8 Top middle grade books like Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti

4.20

Format: 445 pages, Hardcover

What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and tex…

If you liked the middle grade plot in Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America by Susan Campbell Bartoletti , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Hidden Gold: A Marie-Grace Mystery by Sarah Masters Buckey

1. The Hidden Gold: A Marie-Grace Mystery

By: Sarah Masters Buckey

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

Marie-Grace can’t wait to begin her journey up the Mississippi River with her father. The steamboat… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Masters Buckey's The Hidden Gold: A Marie-Grace Mystery book and Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

  • historical
  • middle grade
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2. Blue Birds

By: Caroline Starr Rose

4.05

Format: 393 pages, Hardcover

It’s 1587 and twelve-year-old Alis has made the long journey with her parents from England to help … read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
Cover of Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes by Emily  Craig, Emily Craig

3. Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes

By: Emily Craig , Emily Craig

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Teasing Secrets from the Deadis a front-lines story of crime scene investigation at some of the mos… read more

Similar categories in Emily Craig's Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes book and Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Auschwitz #34207: The Joe Rubinstein Story by Nancy Sprowell Geise

4. Auschwitz #34207: The Joe Rubinstein Story

By: Nancy Sprowell Geise

4.04

Format: 288 pages,

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Similar categories in Nancy Sprowell Geise's Auschwitz #34207: The Joe Rubinstein Story book and Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

5. Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage

By: Tilar J. Mazzeo , Mary Cronk Farrell

4.10

Format: 264 pages,

From "New York Times" bestselling author Tilar Mazzeo comes the extraordinary and long forgotten st… read more

Similar categories in Tilar J. Mazzeo's Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage book and Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
Cover of Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

6. Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti

4.20

Format: 445 pages, Hardcover

What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and tex… read more

Similar categories in Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America book and Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

  • history
  • biography
  • medical
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • science

7. Fighting for Life

By: Helen Epstein , None

4.23

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

New York's Lower East Side was said to be the most densely populated square mile on earth in the 18… read more

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8. Spy Princess: The Life Of Noor Inayat Khan

By: Shrabani Basu

3.50

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

This is the remarkable biography of Noor Inayat Khan, code named "Madeleine". The first woman wirel… read more

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9. Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918

By: Albert Marrin

4.22

Format: 224 pages,

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10. Meet Caroline (American Girls: Caroline, #1)

By: Kathleen Ernst , Robert Papp , Lisa Papp

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

Caroline Abbott is doing what she loves most--sailing on Lake Ontario with Papa--when her world tur… read more

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11. 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 Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

  • middle grade
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12. Rez Ball

By: Byron Graves

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This debut novel by Byron Graves tells the story of a young athlete determined to play like the her… read more

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13. Butterfly Yellow

By: Thanhhà Lại

3.84

Format: 320 pages, ebook

In the final days of the Việt Nam War, Hằng takes her little brother, Linh, to the airport, determi… read more

Similar categories in Thanhhà Lại's Butterfly Yellow book and Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

  • historical
"The gray guilt had grown heavy, refusing to pause its relentless infusion into her joints and marrow. After all, it was her fault her brother was taken."

-Thanhhà Lại, Butterfly Yellow

"Should 'sleep' be plural? No, sleep is an idea, like love, no s. So many decisions in a single simple sentence. Exhausting, this elaborate dance of words."

-Thanhhà Lại, Butterfly Yellow

"Y'all have a song?' H nods. 'Bất-tơ-phơ-lai de-lồ.' 'Butterfly yellow? You mean yellow butterfly.' H starts to explain but pulls out her notebook. The most prepared notetaker on earth. Bướm = butterf…"

-Thanhhà Lại, Butterfly Yellow

Cover of Charlie Thorne and the Royal Society (Charlie Thorn, #4) by Stuart Gibbs

14. Charlie Thorne and the Royal Society (Charlie Thorn, #4)

By: Stuart Gibbs

4.44

Format: None pages, Audiobook

In the fourth installment of the New York Times bestselling Charlie Thorne series—which #1 New York… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Royal Society (Charlie Thorn, #4) book and Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

  • middle grade
Cover of Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector by Amit Katwala

15. Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector

By: Amit Katwala

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A thrilling account of the creation of the so-called lie detector, exploring shocking murders and d… read more

Similar categories in Amit Katwala's Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector book and Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
Cover of Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis by Susan Hood

16. Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis

By: Susan Hood

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias "Anna") and her s… read more

Similar categories in Susan Hood's Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis book and Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Marxification of Education: Paulo Freire's Critical Marxism and the Theft of Education by James   Lindsay

17. The Marxification of Education: Paulo Freire's Critical Marxism and the Theft of Education

By: James Lindsay

4.13

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

Education is in bad shape in America and beyond today. It’s obvious. Everyone perceives it. Somethi… read more

Similar categories in James Lindsay's The Marxification of Education: Paulo Freire's Critical Marxism and the Theft of Education book and Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

  • nonfiction
Cover of Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II by Candace Fleming

18. Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II

By: Candace Fleming

4.15

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Candace Fleming, comes the powerful and fascinating story of the brave an… read more

Similar categories in Candace Fleming's Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II book and Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon

19. Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People

By: Kekla Magoon

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

With passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers—as milit… read more

Similar categories in Kekla Magoon's Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People book and Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
"The FBI nicknamed the program COINTELPRO, as a shorthand for "counterintelligence program." COINTELPRO originated in the 1950s, to prevent socialist movements from developing in the United States, an…"

-Kekla Magoon, Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People

Cover of The 'Peyton Place' Murder: The True Crime Story Behind The Novel That Shocked The Nation by Renee Mallett

20. The 'Peyton Place' Murder: The True Crime Story Behind The Novel That Shocked The Nation

By: Renee Mallett

3.61

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

Grace Metalious, born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, came from humble beginnings. A forme… read more

Similar categories in Renee Mallett's The 'Peyton Place' Murder: The True Crime Story Behind The Novel That Shocked The Nation book and Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History by Ariel Aberg-Riger

21. America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History

By: Ariel Aberg-Riger

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A critical, unflinching cultural history and fierce beacon of hope for a better future, America Red… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Aberg-Riger's America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History book and Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history

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