Books like Betty's burgled bakery by Travis Nichols

An adventurous quest to Japan unfolds when a curious 7‑year‑old and his friend hunt a legendary samurai scroll, battling ninjas and saving the day in a whimsical tale of mystery and history.

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.

Sasspants, Hamisher and their friends create a chaotic adventure in Mr. Venezi's Pets & Stuff, with steamy fish tank dives, a mysterious dragon hiding behind the counter and a puzzling $64.42 shop robbery.

In the charming antique bakery, pastry chefs navigate unrequited love and hidden desires while crafting delightful treats.

Sasspants, a teenage guinea pig detective, stumbles into a new case when Hamischer the hamster suspects a ghost lurks in the pet shop.

When sandwiches go missing at Mr. Venezi’s pet shop, the curious detective Sasspants, a book‑loving guinea pig, and her clever hamster sidekick Hamisher investigate a list of suspects from chinchillas to goldfish.

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

A spunky mouse with an active imagination tries to get the latest gadget for Christmas.

J.J., the neighborhood search-and-rescue dog, faces a new challenge when the dog‑tamer Diamond Lil moves in next door and the colony of chickens’ sanctuary is threatened by a mischievous possum.

A Chipmunk adventure in the City of Ruins, uncovering the lost history of the humans.

Two detectives look for letters to help children learn the alphabet in Richard Scarry's storybook, featuring the charming characters and adventures of the Scarry family.

A young goose named Gawain is wrongfully accused of stealing from his king, abandoned by friends and tormented by guilt as the true thief remains hidden.