5 best-selling middle grade books like The Mystery Bookstore (The Boxcar Children, #48) by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Cover of The Mystery Bookstore (The Boxcar Children, #48) by Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Mystery Bookstore (The Boxcar Children, #48)

By: Gertrude Chandler Warner

3.93

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

When their grandfather buys a bookstore at auction in New Orleans, the Alden children help clean it…

If you liked the middle grade plot in The Mystery Bookstore (The Boxcar Children, #48) by Gertrude Chandler Warner , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1) by Jeanne Birdsall

1. The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)

By: Jeanne Birdsall

4.19

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

The Penderwick sisters busily discover the summertime magic of Arundel estate’s sprawling gardens, … read more

Similar categories in Jeanne Birdsall's The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1) book and Gertrude Chandler Warner's The Mystery Bookstore (The Boxcar Children, #48)

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"The cuter the boy, the mushier your brain."

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)

"Don't kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her," said Jeffrey."

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)

"Maybe it's fate Hound ate the map. Maybe we'll discover something wonderful while we're lost."

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)

"Toward the urn the three children raced in a dead heat, Jane still shouting . FOR CHURCHILL, NELSON, AND PRINCE WILLIAM!"

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)

Cover of Blizzard of the Blue Moon (Magic Tree House, #36) by Mary Pope Osborne, Salvatore Murdocca

2. Blizzard of the Blue Moon (Magic Tree House, #36)

By: Mary Pope Osborne , Salvatore Murdocca

4.13

Format: 277 pages, Audio CD

Jack and Annie are off on another Merlin Mission. This time, Merlin has sent them to rescue a beaut… read more

Similar categories in Mary Pope Osborne's Blizzard of the Blue Moon (Magic Tree House, #36) book and Gertrude Chandler Warner's The Mystery Bookstore (The Boxcar Children, #48)

  • middle grade
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • fiction

3. Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig (Mercy Watson #5)

By: Chris Van Dusen , Kate DiCamillo

3.99

Format: None pages,

Eugenia and Baby Lincoln may live next door to a pig, but that doesn't stop them from living a grac… read more

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4. Superfudge (Fudge, #3)

By: Judy Blume

3.93

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

From Judy Blume, bestselling author of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing! Fans young and old will lau… read more

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Cover of The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2) by Jeanne Birdsall

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

By: Jeanne Birdsall

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Penderwick sisters are home on Gardam Street and ready for an adventure! But the adventure they… read more

Similar categories in Jeanne Birdsall's The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2) book and Gertrude Chandler Warner's The Mystery Bookstore (The Boxcar Children, #48)

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick"

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2)

"I got a C because she has no imagination. Who cares about writing essays, anyway, when you can write stories?"

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2)

"The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a…"

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2)

"[The kitchen] was also messy--delightfully so, thought Jane--and it didn't look as though lots of cooking went on there. There was a laptop computer on the counter with duck stickers on it, the spice…"

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2)

Cover of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore

6. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

By: Lorrie Moore

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more

Similar categories in Lorrie Moore's I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home book and Gertrude Chandler Warner's The Mystery Bookstore (The Boxcar Children, #48)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

Cover of Hurricane Heroes in Texas (Magic Tree House, #30) by Mary Pope Osborne

7. Hurricane Heroes in Texas (Magic Tree House, #30)

By: Mary Pope Osborne

4.25

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Jack and Annie are caught out in the rain in the most dangerous Magic Tree House mission yet!Jack a… read more

Similar categories in Mary Pope Osborne's Hurricane Heroes in Texas (Magic Tree House, #30) book and Gertrude Chandler Warner's The Mystery Bookstore (The Boxcar Children, #48)

  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Mystery Bookstore (The Boxcar Children, #48) by Gertrude Chandler Warner

8. The Mystery Bookstore (The Boxcar Children, #48)

By: Gertrude Chandler Warner

3.93

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

When their grandfather buys a bookstore at auction in New Orleans, the Alden children help clean it… read more

Similar categories in Gertrude Chandler Warner's The Mystery Bookstore (The Boxcar Children, #48) book and Gertrude Chandler Warner's The Mystery Bookstore (The Boxcar Children, #48)

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile

6 Best fiction books like The Mystery Bookstore (The Boxcar Children, #48) by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Transform Your Habits

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)

Jeanne Birdsall

4.19

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Blizzard of the Blue Moon (Magic Tree House, #36)

Mary Pope Osborne , Salvatore Murdocca

4.13

Transform Your Habits

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

Jeanne Birdsall

4.32

Transform Your Habits

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

Lorrie Moore

3.31

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19 best-selling fiction books like The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2) by Jeanne Birdsall

Transform Your Habits

The Saturdays (The Melendy Family, #1)

Elizabeth Enright

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Tuesdays at the Castle (Castle Glower, #1)

Jessica Day George

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Thursdays with the Crown (Castle Glower, #3)

Jessica Day George

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

Karina Yan Glaser

4.05

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