Becoming Holmes: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Final Case
9 best books like Becoming Holmes: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Final Case (Shane Peacock): The Book Charmer, The Night Dance: A Retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses, 14 Cows for America, The Nixie's Song, Chasing Lincoln's Killer, The Ghostwriter Secret, The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman, The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot, A Gentlewoman's Guide to Murder
| Author | Karen Hawkins |
| ISBN | 1982105542 |
The New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular MacLean Curse series crafts a charming and evocative story about a picturesque Southern town, two fiercely independent women, and a magical friendship that will change their lives forever.
The residents of Dove Pond, North Carolina,...
| Author | Suzanne Weyn |
| ISBN | 1416905790 |
Under the stars, in a secret world...
Rowena, the youngest of twelve sisters, loves to slip out of the castle at night and dance in a magical forest. Soon she convinces her sisters to join her. When Sir Ethan notices that his daughters' slippers look tattered every morning, he is certain they've been...
| Author | Carmen Agra Deedy |
| ISBN | 1561454907 |
In June of 2002, a ceremony begins in a village in western Kenya. Hundreds of Maasai surround an American diplomat to bestow a gift on the American people. The gift is as unsought and unexpected as it is extraordinary. A mere nine months have passed since the September 11 attacks, and hearts are raw. Tears...
| Author | Tony DiTerlizzi |
| ISBN | 0689871317 |
The Spiderwick Chronicles leave the old-fashioned charm of New England far behind and head south for some fiendish faerie fun in the hot Florida sun. Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter...
| Author | James L. Swanson |
| ISBN | 0545204704 |
Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER is a fast-paced thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C.,...
| Author | Mac Barnett |
| ISBN | 1416978178 |
Steve Brixton is fast becoming America's top detective. After saving the United States of America in The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity, he has opened his own agency. Steve gets a call to solve the case of the Fairview diamond but it turns into an even bigger mystery. MacArthur Bart, author of Steve's...
| Author | Meg Wolitzer |
| ISBN | 0525423044 |
At first glance, Duncan Dorfman, April Blunt, and Nate Saviano don't seem to have much in common. Duncan is trying to look after his single mom and adjust to life in a new town while managing his newfound Scrabble superpower - he can feel words and pictures beneath his fingers and tell what they are without...
The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot
| Author | Robert Arthur |
| ISBN | 0679811710 |
This, not Nancy Drew, was my favorite mystery series when I was a kid. Sure, I read Nancy, but she was an independently wealthy titian-headed paragon who I could never live up to. Why didn't she get a job, or go to college? Was she just killing time solving mysteries until Ned graduated from college and married...
A Gentlewoman's Guide to Murder
"[An] outstanding series launch. ... Hamilton expertly balances the page-turning detection with the story of a hypocritical society where women, whether they are scullery maids or orphans, rarely get to make their own decisions."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Scandal and slayings among...
