Mysteries
YA MYS ABB
Abbott, Tony
The Postcard
She died today. One phone call changes Jason's summer vacation-and life!-forever. When
Jason's grandmother dies, he's sent down to her home in Florida to help his father clean out her
things. At first he gripes about spending his summer miles away from his best friend, doing
chores, and sweating in the Florida heat, but he soon discovers a mystery surrounding his
grandmother's murky past. An old, yellowed postcard...a creepy phone call with a raspy voice at
the other end asking, "So how smart are you?"...an entourage of freakish funeral goers....a
bizarre magazine story. All contain clues that will send him on a thrilling journey to uncover family
secrets.
YA MYS ABR
Abrahams, Peter Down the Rabbit Hole (Echo Falls bk 1)
Impatient with mother for being late for her ride to soccer, Ingrid Levin-Hill, eighth-grade Sherlock
Holmes fan and amateur actress, makes an impulsive decision to walk, inadvertently becoming a
witness in the murder case of Cracked-up Katie, the weird lady in the rundown house on the
wrong side of town. Ingrid is afraid to come forward with her first-hand knowledge, fearing her
parents' reprimand for leaving the neighborhood. Landing the lead role as Alice in the town's
playhouse production of "Alice in Wonderland," she becomes more curious about the playhouse's
past performers and a possible connection to Katie's youth. As the police investigation gets
further away from the truth and the wrong suspects are arrested, Ingrid takes increasingly daring
risks to solve the case herself and eliminate the evidence she left behind indicating her own
suspicious involvement.
YA MYS ABR
Abrahams, Peter
Behind the Curtain (Echo Falls bk 2)
In Echo Falls you never know what's coming next -- and everyone has a secret. Things are amiss
at 99 Maple Lane: Ingrid's dad's job is in jeopardy, but he won't explain why. Ingrid's brother, Ty,
is getting buff -- really buff -- but when Ty starts getting moody, Ingrid wonders if there's more to
his physical fitness than lifting weights. Meanwhile, Ingrid's beloved soccer coach is replaced by
an icy newcomer named Julia LeCaine, who seems a little too savvy to be in it for the post game
pizza. True to her hero, Sherlock Holmes, Ingrid begins fishing around to find out who's really
pulling the strings in Echo Falls. But one morning, while en route to the dreaded MathFest, Ingrid
is kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a car. Even if she escapes, will anyone believe her story?
In this sequel to Down the Rabbit Hole a clever young girl learns that mysterious forces are at
work in her town -- and exposing them could put her life in jeopardy.
YA MYS ABR
Abrahams, Peter Into the Dark (Echo Falls bk 3)
In Echo Falls, secrets buried in the past don't always stay there.
An idyllic day of snowshoeing on Grampy's land with Joey Strade turns out to be less than idyllic
when thirteen-year-old super sleuth Ingrid Levin-Hill stumbles upon a body lying in the snow. This
discovery sends the town of Echo Falls into a tailspin in which secrets long hidden are revealed
and Grampy gets sent to jail. While Ingrid works to clear Grampy's name and uncover what really
happened to the man in the snow, she discovers even more secrets she wishes she never knew.
Just like the character Gretel, whom Ingid is playing in the Prescott Players' production of Hansel
and Gretel, Ingrid must go deep into the darkness to find the truth.
YA MYS ABR
Abrahams, Peter
Reality Check
QB of the varsity football team. Passing grades in all his classes. Dating the hottest—and
smartest—girl at school. Summer job paying more than minimum wage. Things in Cody's world
seem to be going pretty well. Until, that is, his girlfriend, Clea, is sent off to boarding school
across the country, and a torn ACL ends his high school football career. But bad things come in
threes—or in Cody's case, sixes and twelves—and the worst is yet to come. While limping
through town one day, Cody sees a newspaper heading: "Local Girl Missing." Clea, now his ex,
has disappeared from her boarding school in Vermont, and the only clue is a letter she sent to
Cody the morning of her disappearance. With that as his guide, Cody sets out to find out what
happened. Once in Vermont, he unearths the town's secrets—and finds out that football isn't the
only thing he's good at.
YA MYS ADA
Adam, Paul
Max Cassidy: Escape from Shadow Island
Max Cassidy can escape from anything
Only fourteen years old, Max is the world's foremost escape artist. Chained, handcuffed, locked
in an airtight water tank, there's nothing he can't get himself out of. He learned the art from his
father—a man who just two years ago was murdered, and Max's mother went to jail for the crime.
Now a mysterious man has shown up backstage after one of Max's shows, telling Max that not
only is his mother innocent, but his father is still alive. He can provide only one clue: a slip of
paper with eight digits written on it. It is this clue that will lead Max from his home in London to the
exotic and deadly Central American country of Santo Domingo and the impenetrable fortress on
the sinister Isla de Sombra. Max Cassidy can escape from anything–but given the chance to
finally know the truth about what has torn his family apart, escape from Shadow Island is the last
thing on his mind.
Tween & YA MYS ALL
Investigator
Allison, Jennifer
Gilda Joyce, Psychic
Ever since her father died, kooky Gilda Joyce has been working hard to sharpen her psychic
skills. She's determined to communicate with spirits from the Other Side and become a crack
investigator of spooky, twisted mysteries. After wrangling an invitation to visit San Francisco
relatives, Gilda discovers just how much her dreary, tight-lipped uncle and his strange, delicate
daughter need her help to uncover the terrible family secret that has a tortured ghost stalking their
home.
Tween & YA MYS ALL Allison, Jennifer
Joyce series)
The Ladies of the Lake (Gilda
Zany Gilda Joyce leaves her wacky disguises at home but brings all of her psychic and
investigative skills with her as she sets out to investigate a mysterious death at a Catholic girls’
school. Is Our Lady of Sorrows really haunted by the ghost of Dolores Lambert? Or is the student
body suffering from group hysteria? Solving this mystery will put Gilda in more danger than she
ever imagined—and will take all of her brashness, bravery, and smarts.
Tween & YA MYS ALL
series)
Allison, Jennifer
The Ghost Sonata (Gilda Joyce
When her best friend, Wendy Choy, qualifies to compete in an international piano competition in
Oxford, England, irrepressible Gilda Joyce finds a way to get an invitation herself--as a pageturner. Wendy settles into an exhausting practice schedule, made worse by strange nightmares,
while Gilda finds herself falling in love with a British boy. But when Wendy discovers a ghostly
message written in the frost on her window, Gilda realizes her friend's life could be in danger.
Exploring oxford colleges and the English countryside, Gilda sets out to unlock the secret of the
most disturbing haunting she has yet encountered.
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Tween & YA MYS ALL
series)
Allison, Jennifer
The Dead Drop (Gilda Joyce
When Gilda lands a summer internship at Washington, D.C.'s International Spy Museum, she
finds herself embroiled in both a museum haunting and a real case of espionage. While
investigating a cemetery where Abraham Lincoln's son was once buried, Gilda stumbles upon a
spy's "dead drop" of classified information. Gilda's efforts to decode the cryptic message lead to
further intrigues: Is she on the trail of a mole operating inside the U.S. intelligence community?
Aware that "nothing is what it seems" when it comes to spies in Washington, D.C., Gilda faces
the most serious challenge yet in her career as a psychic spy.
YA MYS ALL
Allison, Jennifer
Bones of the Holy (Gilda Joyce series)
When Gilda Joyce's mother announces her engagement to a man from St. Augustine, Florida,
Gilda is appalled. She hasn't even given him the "Joyce Family Application" yet! But as the
wedding preparations get under way, Gilda realizes she has much bigger concerns. Why does
her soon-to-be stepdad keep calling Mrs. Joyce by his ex-wife's name? And why is Mrs. Joyce
acting like she's possessed? With only a few short days before her mother says "I do," Gilda
knows this much for sure: it's going to take every ounce of her sleuthing skill and psychic savvy to
solve this one!
