Books to Read If You Liked The Mysterious Benedict Society
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I first read The Mysterious Benedict Society back in 2007 before I had any children and I knew instantly it would be a hit.
Nearly twenty years later, I feel pretty good about that prediction (I went back and listened to it with my kids a few years ago and we all loved it and we also enjoyed the TV series as a family!).
If you have a child who loved The Mysterious Benedict Society and needs some other readalikes, here are some to try!
Other Books to Try If You Liked the Mysterious Benedict Society
Winterhouse by Ben Guterson
This trilogy is set in a magical hotel full of secrets and orphan Elizabeth is sent there by her evil aunt and uncle. In it’s massive library she discovers a magical book of puzzles. This book holds the answers to the mystery involving the hotel’s owner. Will Elizabeth be able to unlock the mystery, even when she realizes that she may be connected?
Case Closed series by Lauren Magaziner
If you like being in the middle of a mystery, this choose-your-own-adventure story lets you help Carlos and his friends crack a case that could save his mom’s struggling detective agency. With suspects to question, clues to follow, and puzzles woven throughout, it’s part whodunit, part game, where every decision shifts the story in a new direction.
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
I didn’t read this series until I was an adult and I loved every second of this story about four children abandoned by their mother who walk hundreds of miles to find a home. (They’re pretty long, so they’re great if you have hours and hours of time).
Greenglass House series by Kate Milford
Winter at Greenglass House is usually quiet, but twelve-year-old Milo’s plans for a peaceful holiday disappear when guests begin arriving one after another at the old smuggler’s inn. As strange stories surface and things start to go missing, Milo and the cook’s daughter Meddy are pulled into a layered mystery that leads them deeper into the secrets of the house. . . and themselves.
Regarding the Fountain series by Kate Klise
A hilarious epistolary mystery told through letters, memos, and official documents, this story starts with a simple leaking drinking fountain at Dry Creek Middle School that quickly turns into a much bigger upgrade request. What follows is a fast-moving schoolwide scandal, as a fifth-grade class uncovers secrets, suspects, and plenty of chaos hidden beneath the fountain.
43 Old Cemetery Road series by Kate Klise and M. Sarah Klise
A cranky writer moves into a supposedly empty Victorian mansion, only to find it already occupied by a boy, his cat, and a very opinionated ghost. It’s told through letters, clippings, and manuscript pages, it’s a funny, and perfect for kids who like stories that have a hint of spookiness!
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place by Maryrose Wood
I listened to the audio version of this one, because I LOVE Katherine Kellgren so much – she might be my favorite narrator of all time (I’m still devastated by her death in 2018) and this series was one we heard about from my sister-in-law’s family – their whole family listened to it on a road trip and couldn’t stop raving about it!
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
This was a favorite of mine growing up about a young girl who sets out alone on as ship to rejoin her family in America and finds herself in the middle of a mutiny and then tried for murder. I had read this one aloud to my older girls – I hadn’t read it since the 90s! It’s so fun to revisit these beloved books from my childhood and I’m glad I forced myself to not re-read them in the last decade so that they’d be new and fresh to me when I read them aloud! We were all SUPER into this book.
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