Legend of the Ghost Dog

10 best books like Legend of the Ghost Dog (Elizabeth Cody Kimmel): Book Scavenger, Wait Till Helen Comes, Short, The Old Willis Place, The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall, The Body in the Woods, Just a Girl, Closed for the Season, The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey, Notes from the Dog

Book Scavenger

Author	Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
ISBN	1627791159

A hidden book. A found cipher. A game begins . . . .

Twelve-year-old Emily is on the move again. Her family is relocating to San Francisco, home of her literary idol: Garrison Griswold, creator of the online sensation Book Scavenger, a game where books are hidden all over the country and clues...

Wait Till Helen Comes

Author	Mary Downing Hahn
ISBN	0380704420

Beware of Helen...Heather is such a whiny little brat. Always getting Michael and me into trouble. But since our mother married her father, we're stuck with her...our "poor stepsister" who lost her real mother in a mysterious fire. But now something terrible has happened. Heather has found a new friend,...

Short

Author	Holly Goldberg Sloan
ISBN	0399186212

Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the summer run of The Wizard of Oz, she'll realize how big she is inside, where it counts. She hasn't ever thought of herself as a performer, but when the wonderful director of Oz casts her as a Munchkin, she begins to see herself in a new way. As Julia becomes...

The Old Willis Place

Author	Mary Downing Hahn
ISBN	0618430180

Diana and her little brother Georgie have been living in the woods behind the old Willis place, a decaying Victorian mansion, for what already seems like forever. They aren’t allowed to leave the property or show themselves to anyone. But when a new caretaker comes to live there with his young daughter,...

The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall

Author	Mary Downing Hahn
ISBN	0547385609

When twelve-year-old Florence boards the crowded horse-drawn coach in London, she looks forward to a new life with her great uncle and aunt at Crutchfield Hall, an old manor house in the English countryside. Anything will be better, she thinks, than the grim London orphanage where she has lived...

The Body in the Woods

Author	April Henry
ISBN	0805098526

In this new series told from multiple perspectives, teen members of a search and rescue team discover a dead body in the woods.

Alexis, Nick, and Ruby have very different backgrounds: Alexis has spent her life covering for her mom’s mental illness, Nick’s bravado hides his fear of not being...

Just a Girl

Author	Jane Caro
ISBN	0702238805

I do not remember when I discovered how my mother died, it seems to be something I always knew, a horror I absorbed through my skin.

Determined, passionate and headstrong, Elizabeth I shaped the destiny of a kingdom.

Her mother; Anne Boleyn, was executed by her father Henry VIII. From...

Closed for the Season

Author

Mary Downing Hahn

A contemporary thriller by the bestselling author of The Old Willis Place.

Two 13-year-old boys, Arthur and Logan, set out to solve the mystery of a murder that took place some years ago in the old house Logan's family has just moved into. The boys' quest takes them to the highest and lowest levels...

The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey

Author	Louise Borden
ISBN	0618339248

In 1940, Hans and Margret Rey fled their Paris home as the German army advanced. They began their harrowing journey on bicycles, pedaling to Southern France with children's book manuscripts among their few possessions.

Louise Borden combed primary resources, including Hans Rey's pocket...

Notes from the Dog

Author	Gary Paulsen
ISBN	0385738455

“Sometimes having company is not all it’s cracked up to be.” Fourteen-year-old Finn is a loner, living with his dad and his amazing dog, Dylan. This summer he’s hoping for a job where he doesn’t have to talk to anyone except his pal Matthew. Then Johanna moves in next door. She’s 10 years older,...

Buddy

Author	M.H. Herlong
ISBN	0670014036

A classic boy-and-dog tale in the tradition of Old Yeller

Tyrone "Li'l T" Roberts meets Buddy when his family's car accidentally hits the stray dog on their way to church. Buddy turns out to be the dog Li'l T's always wished for--until Hurricane Katrina comes to New Orleans and he must leave Buddy...