8 Best mystery books like Sport (Harriet the Spy #3) by Louise Fitzhugh

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Sport (Harriet the Spy #3)

By: Louise Fitzhugh

3.58

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Eleven-year-old Sport Rocque is living a happy life, keeping his father's absentmindedness under co…

If you liked the mystery plot in Sport (Harriet the Spy #3) by Louise Fitzhugh , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. I Am the Cheese

By: Robert Cormier

3.77

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Adam Farmer is on a journey - he has to get to Rutterburg with a parcel for his father. But as he t… read more

Similar categories in Robert Cormier's I Am the Cheese book and Louise Fitzhugh's Sport (Harriet the Spy #3)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • classics
  • young adult
"He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the j…"

-Robert Cormier, I Am the Cheese

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2. The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)

By: Robert Cormier

3.49

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

Jerry Renault ponders the question on the poster in his locker: Do I dare disturb the universe? Ref… read more

Similar categories in Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1) book and Louise Fitzhugh's Sport (Harriet the Spy #3)

  • fiction
  • classics
  • young adult
"They murdered him."

-Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)

"They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too."

-Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)

"He closed the locker quickly so no one would see the damage. For some reason, he felt ashamed."

-Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)

"Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus."

-Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)

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3. Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories

By: Diana Wynne Jones

3.98

Format: 590 pages, Paperback

Master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones presents a riveting collection of unpredictable tales, includi… read more

Similar categories in Diana Wynne Jones's Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories book and Louise Fitzhugh's Sport (Harriet the Spy #3)

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"After this, Boy became very curious about the mansion where the clothes and the food came from. He made me describe everything. Then he asked Good Thing 'Are there books in this mansion, too?' 'And p…"

-Diana Wynne Jones, Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories

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4. New Shoes (Shoes, #10)

By: Noel Streatfeild

3.86

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Reverend Bell and his family leave their beloved London parish for Crestel New Town, and the Bell c… read more

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  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult
  • juvenile
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5. Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? (All the Wrong Questions, #4)

By: Lemony Snicket , Seth

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Train travel! Murder! Librarians! A Series Finale! On all other nights, the train departs from Stai… read more

Similar categories in Lemony Snicket's Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? (All the Wrong Questions, #4) book and Louise Fitzhugh's Sport (Harriet the Spy #3)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
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6. Sport (Harriet the Spy #3)

By: Louise Fitzhugh

3.58

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Eleven-year-old Sport Rocque is living a happy life, keeping his father's absentmindedness under co… read more

Similar categories in Louise Fitzhugh's Sport (Harriet the Spy #3) book and Louise Fitzhugh's Sport (Harriet the Spy #3)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
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7. The 13 Clocks

By: James Thurber , Marc Simont

4.00

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn… read more

Similar categories in James Thurber's The 13 Clocks book and Louise Fitzhugh's Sport (Harriet the Spy #3)

  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"Time lies frozen there. It's always Then. It's never Now."

-James Thurber, The 13 Clocks

"You mere device," he gnarled. "You platitude! Your Gollux ex machina!"

-James Thurber, The 13 Clocks

"You'll never live to wed his niece. You'll only die to feed his geese."

-James Thurber, The 13 Clocks

"Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long."

-James Thurber, The 13 Clocks

8. Big Fish

By: Daniel Wallace

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

He could outrun anybody, and he never missed a day of school. He saved lives, tamed giants. Animals… read more

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9. Who Could That Be at This Hour? (All the Wrong Questions, #1)

By: Lemony Snicket , Seth

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The adventure began in a fading town. Far from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket st… read more

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10. When Did You See Her Last? (All the Wrong Questions, #2)

By: Lemony Snicket

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

I should have asked the question "How could someone who was missing be in two places at once?" Inst… read more

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11. The Mangle Street Murders (The Gower Street Detective, #1)

By: M.R.C. Kasasian

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

After her father dies, March Middleton has to move to London to live with her guardian, Sidney Gric… read more

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12. File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (All the Wrong Questions, #2.5)

By: Lemony Snicket , Seth

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Match wits with Lemony Snicket to solve thirteen mini-mysteries. Paintings have been falling off of… read more

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13. Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

By: Lemony Snicket , Seth

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

Is Lemony Snicket a detective or a smoke detector? Do you smell smoke? Young apprentice Lemony Snic… read more

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14. Thursday's Children

By: Rumer Godden

3.50

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

"Thursday's child has far to go" says the nursery rhyme, and never was the saying more apt than it … read more

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15. The Department of Sensitive Crimes (Detective Varg, #1)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.48

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The Department of Sensitive Crimes is Scandinavian Blanc, vastly different from Scandinavian Noir. … read more

Similar categories in Alexander McCall Smith's The Department of Sensitive Crimes (Detective Varg, #1) book and Louise Fitzhugh's Sport (Harriet the Spy #3)

  • mystery
  • fiction
"You can’t do much about a personality disorder. Cats are psychopaths at heart."

