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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorWhen You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead · 199 pages
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
The Cry of the Loon: A Samantha Mystery
Barbara Steiner
In June 1907, twelve-year-old Samantha looks forward to a happy summer with Nellie and her younger sisters at Grandmary's country home in the Adirondacks but a series of mysterious accidents on the property lead Samantha to suspect that someone is deliberately causing trouble.
The Gallery
Laura Marx Fitzgerald · 336 pages
In 1929 New York City, twelve-year-old housemaid Martha O'Doyle suspects that a wealthy recluse may be trying to communicate with the outside world through the paintings on her gallery walls.
The Sirens of Surrentum
Caroline Lawrence · 224 pages
Mandie and the Hidden Past
Lois Gladys Leppard · 157 pages
Mandie is sure there is a mystery hidden behind the crack in the wall of a tunnel below her house.
Traitor in Williamsburg: A Felicity Mystery
Elizabeth McDavid Jones · 136 pages
The Disappearing Stranger
Lois Walfrid Johnson · 144 pages
When her mother marries Mr. Nordstrom, Kate moves to a farm in northwest Wisconsin, solves a mystery, and learns to adjust to her new stepfamily.
The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan
Nancy Springer · 187 pages
Enola doesn't like to rush a client, or a case. But when she encounters a familiar young lady carrying a paper fan, she is sent immediately into action--for the girl is her old friend Lady Cecily, and the peculiar pink fan signals that Cecily is in terrible peril! There is no time to waste. But what, exactly, is the matter? And how can Enola help her? After following too many clues that lead no
Assassin
Grace Cavendish · 201 pages
WHEN MARGARET CAVENDISH, one of Elizabeth I's Gentlewomen of the Bedchamber, lost her life in a bungled attempt to kill the Queen, her daughter, Lady Grace, became a protegee to the monarch, who takes Grace under her wing. Now Grace, a spunky girl who romps through the gardens with the laundry maids and court tumblers and rolls her eyes at her fellow ladies, chronicles the court intrigues that swi
The Callender Papers
Cynthia Voigt · 214 pages
In nineteenth-century Massachusetts, orphan Jean, employed to sort out the family papers of a reclusive artist, becomes curious about the mysterious, long-ago death of his wife and the subsequent disappearance of their young child.
The Luck of the Buttons
Anne Ylvisaker · 224 pages
In Iowa circa 1929, spunky twelve-year-old Tugs vows to turn her family's luck around, with the help of a Brownie camera and a small-town mystery that only she can solve.
Betrayal
Grace Cavendish, Patricia Finney · 197 pages
Now that Lady Grace is the Queen's secret "Lady Pursuivant"--a title normally reserved for those who pursue wrongdoers of the Crown--she can hardly believe that a new mystery has fallen in her lap. But what else can it be when Lady Sarah, a fellow lady-in-waiting known for her fancy clothes and hoity-toity attitude, is missing and feared kidnapped by the dashing Captain Drake. Despite her hard fee
Speaking from Among the Bones
Alan Bradley · 384 pages
Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they’re found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters’ diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred’s death, the English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey is busily preparing to open its patro
The Case of the Girl in Grey
Jordan Stratford · 220 pages
Spotting a ghostly girl in the park who resembles the Wollstonecraft Detective Agency's new client, Lady Ada and Mary discover links between the girl and a case involving a hospital, a missing will, a hasty engagement, and a devious servant.
Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery · 308 pages
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
Holes
Louis Sachar · 240 pages
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green
The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow
Katherine Woodfine · 320 pages
The Truth About Verity Sparks
Susan Green · 297 pages
Secrets in the Hills: A Josefina Mystery
Kathleen Ernst · 183 pages
Josefina has heard tales and legends all her life: rumors of gold and silver buried in the hills and even tales of a ghostly Weeping Woman who haunts the countryside. But she never imagined that such stories might be true. A stranger leads Josefina to believe that the old stories about buried treasure in New Mexico might be true.
With a Name like Love
Tess Hilmo · 249 pages
Thirteen-year-old Olivene Love gets tangled up in a murder mystery when her itinerant preaching family arrives in the small town of Binder, Arkansas in 1957.
A Spy on the Home Front: A Molly Mystery
Alison Hart · 165 pages
During a visit to her grandparents' Illinois farm in 1944, ten-year-old Molly tries to prove the innocence of a German-American neighbor whom the FBI suspects of smuggling anti-American propaganda. Includes historical notes about life on the home front in World War II.
Shadows in the Glasshouse
Megan McDonald · 131 pages
While working as an indentured servant for a Jamestown glassmaker in 1621, twelve-year-old Merry uncovers a case of sabotage.