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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Mystery at the Haunted House
David A. Adler · 64 pages
Lady Margaret's Ghost: A Felicity Mystery (American Girl Mysteries
Elizabeth McDavid Jones
In 1776, eleven-year-old Felicity runs the household while her mother and siblings are away, but is distracted by her horse's ill health, two strangers in town, and the fear that a box of family heirlooms is haunted. Includes historical information about life in colonial Williamsburg.
The Curse of Ravenscourt: A Samantha Mystery
Sarah Masters Buckey · 181 pages
When her family temporarily moves into a luxury apartment building in 1904 Manhattan, eleven-year-old Samantha tries to discover whether a series of mishaps is related to a curse on the building's owner.
I So Don't Do Makeup
Barrie Summy
When Phoenix, Arizona, seventh-grader Sherry Holmes hosts a makeover sleepover that causes horrible reactions in her friends' skin, she enlists the help of her mother, a ghost detective at the Academy of Spirits, to help solve the mystery of the tainted makeup.
The Secret of Candlelight Inn
Carolyn Keene · 154 pages
Nancy investigates strange happenings at Candlelight Inn, a historic hotel rumored to be haunted
Harriet Spies Again
Helen Ericson · 230 pages
Harriet M. Welsch is up to her old spying tricks when her beloved nanny Ole Golly, who had married and moved to Montreal, returns without her husband, Harriet's friend Sport announces he has a crush on a schoolmate, and the people across the street appear to be holding a child hostage.
Gilda Joyce: The Dead Drop
Jennifer Allison · 296 pages
When her best friend, Wendy Choy, qualifies to compete in an international piano competition in Oxford, England, irrepressible Gilda Joyce finds a way to get an invitation herself—as a page-turner. Wendy settles into an exhausting practice schedule, made worse by strange nightmares, while Gilda finds herself falling in love with a British boy. But when Wendy discovers a ghostly message written in
The Poe Estate
Polly Shulman · 273 pages
Sukie braves the twists and turns of the spooky Poe Annex at the New-York Circulating Material Repository to untangle ancient family secrets, find hidden treasure, and help the ghosts who are haunting her house.
The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing
Sheila Turnage · 352 pages
"When Miss Lana accidentally buys a haunted inn at the Tupelo Landing town auction, Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale--opens up a paranormal division to solve the ghost's identity before the town's big 250th anniversary bash"-- When Miss Lana accidentally buys a haunted inn at the Tupelo auction, Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale set out to solve their second big case
Harriet the Spy
Louise Fitzhugh · 298 pages
Harriet the Spy is a children's novel written and illustrated by Louise Fitzhugh that was published in 1964. It has been called "a milestone in children's literature" and a "classic". In the U.S. it ranked number 12 in The 50 Best Books for Kids and number 17 in The Top 100 Children's Novels on two lists generated in 2012.
The Secret of the Underground Room
John Bellairs · 127 pages
Professor Childermass is stunned when Father Higgins claims that a ghost is trying to contact him. Then the priest disappears. When the professor and Johnny catch up to him, they make a terrifying discovery -- Father Higgins is possessed by Masterman, the spirit of a long-dead knight determined to rule the world.
Trixie Belden and the Sasquatch Mystery
Kathryn Kenny
The gang (sans Dan) go on a camping trip with the Belden cousins Hallie, Cap, and Knut. Before you know it, they meet Bigfoot--or do they?
Midnight at the Haunted Hotel
Gertrude Chandler Warner and JM Lee; illustrated by Hollie Hibbert
The Mystery of the Third Lucretia
Susan Runholt · 192 pages
If it hadn't been for Lucas's photographic memory, they might not have remembered the man. It had been almost a year since she and Kari noticed him copying a famous Rembrandt painting in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. But now in the National Gallery in London, they spot the same guy, copying another Rembrandt. Then, when a never-before-seen Rembrandt painting is discovered in Amsterdam, the gi
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn
Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler · 214 pages
While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.
The Mysterious Visitor
Julie Campbell, Michael Koelsch · 258 pages
Not long after her family becomes wealthy, Diana Lynch's long-lost uncle appears and starts ruining her social life, causing Trixie Belden to investigate whether Uncle Monty is an imposter out to steal the Lynch fortune.
The Mystery of the Green Ghost
Robert Arthur · 170 pages
The Three Investigators become entangled in the theft of a string of rare pearls and a fraudulent scheme involving family inheritance when they try to solve the mystery of a ghost's appearance in the old Green Mansion.
The Great Shelby Holmes
Elizabeth Eulberg · 272 pages
Nine-year-old Shelby Holmes, the best detective in her Harlem neighborhood, and her new easy-going friend from downstairs, eleven-year-old John Watson, become partners in a dog-napping case.
The Whispers in the Walls
Sophie Cleverly · 278 pages
When possessions and food start going missing at Rookwood Academy, suspect Scarlet launches an investigation with her twin sister, Ivy, that turns up old mysteries and new threats.
The Mystery Off Glen Road
Julie Campbell · 258 pages
After a storm blows through Sleepyside and damages the Bob-Whites' clubhouse, Trixie and Honey take a job patrolling the game preserve and find evidence of a poacher.
The House of Dies Drear
Virginia Hamilton · 248 pages
A black family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.
The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit
Octavia Spencer · 219 pages
Twelve-year-old Randi, unhappy about moving from Brooklyn to Deer Creek, Tennessee, after her mother's death, soon finds new friends and a case to solve surrounding a stolen time capsule and rumors of a centuries-old treasure. Twelve-year-old Randi, unhappy about moving from Brooklyn to Deer Creek, Tennessee, after her mother's death, soon finds new friends and a case to solve surrounding a stole