The Crims

10 best books like The Crims (Kate Davies): Winterhouse, Nightbooks, Greetings from Witness Protection!, Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things, Lions and Liars, The Real McCoys, Samantha Spinner and the Super Secret Plans, The Doughnut Fix, Mr. Lemoncello's All-Star Breakout Game, The Collectors

Winterhouse

Author

Ben Guterson

An enchanting urban fantasy middle-grade debut―the first book in a trilogy―set in a magical hotel full of secrets.

Orphan Elizabeth Somers’s malevolent aunt and uncle ship her off to the ominous Winterhouse Hotel, owned by the peculiar Norbridge Falls. Upon arrival, Elizabeth quickly...

Nightbooks

Author	J.A. White
ISBN	0062560107

A boy is imprisoned by a witch and must tell her a new scary story each night to stay alive. This thrilling contemporary fantasy from J. A. White, the acclaimed author of the Thickety series, brings to life the magic and craft of storytelling.

Alex’s original hair-raising tales are the only...

Greetings from Witness Protection!

Author	Jake Burt
ISBN	1250107113

A funny and poignant debut middle-grade novel about a foster-care girl who is placed with a family in the witness protection program, and finds that hiding in plain sight is complicated and dangerous.
Nicki Demere is an orphan and a pickpocket. She also happens to be the U.S. Marshals’ best bet...

Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things

Author	Lenore Look
ISBN	0375839143

Alvin Ho is an Asian American second grader who is afraid of everything—elevators, tunnels, girls, and, most of all, school. He’s so afraid of school that, while he’s there, he never, ever, says a word. But at home he’s a very loud superhero named Firecracker Man, a brother to Calvin and Anibelly,...

Lions and Liars

Author	Kate Beasley
ISBN	0374302634

Frederick Frederickson has a food-chain theory about life. There are lions, like the school bully. Gazelles, like the bullied kids. There are meerkats, and the fleas that live on the butts of meerkats. Frederick's a flea.

Fifth grade is off to a terrible start when Frederick is sent to a disciplinary...

The Real McCoys

Author

Matthew Swanson

Her name's Moxie. Moxie McCoy.

Bold, opinionated, and haplessly self-confident, the world's greatest fourth-grade detective faces her biggest challenge! When someone kidnaps beloved school mascot Eddie the Owl, Moxie is on the case--but she's forced to fly solo now that her best friend...

Samantha Spinner and the Super Secret Plans

Author	Russell Ginns
ISBN	1524720003

For Samantha Spinner, it just isn't fair. Her uncle Paul disappeared, and here's what he left:
Samantha's sister got a check for $2,400,000,000.
Samantha's brother got the New York Yankees.
And Samantha...got a rusty red umbrella with a tag hanging off of its worn handle. The tag says...

The Doughnut Fix

Author

Jessie Janowitz

Tristan isn't Gifted or Talented like his sister Jeanine, and he's always been okay with that because he can make a perfect chocolate chip cookie and he lives in the greatest city in the world. But his life takes a turn for the worse when his parents decide to move to middle-of-nowhere Petersville―a...

Mr. Lemoncello's All-Star Breakout Game

Author	Chris Grabenstein
ISBN	0525646442

Mr. Lemoncello is going LIVE ACROSS THE NATION in his brand new televised BREAKOUT game! Discover what James Patterson calls "the coolest library in the world" in the fourth puzzle-packed adventure in Chris Grabenstein's New York Times bestselling MR. LEMONCELLO series!

Greetings...

The Collectors

Author

Jacqueline West

Even the smallest wish can be dangerous. That’s why the Collectors are always keeping watch.

Van has always been an outsider. Most people don’t notice him. But he notices them. And he notices the small trinkets they drop, or lose, or throw away—that’s why his collection is full of treasures....