10 must-read history books like Caught!: Nabbing History's Most Wanted by Georgia Bragg

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Caught!: Nabbing History's Most Wanted

By: Georgia Bragg

3.73

Format: 224 pages, Library Binding

A humorous look at how famous people got caught, including Joan of Arc, Blackbeard, Al Capone, and …

If you liked the history plot in Caught!: Nabbing History's Most Wanted by Georgia Bragg , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of One Dead Spy (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales, #1) by Nathan Hale

1. One Dead Spy (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales, #1)

By: Nathan Hale

4.20

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition here. Nathan Hale, the author’s historical namesake, was America’s first… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • childrens
  • historical
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
Cover of Blacksad (Blacksad, #1-3) by Juanjo Guarnido, Juan Díaz Canales, Anthya Flores, None

2. Blacksad (Blacksad, #1-3)

By: Juanjo Guarnido , Juan Díaz Canales , Anthya Flores , None

3.41

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Private investigator John Blacksad is up to his feline ears in mystery, digging into the backstorie… read more

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3. Twice Tempted (Night Prince, #2)

By: Jeaniene Frost

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Dating the Prince of Darkness has its challenges... Leila's psychic abilities have been failing her… read more

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4. The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes, #1)

By: Nancy Springer

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

When Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has d… read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
Cover of The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Enola Holmes, #2) by Nancy Springer, Peter Ferguson

5. The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Enola Holmes, #2)

By: Nancy Springer , Peter Ferguson

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Enola's name backwards spells "alone," and alone she is, in the world's biggest, darkest, dirtiest … read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
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6. Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner

By: Judy Melinek , T.J. Mitchell

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's rookie season as a NYC medical examiner, and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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7. A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel

By: Madeleine L'Engle , Hope Larson

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The world already knows Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, Calvin O'Keefe, and the three Mrs--Who, What… read more

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  • middle grade
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8. Bound by Flames (Night Prince, #3)

By: Jeaniene Frost

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Play with fire, pay the price. Leila's years on the carnie circuit were certainly an education. Wha… read more

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9. The Westing Game

By: Ellen Raskin

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. W… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens

10. Al Capone Does My Shirts (Al Capone at Alcatraz, #1)

By: Gennifer Choldenko

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Today I moved to a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by wa… read more

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11. The Wednesday Wars

By: Gary D. Schmidt

2.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero.The Wednesday… read more

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12. Fish in a Tree

By: Lynda Mullaly Hunt

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The author of the beloved One for the Murphysgives readers an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel … read more

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13. Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus (Junie B. Jones, #1)

By: Barbara Park , Denise Brunkus

4.03

Format: None pages,

Remember when it was scary to go to school? 'Cause it was your first day and you didn't know anythi… read more

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14. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

By: Ronald Himler , Eleanor Coerr

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the star of her school's running team. And then the d… read more

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15. Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Novel

By: Anne Frank , David Polonsky

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The only graphic novelization of Anne Frank's diary that has been authorized by the Anne Frank Foun… read more

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16. Herding Cats (Sarah's Scribbles, #3)

By: Sarah Andersen

4.14

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Adjusting to life as a world-famous cartoonist isn't easy. Terrifying deadlines, piles of junk-food… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
"Go make stuff."

-Sarah Andersen, Herding Cats (Sarah's Scribbles, #3)

"In a world where every single person -good or bad- has a voice, I hope you pick up your pen and use yours."

-Sarah Andersen, Herding Cats (Sarah's Scribbles, #3)

"The Internet was actually never a nice place. With anonymity, soapbox, lost empathy, fire party harassment campaigns exist mainstream, doing damage to the marginalized, saying it was just a joke. It …"

-Sarah Andersen, Herding Cats (Sarah's Scribbles, #3)

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

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

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

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  • history
  • childrens
  • true crime
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

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

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

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

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

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

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

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

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18. All the Living and the Dead

By: Hayley Campbell

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."

-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead

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19. The Labors of Hercules Beal

By: Gary D. Schmidt

4.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • juvenile
"And when Achilles went inside the Vampire said to me, "You all right?" I nodded. "I'm okay." "Okay is good enough for now," she said."