-Alexander McCall Smith, The Department of Sensitive Crimes (Detective Varg, #1)

"Dogs can read signals -- look at sheepdogs; they understand hand movements for left and right. Dogs are no fools, you know." He paused. "Well, some are. Some dogs are truly stupid, Ulf."

-Alexander McCall Smith, The Department of Sensitive Crimes (Detective Varg, #1)

"All suspects should be given the chance to telephone their lawyers or their mothers, and it would not be surprising if they chose to call their mothers. After all, your mother is fall more likely to …"

-Alexander McCall Smith, The Department of Sensitive Crimes (Detective Varg, #1)

"I like you when you're algebraic," said Ulf--and immediately regretted it. It was a flirtatious remark--describing somebody as algebraic was undoubtedly to cross a line. You would not normally descri…"

-Alexander McCall Smith, The Department of Sensitive Crimes (Detective Varg, #1)

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16. To the Land of Long Lost Friends (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #20)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In the latest book in the widely beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe t… read more

Similar categories in Alexander McCall Smith's To the Land of Long Lost Friends (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #20) book and Louise Fitzhugh's Sport (Harriet the Spy #3)

  • mystery
  • fiction
"No, on the whole it was better to say kind things of late people, even if they did not fully deserve them. Kindness, after all, did not distinguish between those who merited it and those who did not.…"

-Alexander McCall Smith, To the Land of Long Lost Friends (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #20)

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17. The Fortnight in September

By: R.C. Sherriff

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more

Similar categories in R.C. Sherriff's The Fortnight in September book and Louise Fitzhugh's Sport (Harriet the Spy #3)

  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of How to Raise an Elephant (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #21) by Alexander McCall Smith

18. How to Raise an Elephant (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #21)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The next book in the perennially adored No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series sees Precious Ramotsw… read more

Similar categories in Alexander McCall Smith's How to Raise an Elephant (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #21) book and Louise Fitzhugh's Sport (Harriet the Spy #3)

  • mystery
  • fiction
"... And unkindness was never the way to convert others to a truth of any sort. You did not change anybody, she had always believed, by shouting at them or by making them feel bad about themselves. On…"

-Alexander McCall Smith, How to Raise an Elephant (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #21)

Cover of Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy by Leslie Brody

19. Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy

By: Leslie Brody

3.83

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

In this inspiring biography, discover the true story of Harriet the Spy author Louise Fitzhugh -- a… read more

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Cover of Harriet the Spy, Double Agent (Harriet the Spy Adventures, #2) by Maya Gold

20. Harriet the Spy, Double Agent (Harriet the Spy Adventures, #2)

By: Maya Gold

3.81

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Harriet is impressed to learn that the girl she has befriended, now called Annie Smith, is the pers… read more

Similar categories in Maya Gold's Harriet the Spy, Double Agent (Harriet the Spy Adventures, #2) book and Louise Fitzhugh's Sport (Harriet the Spy #3)

  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Wretched Waterpark (Sinister Summer, #1) by Kiersten White

21. Wretched Waterpark (Sinister Summer, #1)

By: Kiersten White

3.75

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

A middle-grade mystery series that's spooky, creepy, and filled with gothic twists! Meet the Sinist… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Wretched Waterpark (Sinister Summer, #1) book and Louise Fitzhugh's Sport (Harriet the Spy #3)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile

13 Best fiction books like Sport (Harriet the Spy #3) by Louise Fitzhugh

Transform Your Habits

I Am the Cheese

Robert Cormier

3.77

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The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)

Robert Cormier

3.49

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Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories

Diana Wynne Jones

3.98

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New Shoes (Shoes, #10)

Noel Streatfeild

3.86

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16 best-selling fiction books like Wretched Waterpark (Sinister Summer, #1) by Kiersten White

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The Mystery of Locked Rooms

Lindsay Currie

4.03

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The Clackity (Blight Harbor)

Lora Senf

4.04

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The Nighthouse Keeper (Blight Harbor)

Lora Senf

4.20

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Marshmallow & Jordan

Alina Chau

4.22

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