18 books like The Missing Chums
The Shore Road Mystery
When the Hardy boys eagerly agree to assist their friend Jack Dodd and his father in locating a family treasure, the two young detectives are unaware of the baffling complications that will arise. The only clue to the long-lost treasure is a cryptic message written by a Pilgrim ancestor. But when Mr. Dodd and Jack are accused of stealing cars and then mysteriously disappear, Frank and Joe are…
Shares: Brothers -- Juvenile fiction, Frank Hardy, Joe Hardy, Hardy Boys
Hunting for Hidden Gold
Timber wolves, a Rocky Mountain blizzard, and a mine cave-in are only a few of the perils Frank and Joe Hardy encounter during their search for the principal members of a notorious gang responsible for a payroll robbery. In the old Montana mining camp of Lucky Lode, the young detectives puzzle over a series of mysterious events. A piano-playing ghost haunts the long-abandoned dance hall. Eerie…
Shares: Brothers -- Juvenile fiction, Frank Hardy, Joe Hardy, Hardy Boys
The secret of the old mill
Teenage detectives Frank and Joe Hardy investigate a case of counterfeiting.
Shares: Brothers -- Juvenile fiction, Frank Hardy, Joe Hardy, Hardy Boys
The House on the Cliff
When Mr. Hardy disappears while investigating a mystery surrounding a vacant house rumored to be either haunted or an abode for criminals, the Hardy Boys search for the truth.
Shares: Frank Hardy, Joe Hardy, Hardy Boys, Mystery
Five Get into a Fix
The Famous Five are skiing and having a brilliant time! But there's always a mystery to solve: such as who is living in the mysterious house near their chalet? The caretaker says the house is empty...but the Five have seen a terrified face at the window...
One thing's for sure -- they have to get to the truth!
Shares: Missing persons -- Juvenile fiction, Kidnapping, Missing persons, Adventure
Tic-Tac-Terror
The two young detectives solve a mystery involving a top secret government agency and a world-famous spy who wishes to defect to America.
Shares: Hardy Boys, Brothers, Mystery, Children's fiction
Turtles All the Way Down
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD AZA NEVER INTENDED to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at sake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett's son, Davis.
Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a…
Shares: Missing persons -- Juvenile fiction, Missing persons, Friendship, Children's fiction
The tower treasure
A dying criminal confesses that his loot has been stored "in the tower." Both towers of the looted mansion are searched in vain. It remains for the Hardy boys to make an astonishing discovery that clears up the mystery and clears the name of a friend’s father.
Shares: Hardy Boys, Brothers, Adventure, Mystery
The Genius Thieves
A daring million-dollar bank robbery leads the Hardy Boys to undercover work on the secluded campus of an exclusive prep school.
Shares: Hardy Boys, Mystery, Children's fiction
Night of the Werewolf
The treasure that captured a nation's imagination Everyone's favorite farmgirl, Dorothy from Kansas, finds herself on a strange odyssey with three new friends. Readers young and old alike will enjoy this trip down Memory Lane, via the Yellow Brick Road.
Shares: Hardy Boys, Mystery, Children's fiction
True North (True Born Book 2)
"Confession: I love X-Men and the idea of people developing different kinds of powers, be they psychic or shapeshifting or elemental control. This is exactly what I got in True Born, and it was so cool." –Dani, Dani Reviews ThingsWelcome to Dominion City.After the great Plague descended, the world population was decimated...and their genetics damaged beyond repair.The Lasters wait hopelessly for…
Shares: Missing persons -- Juvenile fiction, Mystery, Children's fiction
The Mystery of the Strange Messages
Mr. Goon, the policeman, can't understand it. Messages keep coming to him, popping up all over the place. But who is sending them? He thinks it is Fatty, playing tricks on him but this is the first the Five Find-Outers have heard about the messages. It all becomes a remarkable mystery, and one which the Five just have to solve.
Shares: Adventure, Mystery, Children's fiction
The Familiars
Aldwyn is an ordinary alley cat, who accidentally enters a shop while attempting to escape from a bounty hunter named Grimslade. He discovers that it is a shop full of magical animals, who are all prepared to become a wizard's familiar - that is to say, a magical animal companion. Just then, a young wizard-in-training, Jack, enters the shop with his mentor, the powerful wizard Kalstaff, to choose…
Shares: Kidnapping, Friendship, Adventure, Mystery
Freak the Mighty
At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak with a leg disability because his, birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, When the two meet they become close friends and they figure out that when they are combined they create a powerful force and team
Shares: Children's, Friendship, Adventure, Children's fiction
Winter Turning
Winter has been a disappointment to his royal IceWing family his whole life. When his sister, Icicle, runs away from Jade Mountain Academy, fleeing terrible crimes and possibly planning to commit more, Winter knows that they both need a second chance to make things right, if only he can find her. Winter's new clawmates, Moon, Qibli, and Kinkajou, won't let him make this dangerous journey alone.…
Shares: Brothers, Friendship, Adventure, Children's fiction
Werewolf Skin
Alex Hunter, a young photographer, is staying with his aunt and uncle in Wolf Creek. They only have two rules for him: don't go into the woods late at night, and stay away from the creepy house next door. But Alex can't resist trying to take a couple of pictures, late at night, when the moon is full.
Shares: Brothers, Children's fiction
The End Games
John Green meets Stephen King in this original take on the zombie apocalypse by author T. Michael Martin, which ALA Booklist called "the best of the undead bunch" in a starred review.Seventeen-year-old Michael and his five-year-old brother, Patrick, have been battling monsters in the Game for weeks. In the rural mountains of West Virginia—armed with only their rifle and their love for each…
Shares: Brothers, Children's fiction
Theodore Boone, The Abduction
A book about a young man, Theodore Boone, 8th grade son of 2 attorneys, whose passion is the law. His friend disappeared from her bedroom in middle of the night and no one knows anything about it! Who is going to solve the mystery? Theo, of course!
Shares: Kidnapping, Missing persons, Mystery, Children's fiction