18 books like The secret of the old mill

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The Shore Road Mystery Leslie McFarlane · 1928 · ★ 3.9 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging 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 Leslie McFarlane · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Challenging 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 Missing Chums Leslie McFarlane · 1928 · ★ 3.5 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A series of bizarre events in their home town lead the Hardy Boys on a trail of robbers and kidnappers. Shares: Brothers -- Juvenile fiction, Frank Hardy, Joe Hardy, Hardy Boys

The House on the Cliff Leslie McFarlane · 1927 · ★ 3.9 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging 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

The Genius Thieves Leslie McFarlane · 1987 · ★ 4.0 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate 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

Tic-Tac-Terror Leslie McFarlane · 1982 · ★ 3.5 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate 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, Mystery, Children's fiction

Night of the Werewolf Leslie McFarlane · 1979 · ★ 3.7 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Moderate 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

The Mystery of the Strange Messages Enid Blyton · 1969 · ★ 4.2 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate 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 tower treasure Leslie McFarlane · 1927 · ★ 3.9 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Challenging 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, Adventure, Mystery, Children's fiction

Freak the Mighty W. R. Philbrick · 1989 · ★ 4.3 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate 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, Adventure, Children's fiction

Radio Silence Alice Oseman · 2016 · ★ 4.2 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Moderate A studious girl and a quiet, straight-A boy start a controversial podcast together that challenges their courage and forces them to confront issues in the form of backlash and censorship. Shares: Children's, Children's fiction

Forever begins tomorrow Bruce Coville · 1986 · ★ 4.1 · 213p · ≈ 7h · Moderate From Bruce Coville, the master of tween comic suspense, comes a tale of monsters, the bond between brothers, and saving the world.Jake's baby brother, LD, may be a monster (complete with fangs and fur!), but together with his best friend, Lily, Jake isn't going to let anything happen to that baby. Even if it turns out LD may be the key to saving the world—or destroying it. Soon Jake and Lily are… Shares: Adventure, Mystery, Children's fiction

The Royal Book of Oz Ruth Plumly Thompson · 1921 · 138p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Scarecrow searches for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island. Shares: Adventure, Children's fiction

Secret Seven Mystery Enid Blyton · 1957 · ★ 3.9 · 121p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Usually, the grown-ups in the Secret Seven series play a regulatory role, and, at times, even forbid the children from getting involved in mysteries. However, it is Peter's and Janet's father who drops this mystery in their lap and suggests that the Seven tackle it. A girl—Elizabeth Sonning—is missing after she is accused of stealing money. Since her grandmother lives in neighbouring Belling… Shares: Adventure, Mystery, Children's fiction

The Spiderwick Chronicles Tony DiTerlizzi · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate German-language description Jared und seine Geschwister Simon und Mallory haben in dem alten Haus, in dem sie seit kurzem wohnen, eine geheimnisvolle Entdeckung gemacht: Arthur Spiderwicks Handbuch der magischen Geschöpfe! Plötzlich eröffnet sich den Kindern eine Welt voller Magie und Zauberwesen – doch nicht alle sind ihnen freundlich gesonnnen. Urplötzlich heiklen Situationen und ungeahnten… Shares: Adventure, Children's fiction

The Hive Queen Tui T. Sutherland · 2018 · ★ 5.0 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Growing up in the hives, cricket has always had 1,000,000 questions. Wiretree soap forbidden, even in art? Why do her parents seem to hate her? In the biggest, most dangerous and secret question of all: why is cricket immune to queen wasp"s powers? Whenever the queen takes control of all the hype wing, speaking through their mouths and seeing through their eyes, cricket has to hide, terrified of… Shares: Adventure, Children's fiction

The Dangerous Gift Tui T. Sutherland · 2020 · ★ 4.4 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Snowfall didn't expect to be queen of the IceWings at such a young age, but now that she is, she's going to be the best queen ever. All she has to do is keep her tribe within IceWing territory, where it's safe -- while keeping every other tribe out, where they belong. It's a perfect and simple plan, backed up by all the IceWing magic Snowfall can find. That is, until a storm of unidentified… Shares: Adventure, Children's fiction

The Poison Jungle Tui T. Sutherland · 2019 · ★ 4.5 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate It's no secret that Sundew wants to destroy the HiveWings. It's her life's mission to exact revenge on the tribe that tried to wipe out the LeafWings and ripped every tree from the surface of Pantala. Every tree, that is, except the wild and dangerous Poison Jungle, where the surviving LeafWings have been hiding since the war. Hiding, plotting, and waiting for a dragon like Sundew, who is… Shares: Adventure, Children's fiction

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