Books like I, Houdini by Lynne Reid Banks

E. B. White’s beloved children’s classic follows Wilbur the pig and his clever friend Charlotte the spider, who writes messages in her web to save him from slaughter.

A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens’ allegorical novella about Ebenezer Scrooge, whose miserly ways are transformed through visits from Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens’s 1837-39 social novel, follows an orphan raised in a workhouse who flees to London, joins a gang of pickpockets, and uncovers family secrets while exposing child labour and exploitation.

Pearl discovers a mysterious bone on her way home that grants unexpected powers, setting off a spell‑binding adventure in a world where animals and magic collide.

A boy who wants a pet lands a job at the Little Shop of Hamsters, only to discover that the hamsters can turn into monstrous threats, forcing him to fight for his survival.

After years of struggling on the dime museum circuit, Harry Houdini got a break that put him on the front page of a Chicago newspaper. Soon Houdini was performing for royalty, commanding vast sums, and exploring the new power of Hollywood. At a time when spy agencies frequently co-opted amateurs, Houdini developed a relationship with a man who would later run MI-5. For the next several years, the world's most famous magician traveled to Germany and Russia and routinely reported his findings. After World War I, Houdini embarked on a battle of his own, creating a group of operatives to infiltrate the seamy world of fake spirit mediums. In doing so, he triggered the wrath of fanatical Spiritualists, led by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Death threats became an everyday occurrence, but the group would pose an even greater danger to Houdini's legacy.--From publisher description.

When a bookstore cat vanishes, Detective Nichols and hamster detective Hamisher must solve the mystery without the help of a pet shop owner and a guinea pig who is also a detective.

A collection of beloved children’s tales about animals, friendship and farm life.