YA MYS ALP
Alphin, Elaine Marie
Picture Perfect
Ian and Teddy have been best friends since middle school, and their favorite pastime is taking
pictures out in the redwood forests. Teddy lives with his single, alcoholic mother, and Ian is the
son of the school principal, who is likeable and ambitious at school but a demanding disciplinarian
at home. Ian tells the story while musing about the different personalities he needs to have to
survive. He can only remember foggy snapshots of the afternoon that Teddy disappeared. As the
police look for Teddy, Ian feels that it is his responsibility, trusting no one and sometimes
concealing the truth. Teddy had been trying to find his unknown father, and his search might be
part of the mystery. A hermit who lives in the woods leads Ian to believe that he (Ian) knows
something. And although Teddy's digital camera had pictures on it, Ian cannot find them. Ian
finally has to trust his friend Sara and a teacher. In a climactic scene with Ian's father, the
teacher, and the boys—including the reappeared Teddy—the various clues come together to find
a resolution that is tragic and reveals many covered-up truths.
YA MYS AMO Amowitz, Lisa
Breaking Glass
On the night seventeen-year-old Jeremy Glass winds up in the hospital with a broken leg and a
blood alcohol level well above the legal limit, his secret crush, Susannah, disappears. When he
begins receiving messages from her from beyond the grave, he's not sure whether they're real or
if he's losing his grip on reality. Clue by clue, he gets closer to unraveling the mystery, and soon
realizes he must discover the truth or become the next victim himself.
Tween & YA MYS AVI
Avi
Midnight Magic
Just after the Tarot cards forecast death in this ghostly fantasy adventure, conniving Count
Scarazoni summons Fabrizio and his magician master to the castello to spirit away the specter
that haunts Princess Teresina.
Tween & YA MYS AVI
Avi
Murder at Midnight
A plot to overthrow King Claudio is brewing in the Kingdom of Pergamontio.
Scholarly Mangus the magician-along with his street--smart and faithful new servant boy,
Fabrizio--have been marked as easy scapegoats for the traitor lurking within the king's court.
Together, these two unlikely partners must gather clues to solve the mystery and prove their
innocence before the stroke of midnight...or face death!
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YA MYS BAG
Baguchinsky, Jill
Spookygirl
Violet Addison can chat with the dead, but what really frightens her is starting her sophomore
year at a new school. Still reeling from the loss of her mother, Violet is about find herself in the
company of ghosts . . . both playful and deadly evil. Standing at the threshold to an unseen world
with newfound friends at her side, only Violet can uncover the truth behind her mother’s death
and save the family business--paranormal investigation.
YA MYS BAR Barnes, Jennifer Lynn The Naturals
Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she
can tell you who you are and what you want. But it’s not a skill that she’s ever taken seriously.
That is, until the FBI come knocking: they’ve begun a classified program that uses exceptional
teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie. What Cassie doesn’t realize is
that there’s more at risk than a few unsolved homicides—especially when she’s sent to live with a
group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own. Sarcastic, privileged Michael has a knack
for reading emotions, which he uses to get inside Cassie’s head—and under her skin. Brooding
Dean shares Cassie’s gift for profiling, but keeps her at arm’s length. Soon, it becomes clear that
no one in the Naturals program is what they seem. And when a new killer strikes, danger looms
closer than Cassie could ever have imagined. Caught in a lethal game of cat and mouse with a
killer, the Naturals are going to have to use all of their gifts just to survive.
YA MYS BEA
Beaudoin, Sean
You Killed Wesley Payne
He's come to do a job.
A job that involves a body.
A body wrapped in duct tape found hanging from the goal posts at the end of the football field.
You Killed Wesley Payne is a truly original and darkly hilarious update of classic pulp-noir, in
which hard-boiled seventeen year-old Dalton Rev transfers to the mean hallways of Salt River
High to take on the toughest case of his life. The question isn't whether Dalton's going to get paid.
He always gets paid. Or whether he's gonna get the girl. He always (sometimes) gets the girl.
The real question is whether Dalton Rev can outwit crooked cops and killer cliques in time to
solve the mystery of "The Body" before it solves him.
YA SF BEC Beck, Ian
Pastworld
In 2050, civilization has become sterile, controlled, peaceful, and very, very boring. In an effort to
capitalize on the ennui of the rich and famous, Buckland Corporation has created the ultimate
vacation destination: Pastworld, a city modeled after 19th-century London where visitors also
known as "gawkers" can immerse themselves in a Victorian world complete with grueling poverty,
near-primitive medicine, lawlessness, and a casual disregard for human life. When 17-year-old
Caleb Brown enters Pastworld with his father, one of the theme park's creators, he is unwittingly
embroiled in a Scotland Yard investigation of a series of Jack the Ripper-style murders.
Befriended by a young pickpocket and a beautiful girl with amnesia, he fights for his life and
future in the dark underbelly of Pastworld.
YA MYS BEC
Becker, Tom
Darkside (Darkside series v. 1)
Jonathan Starling's home has been attacked, his dad is in an asylum, he's running for his life, and
there's nowhere to hide. Jonathan has stumbled upon London's greatest secret: Darkside.
Incredibly dangerous and unimaginably exciting, Darkside is the creepiest place Jonathan has
ever seen. It's a world of nightmares and secrets, where fear and evil rule, and Jonathan has to
find a way out....
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YA MYS BEC
Becker, Tom
Lifeblood (Darkside v 2)
A series of unexplained murders on the Darkside of London has Jonathan tangled up in another
dangerous mystery. With the help of his ally, private detective (and werewolf) Elias Carnegie, the
pair discover that Jonathan's mother was investigating similar murders before she vanished.
Jonathan becomes obsessed with solving the crimes and finding his mother. Meanwhile, the
Ripper family is involved in a deadly scandal that goes right to the heart of Darkside society and
they're watching Jonathan. In his desperation, can Jonathan solve the murders and find his
mother before the Rippers find him?
Tween & YA MYS BEI
Blazer Girls v1)
Beil, Michael
The Ring of Rocamadour (The Red
It all began with The Scream. And ended with . . . well, if we told you that, it wouldn’t be a
mystery! But in between The Scream and The Very Surprising Ending, three friends find
themselves on a scavenger hunt set up for a girl they never met, in search of a legendary ring
reputed to grant wishes. Are these sleuths in school uniforms modern-day equivalents of Nancy,
Harriet, or Scooby? Not really, they’re just three nice girls who decide to help out a weird lady,
and end up hiding under tables, tackling word puzzles and geometry equations, and searching
rather moldy storage rooms for “the stuff that dreams are made of” (that’s from an old detective
movie). Oh, and there’s A Boy, who complicates things. As boys often do.
Tween & YA MYS BEI
Girls v 2)
Beil, Michael
The Vanishing Violin (Red Blazer
When there are mysteries to be solved, the Red Blazer Girls are on the case! The discovery of
the Ring of Rocamadour has secured the girls' reputation as Upper East Side super-sleuths,
bringing many sundry job requests (no mystery too small, right?) and some unwanted attention
from crooks. This time the girls must follow a trail of cryptic clues, involving everything from logic
to literature, to trace a rare violin gone missing. But nothing is as it appears, and just as a solution
seems imminent, the girls find themselves scrambling to save the man who was once their prime
suspect.
Tween & YA MYS BEI
Blazer Girls v 3)
Beil, Michael
The Mistaken Masterpiece (Red
Sophie, Margaret, Becca, and Leigh Ann are back in an all-new Red Blazer Girls caper. In the
third installment, Sophie is nose to fist with her arch-rival, Livvy, all while taking care of movie-star
Nate Etan's dog, when Father Julian hires the Blazers to help him authenticate a painting.
