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10 best books like The Lost Treasure of Tuckernuck (Emily Fairlie): Walls Within Walls, The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill, Freaky Fast Frankie Joe, Pickle: The (Formerly) Anonymous Prank Club of Fountain Point Middle School, Double Vision, The Frog Who Croaked, Cats at Sea, Mountain of Bones, The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons, Lester's Dreadful Sweaters

Walls Within Walls
AuthorMaureen Sherry
Perfect for tween readers who enjoy mysteries and puzzles and books like Chasing Vermeer, this page-turning debut novel is filled with adventure, intrigue, and heart.

After their father, a video-game inventor, strikes it rich, the Smithfork kids find they hate their new life. They move...
The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill
AuthorMegan Frazer Blakemore
ISBN1619633485
Hazel Kaplansky is a firm believer in the pursuit of knowledge and truth-and she also happens to love a good mystery. When suspicions swirl that a Russian spy has infiltrated her small town of Maple Hill, Vermont, amidst the fervor of Cold War era McCarthyism, Hazel knows it's up to her to find a suspect…...
Freaky Fast Frankie Joe
AuthorLutricia "Lu" Clifton
ISBN0823423670
When twelve-year-old Frankie Joe's mother is sent to jail, he is uprooted from his home in Texas to live with the father he has never met, his father's wife, and his father's four "legitimate" sons in Illinois. Frankie Joe is miserable. Trying to adjust to his blended family proves too much to bear, so...
Pickle: The (Formerly) Anonymous Prank Club of Fountain Point Middle School
AuthorKim Baker
ISBN1596437650
Junior Library Guild Selection

This is the story of THE LEAGUE OF PICKLE MAKERS.

Ben: who began it all by sneaking in one night and filling homeroom with ball-pit balls.

Frank: who figured out that an official club, say a pickle making club, could receive funding from the PTA.

Oliver:...
Double Vision
AuthorF.T. Bradley
ISBN0062104373
Fans of 39 Clues and Artemis Fowl will enjoy the fun, fresh thrill ride through this humorous, action-packed adventure from debut author F. T. Bradley.

In the trilogy opener, twelve-year-old Lincoln Baker finds himself in a world of trouble! First, Linc’s seemingly harmless prank on a...
The Frog Who Croaked
AuthorJarrett J. Krosoczka
ISBN0062071645
From the Files of the Platypus Police Squad

Case #1138 Detectives of record: Rick Zengo and Corey O'Malley

Case brief: A local schoolteacher is missing, and the only thing fishier than the circumstances surrounding his disappearance is the smell coming from the bag he left behind....
Cats at Sea
AuthorLisa Martin
ISBN1616202467
Black and white line drawings illustrate each chapter.

For ages 8-12, grades 3-7.

A swashbuckling story of two very different cat brothers and their adventures at sea.

Cat brothers Cecil and Anton are as different as port and starboard. Cecil, stocky and black with white...
Mountain of Bones
AuthorChristopher Krovatin
ISBN0062077406
Ian was the one who chased the majestic buck into the forest. Kendra and PJ followed him. They all hoped to return to the hiking trail before anyone noticed they were gone. However, the mountain had other plans for them: dark, sinister plans that only nightmares are made of. Now they don't know where they...
The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons
AuthorBarbara Mariconda
ISBN0062119796
An enchanted flute that vibrates when danger is near, sparkling mist that unlocks a drawer of family secrets, and a bookcase that expands to conceal her hiding place—these are the bits of magic Lucy P. Simmons has experienced since her parents drowned at sea.

The magic is helping Lucy keep...
Lester's Dreadful Sweaters
AuthorK.G. Campbell
ISBN1554537703
I love the premise of this story and found it hilarious, tinged with a bit of sadness until the very happy and funny ending. The illustrations definitely fit the story and were also properly amusing, but except for the adorable dog, I can’t say I found them aesthetically pleasing. The dog and its expressiveness...
The Island of Thieves
AuthorJosh Lacey
ISBN1849392455
Buried treasure. Ruthless gangsters. An ancient clue . . .

Our Captayne took the pinnace ashore and I went with hym and six men also, who were sworne by God to be secret in al they saw. Here we buried five chests filled with gold.

