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10 best books like How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (Sara Nickerson): Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy, Five Alien Elves, The Steps, Midnight Blue, The Word Eater, Crime Files: Four-Minute Forensic Mysteries: Body of Evidence, Ministry of Pandemonium, My Brother Made Me Do It, Screaming Mummies of the Pharaoh's Tomb II, Smart Dog

Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy
AuthorWendelin Van Draanen
ISBN0679888527
She is supposed to be in church to get "out" of trouble...
Sammy is working off some junior high detention time by helping out at St. Mary's, but when Father Mayhew discovers that his ivory cross has been stolen, Sammy becomes the prime suspect. While she's looking for the real culprit, Sammy is amazed...
Five Alien Elves
AuthorGregory Maguire
ISBN0786244143
I read this having very much enjoyed the Wicked series, mostly out of curiosity in reading Maguire's writing "at a different level." I had my hopes up though I'm not sure what I even expected of this. It's not that Gregory Maguire needs an epic storyline to be entertaining, since I quite liked his short...
The Steps
AuthorRachel Cohn
ISBN0689874146

Twelve-year-old Annabel thought Christmas break was going to be amazing. She'd planned to stay home in New York City with her best friend and do traditional things like go ice-skating in Rockefeller Center, hit the after-Christmas sale at Bloomingdale's, and scream with the TRL crowd at MTV in...
Midnight Blue
AuthorPauline Fisk
ISBN1582349983
Bonnie, a girl torn between the harsh reality of her mother's weaknesses and her grandmother's strong will escapes her home one day by sneaking into her neighbor's hot air balloon. But instead of flying into the clouds and back down, she lands in another world, something like her own, but both kinder...
The Word Eater
AuthorMary Amato
ISBN0823419401
I LOVED this book!

I actually made a goodreads account just so I could come in here and review this book!

I read this book when I was maybe 8 to 10? That's when it came out and I got it at a scholastic book fair! And it has stuck with me all these years. It's such an amazing concept: A worm who eats...
Crime Files: Four-Minute Forensic Mysteries: Body of Evidence
AuthorJeremy Brown
ISBN0439769345
An updated version of Donold Sobol's TWO-MINUTE MYSTERIES, investigated by a CSI using modern forensic techniques rather than old-fashioned sleuthing.

Four-minute forensic mysteries are solved by a cast of quirky but lovable characters. Their wisecracking leader is CSI Wes Burton who...
Ministry of Pandemonium
AuthorChris Westwood
ISBN1847801900
When Ben Harvester meets the mysterious Mr October in Highgate Cemetery, nothing could have prepared him for the strange and dramatic turn his life is about to take.

Soon Mr October is leading him towards his true calling - his work at the Ministry of Pandemonium, helping to guide the dead to...
My Brother Made Me Do It
AuthorPeg Kehret
ISBN0671034197
Oh, BRRRRROTHER!
Hi. I'm Julie Welsh. My nine-year-old brother is always cooking up schemes...and I get blamed. Because I'm older. Eleven, to be exact. But Frankie has his good points too, as I told Mrs. Kaplan, my 89-year-ald pen pal, who lives in Kansas. I write Mrs. Kaplan about everything. Even...
Screaming Mummies of the Pharaoh's Tomb II
AuthorJames Howe
ISBN0689839545

Dear possible reader of this book,
I wasn't sure I'd be able to write a book ever again after Canine Quarterly reviewed my series, Tales from the House of Bunnicula. They said I would never win the Newbony Award. Was I depressed! And I didn't even know what a Newbony was! Luckily Delilah's read...
Smart Dog
AuthorVivian Vande Velde
ISBN0440416108
Amy Prochenko has spent most of fifth grade avoiding both the bully Katilyn Walker, whose bark is as bad as her bite, and Sean Gorman, the only kid less popular than Amy. As if life isn't hard enough, along comes Sherlock.

