Piggy in the Middle

Mighty Jack

The Nixie's Song: Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles

The Luck Uglies

The Door in the Alley: The Explorers

Into the Land of the Lost

Tunnel of Bones

Peter and the Starcatchers

How to Catch a Bogle

If ever a chill entered her soul, or the hope suddenly drained from her heart, she knew a bogle was to blame.

Birdie McAdam, a ten-year-old orphan, is tougher than she looks. She's proud of her job as apprentice to Alfred the Bogler, a man who catches monsters for a living. Birdie lures the bogles out of their lairs with her sweet songs, and Alfred kills them before they kill her.

On the mean streets of Victorian England, hunting bogles is actually less dangerous work than mudlarking for scraps along the vile river Thames. (See glossary!) Or so it seems—until the orphans of London start to disappear . . .

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Piggy in the Middle

Catherine Jinks, 1998

Mighty Jack

Ben Hatke, 2016

The Nixie's Song: Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles

Tony Diterlizzi, Holly Black, 2007

The Luck Uglies

Paul Durham, 2014

The Door in the Alley: The Explorers

Adrienne Kress, 2017

Into the Land of the Lost

Tony Abbott, 2000

Tunnel of Bones

Victoria Schwab, 2019

Peter and the Starcatchers

Ridley Pearson, Dave Barry, Greg Call, 2004