of the book
2. a book where someone wears a mask
3. a book where something is stolen
4. a book with two people on the cover
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: A Beginner's Guide to Paradise - Alex Sheshunoff
Date Read: 5/7
Task: a book with two people on the cover
How it Fits: 2 people on the cover
Next Episode Choice: Nowhere to Hyde
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1. Nowhere to Hyde
On their way home from the Malt Shop, the gang encounters the Ghost of Mr. Hyde in the back of the Mystery Machine, who runs through a marsh and sneaks into a spooky house. The house turns out to be the home of Dr. Jekyll (great-grandson of the novel character), who fears he may be transforming into the ghost. The gang begin searching the house for clues, pegging Helga, Jekyll's housekeeper, as a likely suspect, but they are pursued at every turn by the ghost.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with two names in the title
2. a book with a domicile on the cover
3. a book with a servant in the story
4. a book with 'ghost' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: Luck in the Shadows - Lynn Flewelling
Date Read: 5/11
Task: a book with 'ghost' in the text of the book
How it Fits: said there was even a ghost, p446
Next Episode Choice: Don't Fool with a Phantom
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8. Don't Fool with a Phantom
While participating in the Johnny Sands Dance Game Show at the local TV station, the teens encounter a phantom made of wax, who steals a safe full of money and kidnaps the station manager. Is the phantom a hoax, or the result of a curse from an old station employee seeking revenge for the cancellation of his show?
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with a teen-aged MC
2. a book where the MC watches TV
3. a book where the MC uses a candle
4. a book with 'revenge' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: Gray Wolf: A legends of Ansu fantasy - J.W. Webb
Date Read: 5/13
Task: a book with 'revenge' in the text of the book
How it Fits: revenge, one word but it was enough and gave him purpose, p31
Next Episode Choice: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?
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7. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?
Out on a camping trip, the gang hears the sounds of a wolf, so they decide to follow wolf-like tracks to the open and empty grave of Silas Long, who was supposedly a werewolf. They follow his tracks further to an old abandoned sawmill filled with wool, empty barrels, and the werewolf ghost himself.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with a mountain on the cover
2. a book with 'wolf' in the text of the book
3. a book where the MC goes to a graveyard
4. a book that someone else has abandoned (DNF)
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: Valentine Murder - Leslie Meier
Date Read: 5/17
Task: a book with 'wolf' in the text of the book
How it Fits: I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in, said the wolf, p172
Next Episode Choice: Haunted House Hang-Up
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5. Haunted House Hang-Up
The Mystery Machine overheats in front of an old spooky mansion, and the gang goes to look for help, but finds out that the house is being haunted by the Headless Spectre, a terrifying phantom with no head. The mystery gets even stranger when they begin to hear knocking sounds and clues leading to a treasure.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set during the summertime
2. a book where the MC goes looking for help
3. a book a headless person on the cover
4. a book where the MC meets a stranger
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: Age of the Ashers - Diana Tyler
Date Read: 5/17
Task: a book where the MC meets a stranger
How it Fits: MC meets a stranger who seduces her into something she shouldn't have gotten into
Next Episode Choice: Season 3 - Jeepers, It's the Jaguaro!
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8. Jeepers, It's the Jaguaro!
After an emergency landing in a jungle in Brazil, the gang get caught between headhunter natives, and the Jaguaro: a creature with the head of a Smilodon, and the body of an ape.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character has an emergency
2. a book set in South American or written by a South American author
3. a book with only a head on the cover
4. a book 'dinosaur' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: Waking Hearts - Elizabeth Hunter
Date Read: 5/21
Task: a book 'dinosaur' in the text of the book
How it Fits: holding a green stuffed dinosaur, p90
Next Episode Choice: The Tar Monster
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5. The Tar Monster
The gang go to the ancient city of Byzantius in Turkey. On the way there, they meet the Tar Monster, who frightens the workers away while opening the inner sanctum.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with a very old character in it
2. a book set in a place that starts with a 'T'
3. a book with a title that spells 'monster'
4. a book where the main character uses a very private room or place
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: Shattered Bonds - Faith Hunter
Date Read: 5/24
Task: a book where the main character uses a very private room or place
How it Fits: MC has a "soul home" which is in her mind where she goes to think things through and decompress
Next Episode Choice: The Beast is Awake in Bottomless Lake
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16. The Beast is Awake in Bottomless Lake
On a fishing trip, the gang end up in Canada at the newly deserted village of Bottomless Lake. Turns out the beast has scared everyone away, which only leaves Scooby and the gang, to fritter away.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set in Canada
2. a book set in a very small town
3. a book from a series with 10+ books in it
4. a book without a human on the cover
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: The Rock - Monica McCarty
Date Read: 5/25
Task: a book from a series with 10+ books in it
How it Fits: Highland Guard #11
Next Episode Choice: Watch Out! The Willawaw!
