9 must-read historical books like Premeditated Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries, #1) by Elizabeth C. Bunce

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Premeditated Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries, #1)

By: Elizabeth C. Bunce

4.12

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Edgar Award! Finalist for the Agatha Award and Anthony Award! Twelve-year-old Myr…

If you liked the historical plot in Premeditated Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries, #1) by Elizabeth C. Bunce , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. The World's Greatest Detective

By: Caroline Carlson

3.33

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

By the end of our time together, someone in this house will be rich. Someone will be the World's Gr… read more

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2. 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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  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
"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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3. Premeditated Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries, #1)

By: Elizabeth C. Bunce

4.12

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Edgar Award! Finalist for the Agatha Award and Anthony Award! Twelve-year-old Myr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • juvenile
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4. The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

By: Beth Lincoln

4.06

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

In her family, Shenanigan Swift has always been synonymous with mischief. As Arch-Aunt Schadenfreud… read more

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  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
"According to Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude, a funeral ought to look like a wedding upside down."

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

"A funeral is supposed to be a way to say goodbye. You look inside yourself and find a place to put your grief, not somewhere hidden, not the top shelf or the back of a cupboard, but maybe by a window…"

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

"A collective term is a special name given to a group of animals, like a herd of cows. Many animals have their own strange terms. She knew the collective term for starlings was a murmuration, and the …"

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

"Family was exhausting, and complicated, and everyone was their own person, which meant you had just as much chance of getting along with them as you did any stranger off the street. Just sharing bloo…"

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

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5. Greenwild (Greenwild, #1)

By: Pari Thomson

4.20

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive and a deep magic rises from the… read more

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  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
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6. 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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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"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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7. A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

By: Lisa Yee

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When a notorious thief is out for priceless treasure (gems! cats! general decorum!)—who're you gonn… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"They all perished. tragic deaths. sad parents. lawsuits.' Monica's words were met with stunned silence. ignoring the horrified looks on the student's faces, she shouted, 'Joking! We discovered that t…"

-Lisa Yee, A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

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8. The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby

By: G.Z. Schmidt

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Amadeuses were always considered somewhat strange. Even before the incident. When six-year-old… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Knowledge, someone once said, was power—and the fewer children with power, the better."

-G.Z. Schmidt, The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby

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9. The Mystery of Locked Rooms

By: Lindsay Currie

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Crack the codes. Find the treasure. Escape the house. From the acclaimed author of Scritch Scratch … read more

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  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
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10. The Body Under the Piano (Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen, #1)

By: Marthe Jocelyn

3.92

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Aggie Morton lives in a small town on the coast of England in 1902. Adventurous and imaginative but… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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11. The Library of Ever (The Library of Ever, #1)

By: Zeno Alexander

3.78

Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition

With her parents off traveling the globe, Lenora is bored, bored, bored—until she discovers a secre… read more

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  • childrens
  • juvenile
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Le Forze delle Tenebre vorrebbero controllare le persone, ed è sempre la conoscenza che glielo impedisce>, rispose Malachi. , dichiarò Lenora. "

-Zeno Alexander, The Library of Ever (The Library of Ever, #1)

"-Le Forze delle Tenebre vorrebbero controllare le persone, ed è sempre la conoscenza che glielo impedisce-, rispose Malachi. -Possono dominare solo dove c'è ignoranza, creare paura solo dove è stata …"

-Zeno Alexander, The Library of Ever (The Library of Ever, #1)

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12. 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

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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13. The Improbable Tales of Baskerville Hall

By: Ali Standish

3.93

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

What if young Arthur Conan Doyle really went to a secret school for extraordinarily gifted children… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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14. Maizy Chen's Last Chance

By: Lisa Yee

4.29

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to The Golden Palace! Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota. . . until now. Her… read more

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  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
"When you're in a position to help, that means you're in a good place in your own life."

-Lisa Yee, Maizy Chen's Last Chance

"Sometimes people don't know their dreams until they're in it. Other times, their dreams escape them because they are too busy being busy."

-Lisa Yee, Maizy Chen's Last Chance

Cover of The Seaside Corpse (Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen, #4) by Marthe Jocelyn

15. The Seaside Corpse (Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen, #4)

By: Marthe Jocelyn

4.13

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, an opportunity to dig up fossils becomes ev… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of Peril at Owl Park (Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen, #2) by Marthe Jocelyn

16. Peril at Owl Park (Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen, #2)

By: Marthe Jocelyn

4.18

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, Christmas becomes a lot more exciting when … read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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17. A Kind of Paradise

By: Amy Rebecca Tan

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Jamie Bunn made a mistake at the end of the school year. A big one. And every kid in her middle sch… read more

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  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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18. Extra Normal

By: Kate Alice Marshall

4.25

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

It's hard to fight the supernatural when you're naturally "un-super." This chilling middle grade is… read more

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  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • audiobook
Cover of The Dead Man in the Garden (Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen, #3) by Marthe Jocelyn

19. The Dead Man in the Garden (Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen, #3)

By: Marthe Jocelyn

4.17

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, a spa stay becomes a lot more thrilling whe… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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20. The Pear Affair

By: Judith Eagle

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second novel from the author of the acclaimed The Secret Starling and The Ac… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile

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