5 Best mystery books like Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1) by Diana López

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Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

By: Diana López

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The twelve-year-old daughter of La Llorona vows to free her mother and reverse the curses that have…

If you liked the mystery plot in Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1) by Diana López , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Something Like Home

By: Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Library Binding

A novel in verse in which a lost dog helps a lonely girl find a way home to her family . . . only f… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Beatriz Arango's Something Like Home book and Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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2. Mascot

By: Charles Waters

4.02

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

What if a school's mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone? In this compelling middle-grade n… read more

Similar categories in Charles Waters's Mascot book and Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • middle grade
  • fiction
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3. The Probability of Everything

By: Sarah Everett

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A heart-wrenching middle grade debut about Kemi, an aspiring scientist who loves statistics and fac… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Everett's The Probability of Everything book and Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Lumara

By: Melissa Landers

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The answers lie within. Boarding school student Talia Morris has no idea her boyfriend, Nathaniel,… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Landers's Lumara book and Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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5. 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

Similar categories in Gary D. Schmidt's The Labors of Hercules Beal book and Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"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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6. The Grace of Wild Things

By: Heather Fawcett

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An inventive and fantastical reimagining of Anne of Green Gables—with magic and witches!—that explo… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's The Grace of Wild Things book and Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"And though she'd always liked reading about faraway places, wasn't it also nice, she asked, to have somebody make you see all the beautiful things right under your nose?"

-Heather Fawcett, The Grace of Wild Things

"Eavesdropping is not a virtue in a young lady," Mrs Crumley said. "Is it a virtue in an old lady?" Grace demanded, her temper flaring. "You seem to learn half your gossip that way."

-Heather Fawcett, The Grace of Wild Things

"The world was a different place once. People didn’t own forests when I was a girl. Forests simply were. We witches could drift from place to place, from wood to wood, weaving cottages from magic and …"

-Heather Fawcett, The Grace of Wild Things

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7. Bhai for Now

By: Maleeha Siddiqui

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and fun new spin on the Parent-Trap story, by Indies Introduce author Maleeha Siddiqui A… read more

Similar categories in Maleeha Siddiqui's Bhai for Now book and Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Besides, what was the point of a home if the people who should care about you didn't show up for you?"

-Maleeha Siddiqui, Bhai for Now

"...he wished he could take his words back. But words were like arrows. Once you let them go and they hit their target, you couldn't take the arrow back without leaving a hole behind."

-Maleeha Siddiqui, Bhai for Now

"Shaheer realized that sometimes confidence wasn't always about making the big bold decisions or mouthing off to people. Sometimes confidence looked like the quiet strength it took to tell someone how…"

-Maleeha Siddiqui, Bhai for Now

"...Shaheer realized that sometimes confidence wasn't always about making the big bold decisions or mouthing off to people. Sometimes confidence looked like the quiet strength it took to tell someone …"

-Maleeha Siddiqui, Bhai for Now

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8. 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 Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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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9. Salt and Sugar

By: Rebecca Carvalho

3.71

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The grandchildren of two rival Brazilian bakeries fall in love despite their families’ feud. Trust … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar book and Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She takes off as fast as Jessie and James getting kicked into the horizon at the end of every Pokémon episode."

-Rebecca Carvalho, Salt and Sugar

"The ruby guava melts into the cheesy corn cake looking like a flower sprouting in the sun-kissed earth. This is the best compromise between our families' bakeries. It's perfect ."

-Rebecca Carvalho, Salt and Sugar

"Bell pepper and onion skewers dripping with garlic hot sauce and a little lime. Chicken and steak skewers wrapped in bacon. And a side of farofa so we could dip the skewers and feel the crunch of kas…"

-Rebecca Carvalho, Salt and Sugar

"Empadões sit behind the glass, the round, perfectly golden brown pot pies loaded with shredded chicken and green olives. People usually know what they want when they walk into our bakery. Five loaves…"

-Rebecca Carvalho, Salt and Sugar

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10. The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn

By: Sally J. Pla

4.57

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Neurodivergent Maudie is ready to spend an amazing summer with her dad, but will she find the coura… read more

Similar categories in Sally J. Pla's The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn book and Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • family
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of What Happened to Rachel Riley? by Claire Swinarski

11. 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

Similar categories in Claire Swinarski's What Happened to Rachel Riley? book and Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. We Still Belong

By: Christine Day

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A thoughtful and heartfelt middle grade novel by American Indian Youth Literature Honor–winning aut… read more

Similar categories in Christine Day's We Still Belong book and Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Dinged

By: Tommy Greenwald

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A star football player watches his father deteriorate from injuries he suffered playing the very sa… read more

Similar categories in Tommy Greenwald's Dinged book and Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • family
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. A Seed in the Sun

By: Aida Salazar

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A farm working girl with big dreams meets activist Dolores Huerta and joins the 1965 protest for mi… read more

Similar categories in Aida Salazar's A Seed in the Sun book and Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • family
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Demon Sword Asperides

By: Sarah Jean Horwitz

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A scheming demon sword and a wannabe knight band together on a (possibly wicked) quest in this fant… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Jean Horwitz's The Demon Sword Asperides book and Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. No One Leaves the Castle

By: Christopher Healy

4.02

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The Lilac. The bard songs say that she’s the world’s most fearsome bounty hunter. That there’s no c… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Healy's No One Leaves the Castle book and Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. The Vanquishers (The Vanquishers, #1)

By: Kalynn Bayron

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the world of the Vanquishers, vampires were history . . . until now.Malika “Boog” Wilson and her… read more

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's The Vanquishers (The Vanquishers, #1) book and Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
Cover of Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1) by Diana López

19. Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

By: Diana López

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The twelve-year-old daughter of La Llorona vows to free her mother and reverse the curses that have… read more

Similar categories in Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1) book and Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • magical realism
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • folklore
  • fiction
  • family
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
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20. Virtually Me

By: Chad Morris

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A mysterious package. A new school. A chance to be someone new. A new virtual reality school wh… read more

Similar categories in Chad Morris's Virtually Me book and Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Puttermans Are in the House by Jacquetta Nammar Feldman

21. The Puttermans Are in the House

By: Jacquetta Nammar Feldman

3.91

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt and hopeful middle grade novel from Jacquetta Nammar Feldman, author of the Junior Libr… read more

Similar categories in Jacquetta Nammar Feldman's The Puttermans Are in the House book and Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • family

19 must-read fiction books like Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1) by Diana López

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Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.31

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Mascot

Charles Waters

4.02

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The Probability of Everything

Sarah Everett

4.33

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The Labors of Hercules Beal

Gary D. Schmidt

4.53

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Melissa Landers

3.73

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Thieves' Gambit (Thieves' Gambit, #1)

Kayvion Lewis

3.88

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Heather Fawcett

4.13

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Unraveller

Frances Hardinge

4.10

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