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1. Watch Out! The Willawaw!
While visiting Velma's Uncle Dave, the gang find out he has been kidnapped from his home, and that a mysterious Williwaw is haunting the area.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with a 'V' somewhere in the author's name
2. a book where an uncle plays an important part in the story
3. a book where a kidnapping occurs
4. a book with an unusual name in it
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: Of Blood and Ashes - Kyoko M
Date Read: 5/26
Task: a book where a kidnapping occurs
How it Fits: MCs roommate is kidnapped and used as a hostage
Next Episode Choice: A Highland Fling with a Monstrous Thing
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6. A Highland Fling with a Monstrous Thing
The gang travel to Scotland to visit their friend Aggie MacDuff, who says people have left her castle in fear after ghost sightings. It seems the ghost plays bagpipes to call on the Loch Ness Monster to help him scare people away from the castle.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set in Scotland or written by a Scottish author
2. a book with the tag 'Paranormal'
3. a book where character plays a musical instrument
4. a book with water on the cover
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: A Deeper Darkness - J.T. Ellison
Date Read: 5/28
Task: a book with water on the cover
How it Fits: there is water on the cover
Next Episode Choice: Make a Beeline Away from That Feline
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Season 3
9. Make a Beeline Away from That Feline
As the gang go to visit Daphne's aunt, she says that a strange and unexpected package that had a cat medallion in it arrived at her door. She believes that every night, she turns into the cat creature — the same cat creature that robbed a jewelry store.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where an aunt plays an important part in the story
2. a book where the main character receives a package in the mail
3. a book with a cat on the cover (any type of feline)
4. a book where a robbery occurs
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: Boundary Crossed - Melissa F. Olson
Date Read: 6/2
Task: a book where an aunt plays an important part in the story
How it Fits: 18 month old Charlie is kidnapped twice and her aunt, the MC, rescues her both times
Next Episode Choice: A Scary Night with a Snow Beast Fright
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3. A Scary Night with a Snow Beast Fright
After being invited by Professor Krueger at the North Pole, the gang finds out that he has been captured. After they meet an Inuit named Chief Minook, he gets captured as well, and the gang attempts to solve the mystery.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character receives an invitation
2. a book with a main character's name that begins with 'K'
3. a book with 'capture', 'captures', or 'captured' in the text of the book
4. a book with a Native American character in the story
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: The Final Fight - JD Salsbury
Date Read: 6/3
Task: a book with 'capture', 'captures', or 'captured' in the text of the book
How it Fits: I've been captured, p137
Next Episode Choice: A Creepy Tangle in the Bermuda Triangle
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2. A Creepy Tangle in the Bermuda Triangle
While on a boat flowing down the Gulf Stream, the gang end up in the Bermuda Triangle and discover an airplane-snatching flying saucer and a trio of Skeleton Men.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with 'boat' in the text of the book
2. a book set along the Atlantic Ocean
3. a book from a trilogy
4. a book with a man or men on the cover
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: Healer's Choice - Jory Strong
Date Read: 6/5
Task: a book from a trilogy
How it Fits: book 3 in the Ghostland Worlds trilogy
Next Episode Choice: The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw
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10. The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw
While visiting Vulture’s Claw Botanical Gardens, owned by one of Velma’s friends, Professor Greer, the gang confronts a seven-foot-tall praying mantis that roams the grounds, and is scaring away Professor Greer’s associates.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with a garden-like cover
2. a book that you own
3. a book with a very tall character in it
4. a book with 'pray' or 'praying' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: The Vicious Deep - Zoraida Córdova
Date Read: 6/8
Task: a book that you own
How it Fits: I purchased this book in January 2020
Next Episode Choice: Scooby's Chinese Fortune Kooky Caper
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12. Scooby's Chinese Fortune Kooky Caper
The gang travel to China to visit a friend. While there, the gang run into the Moon Monster, who is turning people into stone if they run into its shadow.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set in China or written by a Chinese author
2. a book about friends
3. a book with a moon on the cover
4. a book with something made of stone on the cover
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: Murder by the Book - Lauren Elliott
Date Read: 6/15
Task: a book with something made of stone on the cover
How it Fits: stone bench on cover
Next Episode Choice: Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear
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14. Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear
The gang arrives at Puerto Rico to visit the ancient fortress El Moro. While there, the kids run into a ghostly commander named Juan Diego who warns them to stay away from his creepy fortress.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set in a place with two words to the title, i.e.; New York, St. David, Gold Coast