After escaping from a research laboratory, all Sherlock wants is to be an...
Hauntings And Heists
AuthorDan Poblocki
ISBN0545299802
Can you crack the case with six clues or less?
Welcome to Moon Hollow, where mystery lurks around every corner--and four kids have come together to solve crimes and puzzles big and small.
Whether they're debunking sea monsters, thwarting bullies, or revealing who threw out mom's asparagus,...
Charlie's Raven
AuthorJean Craighead George
ISBN0142405477
So Charlie brings home Blue Sky, a baby raven with a big personality. Blue Sky imprints on Charlie and becomes a great friend and a source of amazement to the whole family. Granddad, an old naturalist, is intrigued, and he does seem to get better-at least for a while. But caring for a wild creature is very...
If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems About School
AuthorKalli Dakos
ISBN0689801165
For every student who’s ever worried about spending a lifetime in the third grade and for every teacher who’s faced a class where nobody remembered to bring milk money, these thirty-eight poems capture the excitement, challenge, heartbreak, and wonder of life in elementary school. Through her...
How Angel Peterson Got His Name
AuthorGary Paulsen
ISBN0440229359
When you grow up in a small town in the north woods, you have to make your own excitement. High spirits, idiocy, and showing off for the girls inspire Gary Paulsen and his friends to attempt:
• Shooting waterfalls in a barrel • The first skateboarding • Jumping three barrels like motorcycle...
The Beloved Dearly
AuthorDoug Cooney
ISBN0689863543

Ernie is a twelve-year-old tycoon, always on the lookout for a fast buck. This time he stumbles onto a money-making bonanza: pet funerals. He hires Dusty to decorate the burial boxes and Tony to dig the holes, but his prize find is Swimming Pool, a tomboy who can cry on cue. Business goes through the...
The Ghost of Fossil Glen
AuthorCynthia C. DeFelice
ISBN0380731754
Allie Nichols is being pursued by a ghost. Her friend Karen calls Allie a liar and doesn't want to hear "stuff like that." But her old pal, Dub, listens eagerly as Allie tells him about the voice that guides her down a steep cliff side, the girl she imagines who begs, "Help me," and a terrible nightmare in...
The Summer of Riley
AuthorEve Bunting
ISBN0064409279
Enjoy best-selling author Eve Bunting’s moving story about the bond between a boy and his dog.

"Maybe that's one of the reasons people get dogs, to kind of close up the empty places inside them."

Eleven-year-old William never needed a friend more than now. After his parents' separation,...
The Last Dog on Earth
AuthorDaniel Ehrenhaft
ISBN0440419506
The Last Dog on Earth is book I remember well. I'd ordered it from a book order catalogue through my elementary school back in 2007 (now I feel old; time flies too fast .
Spirit Seeker
AuthorJoan Lowery Nixon
ISBN0440226856
For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Spirit Seeker from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon.
 
        Holly Campbell’s life has suddenly become a newspaper-headline nightmare. The parents of her friend Cody Garnett...
Blackthorn Winter
AuthorKathryn Reiss
ISBN0152054790
The last place fifteen-year-old Juliana wants to be is halfway around the world in Blackthorn, England, an idyllic seaside artists' colony her mother has dragged her off to while her parents weather a trial separation.

Juliana misses her father terribly and doesn't understand why her mother...
The Mystery at Claudia's House
AuthorAnn M. Martin
ISBN0590449613
this is my first time reading this book!

in another non-mystery mystery (like the last one, Mary Anne and the Secret in the Attic) by ghostwriter ellen miles, claudia's sister janine starts acting strangely. she is wearing makeup, missing dinner, and lying about going to the library. for some...
Marco's Millions
AuthorWilliam Sleator
ISBN0142302171
When Marco's shy and fragile little sister, Lilly, tells him about the strange lights in the basement, he thinks she's imagining things. But Marco is curious, and before long he investigates. He finds a passage into a strange world, where he meets insect-like creatures who seem to know all about Lilly....
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