Mayhem and mystery follows as the girls attempt to uncover the truth. Oh, and, uh, Sophie's
friend-who-is-not-a-boyfriend, Raf, is back. . . .
YA MYS BER
Bernard, Ramily
Find Me
“Find Me.” These are the words written on Tessa Waye’s diary. The diary that ends up with Wick
Tate. But Tessa’s just been found . . . dead. Wick has the right computer-hacking skills for the
job, but little interest in this perverse game of hide-and-seek. Until her sister Lily is the next target.
Then Griff, trailer-park boy next door and fellow hacker, shows up, intent on helping Wick. Is a
happy ending possible with the threat of Wick’s deadbeat dad returning, the detective hunting him
sniffing around Wick instead, and a killer taunting her at every step? Foster child. Daughter of a
felon. Loner hacker girl. Wick has a bad attitude and sarcasm to spare. But she’s going to find
this killer no matter what. Because it just got personal.
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YA MYS BLA Blacker, Terence
Parent Swap
Danny Bell's problems can be summed up in three simple words: Mum and Dad. His mother has
left home, and his father spends all his time slumped in front of the TV, dreaming of the good old
days when he was a nearly famous rock star. So when Danny hears about ParentSwap™, a
secret London agency that helps kids find the parents they deserve, it doesn't take him long to
contact it. Thanks to ParentSwap™, Danny's life is transformed. It's bye-bye to his misfit, loser
family and hello perfect parents. But why does Danny have a niggling feeling that there is more to
ParentSwap™ than meets the eye? Is it his imagination, or are the strange things that happen to
him being somehow organized, directed - even watched over?
Tweeen & YA MYS BLO
Bloor, Edward
Tangerine
Though legally blind, Paul Fisher can see what others cannot. He can see that his parents'
constant praise of his brother, Erik, the football star, is to cover up something that is terribly
wrong. But no one listens to Paul--until his family moves to Tangerine. In this Florida town, weird
is normal: Lightning strikes at the same time every day, a sinkhole swallows a local school, and
Paul the geek finds himself adopted into the toughest group around--the soccer team at his
middle school. Maybe this new start in Tangerine will help Paul finally see the truth about his
past--and will give him the courage to face up to his terrifying older brother.
YA MYS BRA
Bray, Libba The Diviners
Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets
of New York City—and she is pos-i-toot-ly thrilled. New York is the city of speakeasies, shopping,
and movie palaces! Soon enough, Evie is running with glamorous Ziegfield girls and rakish
pickpockets. The only catch is Evie has to live with her Uncle Will, curator of The Museum of
American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult—also known as "The Museum of the Creepy
Crawlies." When a rash of occult-based murders comes to light, Evie and her uncle are right in
the thick of the investigation. And through it all, Evie has a secret: a mysterious power that could
help catch the killer—if he doesn't catch her first.
YA MYS BRO
Broach, Elise
Desert Crossing
There are some kinds of trouble you never see coming, like those thunderstorms that start from
nothing at all. One minute the sky is bright blue and distant. Then, all of a sudden, it's dark and
thick with clouds, pressing down right on top of you. The leaves turn silvery and twist in the wind,
the air starts to hum, and the rain comes, so heavy and fast you can't even see. You almost
never make it to the house on time. A dead body on the road--who is responsible and how will it
affect the lives of three teens? For fourteen-year-old Lucy Martinez, the moment when everything
changes comes one night during a long car trip with her older brother and his friend Kit. They are
on their way to visit Lucy's father for spring break, but never make it. While driving across
northern New Mexico through a blinding rainstorm, their car hits something--an animal, they think.
But when they backtrack, they find a dead body on the side of the road. With amazing insight and
compelling prose, Elise Broach charts a suspenseful journey full of danger, loss, and painful selfdiscovery. What will happen to the lives of three teenagers who can suddenly no longer pretend
innocence?
YA MYS BRO
Brooks, Kevin
Johnny Delgado: Private Detective
Johnny wants to be a detective, and he's got it all figured out. So what is he to do when two of the
most beautiful girls in the world give him a job to investigate? Investigate it of course. But quickly
things spin out of Johnny's control, and he gets tangled up with the local gangs. Can he work out
how he's ended up in this mess?
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YA MYS BRO
Brooks, Kevin
Being
It was just supposed to be a routine exam. But when the doctors snake the fiber-optic tube down
Robert Smith's throat, what they discover doesn't make medical sense. Plastic casings. Silver
filaments. Moving metal parts. In his naked, anesthetized state on the operating table, Robert
hears the surgeons' shocked comments: "What the hell is that?" "It's me," Robert thinks, "and
I've got to get out of here." Armed with a stolen automatic and the videotape of his strange
organs, he manages to escape, and to embark on an orphan's violent odyssey to find out exactly
who--exactly what--he is.
YA MYS BRO
Brooks, Kevin
Road of the Dead
On a storm-ravaged night, a 19-year-old girl is kidnapped, raped, and killed. Three days later, her
two younger brothers set out in search of her murderer. Cole, 17, is a dark-eyed devil who
doesn't care if he lives or dies, while Ruben, 14, is a strange child who sometimes, inexplicably,
experiences sensations above and beyond his own. This is the story of the boys' journey from
their half-gypsy home on a London junk lot to the ghostly moors of Devon, where they hope and
fear to find the truth about their sister's death. It's a long road, cold and hard and violent. It's THE
ROAD OF THE DEAD.
YA MYS BRO
Brooks, Kevin
Candy
When Joe meets Candy, it seems like a regular boy-meets-girl scenario. They chat over coffee,
she gives him her number, and he writes her a song. But then Joe is drawn into Candy's world --a world of drugs, violence, and desperation. As the dark truth about Candy's life emerges, Joe
finds himself facing real danger at every twist and turn.
YA SF BUN
Bunce, Elizabeth Liar’s Moon
As a pickpocket, Digger expects to spend a night in jail every now and then. But she doesn't
expect to find Lord Durrel Decath there as well--or to hear he's soon to be executed for killing his
wife. Durrel once saved Digger's life, and when she goes free, she decides to use her skills as a
thief, forger, and spy to investigate his case and return the favor. But each new clue only opens
up more mysteries. While Durrel's marriage was one of convenience, his behavior has been more
impulsive than innocent. His late wife had an illegal business on the wrong side of the civil war
raging just outside the city gates. Digger keeps finding forbidden magic in places it has no reason
to be. And it doesn't help that she may be falling in love with a murderer . . .
YA MYS BUR
Burke, Morgan
Get It Started (The Party Room v 1)
The party room.
On Manhattan's Upper East Side. Everybody's fabulous. No one gets carded. Then someone
dies. The Party Room is where the prep school crowd goes to drink up and hook up. The
cocktails are chill and the bartender's hot. Everyone knows everyone -- except the guy that
Samantha Byrne leaves with one night. The next day Sam's missing. Then she's found dead in
Central Park, murdered brutally. It looks like a copycat killing of another girl who was murdered
years earlier. By someone from Talcott Prep. The killer is one of them. He knows where they live.
And where they play....
YA MYS BUR
Burke, Morgan
After Hours (The Party Room v 2)
Kirsten is still recovering from the death of her best friend, Samantha. And trying desperately to
forget that she hooked up with Kyle — before she knew he was the Prep School Murderer.
Kirsten's out every night hitting the clubs and the Party Room. She's partying hard to forget the
pain. Then one night in the Hamptons, Kyle shows up. He tells Kirsten a different story. He's not
the one who killed all those girls. Kirsten wants to believe him. But then, it's too late....
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YA MYS BUR
Burke, Morgan
Last Call (Party Room v. 3)
The party room. On Manhattan's Upper East Side. Everybody's fabulous. No one gets carded.
