Lemony Snicket Read-Alikes
Aiken, Joan Mortimer Says Nothing
Four adventures of Arabel and her pet raven Mortimer: "Mortimer Says Nothing," "Arabel's Birthday," "Mr. Jone's Rest Cure," and "A Call at the Joneses'."
Aiken, Joan Mortimer's Cross
Three further adventures of Arabel and her pet raven, Mortimer, include "No Ravens in the Library," "The Mystery of Mr. Jones's Disappearing Taxi," and "Mortimer's Portrait on Glass."
Aiken, Joan Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Bellairs, John The House With a Clock In Its Walls
A boy goes to live with his magician uncle in a mansion that has a clock hidden in the walls which is ticking off the minutes until doomsday.
Bellairs, John The Curse of the Blue Figurine
Johnny Dixon is plunged into a terrifying mystery-adventure when he removes a blue figurine called a ushabti from church.
Colfer, Eoin Artemis Fowl
When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
Garfield, Leon Smith
A young pickpocket in eighteenth century London takes a document he cannot read from a man's pocket and a moment later sees the man murdered by two men who want the document.
Garfield, Leon The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris
Heide, Florence Parry The Shrinking of Treehorn
A boy discovers he is shrinking but does not know the cause or cure.
Horvath, Polly The Trolls
Eccentric Aunt Sally comes from Canada to babysit the Anderson children while their parents are on a trip to Paris and every night the bedtime story adds another piece to a very suspect family history.
Ibbotson, Eva Island of the Aunts
As they get older, several sisters decide that they must kidnap children and bring them to their secluded island home to help with the work of caring for an assortment of unusual sea creatures.
Ibbotson, Eva The Secret of Platform 13
Odge Gribble, a young hag, accompanies an old wizard, a gentle fey, and a giant ogre on their mission through a magical tunnel from their Island to London to rescue their King and Queen's son who had been stolen as an infant.
Ibbotson, Eva Which Witch?
Deciding that he must sire a child to carry on his tradition of Loathing Light and Blighting the Beautiful, the Great Wizard Arriman announces a competition among the witches of Todcaster, one of whom will marry him.
Pullman, Philip Spring-Heeled Jack
Three children make their escape from a London orphanage and after a series of misadventures are reunited with their father through the efforts of the legendary Spring-Heeled Jack.
Pullman, Philip Count Karlstein
In the mountains of Switzerland the wicked Count Karlstein plots to abandon his two orphaned nieces in a hunting lodge as prey for the Demon Huntsman and his ghostly hounds.
Sachar, Louis Holes
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Scieszka, John Time Warp Trio Series
Waddell, Martin Harriet and the Crocodiles
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