13 Best middle grade books like The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2) by Julia Golding

Cover of The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2) by Julia Golding

The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

By: Julia Golding

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Nancy Drew. Enola Holmes. Sally Lockhart. Move over girls, it’s Jane's time! Join young budding …

If you liked the middle grade plot in The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2) by Julia Golding , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Aunt Dimity's Death (Aunt Dimity Mystery, #1) by Nancy Atherton

1. Aunt Dimity's Death (Aunt Dimity Mystery, #1)

By: Nancy Atherton

3.97

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Down-on-her-luck Lori Shepherd thought Aunt Dimity was a pretend character in her mother's bedtime … read more

Similar categories in Nancy Atherton's Aunt Dimity's Death (Aunt Dimity Mystery, #1) book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • mystery
"As we walked toward the gangplank, Beth threatened to start another war if I didn't write to her, and I vowed, for the sake of world peace, to be a faithful correspondent."

-Nancy Atherton, Aunt Dimity's Death (Aunt Dimity Mystery, #1)

"They were tales of commonplace courage and optimism, for I knew from my own experience that everyday virtues endure best, and that quiet courage is worth more than the grandest derring-do."

-Nancy Atherton, Aunt Dimity's Death (Aunt Dimity Mystery, #1)

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2. The Moonstone

By: Wilkie Collins , Carolyn G. Heilbrun

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazi… read more

Similar categories in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • historical fiction

3. Doll Bones

By: Holly Black , Eliza Wheeler

4.67

Format: 107 pages, Hardcover

Zach, Poppy and Alice have been friends for ever. They love playing with their action figure toys, … read more

Similar categories in Holly Black's Doll Bones book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

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4. The Dead and the Dark

By: Courtney Gould

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Courtney Gould’s thrilling debut The Dead and the Dark is about the things that lurk in dark corner… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Gould's The Dead and the Dark book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • mystery
  • young adult
"After thirteen years, the Dark has finally come home."

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

"You know, I read an article a while back about people like the daughter,"

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

"Parents weren't suppose to see their children's graves. They weren't suppose to feel darkness under the earth, coiling around their daughter's corpse."

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

Cover of Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1) by Katherine Arden

5. Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

By: Katherine Arden

4.01

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debu… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1) book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • young adult
"You might get to know characters in books, Ollie thought, but getting to know a human was an entirely different thing."

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

"You don't waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow."

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

"Other than her homework, Ollie was carrying Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, a broken-spined paperback that she'd dug out of he dad's bookshelves. She mostly liked it. Peter Blood outsmarted everyon…"

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

Cover of Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench

6. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

By: Judi Dench

4.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more

Similar categories in Judi Dench's Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

Cover of Lightfall: The Girl & the Galdurian (Lightfall, #1) by Tim Probert

7. Lightfall: The Girl & the Galdurian (Lightfall, #1)

By: Tim Probert

4.41

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

Deep in the heart of the planet Irpa stands the Salty Pig’s House of Tonics & Tinctures, home of th… read more

Similar categories in Tim Probert's Lightfall: The Girl & the Galdurian (Lightfall, #1) book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • middle grade
  • young adult
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8. Empty Smiles (Small Spaces, #4)

By: Katherine Arden

3.79

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Katherine thrills once again in the finale to the critically accl… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Arden's Empty Smiles (Small Spaces, #4) book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • young adult
Cover of Dead Voices (Small Spaces, #2) by Katherine Arden

9. Dead Voices (Small Spaces, #2)

By: Katherine Arden

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Katherine Arden returns with another creepy, spine-tingling adventure in this fo… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Arden's Dead Voices (Small Spaces, #2) book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • young adult
"It will be dark in a few hours. Ghosts are stronger in the dark."

-Katherine Arden, Dead Voices (Small Spaces, #2)

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10. This Book Kills

By: Ravena Guron

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

I'll make it clear from the I did not kill Hugh Henry Van Boren. I didn't even help…Well, not inte… read more

Similar categories in Ravena Guron's This Book Kills book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • young adult
"My story, my words, my voice – they are priceless."

