21 Best middle grade books like The No-Brainer's Guide to Decomposition by Adrianna Cuevas

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The No-Brainer's Guide to Decomposition

By: Adrianna Cuevas

4.42

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In Pura Belpré Honor–winning author Adrianna Cuevas's new spooky middle grade novel. Frani must fig…

If you liked the middle grade plot in The No-Brainer's Guide to Decomposition by Adrianna Cuevas , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. 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

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  • middle grade
"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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2. Olivetti

By: Allie Millington

4.10

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and r… read more

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  • middle grade
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3. And Then, Boom!

By: Lisa Fipps

4.69

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A gripping new novel-in-verse by the author of the Printz Honor-winning Starfish , featuring a pove… read more

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  • middle grade
"Friendship is being there to notice someone's about to fall, to try to keep them from falling, to catch them when they fall or to cushion the blow when they do, to feel what they're feeling, and to u…"

-Lisa Fipps, And Then, Boom!

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4. Not Quite a Ghost

By: Anne Ursu

4.08

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy comes an unforgettable and … read more

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  • middle grade
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5. The Wrong Way Home

By: Kate O'Shaughnessy

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Library Binding

Twelve-year-old Fern believes she's living a noble life--but what if everything she's been told is … read more

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  • middle grade
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6. The Night Librarian: A Graphic Novel

By: Christopher Lincoln

3.93

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A graphic novel adventure in which two siblings, a mysterious Night Librarian, and a motley cast of… read more

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  • middle grade
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7. The Bletchley Riddle

By: Ruta Sepetys

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A stunning collaboration between award-winning and bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Shein… read more

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  • middle grade
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8. Ultraviolet

By: Aida Salazar

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes life explodes in technicolor. In the spirit of Judy Blume, award-winning author Aida Sala… read more

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  • middle grade
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9. Kareem Between

By: Shifa Saltagi Safadi

4.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This heartfelt coming-of-age novel in verse tells the powerful story of a seventh grade Syrian-Amer… read more

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  • middle grade
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10. Amari and the Despicable Wonders (Supernatural Investigations, #3)

By: B.B. Alston

4.37

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The highly anticipated third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Supernatural Investigations … read more

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  • middle grade
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11. The Legend of the Last Library

By: Frank L. Cole

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

What if you lived in a world without books? After a devastating Blight killed off all the trees, p… read more

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  • middle grade
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12. It Happened to Anna

By: Tehlor Kay Mejia

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This spine-tingling ghost story follows a tween girl who’s being literally haunted by loneliness un… read more

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  • middle grade
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13. Deer Run Home

By: Ann Clare LeZotte

4.56

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Effie is Deaf, and no one in her family speaks sign language, her language. This heart-filled story… read more

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  • middle grade
Cover of The Sherlock Society (The Sherlock Society, #1) by James Ponti

14. The Sherlock Society (The Sherlock Society, #1)

By: James Ponti

4.50

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Nancy Drew, four kids and one grandfather in Miami tackle a decades-old mystery… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • middle grade
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15. A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall

By: Jasmine Warga

4.31

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Rover's Story and Other Words for Ho… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • middle grade
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16. The No-Brainer's Guide to Decomposition

By: Adrianna Cuevas

4.42

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In Pura Belpré Honor–winning author Adrianna Cuevas's new spooky middle grade novel. Frani must fig… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • middle grade
Cover of Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan

17. Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back

By: Ruth Chan

4.44

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of New Kid and A First Time for Everything, a joyful and tearful debut middle grad… read more

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  • middle grade
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18. Boy 2.0 (Boy 2.0, #1)

By: Tracey Baptiste

4.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Win “Coal” Keegan has just landed in his latest foster home, with a big, noisy, slightly nosy famil… read more

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  • middle grade
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19. Westfallen

By: Ann Brashares

4.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants author Ann Brashares and her b… read more

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  • middle grade
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20. Jasmine Is Haunted

By: Mark Oshiro

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Jasmine Garza has a a ghost has been following her for years, ever since her Papi died. Not that M… read more

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  • middle grade
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21. Accidental Demons

By: Clare Edge

4.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Conjuring demons seems like something you should totally not be able to do by accident, right? Well… read more

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  • middle grade

27 Best fiction books like The Night Librarian: A Graphic Novel by Christopher Lincoln

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Plain Jane and the Mermaid

Vera Brosgol

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Max in the House of Spies: A Tale of World War II

Adam Gidwitz

4.17

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Kekla Magoon

3.84

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Robin Easter

4.08

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