7 Best nonfiction books like The Big Book of Mysteries by Tom Adams

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The Big Book of Mysteries

By: Tom Adams

4.22

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A captivating new gift book featuring over 100 real-life mysteries that might just give you goosebu…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Big Book of Mysteries by Tom Adams , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Pretty Ugly by David Sedaris

1. Pretty Ugly

By: David Sedaris

3.55

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

David Sedaris and Ian Falconer make a spectacular splash with this tale of a monster turned ugly—st… read more

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  • childrens
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2. Knight Owl (The Knight Owl Series, 1)

By: Christopher Denise

4.51

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

A Caldecott Honor Winner and  New York Times  Bestseller!  A determined Owl builds strength and … read more

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  • childrens
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3. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen

4.26

Format: 105 pages, None

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more

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  • childrens
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4. 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

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  • mystery
  • childrens
"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

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5. Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré

By: Anika Aldamuy Denise

4.43

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Follow la vida y legado of Pura Belpré, the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City. When … read more

Similar categories in Anika Aldamuy Denise's Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré book and Tom Adams's The Big Book of Mysteries

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • childrens
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6. Ploof

By: Ben Clanton

4.19

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

Come play with Ploof! Meet a friendly cloud full of feelings in this interactive picture book for f… read more

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  • childrens
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7. Huda F Cares?

By: Huda Fahmy

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this laugh-out-loud funny sequel to the graphic novel Huda F Are You?, the Fahmys are off to Dis… read more

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"Y'know, you catch more flies with honey..." "I don't know why people say that. You can catch flies with garbage too."

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?

"We don't know they're friends. They could be brother and sister." "Impossible. They're smiling." "You're right. They're definitely not related."

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?

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8. Plain Jane and the Mermaid

By: Vera Brosgol

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From Eisner Award winner Vera Brosgol comes an instant classic about courage, confidence, and inner… read more

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  • childrens
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9. Four Eyes: A Graphic Novel (Four Eyes, #1)

By: Rex Ogle

4.11

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A humorous and heartwarming middle-grade graphic memoir about fitting in, facing bullies, and findi… read more

Similar categories in Rex Ogle's Four Eyes: A Graphic Novel (Four Eyes, #1) book and Tom Adams's The Big Book of Mysteries

  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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10. 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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  • childrens
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11. Dim Sum Palace

By: X. Fang

4.08

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

A little girl's love of dim sum spills over into her dreams, taking her on a fantastical food-fille… read more

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  • childrens
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12. The Cardboard Kingdom

By: Chad Sell

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their or… read more

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  • childrens
Cover of Wildlife Anatomy: The Curious Lives & Features of Wild Animals around the World by Julia Rothman

13. Wildlife Anatomy: The Curious Lives & Features of Wild Animals around the World

By: Julia Rothman

4.53

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Bestselling author/illustrator Julia Rothman shares a delightfully illustrated guide to all the bea… read more

Similar categories in Julia Rothman's Wildlife Anatomy: The Curious Lives & Features of Wild Animals around the World book and Tom Adams's The Big Book of Mysteries

  • nonfiction
  • childrens
  • science
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14. Just Lizzie

By: Karen Wilfrid

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this beautifully written contemporary middle grade debut, an eighth grader's study of asexuality… read more

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"How do you “start"

-Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie

"I thought having a name for myself, asexual, would be the answer. It isn’t, though. I don’t just want to know myself. I want other people to know me, understand me, believe me. So that I can actually…"

-Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie

"Sarah Nan takes me by the wrist and pulls me away. 'Lizzie, you were talking to a boy !' 'It's no big deal,' I tell her. Maybe it was--because it didn't feel like talking to a boy. It felt like talki…"

-Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie

" Asexual . The prefix 'a-' means 'not.' Hasn't my life always been about what I'm not? Not pretty, not athletic, not interested, not ready--but now here's this word that tells me that what I am not i…"

-Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie

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15. Poetry Comics

By: Grant Snider

4.32

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Combining poetry and comics in a whole new way, this fun and imaginative book is perfect for poetry… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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16. Anzu and the Realm of Darkness: A Graphic Novel

By: Mai K. Nguyen

4.27

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

5 Worlds meets Spirited Away in this tale of a girl fighting her way back home after getting trappe… read more

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  • childrens
Cover of Ursula Upside Down by Corey R. Tabor