-Ravena Guron, This Book Kills

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11. Rainbow Grey

By: Laura Ellen Anderson

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A magical new series from best-selling author and illustrator, Laura Ellen Anderson! Ten-year-o… read more

Similar categories in Laura Ellen Anderson's Rainbow Grey book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • middle grade
"For every storm, a rainbow will follow."

-Laura Ellen Anderson, Rainbow Grey

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12. Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

By: Leah Redmond Chang

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and M… read more

Similar categories in Leah Redmond Chang's Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • historical
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13. Artificial Wisdom

By: Thomas R. Weaver

4.09

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

It’s 2050, a decade after a heatwave that killed four hundred million across the Persian Gulf, incl… read more

Similar categories in Thomas R. Weaver's Artificial Wisdom book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • mystery
Cover of The Hapless Milliner (Miss Austen Investigates, #1) by Jessica  Bull

14. The Hapless Milliner (Miss Austen Investigates, #1)

By: Jessica Bull

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A witty, engaging murder mystery featuring Jane Austen as an intrepid amateur sleuth—the first in a… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Bull's The Hapless Milliner (Miss Austen Investigates, #1) book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • mystery
  • historical
  • crime
  • historical fiction
Cover of Les heures obscures (L'Engrange-Temps, #2) by Nell Pfeiffer

15. Les heures obscures (L'Engrange-Temps, #2)

By: Nell Pfeiffer

4.40

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Installée dans la ville de Kelvi, au coeur du royaume de Fréhenne, Sophie Delapointe s’efforce de r… read more

Similar categories in Nell Pfeiffer's Les heures obscures (L'Engrange-Temps, #2) book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

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16. The Corpse Queen

By: Heather Herrman

3.84

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

In this dark and twisty feminist historical thriller, a teenage girl starts a new life as a grave r… read more

Similar categories in Heather Herrman's The Corpse Queen book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • mystery
  • historical
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
"Roses shouldn't waste their thorns on each other."

-Heather Herrman, The Corpse Queen

"Love makes mistakes. That's how you know it's love."

-Heather Herrman, The Corpse Queen

"There's a darkness out there, Molly. And it ain't in the sky. It's in us."

-Heather Herrman, The Corpse Queen

"A body is the only way a woman can make a living in this world. I just choose not to use my own."

-Heather Herrman, The Corpse Queen

Cover of L'Engrange-Temps (L'Engrange-Temps, #1) by Nell Pfeiffer

17. L'Engrange-Temps (L'Engrange-Temps, #1)

By: Nell Pfeiffer

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

En Grahenne, le temps a un pouvoir, et Sophie Delapointe ne le sait que trop bien. Car loin d’être … read more

Similar categories in Nell Pfeiffer's L'Engrange-Temps (L'Engrange-Temps, #1) book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • young adult
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18. Dr. No

By: Percival Everett

3.71

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star k… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's Dr. No book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • mystery
"You sound like a physicist," she said. "There's no need to be insulting."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"When you step on the gas, do it gently, softly, slowly. Okay? All right, let's try it again. Gently. Treat it like you would a woman." "I would never step on a woman."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"And like my BIPDIP husband, it's never been out of the state, not even to Boston." "BIPDIP?" "Born in Providence, died in Providence. We actually honeymooned in Newport. I hate him so much."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-c…"

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

Cover of The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found by Jordan Lees

19. The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found

By: Jordan Lees

4.32

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

A boy who doesn't believe in magic. An impossible world that will change his mind. Eleven-year-… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Lees's The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • middle grade
  • young adult
Cover of A Song Unheard (Shadows Over England, #2) by Roseanna M. White

20. A Song Unheard (Shadows Over England, #2)

By: Roseanna M. White

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Willa Forsythe is both a violin prodigy and top-notch thief, which make her the perfect choice for … read more

Similar categories in Roseanna M. White's A Song Unheard (Shadows Over England, #2) book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • historical
  • historical fiction
"Our faith is the rock we stand on, Willa--but we don't demand anyone else stand here with us. Though if ever you wanted to, there is plenty of room."

