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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorEscape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
Chris Grabenstein · 304 pages
"A worthy successor to **the original madman** puzzle-master himself, **Willy Wonka**." --*Booklist*, Starred WHEN KYLE LEARNS THAT THE WORLD'S MOST famous game maker has designed the town's new library and is having an invitation-only lock-in on the first night, he's determined to be there. But the tricky part isn't getting into the library--it's getting *out*. Kyle's going to need all his sm
The Children of Green Knowe
L.M. Boston · 157 pages
Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.
A Rare Book of Cunning Device
Ben Aaronovitch
Somewhere amongst the shadowy stacks and the many basements of the British library, something is very much amiss - and we're not talking late returns here. Is it a ghost, or something much worse? PC Peter Grant really isn't looking forward to finding out....
The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn
John Bellairs · 180 pages
When Miss Eells gives young Anthony a job at the library, he thinks he’ll just be dusting shelves and filing books. Instead, he discovers a hidden clue leading to the treasure of eccentric millionaire Alpheus Winterborn. Miss Eells thinks the clues are a practical joke left by the odd, old Winterborn before he died. But then why do things suddenly start getting so strange? And terrifying?
Inkheart
Cornelia Funke · 560 pages
Characters from books literally leap off the page in this engrossing fantasy. Meggie, 12, has had her father to herself since her mother went away when she was young. Mo taught her to read when she was five, and the two share a mutual love of books. Things change after a visit from a scarred man who calls himself Dustfinger and who refers to Mo as Silvertongue. Meggie learns that her father has be
Beautiful Creatures
Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl · 563 pages
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
The Deserted Library Mystery
Gertrude Chandler Warner · 121 pages
At an old library, the Alden children discover a boy who needs their help and a stranger who is after a valuable object they found in the library.
The Ghost in the Third Row
Bruce Coville · 135 pages
Seven-Day Magic
Edward Eager · 156 pages
A seven-day book of magic proves to be fractious for five children, who must learn the book's rules and tame its magic.
The Screaming Staircase
Jonathan Stroud · 452 pages
*Follows three young operatives of a Psychic Detection Agency as they battle an epidemic of ghosts in London.* This book is part of a brilliant series for children (and parents) who love to be creeped out. It’s set in London when the city is experiencing an outbreak of ghosts who kill people if they come into contact with them. The catch: only children can see them. These stories features the k
The Girl Who Cried Monster
R.L. Stine · 137 pages
A girl loves torturing her younger brother with stories of monsters. When she leaves something back at the library, and goes to get it, she sees something that makes her wish that she had never told any of those stories because now, no one believes her.
Gilda Joyce: Psychic Investigator
Jennifer Allison · 321 pages
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones
Alvin Schwartz · 115 pages
Scary Stories 3 is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends, in which folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time.
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat
Chris Riddell · 171 pages
Children's storybook with lots of pictures by the author. Ottoline Brown lives with Mr. Monroe, a small and hairy creature from a bog in Norway. The pair solve a mystery involving missing jewels, missing lap dogs and a mysterious yellow cat.
Matilda
Roald Dahl · 240 pages
Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
Library Mouse
Daniel Kirk · 32 pages
Sam, a shy but creative mouse who lives in a library, decides to write and illustrate his own stories which he places on the shelves with the other library books but when children find the tales, they all want to meet the author.
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
Brandon Sanderson · 314 pages
A hero with an incredible talent...for breaking things. A life-or-death mission...to rescue a bag of sand. A fearsome threat from a powerful secret network...the evil Librarians. Alcatraz Smedry doesn't seem destined for anything but disaster. On his 13th birthday he receives a bag of sand, which is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians plotting to take over the world. The sand will gi
My Haunted House
Angie Sage
Araminta enlists the help of several ghosts in an attempt to stop her Aunt Tabby from selling Spook House.
The Bobbsey Twins of Lakeport
Laura Lee Hope · 178 pages
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.