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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAll the Wrong Questions: A Complete Mystery Gift Set
Lemony Snicket · 1,200 pages
Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All
Donald J. Sobol · 96 pages
Leroy Brown is back in the next six books in the Encyclopedia Brown series. As Idavilles ten-year-old star detective, Encyclopedia has an uncanny knack for trivia. With his unconventional knowledge, he solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids through his own detective agency. But his dad also happens to be the chief of the Idaville police department, and every night around the dinner table, Ency
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.
Nate the Great and the Big Sniff
Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, Mitchell Sharmat, Marc Simont · 47 pages
Nate the Great follows the clues to find his lost dog, Sludge, in a department store.
The Abduction
John Grisham · 256 pages
A book about a young man, Theodore Boone, 8th grade son of 2 attorneys, whose passion is the law. His friend disappeared from her bedroom in middle of the night and no one knows anything about it! Who is going to solve the mystery? Theo, of course!
The Name of This Book Is Secret
Pseudonymous Bosch · 372 pages
Warning: this description has not been authorized by Pseudonymous Bosch. As much as he'd love to sing the praises of his book (he is very vain), he wouldn't want you to hear about his brave 11-year old heroes, Cass and Max-Ernest. Or about how a mysterious box of vials, the Symphony of Smells, sends them on the trail of a magician who has vanished under strange (and stinky) circumstances. And h
Horton Halfpott: Or, The Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor; or, The Loosening of M'Lady Luggertuck's Corset
Tom Angleberger
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
Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery
John Feinstein · 272 pages
After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.
The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen: M. T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales
M.T. Anderson · 243 pages
Looking forward to a vacation, Katie, Lily, and Jasper attach their flying Gyroscopic Sky Suite to the Moose Tongue Lodge and Resort, where they mingle with other child heroes found in books, and where they become embroiled in a mystery involving lederhosen-clothed quintuplets and a screaming ventriloquist.
Framed!
James Ponti · 292 pages
In Washington, D.C., twelve-year-old Florian Bates, a consulting detective for the FBI, and his best friend Margaret help thwart the biggest art heist in United States history.
Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal
Jeff Kinney · 224 pages
"In his first journal, middle schooler Rowley Jefferson, Greg Heffley's sidekick, records his experiences and misguided decision to write a biography of Greg, who, in his own mind, is destined to become rich and famous." --
The Spaghetti Detectives
Andreas Steinhofel
Living with his mother in a Berlin apartment house, Rico, a young boy with ADHD, enjoys playing detective games but when his friend Oskar suddenly disappears, possibly taken by a serial kidnapper, Rico determines to use his skills to find his friend.
The Case of Hermie the Missing Hamster
James Preller · 80 pages
The Phantom Of The Subway
Geronimo Stilton, Federatto Brusco · 112 pages
Dark Lord: The Early Years
Jamie Thomson
Evil Dark Lord tries to recover his dignity, his power, and his lands when an arch-foe transports him to a small town, into the body of a thirteen-year-old boy.
Home Sweet Motel
Chris Grabenstein · 284 pages
"P.T. and his friend Gloria must solve a mystery at the world's wackiest motel: The Wonderland"--
Wild Boy
Rob Lloyd Jones · 295 pages
Wild Boy becomes a sideshow freak. Isolated from other children and abused by the cruel master who bought him, Wild Boy becomes an avid observer, developing Sherlock Holmes-like deductive skills. Although he is tormented and insulted, kicked and spat at, his quick mind takes in everything he sees. When a murder occurs at the fair, Wild Boy is accused. Can he use his powers of deduction to save him
The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot
Robert Arthur · 169 pages
In searching for a lost parrot who recites Shakespeare with a stutter, Jupiter Jones' firm of young detectives becomes involved with a missing masterpiece.