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How about Richard Peck Here Lies the LibrarianThe Teacher's Funeral?

Notes from the Dog by Gary Paulsen

This Place Has No Atmosphere by Paula Danziger

Drums Girls Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

Guys Read Funny Business

Angus Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison

The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman

Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce

The Strange Case of the Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger

Go and Come Back by Joan Abelove

Burger Wuss by M.T. Anderson

Heck Where the Bad Kids Go by Dale Basye

Girl 15 Charming but Insane by Sue Limb

The Uncollected series by Paul Jennings

The Name of this Book is Secret or Percy Jackson. Some good Gordon Korman books are the Toilet Paper Tigers, Ungifted, and Swindle.

Liz, If you have some aspiring chefs in the mix, try: Neil Flambé and the Marco Polo Murders (The Neil Flambé Capers #1)
by Kevin Sylvester (Goodreads Author). The protagonist is rather mouthy, but some good food puns and basically a good mystery.