-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal

"Most people don't think we even look like brothers," I said. "You do when you're asleep," she said. "Your face relaxes, and you stop worrying, and all that grit you two carry around falls away, and y…"

-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal

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20. The Trial of Lizzie Borden

By: Cara Robertson

3.40

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August o… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
Cover of Parachute Kids: A Graphic Novel by Betty C. Tang

21. Parachute Kids: A Graphic Novel

By: Betty C. Tang

4.25

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

A story about three siblings living on their own as undocumented new immigrants, inspired by the au… read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
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22. Measuring Up

By: Lily LaMotte

4.30

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Twelve-year-old Cici has just moved from Taiwan to Seattle, and the only thing she wants more than … read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
"Waste of money. Only need cleaver."

-Lily LaMotte, Measuring Up

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23. 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

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
Cover of What Happened to Rachel Riley? by Claire Swinarski

24. What Happened to Rachel Riley?

By: Claire Swinarski

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An eighth grader uses social media posts, passed notes, and other clues to find out why a formerly … read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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25. The Blackbird Girls

By: Anne Blankman

4.43

Format: None pages, None

On a spring morning in 1986, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry re… read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
"La distanza tra i veri amici non conta, quando l'amicizia continua nei loro cuori."

-Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

"Distance between true friends doesn't matter when their friendship lives in their hearts"

-Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

"Siamo su questa terra per essere gentili gli uni con gli altri. Gli esseri umani sono la lingua di Dio."

-Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

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26. American Murderer

By: Gail Jarrow

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

What made workers in the American South so tired and feeble during the 19th and early 20th centurie… read more

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  • history
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease (Medical Fiascoes) by Gail Jarrow

27. Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease (Medical Fiascoes)

By: Gail Jarrow

3.86

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed author Gail Jarrow, recipient of a 2019 Robert F. Sibert Honor Award, explores the scienc… read more

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  • history
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
Cover of They Lost Their Heads!: What Happened to Washington's Teeth, Einstein's Brain, and Other Famous Body Parts by Carlyn Beccia

28. They Lost Their Heads!: What Happened to Washington's Teeth, Einstein's Brain, and Other Famous Body Parts

By: Carlyn Beccia

4.10

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the kidnapping of Einstein's brain to the horrifying end of Louis XIV's heart, the mysteries s… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • childrens
  • historical
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • juvenile
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29. Caught!: Nabbing History's Most Wanted

By: Georgia Bragg

3.73

Format: 224 pages, Library Binding

A humorous look at how famous people got caught, including Joan of Arc, Blackbeard, Al Capone, and … read more

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  • biography
  • teen
  • history
  • childrens
  • true crime
  • historical
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • juvenile
Cover of The Dozier School for Boys: Forensics, Survivors, and a Painful Past by Elizabeth A. Murray

30. The Dozier School for Boys: Forensics, Survivors, and a Painful Past

By: Elizabeth A. Murray

3.58

Format: 120 pages, ebook

Some true crimes reveal themselves in bits and pieces over time. One such case is the Florida Schoo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • teen
Cover of Frenemies in the Family: Famous Brothers and Sisters Who Butted Heads and Had Each Other's Backs by Kathleen Krull

31. Frenemies in the Family: Famous Brothers and Sisters Who Butted Heads and Had Each Other's Backs

By: Kathleen Krull

3.71

Format: None pages, Audio CD

One minute you can't live without them... the next minute you don't want them breathing your air! S… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • childrens
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • juvenile

14 must-read childrens books like Caught!: Nabbing History's Most Wanted by Georgia Bragg

Transform Your Habits

One Dead Spy (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales, #1)

Nathan Hale

4.20

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The Westing Game

Ellen Raskin

3.42

Transform Your Habits

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

Nicholas Day

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Labors of Hercules Beal

Gary D. Schmidt

4.53

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Children of the Night (Seasons of Horror #2)

Dan Simmons

3.72

Transform Your Habits

The Reformatory

Tananarive Due

4.47

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Abuela, Don't Forget Me

Rex Ogle

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Kent State

Deborah Wiles

3.96

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