Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things
10 best books like Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things (Wendelin Van Draanen): The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues, The Serpent's Secret, Navigating Early, Gilda Joyce: The Ghost Sonata, Gilda Joyce: The Dead Drop, Peter and the Sword of Mercy, Silverwing, Apollo: The Brilliant One, The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan, I Am So Handsome
| Author | Ellen Raskin |
| ISBN | 0140329803 |
This is a sophisticated mystery that takes little readers seriously. I read about a trillion Agatha Christies when I was a child, and those are written for grownups but I remember this kids' book being way more emotionally compelling and intellectually layered... though you know, Agatha Christie...
| Author | Sayantani DasGupta |
| ISBN | 1338185705 |
MEET KIRANMALA: INTERDIMENSIONAL DEMON SLAYER
(Only she doesn't know it yet.)
On the morning of her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala is just a regular sixth grader living in Parsippany, New Jersey... until her parents mysteriously vanish and a drooling rakkhosh demon slams through her...
| Author | Clare Vanderpool |
| ISBN | 0385742096 |
At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly uprooted after his mother’s death and placed in a boy’s boarding school in Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the strangest of boys, who reads the number pi as a story and collects clippings about the sightings of...
Gilda Joyce: The Ghost Sonata
| Author | Jennifer Allison |
| ISBN | 0525478086 |
When her best friend, Wendy Choy, qualifies to compete in an international piano competition in Oxford, England, irrepressible Gilda Joyce finds a way to get an invitation herself—as a page-turner. Wendy settles into an exhausting practice schedule, made worse by strange nightmares, while Gilda...
| Author | Jennifer Allison |
| ISBN | 0525479805 |
When Gilda lands a summer internship at Washington, D.C.'s International Spy Museum, she finds herself embroiled in both a museum haunting and a real case of espionage. While investigating a cemetery where Abraham Lincoln's son was once buried, Gilda stumbles upon a spy's ?dead drop? of classified...
| Author | Dave Barry |
| ISBN | 1423309758 |
The year is 1902 - it's been twenty-three years since Peter and the Lost Boys returned from Rundoon. Since then, nobody on the island has grown a day older, and the Lost Boys continue their friendship with the Mollusk tribe, and their rivalry with Captain Hook. Meanwhile in London, Molly has married George...
| Author | Kenneth Oppel |
| ISBN | 0006481795 |
Shade is a young Silverwing bat, the runt of his colony. But he's determined to prove himself on the long, dangerous winter migration to Hibernaculum, millions of wingbeats to the south. During a fierce storm, he loses the others and soon faces the most incredible journey of his young life. Desperately...
Apollo: The Brilliant One
| Author | George O'Connor |
| ISBN | 1626720150 |
From high atop Olympus, the nine Muses, or Mousai, recount the story of the powerful and quick-tempered Apollo, the Brilliant One. Born of a she-wolf and Zeus, King of Gods, Apollo is destined fro the greatest of victories and most devastating of failures as his temper, privilege, and pride take him...
| Author | Nancy Springer |
| ISBN | 0399247807 |
I will come right out and admit that I definitely allowed myself to picture a particular Mr. Cumberbatch throughout the Sherlock cameos in this story, which had me laughing quite heartily. I loved the scenes that Sherlock shared with Enola, the sibling relationship was humorous and tense, quite realistic...
This book was on our "New Shelf" at work. I had to pick it up. This is a story about a wolf who is very full of himself. He thinks he is the best looking animal in the forest. He comes across Little Red Riding Hood and asks her who is the most handsome creature in the woods? She says that it is him. Mr. Wolf then meets...
Amory Ames is a wealthy young woman who regrets her marriage to her notoriously charming playboy husband, Milo. Looking for a change, she accepts a request for help from her former fiancé, Gil Trent, not knowing that she’ll soon become embroiled in a murder investigation that will test not only her...
Murder on Black Swan Lane
| Author | Andrea Penrose |
| ISBN | 1496710770 |
In Regency London, an unconventional scientist and a fearless female artist form an unlikely alliance to expose unspeakable evil . . .
The Earl of Wrexford possesses a brilliant scientific mind, but boredom and pride lead him to reckless behavior. He does not suffer fools gladly. So when pompous,...
The Egyptian Antiquities Murder
An opulent London townhouse, a mummy curse . . .
. . . and a plucky lady detective. It’s October, 1923, and Olive Belgrave has a new case. Her client, Lady Agnes doesn’t believe in curses, and she hires Olive to prove her Egyptologist uncle wasn’t the victim of a malevolent mummy. Olive investigates...
A wealthy lord who happens to be a brilliant scientist . . . an enigmatic young widow who secretly pens satirical cartoons . . . a violent killing disguised as a robbery . . . Nothing is as it seems in Regency London, especially when the Earl of Wrexford and Charlotte Sloane join forces to solve a shocking...
Lady Katherine juggles Christmas festivities, a perplexing cold case and a wager with the annoying Captain Wayland that will prove once and for all which of them is the better detective.It's the Christmas season in London, but the holiday festivities don't deter Lady Katherine from investigating...
| Author | Kate Klimo |
| ISBN | 0375869751 |
Malora knows what she was born to be: a horse wrangler and a hunter, just like her father. But when her people are massacred by batlike monsters called Leatherwings, Malora will need her horse skills just to survive. The last living human, Malora roams the wilderness at the head of a band of magnificent...
Beyond Sunday: Becoming a 24/7 Catholic
Countless Catholics settle for a life of faith that begins and ends with the obligatory Sunday Mass. While essential, giving just one hour of our lives to God can never satisfy our deep longing for a purposeful, joy-filled life. In Beyond Sunday: Becoming a 24/7 Catholic, radio host Teresa Tomeo gets...
| Author | Ben Mikaelson |
| ISBN | 0060090081 |
Cole Mathews used to be a violent kid, but a year in exile on a remote Alaskan island has a way of changing your perspective. After being mauled by a Spirit Bear and eating mice, worms, and even his own vomit to survive, Cole started to heal. He even invited his victim, Peter Driscal, to join him on the island...