2. a book with the letters 'El Moro' in the title (must have 2 Os)
3. a book where the main characters receives a warning
4. a book where the main character has to defend himself/herself
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: Highland Dragon Warrior - Isabel Cooper
Date Read: 6/17
Task: a book where the main character has to defend himself/herself
How it Fits: heroine has to defend herself physically from a demented sorcerer
Next Episode Choice: The Warlock of Wimbledon
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15. The Warlock of Wimbledon
The gang meets Jimmy Pelton, a star tennis player, while cruising England. Jimmy has been cursed by the Warlock Anthos that if he plays in Wimbledon, he is doomed.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with a character by the name of James, Jamie, or Jimmy
2. a book where the main character plays or played a sport
3. a book set in England
4. a book with 'doom' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: Heir of the Dog -Judi McCoy
Date Read: 6/18
Task: a book with 'doom' in the text of the book
How it Fits: before you doom her to failure, p74
Next Episode Choice: The Diabolical Disc Demon
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11. The Diabolical Disc Demon
The gang goes to Decade Records recording studio to see a live recording from their friend, Jimmy Lewis, but the building is haunted by the Phantom, who is trying to find a song by a missing writer, and will stop at nothing until he gets it.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. listen to an audio book
2. a book with a building on the cover
3. a book with 'phantom' in the text of the book
4. a book where someone sings
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: Middlegame - Seanan McGuire
Date Read: 6/26
Task: a book with 'phantom' in the text of the book
How it Fits: Dodger was a phantom from his past, p232
Next Episode Choice: To Switch a Witch
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4. To Switch a Witch
On Halloween night, the New England town of Salem, Massachusetts is being haunted by the witch of Milissa Wilcox, who was burned at the stake in 1778. After receiving a distressed call from their friend Arlene Wilcox, a descendant of the accused witch, the gang arrives to help, despite being warned off by the town's mayor. The gang realizes the witch looks exactly like Arlene.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set in a New England state: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, or Connecticut
2. a book with a witch in it
3. a book the main character receives a call for help
4. a book with 'warning' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: Talon/Xavier - Alexandra Ivy & Laura Wright
Date Read: 6/27
Task: a book with 'warning' in the text of the book
How it Fits: Talon swallowed the words of warning that trembled on his lips, p21
Next Episode Choice: A Menace in Venice
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13. A Menace in Venice
The gang goes to visit their friend Antonio in Venice. They soon find out that a ghost is haunting him and the ghost plans to steal the ancient necklace Antonio is wearing.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with an Antonio, Anthony, Tony or Toni in the story
2. a book set in Italy
3. a book with the letters of 'ghost' in the title
4. a book that you find haunting or disquieting
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Book: Highland Dragon Master - Isabel Cooper
Date Read: 6/28
Task: a book with the letters of 'ghost' in the title
How it Fits: G in draGon, H in Highland, O in dragOn, ST in maSTer
Next Episode Choice: The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face
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7. The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face
As the gang go water-skiing, they encounter Old Iron Face, a phantom who is supposed to have a hideous face. Later the gang's guide, Captain Morgan, disappears, and they set out for the island to find him.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character spends time playing in the water
2. a book with a character that is considered ugly or unpleasant
3. a book with 'captain' in the text of the book
4. a book set on an island
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
COMPLETION POST
Mariana - Susanna Kearsley
Date Read: 6/30
Task: a book with 'captain' in the text of the book
How it Fits: bought the house from a Captain Somebody, p27
Next Episode Choice: Season 1 - What a Night for a Knight
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Scooby Doo, Where Are You! was an animated mystery comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. It was on Saturday mornings and it aired from September 13, 1969, until October 31, 1970.
The show centers on four teenagers (Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy) and a Great Dane named Scooby-Doo. The group travels in the Mystery Machine, a blue and green van decorated with orange flowers, solving mysteries.
Challenge Begins: May 1, 2020
HOW TO PLAY:
1. Take a look at the Scooby Doo, Where Are You! episode list.
2. Choose your first mystery and post it into your thread.
3. The moderator will then post the related episode information and tasks.
4. Once you complete one of the tasks, post in your thread and in the Reporting thread the following:
Author:
Book:
Date Read:
Task:
How it Fits:
Next Episode Choice:
Books must be 100 pages.
Re-reads and audio books are okay.
Page count for audio books will be determined the first paper version shown on Goodreads. From the book's page, select “all editions”, then select the first paper edition as your guide.