30 Best childrens books like The Pear Affair by Judith Eagle

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The Pear Affair

By: Judith Eagle

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second novel from the author of the acclaimed The Secret Starling and The Ac…

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1. The Lost Library

By: Rebecca Stead

4.14

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

A little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps. When a myst… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Stead's The Lost Library book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
"But aren’t “parents"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"That delicious book smell, his heart said."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Being a Great Reader means feeling something about books."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Head high, my dear! Eyes up! Take your place in the world!"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

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2. The Last Mapmaker

By: Christina Soontornvat

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A high-seas adventure set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world. As assistant to Mangkon’s most celeb… read more

Similar categories in Christina Soontornvat's The Last Mapmaker book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"I couldn't see it then, but I could see it now. I opened my eyes, releasing another stream of tears. I had been trying so hard to run from my past. But the past was like mottlefish ink. Even if it fa…"

-Christina Soontornvat, The Last Mapmaker

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3. The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

By: Beth Lincoln

4.06

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

In her family, Shenanigan Swift has always been synonymous with mischief. As Arch-Aunt Schadenfreud… read more

Similar categories in Beth Lincoln's The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
"According to Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude, a funeral ought to look like a wedding upside down."

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

"A funeral is supposed to be a way to say goodbye. You look inside yourself and find a place to put your grief, not somewhere hidden, not the top shelf or the back of a cupboard, but maybe by a window…"

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

"A collective term is a special name given to a group of animals, like a herd of cows. Many animals have their own strange terms. She knew the collective term for starlings was a murmuration, and the …"

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

"Family was exhausting, and complicated, and everyone was their own person, which meant you had just as much chance of getting along with them as you did any stranger off the street. Just sharing bloo…"

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

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4. Greenwild (Greenwild, #1)

By: Pari Thomson

4.20

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive and a deep magic rises from the… read more

Similar categories in Pari Thomson's Greenwild (Greenwild, #1) book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
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5. The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby

By: G.Z. Schmidt

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Amadeuses were always considered somewhat strange. Even before the incident. When six-year-old… read more

Similar categories in G.Z. Schmidt's The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Knowledge, someone once said, was power—and the fewer children with power, the better."

-G.Z. Schmidt, The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby

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6. The Mystery of Locked Rooms

By: Lindsay Currie

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Crack the codes. Find the treasure. Escape the house. From the acclaimed author of Scritch Scratch … read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Currie's The Mystery of Locked Rooms book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
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7. The Body Under the Piano (Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen, #1)

By: Marthe Jocelyn

3.92

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Aggie Morton lives in a small town on the coast of England in 1902. Adventurous and imaginative but… read more

Similar categories in Marthe Jocelyn's The Body Under the Piano (Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen, #1) book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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8. Squire & Knight (Squire & Knight, #1)

By: Scott Chantler

4.02

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A young squire tackles mysteries, monsters and magic, but the inept knight he serves takes the cred… read more

Similar categories in Scott Chantler's Squire & Knight (Squire & Knight, #1) book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
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9. High Score

By: Destiny Howell

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Oceans 11 goes to the arcade in this wildly entertaining heist adventure that is perfect for fans o… read more

Similar categories in Destiny Howell's High Score book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
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10. Cookies & Milk

By: Shawn Amos

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It’s a summer of family, friendship, and fun fiascos in this semi-autobiographical novel that’s as … read more

Similar categories in Shawn Amos's Cookies & Milk book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • historical fiction
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11. Elf Dog and Owl Head

By: M.T. Anderson

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Newbery Honor Book A magical adventure about a boy and his dog—or a dog and her boy—and a fore… read more

Similar categories in M.T. Anderson's Elf Dog and Owl Head book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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12. The Night War

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words com… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's The Night War book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. The Ogress and the Orphans

By: Kelly Barnhill

4.28

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A fantasy about the power of generosity and love, and how a community suffers when they disappear. … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Barnhill's The Ogress and the Orphans book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"The antidote to anger is tenderness, and the antidote to discord is reconciliation."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"Life is long, after all. And over time, the paths we take tend to intertwine and overlap."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"Books are funny things. The ideas and knowledge contained inside their pages have mass and velocity and gravity. They bend both space and time. They have minds of their own. There is a power in a boo…"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time, and the more books you have in one place, the more space and time will bend and twi…"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

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14. We Are Wolves

By: Katrina Nannestad

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes it's good to be wild. Sometimes you have to be wild. When the Russian Army marches … read more

Similar categories in Katrina Nannestad's We Are Wolves book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Books are treasure."

-Katrina Nannestad, We Are Wolves

"How do you thank someone for saving your sister?"

-Katrina Nannestad, We Are Wolves

"I don't want to stop because when the songs and rhymes and stories and all the German words are gone, I will be gone. Liesl Anna Wolf will be no more."