Then someone dies.The Prep School Killer is dead. Finally Kirsten can go on and leave the
nightmare of her best friend Sam's murder behind her. Kirsten's at NYU now, but she still slips
back to the Party Room on the Upper East Side of Manhattan--where the horror all began. But it's
quiet now. Just Kirsten and her old friends and a mojito or three.Then the killer strikes again. And
again. The killer wasn't Kyle after all. Someone's looking to settle the tab.Don't be the last one
when the bar closes.
YA MYS CAB
Cabot, Meg
Shadowland (Mediator series v 1)
Suze is a mediator — a liaison between the living and the dead. In other words, she sees dead
people. And they won't leave her alone until she helps them resolve their unfinished business
with the living. But Jesse, the hot ghost haunting her bedroom, doesn't seem to need her help.
Which is a relief, because Suze has just moved to sunny California and plans to start fresh, with
trips to the mall instead of the cemetery, and surfing instead of spectral visitations. But the very
first day at her new school, Suze realizes it's not that easy. There's a ghost with revenge on her
mind ... and Suze happens to be in the way.
YA MYS CAB
Cabot, Meg
Ninth Key (Mediator series v 2)
Everything is going great for Suze. Her new life in California is a whirlwind of parties and excellent
hair days. Tad Beaumont, the hottest boy in town, has even asked Suze out on her very first date.
Suze is so excited that she's willing to ignore her misgivings about Tad... particularly the fact that
he's not Jesse, whose ghostly status—not to mention apparent disinterest in her—make him
unattainable. What Suze can't ignore, however, is the ghost of a murdered woman whose death
seems directly connected to dark secrets hidden in none other than Tad Beaumont's past.
YA MYS CAB
Cabot, Meg Reunion (Mediator series v 3)
The RLS Angels are out for blood, and only Suze can stop them—since she's the only one who
can see them. The four ghostly teenagers died in a terrible car accident, for which they blame
Suze's classmate Michael... and they'll stop at nothing until he's joined them in the realm of the
dead. As Suze desperately fends off each attempt on Michael's life, she finds she can relate to
the Angels' fury. Because their deaths turn out not to have been accidental at all. And their killer
is only too willing to strike again.
YA MYS CAB
Cabot, Meg
Darkest Hour (Mediator series v 4)
When the nineteenth—century ghost of Maria de Silva wakes her up in the middle of the night,
Suze knows this is no ordinary visitation — and not just from the knife at her throat, either. In life,
Maria was the fiancée of Jesse — the same Jesse who was murdered a hundred and fifty years
before. The same Jesse Suze is in love with. Maria threatens Suze: The backyard construction
must cease. Suze has a pretty good idea what — or rather, who — Maria doesn't want found. But
in solving Jesse's murder, will Suze end up losing him forever?
YA MYS CAB
Cabot, Meg Haunted (Mediator series v 5)
Suze is used to trouble, but this time she's in deep: Ghostly Jesse has her heart, but Paul Slater,
a real flesh—and—blood guy, is warm for her form. And mediator Paul knows how to send Jesse
to the Great Beyond. For good. Paul claims he won't do anything to Jesse as long as Suze will go
out with him. Fearing she'll lose Jesse forever, Suze agrees. But even if Suze can get Jesse to
admit his true feelings for her, what kind of future can she have with a guy who's already dead?
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YA MYS CAB
Cabot, Meg
Twilight (Mediator series v 6)
Suze has gotten used to ghosts. She's a mediator, after all, and communicating with the dead is
all in a day's work. So she certainly never expected to fall in love with one: Jesse, a nineteenthcentury hottie. But when she discovers that she has the power to determine who becomes a
ghost in the first place, Suze begins to freak. It means she can alter the course of history ...
andprevent Jesse's murder, keeping him from ever becoming a ghost — and from ever meeting
Suze. Will Jesse choose to live without her, or die to love her?
Tween & YA MYS CAR
Carey, Benedict
The Unknowns
In a trailer park called Adjacent, next to the Folsom Energy Plant, people have started to vanish,
and no one seems to care. At first Lady Di and her best friend, Tom Jones, barely notice the
disappearances—until their beloved math tutor, Mrs. Clarke, is abducted, too. Mrs. Clarke has left
them clues in the form of math equations that lead them all over the trailer park, through hidden
tunnels under “Mount Trashmore,” and into the Folsom Energy Plant itself, where Lady Di and
Tom Jones and a gang of other misfits uncover the sordid truth about what’s really happening
there.
YA MYS CAR
Carey, Benedict
Poison Most Vial
Murder in the lab! The famous forensic scientist Dr. Ramachandran is stone-cold dead, and Ruby
Rose’s father is the prime suspect. It’s one more reason for Ruby to hate the Gardens, the funky
urban neighborhood to which she has been transplanted. Wise but shy, artistic but an outsider,
Ruby must marshal everything and everyone she can to help solve the mystery and prove her
father didn’t poison his boss. Everyone? The list isn’t too long: there’s T. Rex, Ruby’s big, goofy
but goodhearted friend; maybe those other two weird kids from class; and that mysterious old
lady in the apartment upstairs, who seems to know a lot about chemistry . . . which could come in
very handy.
YA MYS CHA
Chandler, Elizabeth The Back Door of Midnight
Psychic...or psychotic? Anna knows her family is crazy. But when she goes to visit her aunt and
uncle for the summer and learns that her uncle’s charred body has been found, her life reaches a
new level of insanity. Her erratic aunt’s “psychic” abilities are exaggerated by her grief, and have
become borderline violent. Alone in an unfamiliar town, Anna struggles to pick up the pieces and
establish any sense of normalcy. She desperately wants to trust Zack, the cute boy next door, but
even he might know more about the incident than he is letting on. But when Anna starts feeling
an inexplicable pull to the site of her uncle’s murder, she begins to believe that her family’s
supernatural gifts are real after all. Torn between loyalty and suspicion, Anna is certain of only
one thing: she must discover who killed her uncle or she could be next….
YA MYS CLE
Clement-Moore, Rosemary Spirit & Dust
Daisy Goodnight can speak to the dead. It’s not the result of a head injury or some near-death
experience. She was just born that way. And she’s really good at it. Good enough to help the
police solve the occasional homicide. But helping the local authorities clear cold cases is one
thing. Being whisked out of chemistry class by the FBI and flown to the scene of a
murder/kidnapping in Minnesota? That’s the real deal. Before the promotion can go to Daisy’s
head, she’s up to her neck in trouble. The spirits are talking, and they’re terrified. There’s a real
living girl in danger. And when Daisy is kidnapped by a crime boss with no scruples about using
magic—and Daisy—to get what he wants, it looks like hers is the next soul on the line.
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Coben, Harlan
Shelter (Mickey Bolitar v 1)
Mickey Bolitar's year can't get much worse. After witnessing his father's death and sending his
mom to rehab, he's forced to live with his estranged uncle Myron and switch high schools.
A new school comes with new friends and new enemies, and lucky for Mickey, it also comes with
a great new girlfriend, Ashley. For a while, it seems like Mickey's train-wreck of a life is finally
improving - until Ashley vanishes without a trace. Unwilling to let another person walk out of his
life, Mickey follows Ashley's trail into a seedy underworld that reveals that this seemingly sweet,
shy girl isn't who she claimed to be. And neither was Mickey's father. Soon, Mickey learns about
a conspiracy so shocking that it makes high school drama seem like a luxury - and leaves him
questioning everything about the life he thought he knew.
