13 Hangmen

9 best books like 13 Hangmen (Art Corriveau): Liar & Spy, Splendors and Glooms, The Case of the Stolen Sixpence, Mr. and Mrs. Bunny — Detectives Extraordinaire!, Operation Bunny, The Vanishing Coin, Charlie Glass's Slippers: A Very Modern Fairy Tale, Emma and the Blue Genie, Meet Me at the Museum

Liar & Spy

Author	Rebecca Stead
ISBN	0385737432

When seventh grader Georges (the S is silent) moves into a Brooklyn apartment building, he meets Safer, a twelve-year-old coffee-drinking loner and self-appointed spy. Georges becomes Safer's first spy recruit. His assignment? Tracking the mysterious Mr. X, who lives in the apartment upstairs....

Splendors and Glooms

Author	Laura Amy Schlitz
ISBN	0763653802

The master puppeteer, Gaspare Grisini, is so expert at manipulating his stringed puppets that they appear alive. Clara Wintermute, the only child of a wealthy doctor, is spellbound by Grisini’s act and invites him to entertain at her birthday party. Seeing his chance to make a fortune, Grisini accepts...

The Case of the Stolen Sixpence

Author	Holly Webb
ISBN	0544339282

This was a super cute start to a mystery series featuring a ambitious girl named Maisie, who wants desperately to be a detective. I'm a huge fan of historical mysteries in my adult reading, and I thought this Victorian mystery was so fun for middle grade readers. The mystery features some missing coins...

Mr. and Mrs. Bunny — Detectives Extraordinaire!

Author	Polly Horvath
ISBN	0375867554

In this hilarious chapter book mystery, meet a girl whose parents have been kidnapped by disreputable foxes, and a pair of detectives that also happen to be bunnies! When Madeline gets home from school one afternoon to discover that her parents have gone missing, she sets off to find them. So begins...

Operation Bunny

Author	Sally Gardner
ISBN	1444003720

When Emily Vole inherits an abandoned shop, she discovers a magical world she never knew existed. But a fairy-hating witch, a mischievous set of golden keys, and a train full of brightly coloured bunnies are just a few of the surprises that come with it.

With the help of a talking cat called Fidget...

The Vanishing Coin

Author	Kate Egan
ISBN	1250029147

Want to see something cool?
I can make that quarter vanish.
All it takes is a little magic…

Fourth grade was supposed to be a fresh start, but Mike's already back in the principal's office. He's not a bad kid. He just can't sit still. And now, his parents won't let him play soccer anymore;...

Charlie Glass's Slippers: A Very Modern Fairy Tale

Author	Holly McQueen
ISBN	1476727058

In this delightful, clever spin on Cinderella, Charlie Glass—a heroine as loveable as Cannie Shapiro and Bridget Jones—inherits her father’s shoe empire and snatches up a drop-dead-gorgeous, multi-millionaire Prince Charming. But is he truly the key to her happily ever after?

When...

Emma and the Blue Genie

Author

Cornelia Funke

What if a genie had no wishes?

Cornelia Funke, New York Times bestselling author of Inkheart, brings her signature imagination, adventure, and humor to the youngest of middle-grade readers in this charming tale of magic lost and found.

One dark night, Emma finds a mysterious green...

Meet Me at the Museum

Author	Anne Youngson
ISBN	0857525522

Please be aware I am writing to you to make sense of myself ...

When the curator of a Danish museum responds to a query about ancient exhibits, he doesn’t expect a reply.

When Tina Hopgood first wrote it, nor did she …

Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost...