14 Best middle grade books like S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2) by Tom Phillips

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S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

By: Tom Phillips

4.50

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Take to the skies in the side-splitting second installment of a middle grade mystery series for fan…

If you liked the middle grade plot in S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2) by Tom Phillips , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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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 Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"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

Cover of The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln

2. 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 Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • childrens
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • mystery
"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

Cover of The One and Only Family (The One and Only #4) by Katherine Applegate

3. The One and Only Family (The One and Only #4)

By: Katherine Applegate

4.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For more than a decade, readers have been enchanted by the modern classic The One and Only Ivan , a… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Family (The One and Only #4) book and Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • family
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas  Day

4. 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

Similar categories in Nicholas Day's The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity book and Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • childrens
"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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5. A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

By: Lisa Yee

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When a notorious thief is out for priceless treasure (gems! cats! general decorum!)—who're you gonn… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Yee's A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1) book and Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
"They all perished. tragic deaths. sad parents. lawsuits.' Monica's words were met with stunned silence. ignoring the horrified looks on the student's faces, she shouted, 'Joking! We discovered that t…"

-Lisa Yee, A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

Cover of Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1) by Stuart Gibbs

6. Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

By: Stuart Gibbs

4.33

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

From author Stuart Gibbs comes the first novel in a new series about the world’s youngest and smart… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1) book and Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
Cover of Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra (Charlie Thorne #3) by Stuart Gibbs

7. Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra (Charlie Thorne #3)

By: Stuart Gibbs

4.52

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this third installment of the New York Times bestselling Charlie Thorne series—which #1 New York… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra (Charlie Thorne #3) book and Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
Cover of Final Word (The Winterton Deception, #1) by Janet Sumner Johnson

8. Final Word (The Winterton Deception, #1)

By: Janet Sumner Johnson

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Thirteen-year-old twins Hope and Gordon enter a spelling bee in a last-ditch effort to save their f… read more

Similar categories in Janet Sumner Johnson's Final Word (The Winterton Deception, #1) book and Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • mystery
Cover of This Girl's a Killer by Emma C. Wells

9. This Girl's a Killer

By: Emma C. Wells

3.90

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Meet Cordelia Black. Cordelia loves exactly three things: her chosen family composed of her best fr… read more

Similar categories in Emma C. Wells's This Girl's a Killer book and Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Twilight Territory by Andrew X. Pham

10. Twilight Territory

By: Andrew X. Pham

3.64

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping first novel of love, war, and resistance in post–World War II Japanese-occupied Vietnam,… read more

Similar categories in Andrew X. Pham's Twilight Territory book and Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • fiction
Cover of Seton Girls by Charlene  Thomas

11. Seton Girls

By: Charlene Thomas

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A smart and twisty debut YA that starts off like Friday Night Lights and ends with the power and in… read more

Similar categories in Charlene Thomas's Seton Girls book and Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2) by Tom      Phillips

12. S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

By: Tom Phillips

4.50

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Take to the skies in the side-splitting second installment of a middle grade mystery series for fan… read more

Similar categories in Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2) book and Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • adolescence
  • fiction
  • family
  • mystery
  • action
  • amateur sleuth
Cover of A Walk Between Raindrops by Amalie Jahn

13. A Walk Between Raindrops

By: Amalie Jahn

4.37

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

Fourteen days. Ten parks. Two sisters. One chance to make things right. Seventeen-year-old Elis… read more

Similar categories in Amalie Jahn's A Walk Between Raindrops book and Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • family
  • fiction
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14. Crushing It

By: Erin Becker

4.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

On the soccer field, Magic Mel is in her element. She's ready to lead her team to victory at the ci… read more

Similar categories in Erin Becker's Crushing It book and Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • middle grade
  • fiction
Cover of Rocky Road (Team Canteen #1) by Amalie Jahn

15. Rocky Road (Team Canteen #1)

By: Amalie Jahn

5.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Four friends united by a magical hot pink boa face issues that pre-teens struggle with, including i… read more

Similar categories in Amalie Jahn's Rocky Road (Team Canteen #1) book and Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • middle grade
Cover of The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean by Ann  Rose

16. The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean

By: Ann Rose

4.69

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

It’s her wedding day and it’ll be the happiest day of her life…won’t it? Amanda Dean would say s… read more

Similar categories in Ann Rose's The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean book and Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • fiction
Cover of Clara Poole and the Wrong Way Up (Clara Poole, 2) by Taylor Tyng

17. Clara Poole and the Wrong Way Up (Clara Poole, 2)

By: Taylor Tyng

4.47

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Soaring to the top is one thing. Staying there is quite another. The warm and the winning second bo… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Tyng's Clara Poole and the Wrong Way Up (Clara Poole, 2) book and Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • middle grade
Cover of Lia Park and the Heavenly Heirlooms by Jenna Yoon

18. Lia Park and the Heavenly Heirlooms

By: Jenna Yoon

4.07

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect for fans of the Gifted Clans and Aru Shah series, this thrilling and “inventive” (Kirkus Re… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Yoon's Lia Park and the Heavenly Heirlooms book and Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • middle grade
Cover of Clara Poole and the Long Way Round by Taylor Tyng

19. Clara Poole and the Long Way Round

By: Taylor Tyng

4.31

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Mr. Lemoncello meets the Amazing Race in this quirky high-octane middle grade around-the-world adve… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Tyng's Clara Poole and the Long Way Round book and Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
Cover of Streetlight People by Charlene  Thomas

20. Streetlight People

By: Charlene Thomas

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A little bit Twin Peaks, a little bit Black Mirror, Streetlight People is a story of growing up in—… read more

Similar categories in Charlene Thomas's Streetlight People book and Tom Phillips's S.O.S. (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves, #2)

  • mystery

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The Lost Library

Rebecca Stead

4.14

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The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

Beth Lincoln

4.06

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The One and Only Family (The One and Only #4)

Katherine Applegate

4.46

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A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

Lisa Yee

3.82

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Slugfest

Gordon Korman

4.24

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A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

Lisa Yee

3.82

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Good Different

Meg Eden Kuyatt

4.52

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The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby

G.Z. Schmidt

3.95

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