YA MYS COB Coben, Harlan
Seconds Away (Mickey Bolitar v 2)
This action-packed second book in international bestseller Harlan Coben’s Mickey Bolitar young
adult series follows Mickey as he continues to hunt for clues about the Abeona Shelter and the
mysterious death of his father—all while trying to navigate the challenges of a new high
school. When tragedy strikes close to home, Mickey and his loyal new friends—sharp-witted Ema
and the adorkably charming Spoon—find themselves at the center of a terrifying mystery
involving the shooting of their classmate Rachel. Now, not only does Mickey need to keep himself
and his friends safe from the Butcher of Lodz, but he needs to figure out who shot Rachel—no
matter what it takes. Mickey Bolitar is as quick-witted and clever as his uncle Myron, but with
danger just seconds away, it is going to take all of his determination and help from his friends to
protect the people he loves, even if he does not know who—or what—he is protecting them from.
YA FIC COL
Tour)
Collins, Brandilyn & Amberly
Last Breath (The Rayne
Sixteen-year-old Shaley O'Connor is on tour with her rock-star mother when she discovers the
corpse of her mother's hairstylist backstage. Determined to solve the mystery, Shaley becomes
an amateur sleuth.
YA MYS COL
Collins, Brandilyn & Amberly
(The Rayne Tour)
Always Watching
This daughter of a rock star has it all—until murder crashes her world. During a concert, sixteenyear-old Shaley O’Connor stumbles upon the body of a friend backstage. Can she find out who
the killer is before he strikes again?
YA MYS COO
Cooney, Caroline
Hush Little Baby
When Kit's ex-stepmother thrusts a baby into her arms and speeds away, Kit's world is turned
upside-down. Now she must save herself and the baby from the crazy, desperate people who
want it.
YA MYS COO
Cooney, Caroline
The Face on the Milk Carton
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
YA MYS COO
Cooney, Caroline
Whatever Happened to Janie?
The members of two families have their lives disrupted when a teenage girl who had been
kidnapped twelve years earlier discovers that the people who raised her are not her biological
parents. Sequel to The Face on the Milk Carton.
YA MYS COO
Cooney, Caroline
The Voice on the Radio
Fifteen-year-old Janie feels devastated when she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her
and her family through his college radio program.
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YA MYS COO
Cooney, Caroline
What Janie Found
While still adjusting to the reality of having two families, her birth family and the family into which
she was kidnapped as a small child, seventeen-year-old Janie makes a shocking discovery about
her long-gone kidnapper.
YA MYS COO
Cooney, Caroline
Twins
Mary Lee and Madrigal are identical twins, exactly alike in every way. Until they are separated -then Mary Lee wishes she could live her sister's life. And then she gets her wish . . . along with a
horrifying discovery.
YA MYS COR
Cormier, Robert
I Am the Cheese
A boy's search for his father becomes a desperate journey to unlock a secret past. But it is a past
that must not be remembered...if he is to survive.
YA MYS DAV
Davis, Aric
Nickel Plated
Nickel is a survivor. He has to be. For as long as he can remember, his life has hinged on the flip
of a coin. Or, rather, the scribble of a social worker’s pen. He’s been through the system, even
had a good dad for a few years, until he was gone, too. But Nickel remembers everything he
taught him, and since the day he escaped from foster-care hell, he’s put that knowledge to good
use. Just twelve years old, he makes a steady living by selling marijuana to high schoolers,
blackmailing pedophiles he ferrets out online, and working as a private investigator. When a
beautiful girl named Arrow hires him to find her little sister Shelby, Nickel figures at best the kid’s
a runaway; at worst, some perv’s gotten a hold of her. He scours the internet and the streets of
Arrow’s suburban neighborhood, and what he finds there is as ugly a truth as he’s ever seen. For
beyond the manicured lawns, Nickel discovers children for sale, and adults with souls black as
the devil. And people like that aren’t about to let some kid ruin their game. This edgy thriller
introduces a canny, precocious anti-hero, the likes of which young-adult readers have never
seen.
YA MYS DEU
Deuker, Carl
Payback Time
Through the eyes of a distinctly non-athletic protagonist—a fat high school journalist named
Mitch—veteran sports novelist Deuker reveals the surprising truth behind a mysterious football
player named Angel. When Angel shows up Lincoln High, he seems to have no past—or at least
not one he is willing to discuss. Though Mitch gets a glimpse of Angel's incredible talent off the
field, Angel rarely allows himself to shine on the field. Is he an undercover cop, wonders Mitch?
Or an ineligible player? In pursuit of a killer story, Mitch decides to find out just who this player is
and what he's done. In the end, the truth—and what Mitch does with it—surprises everyone.
YA MYS DON
Donnelly, Jennifer
A Northern Light
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes
of her father and fiancé, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the
death of a guest. Based on a true story.
Tween & YA MYS DOW Dowd, Siobhan The London Eye Mystery
Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye. But after half an hour it landed
and everyone trooped off–except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have
disappeared into thin air? Ted and his older sister, Kat, become sleuthing partners, since the
police are having no luck. Despite their prickly relationship, they overcome their differences to
follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin. And ultimately it
comes down to Ted, whose brain works in its own very unique way, to find the key to the mystery.
This is an unput-downable spine-tingling thriller–a race against time.
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YA MYS DUN
Don’t Look Behind You
Duncan, Lois
Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her
father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and
flee the pursuit of a hired killer.
YA MYS DUN
Duncan, Lois
Stranger With My Face
Laurie Stratton finally has everything a sixteen-year-old could ever want. But just as her perfect
summer comes to a close, things start to unravel when her boyfriend insists he saw her out with
another guy-when Laurie was really home sick! More mysterious sightings convince Laurie
someone very real is out there, watching her. . . .
The truth reveals a long-lost sister who has spent the years growing bitter and dangerous. She
has learned how to haunt Laurie, but the visits soon become perilous. She wants something from
Laurie-her life!
YA MYS DUN
Duncan, Lois
I Know What You Did Last Summer
They didn't mean it. They didn't mean to hit the boy. There was a party, and it was an
accident...that wasn't who they were. They were pre-law, a football player, bound for New York.
No one could know, so Barry, Julie, Helen, and Ray swore one another to secrecy. But now, a
year later, someone knows. Julie receives a haunting, anonymous threat: "I know what you did
last summer." The dark lie is unearthed, and before the four friends know it they need to outsmart
a killer...or they will be the next to die.
YA MYS DUN
Duncan, Lois
Killing Mr. Griffin
Mr. Griffin is the strictest teacher at Del Norte High, with a penchant for endless projects and
humiliating his students. Even straight-A student Susan can't believe how mean he is to the
charismatic Mark Kinney. So when her crush asks Susan to help a group of students teach a
lesson of their own, she goes along. After all, it's a harmless prank, right? But things don't go
according to plan. When one "accident" leads to another, people begin to die. Susan and her
friends must face the awful truth: one of them is a killer.
YA MYS DUN
Duncan, Lois
They Never Came Home
Joan’s boyfriend and her brother are missing and assumed dead. Until the voice on the other end
of the phone hints at something more terrible.
YA MYS DUN
Duncan, Lois
Ransom
The lives of five captives hang in the balance while their families gather the ransom.
Two brothers, their family frantic to find their sons. A loner whose uncle doesn’t even know he’s
missing. An Army brat whose family will never be able to raise enough money. And a cheerleader
who can’t count on her stepdad, but knows her father will come through.
YA MYS DUN
Duncan, Lois
Down a Dark Hall
Why does the exclusive boarding school Blackwood have only four students?
Kit walks the dark halls and feels a penetrating chill. What tterror waits around the next corner?
YA MYS DUN
Dunlap, Susanne
Musician’s Daughter
Amid the glitter and glamour of musical and court life in 18th century Vienna, fifteen-year-old
Theresa Maria Shurman is trying to solve a brutal mystery. Who killed her father, an acclaimed
violinist, and stole his valuable Amati violin? When Haydn himself offers her a position as his
assistant, it gives Theresa access to life in the palace–and to a world of deceit. Theresa uncovers
blackmail and extortion even as she discovers courage and honor in unexpected places: from a
Gypsy camp on the banks of the Danube, to the rarefied life of the imperial family. And she feels
the stirrings of a first, tentative love for someone who is as deeply involved in the mystery as she
is.
