Sam The Cat Detective
10 best books like Sam The Cat Detective (Linda Stewart): Miss Seeton Cracks the Case, The Vacation, Birdie's Book, Whittington, The Kingdom of Carbonel, Cat, You Better Come Home, Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates, Robbie Forester and the Outlaws of Sherwood Street, The Cats of Roxville Station, Oscar, Cat-About-Town
Miss Seeton Cracks the Case
| Author | Hamilton Crane |
| ISBN | 0425126765 |
It was the perfect day for a coach tour until a band of thugs blocked the road and robbed the passengers. It's a tough case to solve, but luckily the intrepid Miss Seeton, a retired art teacher, and a passenger on the ill-fated tour, steps in with her sketches of the bandits. But when she returns to her tranquil...
| Author | Polly Horvath |
| ISBN | 0374380708 |
From the author of the Newbery Honor Book Everything on a Waffle
When his mother decides on a whim to be a missionary in Africa and drags his unwilling father with her, Henry is left in the care of his Aunts Magnolia and Pigg. Henry's sure they dislike him and he's trying to keep his distance, but...
Where do fairy godmothers come from?
When Birdie goes to visit her grandmother for the first time, she learns that her grandmother is a fairy godmother—which means Birdie's a fairy godmother too! Trained by fairies in a magical land called Aventurine, human fairy godmothers have been hidden...
| Author | Alan Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0375828656 |
This Newbery-Honor winning tale introduces Whittington, a roughneck Tom who arrives one day at a barn full of rescued animals and asks for a place there. He spins for the animals—as well as for Ben and Abby, the kids whose grandfather does the rescuing—a yarn about his ancestor, the nameless cat...
| Author | Barbara Sleigh |
| ISBN | 0140304940 |
A long-awaited reissue of the much-loved sequel to Carbonel, King of the Cats. In this second story, published over forty years ago, Carbonel has been summoned to appear before the Great Cat but before he goes he has to find someone to look after his two royal kittens. And so he tracks down his young friends...
| Author | Garrison Keillor |
| ISBN | 0670851124 |
A charming tale of a snobby cat running off to live a life of luxury, eventually realizing that she didn’t have it so bad back home after all.
Level: 4.2
Genre: Picture Book. Large illustrations adorn every page, with smaller illustrations occasionally intermingled within the...
| Author | Seán Cullen |
| ISBN | 0670065021 |
Meet Hamish X!
Orphan, Enigma, and Enemy to Pirates Everywhere.
The mysterious Hamish X is the scourge of the Orphan Disposal Agency—Agents Candy and Sweet can’t seem to find a facility that can hold him. After arriving at the Windcity Orphanage, where the children are forced to earn their...
Robbie Forester and the Outlaws of Sherwood Street
| Author | Peter Abrahams |
| ISBN | 0399255028 |
Stephen King's "Favorite American Suspense Novelist" is launching a new series for middle graders
Robbie Forester always knew life wasn't fair, but she never thought she could do anything about it. Until one day a powerful charm comes into her possession, a charm that guides her, her three...
| Author | Jean Craighead George |
| ISBN | 0525421408 |
Rachet was thrown into a river to drown. But she claws up the riverbank and finds a home with the feral cats living by the Roxville train station. Amid foxes, raccoons, owls, and hostile humans, the cats fight for territory, hunt, and are hunted. Mike, a foster child, lives near the station. He spots Rachet...
| Author | James Herriot |
| ISBN | 0312051379 |
Having read about Oscar in James Herriot’s Cat Stories, I wanted to see if the delightful story could be improved in any way as a picture book. It definitely is a treasure. The story has been trimmed to focus on how a lost cat was adopted by the Herriot’s only to be reclaimed by its owners, yet there is...
| Author | Tor Seidler |
| ISBN | 0064407799 |
Montague Mad-Rat lives a solitary existence in the sewers of New York City. His only delights are scavenging through Central Park for feathers and berries for his mother, and painting the seashells his aunt brings him. One day, he rescues the beautiful Isabel Moberly-Rat, and upon escorting her home...
| Author | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| ISBN | 0689874073 |
It's a scary world out there.