-Katrina Nannestad, We Are Wolves

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15. You Are Here: Connecting Flights

By: Ellen Oh

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An incident at a TSA security check point sows chaos and rumors, creating a chain of events that im… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Oh's You Are Here: Connecting Flights book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"Being good was slippery. It didn't stay still; it moved around, and not only that, sometimes it meant exactly opposite things. Like, there were times when being good meant speaking up, but other time…"

-Ellen Oh, You Are Here: Connecting Flights

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16. Trex

By: Christyne Morrell

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This middle grade mystery follows the adventures of a boy with an experimental brain implant, and a… read more

Similar categories in Christyne Morrell's Trex book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
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17. The International House of Dereliction

By: Jacqueline Davies

4.04

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

In this not-so-scary ghost story from Jacqueline Davies, bestselling author of the Lemonade War ser… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Davies's The International House of Dereliction book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
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18. Not Quite a Ghost

By: Anne Ursu

4.08

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy comes an unforgettable and … read more

Similar categories in Anne Ursu's Not Quite a Ghost book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Dogtown (Dogtown, #1) by Katherine Applegate

19. Dogtown (Dogtown, #1)

By: Katherine Applegate

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Dogtown is a shelter for stray dogs, misbehaving dogs, and discarded robot dogs, whose owners have … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Applegate's Dogtown (Dogtown, #1) book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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20. A Duet for Home

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.24

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Told from the perspective of biracial sixth-graders June and Tyrell, two children living in a homel… read more

Similar categories in Karina Yan Glaser's A Duet for Home book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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21. Falling Short

By: Ernesto Cisneros

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A novel about two best friends who must rely on each other in unexpected ways. Isaac and Marco a… read more

Similar categories in Ernesto Cisneros's Falling Short book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow (Milkweed Meadow #1) by Elaine Dimopoulos

22. The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow (Milkweed Meadow #1)

By: Elaine Dimopoulos

4.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This timeless early middle-grade adventure about friendship and community will charm animal-loving … read more

Similar categories in Elaine Dimopoulos's The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow (Milkweed Meadow #1) book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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23. Seed

By: Caryl Lewis

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Marty doesn't have much--unlike his mum, who seems to hold on to everything. Life at home is tough,… read more

Similar categories in Caryl Lewis's Seed book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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24. The Last Beekeeper

By: Pablo Cartaya

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Last Beekeeper follows twelve-year-old Yolanda Cicerón as she fights to the save the last known… read more

Similar categories in Pablo Cartaya's The Last Beekeeper book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
Cover of Anybody Here Seen Frenchie? by Leslie Connor

25. Anybody Here Seen Frenchie?

By: Leslie Connor

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A big-hearted, beautiful, and funny novel told from multiple viewpoints about neurodiversity, frien… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Connor's Anybody Here Seen Frenchie? book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
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26. Looking Up

By: Stephan Pastis

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Timmy Failure series comes a quirky and heartwarm… read more

Similar categories in Stephan Pastis's Looking Up book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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27. The Story of Gumluck the Wizard: Book One

By: Adam Rex

4.10

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

Meet Gumluck the Wizard, the star of a new chapter book series by the inimitable Adam Rex! This is… read more

Similar categories in Adam Rex's The Story of Gumluck the Wizard: Book One book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Mr. Whiskers and the Shenanigan Sisters by Wendelin Van Draanen

28. Mr. Whiskers and the Shenanigan Sisters

By: Wendelin Van Draanen

3.92

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

Mr. Whiskers is a paw-some new dog detective from an Edgar Award winning author. He's on the trail … read more

Similar categories in Wendelin Van Draanen's Mr. Whiskers and the Shenanigan Sisters book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • mystery
  • juvenile
Cover of The Pear Affair by Judith Eagle

29. The Pear Affair

By: Judith Eagle

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second novel from the author of the acclaimed The Secret Starling and The Ac… read more

Similar categories in Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • travel
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
Cover of The Life and Time of Lonny Quicke by Kirsty Applebaum

30. The Life and Time of Lonny Quicke

By: Kirsty Applebaum

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Lonny is a lifeling. He has the power to heal any living creature and bring it back from the dead. … read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Applebaum's The Life and Time of Lonny Quicke book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure
Cover of Not Starring Zadie Louise by Joy McCullough

31. Not Starring Zadie Louise

By: Joy McCullough

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this charming middle grade novel that’s perfect for fans of Tim Federle and Gordon Korman, Zadie… read more

Similar categories in Joy McCullough's Not Starring Zadie Louise book and Judith Eagle's The Pear Affair

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile

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Transform Your Habits

The Lost Library

Rebecca Stead

4.14

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The Last Mapmaker

Christina Soontornvat

4.15

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The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

Beth Lincoln

4.06

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Greenwild (Greenwild, #1)

Pari Thomson

4.20

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The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2)

Jeanne Birdsall

4.32

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The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

Nicholas Day

4.15

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Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.31

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Katherine Marsh

4.50

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