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YA MYS ELL
Ellis, Ann Dee
This Is What I Did
Imagine if you had witnessed something horrific.
Imagine if it had happened to your friend.
And imagine if you hadn't done anything to help.
That's what it's like to be Logan, an utterly frank, slightly awkward, and extremely loveable
outcast enmeshed in a mysterious psychological drama. This story allows readers to piece
together the sequence of events that has changed his life and changed his perspective on what it
means to be a good friend and what it means to be a good person.
YA MYS ELL
Ellison, Kate
The Butterfly Clues
Penelope (Lo) Marin has always loved to collect beautiful things. Her dad's consulting job means
she's grown up moving from one rundown city to the next, and she's learned to cope by collecting
(sometimes even stealing) quirky trinkets and souvenirs in each new place--possessions that
allow her to feel at least some semblance of home.
But in the year since her brother Oren's death, Lo's hoarding has blossomed into a full-blown,
potentially dangerous obsession. She discovers a beautiful, antique butterfly pendant during a
routine scour at a weekend flea market, and recognizes it as having been stolen from the home of
a recently murdered girl known only as "Sapphire"--a girl just a few years older than Lo. As usual
when Lo begins to obsess over something, she can't get the murder out of her mind.
As she attempts to piece together the mysterious "butterfly clues," with the unlikely help of a
street artist named Flynt, Lo quickly finds herself caught up in a seedy, violent underworld much
closer to home than she ever imagined--a world, she'll ultimately discover, that could hold the key
to her brother's tragic death.
YA MYS FAH
Fahy, Thomas
Sleepless
Emma Montgomery is part of a secret society of art students who witnessed a strange killing in
New Orleans then made a pact never to speak of it again. But after the group returns home, the
members find themselves with terrible nightmares that cause them to sleepwalk. More terrifying,
each nightmare comes true, and members of the society are killing each other in their sleep. The
premise of Sleepless is exciting and intriguing, and the questions are compelling: What or whom
could be causing the students to kill each other? How do the killings fit in with the strange,
voodoo-related killing they witnessed in New Orleans?
Tween & YA MYS FEI
Feinstein, John
Last Shot
Eighth-grade winners of a national writing contest, Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson,
become all-access teen reporters to the NCAA Final Four basketball tournament held in New
Orleans. After mingling with sportswriters, television personality Dick Vitale (awesome, baby!),
and legendary Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski, the wide-eyed teens wander about the massive
Superdome. Outside the Minnesota State team locker room, they overhear a grey-haired man tell
star Chip Graber to make sure he chokes against Duke or else. Horrified that the future NBA
player is being forced to throw the championship game, the intrepid teens spring to action. Using
their wits and circumventing NCAA rules (refreshingly, Susan Carol knows her hoops and is an
assertive leader), the cub reporters bypass security and confront Chip, offering to help him
escape the blackmail plot. As a web of betrayal is unraveled, the trio realizes no one can be
trusted, and even Chip is unsure who is actually pulling the strings about his illegal transcripts
and who will cash in after the fix.
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YA MYS FEI
Open
Feinstein, John
Vanishing Act: Mystery at the U.S.
Middle school sports hounds Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson are back in another
suspenseful romp. This time their reporters' beat is the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament. Our
young reporters are just settling into the excitement when something inconceivable happens: Just
minutes before her second-round match, young Russian tennis phenom Natalia Makarova simply
vanishes. Her unexplained disappearance generates a full-court press of media speculation: Did
the star player flip out -- or has she been kidnapped? Needless to say, with a keen nose for news,
our fledgling journalists are on the story.
YA MYS FEI
Feinstein, John
Cover-up
THE SUPER BOWL. America's biggest sports spectacle. More than 95 million fans will be
watching, but Steve Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson know that what they'll be watching is a
lie. They know that the entire offensive line of the California Dreams have failed their doping tests
and that the Dreams' owner is trying to cover up the test results. These two teens are sitting on
the biggest sports scandal of the decade. What they don't know -yet - is how to prove it.
YA MYS FEI
Game
Feinstein, John
The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy
Teen sportswriters Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson are thrilled to be covering
"America's Game." The Black Knights of Army and the Midshipmen of Navy have met on the
football field since 1890, and it's a rivalry like no other, filled with tradition. But this year, the
match-up is also filled with intrigue. For weeks, Stevie and Susan Carol have been spending time
at Annapolis and West Point, getting to know the players, and coaches. And the secret service
agents. Since the president will be attending the game, security will, of course, be tighter than
tight. As the game draws nearer Stevie and Susan Carol can tell that the agents are getting
tenser. But as usual when Stevie and Susan Carol cover a big event--nothing is quite as it
seems, and the coaches aren't the only ones calling plays...
YA MYS FEI
Feinstein, John Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics
In this book, Susan Carol isn't a reporter—she's an Olympian, competing as a swimmer at her
first Olympic games. Stevie is both proud and envious of her athletic prowess. And he's worried
by the agents and sponsors and media all wanting to get up close and personal with Susan
Carol. But the more disturbing question becomes—how far might they go to ensure that
America's newest Olympic darling wins gold?
YA MYS FER
Fergesan, Alane
The Christopher Killer
As the daughter of the county coroner in a peaceful Colorado mountain town, seventeen-year-old
Cameryn Mahoney develops an interest in forensic pathology and convinces her father to hire her
as his assistant. When a body found in the forest turns into a murder case matching the patterns
of a serial killer, Cameryn experiences the roughest elements of the job against the wishes of her
Irish grandmother, who believes her grandchild should learn domestic skills instead. The work of
Cameryn and her father is complicated by a slick new sheriff's deputy and a famous television
psychic and his entourage who come to town to assist with the case. By the end of the story,
more than just the identity of the killer is revealed.
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Ferraiolo, Jack
The Big Splash
The seventh-grader version of a Raymond Chandler PI, Matt Stevens coolly navigates the mean
streets (okay, the mean hallways) of Franklin Middle School in a first novel with an ingenious
premise: junior high noir. Matt's classmate, the once-bullied Vinny Biggio, commands a whole
"organization," complete with hit men, in this case boys and girls who use loaded squirt guns,
stealth attacks and their peers' predictable responses (choruses of "Jimmy peed his pants!") to
ensure their targets' permanent and total ostracism. The plot has to do with the spectacular
takedown of one Nicole Finnegan, aka Nikki Fingers, the school's most feared "trigger-girl," that
is, until her recent retirement from Vinny's operation. Just who ordered the hit on Nikki, and why?
Tween & YA MYS FER
Ferraiolo, Jack Quick Fix
In this much-anticipated sequel to The Big Splash, junior high detective Matt Stevens is back on
the case, bringing us another hilarious middle school noir. When the star of the basketball team
is blackmailed, it’s up to Matt, the lone voice for justice in a morass of middle school corruption, to
figure out who’s behind the scheme. Is it eighth-grade crime lord Vinny “Mr. Biggs” Biggio, who
has made his name peddling forged hall passes and leading a crew of social assassins who send
enemies to the Outs with a humiliating squirt-gun blast below the belt? Or is it his lieutenant and
Matt’s former best friend, Kevin? Or a pair of scheming twins who sell Pixy Stix to sugar-addicted
classmates? One thing’s for sure: There won’t be a quick fix for the trouble at this middle school.
