The Whites of Their Eyes
10 best books like The Whites of Their Eyes (Andrew Clements): Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking, Chrissa, Jackie's Wild Seattle, The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit, Crunch, Hide and Seek, Horten's Incredible Illusions: Magic, Mystery & Another Very Strange Adventure, The Island of Thieves, Corby Flood, Secrets of Shakespeare’s Grave
| Author | Erin Dionne |
| ISBN | 0803738714 |
Edgar Award Finalist
For fans of The Westing Game and From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler comes a clever, treasure-hunt mystery based on a real-life art heist.
Moxie Fleece knows the rules and follows them--that is, until the day she opens her front door to a...
| Author | Mary Casanova |
| ISBN | 1593695667 |
I read the American Girl historical series growing up (Kaya, Felicity, Josephina, Addy, Kirsten, Samantha, Kit, and Molly). This is one of the newer books featuring an American Girl Today (a specific girl/doll that is only available for one year). I thought that it was a decent read, the characters...
| Author | Will Hobbs |
| ISBN | 0380733110 |
Heart-stopping adventure on the wild side of Seattle! How do you rescue a coyote trapped in the elevator of a downtown office building? How do you save an injured seal at the bottom of a cliff with the tide coming in? Fourteen-year-old Shannon and her younger brother, Cody, are about to find out as they...
| Author | Octavia Spencer |
| ISBN | 1442476818 |
Meet Randi Rhodes, the world's first ninja detective! Mystery abounds in this delightful new middle grade series from Academy Award-winning actress Octavia Spencer.
Deer Creek is a small town whose only hope for survival is the success of their Founder's Day Festival. But the festival's...
| Author | Leslie Connor |
| ISBN | 0061692336 |
Dewey Marriss is stuck in the middle of a crunch.
He never guessed that the gas pumps would run dry the same week he promised to manage the family's bicycle-repair business. Suddenly everyone needs a bike. And nobody wants to wait.
Meanwhile, the crunch has stranded Dewey's parents...
| Author | Kate Messner |
| ISBN | 0545419751 |
A fast-paced mystery from the author of CAPTURE THE FLAG!
José, Anna, and Henry are junior members of the secret Silver Jaguar Society, sworn to protect the world's most important artifacts. When they discover that the society's treasured Jaguar Cup has been replaced with a counterfeit,...
| Author | Lissa Evans |
| ISBN | 1402798709 |
Stuart Horten (ten, but looks younger) is now the owner of a magician's workshop - except that without his Great-Uncle's Last Will and Testament, he can't actually prove it.Which is a problem, since someone else wants it as well; someone who has a lot of money.
The workshop contains seven magnificent...
| Author | Josh Lacey |
| ISBN | 1849392455 |
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...
| Author | Paul Stewart |
| ISBN | 0385750900 |
The second magical, funny, and fabulously illustrated story in the Far Flung Adventures from the authors of Fergus Crane and the Edge Chronicles.
Corby Flood and her family are about to set sail on the rather ramshackle cruise ship, the S.S. Euphonia. Her boisterous brothers might not have noticed...
| Author | Deron R. Hicks |
| ISBN | 0547840349 |
Twelve-year-old Colophon Letterford has a serious mystery on her hands. Will she discover the link between her family’s literary legacy and Shakespeare’s tomb before it’s too late? Antique paintings, secret passages, locked mausoleums, a four-hundred-year-old treasure, and a cast of...
| Author | Suzanne Selfors |
| ISBN | 0316043990 |
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,...
With the nation reeling from the recent terrorist attacks, Q and Angela leave Chicago and arrive in San Francisco. Their parents are determined to continue the Match tour but for safety's sake, they have decided to send Q and Angela to boarding school. Not happy at the thought of being taken off the trail...
| Author | Doreen Cronin |
| ISBN | 0061779962 |
The Legend of Diamond Lil, second book in the illustrated J.J. Tully mystery series, is perfect for elementary-school kids who love adventure and animals. New York Times bestselling author Doreen Cronin brings the same wonderful humor to the JJ. Tully whodunits that she did to her beloved picture...
| Author | Frank Cottrell Boyce |
| ISBN | 0763659576 |
Buckle your seatbelt for the first-ever follow up to Ian Fleming’s only children’s story.
When the Tooting family finds an old engine and fits it to their camper van, they have no idea what kind of adventure lies ahead. The engine used to belong to an extraordinary car . . . and it wants its...
| Author | Caroline Lawrence |
| ISBN | 1444001698 |
The Case of the Deadly Desperado is a TERRIBLE book that Caroline Lawrence should be ashamed of. I am not sure what was added to the story by having the protagonist be half Sioux other than the excuse to include all sorts of offensive stereotypes and racial slurs. I do not care if the use of the word “squaw”...
| Author | Tony Abbott |
| ISBN | 1606843400 |
Fans of Dav Pilkey's The Adventures of Ook and Glook and Patricia Reilly Giff's ZigZag Kids will flock to this chapter-book mystery series full of slapstick humor and silly situations by the wildly popular Tony Abbott, author of the Secrets of Droon series.
Jeff, Brian, Mara, and Kelly...
| Author | Mac Barnett |
| ISBN | 1416978178 |
Steve Brixton is fast becoming America's top detective. After saving the United States of America in The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity, he has opened his own agency. Steve gets a call to solve the case of the Fairview diamond but it turns into an even bigger mystery. MacArthur Bart, author of Steve's...
| Author | Eric Berlin |
| ISBN | 0399251987 |
When a local potato chip tycoon invites area kids to an all-day puzzle hunt, Winston Breen is psyched. But it turns out the day is not all fun and games. Their teacher is being overly competitive, the puzzles are hard (even for Winston), and someone in the contest is playing dirty in order to win the fifty-thousand-dollar...
| Author | Franklin W. Dixon |
| ISBN | 1416934030 |
ATAC BRIEFING FOR AGENTS FRANK AND JOE HARDY
MISSION:
Investigate sabotage on the set of a pirate-themed, action-packed reality television show.
LOCATION:
Bayport waterfront.
POTENTIAL VICTIMS:
Show contestants and crew members.
...
| Author | Marianne Malone |
| ISBN | 0375868194 |
Ruthie and Jack thought that their adventures in the Thorne Rooms were over . . . until miniatures from the rooms start to disappear. Is it the work of the art thief who's on the loose in Chicago? Or has someone else discovered the secret of the Thorne Rooms' magic? Ruthie and Jack's quest to stop the thief...
| Author | Kevin Sylvester |
| ISBN | 1554702666 |
Fourteen-year-old wunderchef Neil Flambe can cook anything, and patrons pay top dollar and wait months for reservations at his tiny boutique restaurant. What many of Neil's patrons don't know, however, is that he's also a budding detective, code-named "The Nose." It all started when he used his knowledge...