-Roseanna M. White, A Song Unheard (Shadows Over England, #2)

"Yes, he had been every bit as handsome as his posters indicated when she saw him on the street yesterday. And a great deal more—more moody, more intense, more … dangerous."

-Roseanna M. White, A Song Unheard (Shadows Over England, #2)

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21. A Sky Painted Gold

By: Laura Wood

4.16

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Growing up in her sleepy Cornish village dreaming of being a writer, seventeen-year-old Lou has alw… read more

Similar categories in Laura Wood's A Sky Painted Gold book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • historical
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
"I want to experience things that are bigger than my own life, not just read about them. I want to escape into that dream for a while."

-Laura Wood, A Sky Painted Gold

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22. The House at the Edge of Magic

By: Amy Sparkes

3.72

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. Whe… read more

Similar categories in Amy Sparkes's The House at the Edge of Magic book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • middle grade
  • young adult
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23. Stitch

By: Pádraig Kenny

4.24

Format: None pages, Paperback

A compelling, atmospheric and gothic Frankenstein -inspired adventure by an award-winning Irish aut… read more

Similar categories in Pádraig Kenny's Stitch book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • middle grade
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24. All the Best Liars

By: Amelia Kahaney

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark, modern psychological thriller and coming-of-age about obsession, manipulation, and the inte… read more

Similar categories in Amelia Kahaney's All the Best Liars book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • young adult
Cover of Till Death Do Us Tart (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries, #4) by H.Y. Hanna

25. Till Death Do Us Tart (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries, #4)

By: H.Y. Hanna

4.32

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

When Oxfordshire tearoom owner, Gemma Rose, enters her little tabby, Muesli, in the cat show at the… read more

Similar categories in H.Y. Hanna's Till Death Do Us Tart (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries, #4) book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code by Corinne Purtill

26. Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code

By: Corinne Purtill

4.20

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes a story based on the exciting adventures… read more

Similar categories in Corinne Purtill's Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • historical
  • middle grade
Cover of The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2) by Julia Golding

27. The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

By: Julia Golding

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Nancy Drew. Enola Holmes. Sally Lockhart. Move over girls, it’s Jane's time! Join young budding … read more

Similar categories in Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2) book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Ce qui disparait by Marie-Andrée Arsenault

28. Ce qui disparait

By: Marie-Andrée Arsenault

4.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

Un vendredi soir, un élève du Collège Sainte-Anne joint les services d’urgence. L’appel provient de… read more

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Cover of The Christmas Competition (The Christmas Carrolls, #2) by Mel Taylor-Bessent

29. The Christmas Competition (The Christmas Carrolls, #2)

By: Mel Taylor-Bessent

4.07

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A Christmas book about kindness and cheer to make even Scrooge’s heart melt’ Dame Jacqueline Wilso… read more

Similar categories in Mel Taylor-Bessent's The Christmas Competition (The Christmas Carrolls, #2) book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • middle grade
Cover of Rebel Girls Rock: 25 Tales of Women in Music by Rebel Girls

30. Rebel Girls Rock: 25 Tales of Women in Music

By: Rebel Girls

4.44

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

TRUE STORIES OF WOMEN WHO RAISE THE ROOF! This collection features 25 stories of extraordinary wom… read more

Similar categories in Rebel Girls's Rebel Girls Rock: 25 Tales of Women in Music book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • middle grade
Cover of Junko Tabei Masters the Mountains by Rebel Girls

31. Junko Tabei Masters the Mountains

By: Rebel Girls

4.44

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes the historical novel based on the life o… read more

Similar categories in Rebel Girls's Junko Tabei Masters the Mountains book and Julia Golding's The Burglar's Ball (Jane Austen Investigates, #2)

  • middle grade

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3.59

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3.84

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