Celeste's Absolutely Favorite Books Ever :

Mysteries and Puzzles

Against Time by Roderick Jeffries
Alice Jones and the Impossible Clue by Sara Rubin
Missing Melinda by Jacqueline Jackson
Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Holes by Louis Sachar
​The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Peppermints in the Parlor by Barbara Brooks Wallace
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew) by Carolyn Keene 
The Tower Treasure (Hardy Boys) by Frank W. Dixon
The Secret of Terror Castle (3 Investigators) by Robert Arthur 

For Younger Kids 

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nihm by Robert C. O'Brien 
In Grandma's Attic by Arleta Richardson
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mr. Mysterious and Company by Sid Fleischmann 
Romona Quimby, Age Eight by Beverly Cleary 
​Mandie and the Charleston Phantom by Lois Gladys Leppard

For Older Kids

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Fire, Bed, and Bone by Henrietta Branford
​The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
​Wonder by R.J. Palacio
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Sawdust in His Shoes by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
​Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Never Miss a Sunset by Jeanette Gilge-Barnes
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Little Women by Louisa Mae Alcott
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
​King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
Shipwreck (Island series #1) by Gordon Korman 
The Amazing Adventures of Toby the Trilby by Angela Castillo