YA MYS FIO
Fiore, Kelly
Taste Test
If you can grill it, smoke it, or fry it, Nora Henderson knows all about it. She’s been basting baby
back ribs and pulling pork at her father’s barbeque joint since she was tall enough to reach the
counter. When she’s accepted to Taste Test, a reality-television teen cooking competition, Nora
can’t wait to leave her humble hometown behind, even if it means saying good-bye to her dad
and her best friend, Billy. Once she’s on set, run-ins with her high-society roommate and the
maddeningly handsome—not to mention talented—son of a famous chef, Christian Van Lorten,
mean Nora must work even harder to prove herself. But as mysterious accidents plague the
kitchen arena, protecting her heart from one annoyingly charming fellow contestant in particular
becomes the least of her concerns. Someone is conducting real-life eliminations, and if Nora
doesn’t figure out who, she could be next to get chopped for good.
Tween & YA MYS FLE
Fleischman, Sid
Disappearing Act
An unseen man they call the Toad is stalking twelve-year-old Kevin and his older sister, Holly.
They flee town in Holly's beat-up old car, driving west until they reach the Pacific Ocean. They
change their names and attempt to hide in plain sight as street performers in Venice, California.
But have they really eluded the Toad?
YA MYS FLI
Flinn, Alex
Nothing to Lose
Michael Daye has been living under an assumed name and traveling with a carnival for the past
year, but he returns with the carnival to Miami just as his mother is about to stand trial for
murdering her abusive older husband, supposedly right after Michael left. Sickened at media
depictions of his mother as a scheming, ruthless golddigger, Michael decides to help her, but
when he asks a lawyer to prepare him to testify, he slowly reveals pieces of a chilling secret.
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Foxlee, Karen
The Midnight Dress
Quiet misfit Rose doesn't expect to fall in love with the sleepy beach town of Leonora. Nor does
she expect to become fast friends with beautiful, vivacious Pearl Kelly, organizer of the high
school float at the annual Harvest Festival parade. It's better not to get too attached when Rose
and her father live on the road, driving their caravan from one place to the next whenever her dad
gets itchy feet. But Rose can't resist the mysterious charms of the town or the popular girl, try as
she might. Pearl convinces Rose to visit Edie Baker, once a renowned dressmaker, now a
rumored witch. Together Rose and Edie hand-stitch an unforgettable dress of midnight blue for
Rose to wear at the Harvest Festival—a dress that will have long-lasting consequences on life in
Leonora, a dress that will seal the fate of one of the girls.
YA MYS FRE Fredericks, Mariah
The Girl in the Park
When Wendy Geller's body is found in Central Park after the night of a rager, newspaper
headlines scream,"Death in the Park: Party Girl Found Strangled." But shy Rain, once Wendy's
best friend, knows there was more to Wendy than just "party girl." As she struggles to separate
the friend she knew from the tangle of gossip and headlines, Rain becomes determined to
discover the truth about the murder.
YA MYS GAL Galloway, Gregory As Simple as Snow
Anna-who prefers to be called Anastasia-is a slightly spooky and complicated high school girl.
She spends much of her time writing obituaries for every living person in town. She is unlike
anyone the narrator has ever known, and they make an unlikely, though happy, pair. Then a
week before Valentine's Day, Anna disappears, leaving behind only a dress placed neatly near a
hole in the frozen river, and a string of unanswered questions. Desperate to find her, the narrator
begins to reconstruct the past five months. And soon the fragments of curious events, intimate
conversations, secrets, and peculiar letters coalesce into haunting and surprising revelations that
may implicate friends, relatives, and even Anna herself.
YA MYS GIB
Giberga, Jane Sughrue
Friends to Die For
Crissy and her friends are strictly A List. They live in a fabulous Manhattan apartments, attend the
best schools, and live fast, beautiful lives. Until the night that a wild party spins out of control. One
of them ends up dead, the killer is on the loose--and Crissy has a terrible secret to keep. Fleet
pacing, dead-on dialogue, and twists and turns galore make this a must-read for mystery fans.
Tween & YA MYS GIF
Giff, Patricia Reilly
Eleven
Sam is almost 11 when he discovers a locked box in the attic above his grandfather Mack’s room,
and a piece of paper that says he was kidnapped. There are lots of other words, but Sam has
always had trouble reading. He’s desperate to find out who he is, and if his beloved Mack is really
his grandfather. At night he’s haunted by dreams of a big castle and a terrifying escape on a boat.
Who can he trust to help him read the documents that could unravel the mystery? Then he and
the new girl, Caroline, are paired up to work on a school project, building a castle in Mack’s
woodworking shop. Caroline loves to read, and she can help. But she’s moving soon, and the two
must hurry to discover the truth about Sam.
YA MYS GIL
Giles, Gail
What Happened to Cass McBride?
Kyle Kirby has planned a cruel and unusual revenge on Cass McBride, the most popular girl in
school, for the death of his brother David. He digs a hole. Drugs Cass. Kidnaps her. Puts her in a
box-underground. He buries her alive. But Kyle makes a fatal error: Cass knows the power of
words. She uses fear as her weapon to keep her nemesis talking - and to keep herself breathing
during the most harrowing 48 hours of her life.
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YA MYS GIL
Gilman, David
Devil’s Breath (Danger Zone v 1)
When his father goes missing, Max Gordon, a clever British teen, finds himself embroiled in a
fiendish plot with an ecological slant. Max's quest for his father leads him from Europe to Africa,
where he meets Kallie, a headstrong young aviator and !Koga, a bushman boy who may be the
only one who can lead Max through the unforgiving South African terrain. Through shrewd
detective work, Max discovers that his father is mixed up in the despicable plot of the diabolical
Shaka Chang, a plot that could kill thousands of innocent people. Can Max stop Chang in time
and save his father and the others?
YA MYS GIL Gilman, David Ice Claw (Danger Zone v 2)
High in the freezing French Pyrenees, Max Gordon’s race to win an X-treme sports challenge has
become a race to survive. He witnesses the last moments of a mysterious Basque monk, who
screams a cryptic clue before plummeting to his death. The clue? A prophecy that foretells a
cataclysmic ecological event that will kill millions of people across Europe. Max is desperate to
find a solution, but instead he’s accused of causing the monk’s death, and the hunt is on to find
him. How can Max prove his innocence when nobody will trust him . . . and he can trust no one?
YA MYS GIL
Gilman, David
Blood Sun (Danger Zone v 3)
Deep in the London underground, a train shudders across an unseen body. Days later, on the
bleakness of Dartmoor, Max Gordon learns of a fellow student's death in the capital. Danny
Maguire was carrying an envelope with Max's name on it—containing the secret of Max's
mother's death. The clues take Max into the endangered rainforest of Central America where,
hunted down by a ruthless killer, he must also escape the jaws of deadly crocodiles and flesheating piranhas. The truth Max is desperately trying to uncover lies deep within the dangerous
forest's heart . . . if only he can stay alive to reach it.
Tween & YA MYS GOL
Golding, Julia
The Diamond of Drury Lane
Orphan Cat Royal has lived in the Drury Lane Theater all her life under the protection of the
theater owner and playwright, Mr. Sheridan. One night, Cat follows Sheridan and overhears him
planning to hide a diamond in the theatre. When he catches her listening in, Sheridan makes Cat
promise to keep the diamond safe and its existence a secret. But when she befriends the new
violin prodigy Pedro, who is a former slave, she accidentally reveals the secret of the jewel. Pedro
tries to steal the jewel in the hope of escaping to a life of luxury and freedom. Eventually, Pedro
relinquishes his criminal thoughts and swears to help Cat guard the diamond. Following a
performance at the theater, Cat and Pedro meet two young nobles, Lord Francis and Lady
Elizabeth, who are enchanted with Pedro's violin skills and Cat's witty writing. A new and
unexpected friendship develops, bringing more adventures, mysteries, and an even bigger secret.
Cat's knowledge turns deadly, as she becomes the only obstacle standing in the way of the
treasure everyone wants and will do anything to get: the diamond of Drury Lane.