17. Ursula Upside Down

By: Corey R. Tabor

4.36

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Ursula the catfish finds confidence in seeing the world her own way in another innovative, flipped-… read more

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  • childrens
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18. Godfather Death

By: Sally Nicholls

4.45

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

A soul-stirring reimagined Grimm tale by award-winning author Sally Nicholls and hauntingly illustr… read more

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  • childrens
Cover of Murdle: Volume 1, 100 Elementary to Impossible Mysteries to Solve Using Logic, Skill, and the Power of Deduction by G.T. Karber

19. Murdle: Volume 1, 100 Elementary to Impossible Mysteries to Solve Using Logic, Skill, and the Power of Deduction

By: G.T. Karber

4.38

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

G. T. Karber, the creator of the popular online daily mystery game Murdle, presents the first colle… read more

Similar categories in G.T. Karber's Murdle: Volume 1, 100 Elementary to Impossible Mysteries to Solve Using Logic, Skill, and the Power of Deduction book and Tom Adams's The Big Book of Mysteries

  • mystery
  • nonfiction
Cover of Millie Fleur's Poison Garden by Christy Mandin

20. Millie Fleur's Poison Garden

By: Christy Mandin

4.46

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Wednesday Addams meets The Curious Garden in this delightfully peculiar story about finding joy in … read more

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  • childrens
Cover of Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall by Lynn Brunelle

21. Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall

By: Lynn Brunelle

4.66

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Follow a blue whale’s enormous body to the bottom of the ocean, where it sets the stage for a bustl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • childrens
  • science
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22. Into the Goblin Market

By: Vikki VanSickle

4.30

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

A picture book ode to Christina Rossetti’s classic poem and a clever homage to familiar fairy-tale … read more

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  • childrens
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23. Wolfgang in the Meadow

By: Lenny Wen

4.36

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

A little ghost with big dreams learns to define success on his own terms in a spookily satisfying s… read more

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  • childrens
Cover of How to Pee Your Pants: The Right Way by Rachel Michelle Wilson

24. How to Pee Your Pants: The Right Way

By: Rachel Michelle Wilson

4.92

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Don’t miss this humorous and heartwarming picture book by debut creator Rachel Michelle Wilson abou… read more

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  • childrens
Cover of Summer: A Solstice Story (The Solstice Series) by Kelsey E. Gross

25. Summer: A Solstice Story (The Solstice Series)

By: Kelsey E. Gross

4.05

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

From Kelsey Gross and New York Times bestselling artist Renata Liwska comes a companion to the stun… read more

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  • childrens
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26. Feeling Boo

By: Alex Boniello

4.05

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Authors and Tony Award-winning producers Alex Boniello and April Lavalle perfectly balance sweet an… read more

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  • childrens
Cover of The Old Willis Place: Graphic Novel by Scott Peterson

27. The Old Willis Place: Graphic Novel

By: Scott Peterson

3.90

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Diana and her little brother, Georgie, know every inch of the land around the old Willis place, a c… read more

Similar categories in Scott Peterson's The Old Willis Place: Graphic Novel book and Tom Adams's The Big Book of Mysteries

  • mystery
  • childrens
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28. Sea of Constellations

By: Melissa Cristina Márquez

4.16

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

"This gentle aquatic fable reminds us that friendship and selflessness can be powerful beacons agai… read more

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  • childrens
Cover of The Big Book of Mysteries by Tom   Adams

29. The Big Book of Mysteries

By: Tom Adams

4.22

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A captivating new gift book featuring over 100 real-life mysteries that might just give you goosebu… read more

Similar categories in Tom Adams's The Big Book of Mysteries book and Tom Adams's The Big Book of Mysteries

  • history
  • childrens
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • science
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30. Bog Myrtle

By: Sid Sharp

4.49

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

“I adore this book as much as I adore empowered spiders, poker-faced narrators, and cooperative boo… read more

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  • childrens
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31. The Bakery Dragon

By: Devin Elle Kurtz

4.64

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

The heroic tale of a tiny dragon with a heart of gold and a taste for baked treats! A scrumptious p… read more

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  • childrens

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David Sedaris

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4.51

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4.26

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3.59

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Kayla Miller

4.15

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Gale Galligan

4.15

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Lucy Knisley

4.03

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