Greenglass House
A Greenglass House Story, Book 1, a National Book Award Nominee
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · November 1, 2016
New York Times Bestseller * National Book Award Nominee * Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery It’s wintertime at Greenglass House.
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- Who it’s for
- A wintry inn, secretive guests, and missing objects make for a mystery with plenty to untangle.
- Themes
- Mystery and secrets, Self-discovery
- Genres
- Mysteries & Detective Stories, Magic & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
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New York Times Bestseller * National Book Award Nominee * Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery It’s wintertime at Greenglass House. The creaky smuggler’s inn is always quiet during this season, and twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers’ adopted son, plans to spend his holidays relaxing. But on the first icy night of vacation, out of nowhere, the guest bell rings. Then rings again. And again...
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Soon Milo’s home is bursting with odd, secretive guests, each one bearing a strange story that is somehow connected to the rambling old house. As objects go missing and tempers flare, Milo and Meddy, the cook’s daughter, must decipher clues and untangle the web of deepening mysteries to discover the truth about Greenglass House—and themselves.
A House of Clues
A wintry inn, secretive guests, and missing objects make for a mystery with plenty to untangle.
Come here for
- Clues tied to a rambling old house
- A holiday mystery shared by Milo and Meddy
Expect
- An inn suddenly crowded with odd, secretive guests
- A web of mysteries that reaches toward the house and its young sleuths
Where it sits
| Mysteries & Detective Stories | 99% |
|---|---|
| Magic & Fantasy | 74% |
| Action & Adventure | 51% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Adoption Stories
- Mysteries & Detective Stories
- Magic & Fantasy
- Friendship
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- Paranormal
- Authors
- Kate Milford
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- November 1, 2016
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Mystery and secrets · Self-discovery
- Reading lane
- Adoption Stories