Tom Trelawney was looking for excitement. Now he's found...
The Fire King
AuthorPaul Crilley
ISBN1606840320
With humans threatened by otherworldly creatures, orphans Emily and William Snow, and their friends the pickpocket Spring-Heeled Jack and the wisecracking Corrigan find themselves two hundred years in the past, trapped in the London of 1666. Desperately in need of help, they go in search of Sir Christopher...
Always October
AuthorBruce Coville
ISBN0060890959
From Bruce Coville, the master of tween comic suspense, comes a tale of monsters, the bond between brothers, and saving the world.

Jake's baby brother, LD, may be a monster (complete with fangs and fur!), but together with his best friend, Lily, Jake isn't going to let anything happen to that...
The Adventures of Beanboy
AuthorLisa Harkrader
ISBN0547550782
Never underestimate the power of the bean. Tucker MacBean has been drawing comic books almost as long as he’s been reading them. When his favorite comic has a contest for kids, he hopes he has finally found a way to fix his family—all he has to do is create the winning superhero sidekick . . . Introducing...
Athlete vs. Mathlete
AuthorW.C. Mack
ISBN1599908581
Owen Evans lights up the scoreboards. His brother, Russell, rocks the school boards. These twin brothers couldn't be more different. They've long kept the peace by going their separate ways, but all that is about to change. The new basketball coach recruits Russell for the seventh grade team and a jealous...
The Expeditioners and the Treasure of Drowned Man's Canyon
AuthorS.S. Taylor
ISBN1938073061
Computers have failed, electricity is extinct, and the race to discover new lands is underway! Brilliant explorer Alexander West has just died under mysterious circumstances, but not before smuggling half of a strange map to his intrepid children—Kit the brain, M.K. the tinkerer, and Zander the...
Rebel McKenzie
AuthorCandice Ransom
ISBN1423145399
Rebel McKenzie wants to spend her summer attending the Ice Age Kids' Dig and Safari, a camp where kids discover prehistoric bones, right alongside real paleontologists. But digs cost money, and Rebel is broker than four o'clock. When she finds out her annoying neighbor Bambi Lovering won five hundred...
Monsieur Marceau: Actor Without Words
AuthorLeda Schubert
ISBN1596435291
Marcel Marceau, the world's most famous mime, enthralled audiences around the world for more than fifty years. When he waved his hand or lifted his eyebrow he was able to speak volumes without ever saying a word. But few know the story of the man behind those gestures . . .  Distinguished author Leda Schubert...
The Tell-Tale Start
AuthorGordon McAlpine
ISBN0142423467
Meet Edgar and Allan Poe -- twelve-year-old identical twins, the great-great-great-great-grandnephews of Edgar Allan Poe. They look and act so much alike that they're almost one mischievous, prank-playing boy in two bodies. When their beloved black cat, Roderick Usher, is kidnapped and...
13 Hangmen
AuthorArt Corriveau
ISBN1419701592
“Some people won’t believe any of this story. You might be one of them. But every single word is true. Tony DiMarco does catch a murderer, solve a mystery, and find a treasure—all in the first few days after he moves, unexpectedly, to 13 Hangmen’s Court in Boston. The fact that he also turns thirteen...
Danger Goes Berserk
AuthorMac Barnett
ISBN1442439777
When a missing surfboard proves to have hidden depths, twelve-year-old super-sleuth Steve Brixton must go undercover—and underwater—to tackle a puzzling tangle of mysteries.

Steve Brixton’s finally gotten a hang of this super-sleuth thing. After a few months of busting bad guys...
Smells Like Treasure
AuthorSuzanne Selfors
ISBN0316043990
When Homer Pudding receives a mysterious note emblazoned with the letters L.O.S.T., he knows the moment he has been waiting for has arrived. It is time to meet the society of Legends, Objects, Secrets, and Treasures, take his Uncle's place, and become a true adventurer.

With his best friend,...
Odette's Secrets
AuthorMaryann Macdonald
For Jews in Nazi-occupied Paris, nowhere is safe. So when Odette Meyer’s father is sent to a Nazi work camp, Odette’s mother takes desperate measures to protect her, sending Odette deep into the French countryside. There, Odette pretends to be a peasant girl, even posing as a Christian–and attending...
The Haunting of Charles Dickens
AuthorLewis Buzbee
ISBN0312382561
Meg Pickel’s older brother, Orion, has disappeared. One night, she steals out to look for him, and makes two surprising discoveries: She stumbles upon a séance that she suspects involves Orion, and she meets the author Charles Dickens, also unable to sleep, and roaming the London streets. He...
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