If only Marco hadn't read a newspaper article about a ranch and become determined to see one. If only Polo hadn't found himself longing for the mother he barely remembered as a soft-warm-wiggle-purr-milk-tongue. Then the two tabbies might have been content to remain...
The Last Newspaper Boy in America
| Author | Sue Corbett |
| ISBN | 0525422056 |
Wil David can't wait to take over his brother's paper route. For years it has been the tradition in his family to hand over the route to the next boy in line on his twelfth birthday, and Wil is just about to turn twelve and get his chance to put his sidearm throw into action. But when the newspaper company cancels...
| Author | Michael Hoeye |
| ISBN | 0399244905 |
There's something prickly going on in the town of Thorny End, and as Hermux Tantamoq is about to discover, it's not just the roses. When rose magnate Androse deRosenquil asks him to take on an intriguing missing squirrel case, Hermux can't say no and before he knows it, he's caught up in a mystery involving...
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0439551919 |
Not every cat is born with wings. There's "Wonderful" Alexander Furby, for one, a kitten raised by a rich owner to feel entitled to every advantage of wealth. Alexander is convinced that no one can resist his charm and bravery; that is, until the day curiosity prompts him to slip out through the garden...
| Author | Patricia MacLachlan |
| ISBN | 0060279788 |
From cuddler to troublemaker, kitten to tom, cats have a lot to say. Authors Patricia MacLachlan and Emily MacLachlan Charest and illustrator Barry Moser give voice to and celebrate our most opinionated furry friends in this spirited collection of poems filled with rich language, perfect for reading...
| Author | Phyllis Root |
| ISBN | 0763641642 |
A lonely cat, a rainy night, and an empty dinghy launch a heartwarming, seafaring tale about finding home in unlikely places.
The scrawny cat used to belong to someone, someone who scratched his ears and let him lick her chin and knew his name. Now the only thing anyone ever calls him is "get out...
| Author | Maria E. Schneider |
| ISBN | 0615448747 |
Sedona is given the opportunity of a lifetime: play an up-and-coming executive with all the trappings of wealth with someone else footing the bill. The catch: find out who is stealing company funds before the criminals find out that their program is being debugged.
Sedona runs into danger,...
| Author | Patrick Dennis |
| ISBN | 0971461228 |
The divorce of popular author Pat Tanner and his wife Louise in the early nineteen-sixties was something of a surprise to their friends; though it was no secret (least of all to Louise) that he was gay and had been in extensive psychiatric care because of the stress of it, the pair were amicable and naturally...
| Author | Bill Wallace |
| ISBN | 0671693352 |
It's not easy being a kitten. Don't get me wrong. I love being scratched behind the ears, chasing Butch the dog, and eating Mother's stew. My brother Toby and I learned about "people things" when we were adopted by Sarah and Ben. The only problem with kid-people is the games they like to play, like "Dress...
| Author | Dorothy St. James |
| ISBN | 0425240576 |
Casey Calhoun is not your typical assistant gardener at the White House. She was brought in by the First Lady to make the gardening at the White House more organic, more earth friendly. Casey is also very organized, observant and detail oriented. While getting the grounds ready for the annual Easter...
| Author | Joseph Bruchac |
| ISBN | 0803730985 |
Joseph Bruchac, a gifted and prolific author who has explored his Abenaki (Native American) heritage through numerous genres of writing, including historical, contemporary and horror fiction; poetry, folktale anthologies; picture books; juvenile biographies; and non-fiction; here adds to...
| Author | Mike Cooper |
| ISBN | 0670023299 |
A tough, topical financial thriller that exposes the dark underbelly of Wall Street.
After a stint in the Middle East, black ops vet Silas Cade becomes an "accountant"-the go-to for financiers who need things done quickly, quietly, and by any means necessary. Silas is hired by a major player to pay...
While vacationing in Mexico, two similar-looking young women find themselves caught in a chain reaction of mistaken identities. Amelia is a wealthy heiress and business owner, and Savannah is a sweet Mormon girl deciding whether or not to serve a mission. When they end up on the same flight to Phoenix,...
