Death of a Kleptomaniac

6 best books like Death of a Kleptomaniac (Kristen Tracy): The Mysterious Howling, Driving Miss Daisy, Beautiful Mess, Lost Boy: The Story of the Man Who Created Peter Pan, Codename Villanelle, Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse

The Mysterious Howling
AuthorMaryrose Wood
ISBN0061791059
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place are no ordinary children, Miss Penelope Lumley is no ordinary governess, and mysteries abound in this first volume in a new series for ages 9+.

Found running wild in the forest of Ashton Place, the Incorrigibles are no ordinary children: Alexander,...
Driving Miss Daisy
AuthorAlfred Uhry
ISBN0930452895
The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Wertham, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, is informed by her son, Boolie, that henceforth she must rely on the services of a chauffeur. The person he hires...
AuthorClaire Christian
ISBN1925498549
Since Ava lost Kelly, things haven’t been going so well. Even before she gets thrown out of school for shouting at the principal, there’s the simmering rage and all the weird destructive choices. The only thing going right for Ava is her job at Magic Kebab.

Which is where she meets Gideon....
Lost Boy: The Story of the Man Who Created Peter Pan
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0525478868
People around the world know the story of Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up, but not many know the story of his creator, J. M. Barrie. Barrie’s young childhood was marked by sorrow, but also held great adventure. His adult life and relationship with the Davies family brought about a second childhood...
Codename Villanelle
AuthorLuke Jennings
ISBN0316512524
Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopath whose love for the creature comforts of her luxurious lifestyle is second only to her love of the game, she specializes in murdering the world's richest and most powerful. But when she murders an influential...
Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse
AuthorJane Yolen
A young woman discovers the power to speak up and take control of her fate—a theme that has never been more timely than it is now…

You think you know this story.
You do not.

A harsh, controlling father. A quiescent mother. A house that feels like anything but a home. Natasha gathers...
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