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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Blackthorn Key
Kevin Sands · 384 pages
"Tell no one what I've given you." Until he got that cryptic warning, Chrisopher Rowe was happy, learning how to solve complex codes and puzzles and creating powerful medicines, potions, and weapons as an apprentice to Master Benedict Blackthorn--with maybe an ecplosion or two along the way. But when a myswterious cult begins to prey on London's apothecaries, the trail of murders grows closer a
Flush
Carl Hiaasen · 294 pages
Bestselling novelist Carl Hiaasen is back with another hysterical mystery adventure for young readers, set in the Florida Keys. You know it's going to be a rough summer when you spend Father's Day visiting your dad in the local lockup. Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor--which has made taking a dip at the local beach like swim
The Case of the Deadly Desperados
Caroline Lawrence
Ghosts I Have Been
Richard Peck · 219 pages
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/The Prince & the Pauper
Mark Twain · 608 pages
Contains: - Adventures of Tom Sawyer - [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] (https://openlibrary.org/works/OL53908W/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn) - The Prince and the Pauper
Al Capone Does My Homework
Gennifer Choldenko · 226 pages
"Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, faces new challenges when his father is promoted to Associate Warden"--
Midnight Magic
Avi · 249 pages
Mangus the Magician must free a princess from a terrifying ghost. Naturally, Mangus doesn't believe in ghosts. He doesn't even believe in magic! However, his servant boy, Fabrizio, is a secret friend of the princess and is determined to prove the ghost is real.
Poached
Stuart Gibbs · 352 pages
School troublemaker Vance Jessup thinks Teddy Fitzroy's home at FunJungle, a state-of-the-art zoo and theme park, is the perfect place for a cruel prank. Vance bullies Teddy into his scheme, but the plan goes terribly awry. Teddy sneaks into the koala exhibit to hide out until the chaos dies down. But when the koala goes missing, Teddy is the only person caught on camera entering and exiting the e
The Philadelphia Adventure
Lloyd Alexander · 151 pages
Vesper Holly has foiled murderers, crossed mountains, and narrowly escaped earthquakes. Now she's home in Philadelphia, where she can relax-until President Ulysses S. Grant asks for her help. The Centennial Exposition of 1876 is about to begin, and luminaries from around the world will be there. But so will Vesper's arch-nemesis, the evil Doctor Helvetius. There's only one person who can thwart hi
The French Confection
Anthony Horowitz · 80 pages
The Trouble with May Amelia
Jennifer L. Holm
The Big Splash
Jack D. Ferraiolo · 304 pages
Matt Stevens, an average middle schooler with a glib tongue and a knack for solving crimes, uncovers a mystery while working with "the organization," a mafia-like syndicate run by seventh-grader Vincent "Mr. Biggs" Biggio, specializing in forged hall passes, test-copying rings, black market candy selling, and taking out hits with water guns.
Antsy Does Time
Neal Shusterman · 243 pages
Fourteen-year-old Anthony "Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the future.
Hoodoo
Ronald L. Smith · 224 pages
With this vivid debut, Zora Neale Hurston meets Stephen King in a supernatural Southern Gothic tale for middle grade readers.
Hitler's Canary
Sandi Toksvig · 208 pages
Bamsé Skolvud a 12 ans quand les nazis envahissent Copenhague. Son meilleur ami, Anton Beilin, est juif. Confronté à l'antisémitisme, il va tout faire pour protéger Anton et sa famille.
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Jacqueline Kelly · 340 pages
Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones.With a little help from her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist, she figures out that the green grasshoppers are easier to see against the yellow grass, so they are eaten before they can get any larger. As Callie explores
Shoeless Joe & Me
Dan Gutman · 163 pages
When Joe Stoshack hears about Shoeless Joe Jackson -- and the gambling scandal that destroyed the star player's career -- he knows what he has to do. If he travels back in time with a 1919 baseball card in his hand, he just might be able to prevent the infamous Black Sox Scandal from ever taking place. And if he could do that, Shoeless Joe Jackson would finally take his rightful place in the Baseb
Kat, Incorrigible
Stephanie Burgis · 304 pages
Paperboy
Vince Vawter · 224 pages
When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
Alibi Junior High
Greg Logsted
After thirteen-year-old Cody and his father, an undercover agent, are nearly killed, Cody moves in with his aunt in Connecticut, where he is helped with his adjustment to the trials of attending public school for the first time and investigating a threat in nearby woods by a wounded Iraq War veteran.
The Sword of Summer
Rick Riordan · 512 pages
Magnus Chase has seen his share of trouble. Ever since that terrible night two years ago when his mother told him to run, he has lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, staying one step ahead of the police and the truant officers. One day, Magnus learns that someone else is trying to track him down—his uncle Randolph, a man his mother had always warned him about. When Magnu
Prisoner 88
Leah Pileggi · 143 pages
In 1885, ten-year-old James in sent to prison for killing a man who threatened his father, and struggles to survive the harsh realities of prison life in the Idaho Territory.
My Brother Sam Is Dead
James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier · 216 pages
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.