Tween & YA MYS GOL
Golding, Julia
Cat Among the Pigeons
The second episode in the CAT ROYAL ADVENTURE series plunges readers into the underbelly
of London in a mission for justice. Pedro’s old slave master wants him back, but his friends on
Drury Lane won’t give him up without a fight. Disguised as a boy, Cat enters an aristocratic
boarding school and scales the heights of London society before joining a street gang to probe its
depths, all to secure the freedom of her friend. Like THE DIAMOND OF DRURY LANE, CAT
AMONG THE PIGEONS features mysteries, theatrical spectacles, the evil Billy “Boil” Shepherd,
and, of course, the irrepressible Cat, who never fails to stir up trouble and save the day wherever
she goes.
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YA MYS GRA
Grant, Helen
The Glass Demon
Teenager Lin Fox is a stranger in a strange land—Germany, where her father has come on a
quixotic quest to locate a priceless artifact. The medieval (and possibly mythical) Allerheiligen
stained glass is believed by some to be lost, by others to have been destroyed, and by virtually all
to be haunted. A mysterious letter persuades Dr. Oliver Fox that he can be the one to find it—but
someone else is determined to ensure that the glass stays hidden forever. First, an elderly
stranger is found dead in an orchard, then one of Oliver’s contacts is mysteriously drowned—both
bodies inexplicably surrounded by shards of colored glass. As dark superstitions simmer, Lin
embarks on her own search to find the glass. As her life comes to resemble the grimmest of fairy
tales, she realizes that what she must find is not only the truth about the legendary glass but a
way to save the lives of those she loves.
YA MYS GRA
Grant Vicki
Quid Pro Quo
Quid Pro Quo is a high-stakes, fast-moving legal thriller about real people, and funny people at
that. Cyril MacIntyre's mother is a twenty-eight-year-old ex-street kid who drags her son to all her
law school classes, then proceeds to get herself kidnapped. That aside, Cyril's life isn't too
different from that of other thirteen-year-olds. He has all the usual adolescent issues to deal with:
parent problems, self-esteem problems, skin, hair and girl problems. He just has legal problems
too. And he's got to solve them if he wants to save his mother's life.
YA MYS GRE
Green, John
Paper Towns
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth
Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life - dressed
like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows. After their allnighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an
enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues - and they're for him.
Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees of the girl he thought he
knew.
Tween & YA MYS GRI Grisham, John Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he's only thirteen years old,
Theo Boone thinks he's one of them. Theo knows every judge, policeman, court clerkÑand a lot
about the law. He dreams of a life in the courtroom. But he finds himself in court much sooner
than expected. Because he knows so muchÑmaybe too muchÑhe is suddenly dragged into the
middle of a sensational murder trial. A cold-blooded killer is about to go free, and only Theo
knows the truth. The stakes are high, but Theo won't stop until justice is served.
FIC & YA MYS HAD
the Night Time
Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every
prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human
emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain,
Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him.
Routine, order and predictability shelter him from the messy, wider world. Then, at fifteen,
Christopher’s carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbor’s dog, Wellington,
impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing. Christopher decides that he will
track down the real killer and turns to his favorite fictional character, the impeccably logical
Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths
and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents’ marriage. As he tries to
deal with the crisis within his own family, we are drawn into the workings of Christopher’s mind.
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YA MYS HAL
Halliday, Gemma
Deadly Cool
First I find out that my boyfriend is cheating on me. Then he’s pegged as the #1 suspect in a
murder. And now he’s depending on me to clear his name. Seriously? As much as I wouldn’t
mind watching him squirm, I know that he’s innocent. So I’m brushing off my previously untapped
detective skills and getting down to business. But I keep tripping over dead bodies and I’m still no
closer to figuring out who did it. And what’s worse: all signs seem to point to me as the killer’s
next victim. I really need to pick a better boyfriend next time.
YA MYS HAL
Halliday, Gemma
Social Suicide
Twittercide: the killing of one human being by another while the victim is in the act of tweeting.
Call me crazy, but I figured writing for the Herbert Hoover High Homepage would be a pretty
sweet gig. Pad the resume for college applications, get a first look at the gossip column, spend
some time ogling the paper's brooding bad-boy editor, Chase Erikson. But on my first big story,
things went . . . a little south. What should have been a normal interview with Sydney Sanders
turned into me discovering the homecoming queen–hopeful dead in her pool. Electrocuted while
Tweeting. Now, in addition to developing a reputation as HHH's resident body finder, I'm stuck
trying to prove that Sydney's death wasn't suicide. I'm starting to long for the days when my
biggest worry was whether the cafeteria was serving pizza sticks or Tuesday Tacos. . . .
YA MYS HAL
Hale, Kathleen
No One Else Can Have You
Small towns are nothing if not friendly. Friendship, Wisconsin (population: 689 688) is no
different. Around here, everyone wears a smile. And no one ever locks their doors. Until, that is,
high school sweetheart Ruth Fried is found murdered. Strung up like a scarecrow in the middle of
a cornfield. Unfortunately, Friendship’s police are more adept at looking for lost pets than
catching killers. So Ruth’s best friend, Kippy Bushman, armed with only her tenacious Midwestern
spirit and Ruth’s secret diary (which Ruth’s mother had asked her to read in order to redact any,
you know, sex parts), sets out to find the murderer. But in a quiet town like Friendship—where no
one is a suspect—anyone could be the killer.
YA MYS HAR
Harazin, S.A.
Blood Brothers
Poor boy Clay and rich boy Joey have been best friends since they were seven. Now they're
about to graduate from high school, and Joey, the class valedictorian, is heading for premed at
Duke—that is, until Clay is attacked by Joey, who is flipping out from an overdose, and pushes
him in self-defense. Now Joey lies in a coma at the hospital where Clay works as an orderly,
trying to make enough money to pay his part of the rent and food at home. Everyone seems to
think Clay is responsible for Joey's condition, but what role did a sleazy ex-girlfriend of Clay's play
at the party the night before? Will Joey ever recover, and how will it affect Clay's life?
YA MYS HAR
Harrington, Kim
Clarity
When you can see things others can't, where do you look for the truth?
This paranormal murder mystery will have teens reading on the edge of their seats.
Clarity "Clare" Fern sees things. Things no one else can see. Things like stolen kisses and longburied secrets. All she has to do is touch a certain object, and the visions come to her. It's a gift.
And a curse. When a teenage girl is found murdered, Clare's ex-boyfriend wants her to help
solve the case--but Clare is still furious at the cheating jerk. Then Clare's brother--who has
supernatural gifts of his own--becomes the prime suspect, and Clare can no longer look away.
Teaming up with Gabriel, the smoldering son of the new detective, Clare must venture into the
depths of fear, revenge, and lust in order to track the killer. But will her sight fail her just when she
needs it most?
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YA MYS HAR
Harrington, Kim
Perception (Clarity v 2)
When you can see things others can't, what happens when someone is watching you? Everybody
knows about Clarity "Clare" Fern. She's the psychic girl in school, the one who can place her
hands on something and see hidden visions from the past. Only, Clare would rather not be a
celebrity. She prefers hanging back, observing. Her gift is not a game to her. But then someone
starts playing with her head and heart. Messages and gifts from a secret admirer crop up
everywhere Clare turns. Could they be from Gabriel, the gorgeous boy who gets Clare's pulse
racing? Or from Justin, Clare's hopeful ex-boyfriend who'd do anything to win her back? One
thing is certain. Clare needs to solve this mystery, and soon. Because the messages are
becoming sinister, and a girl in town has suddenly disappeared. Clare needs to see her way to
the truth -- before it's much too late.
YA MYS HAR
Hart, John
The Last Child
When 12-year-old Alyssa Merrimon disappeared a year ago, her family fell apart. Her twin
brother, Johnny, became obsessed with trying to find her, their father took off, not to be heard
from again, and their mother sank into a world of drugs and booze, helped along by an abusive,
wealthy boyfriend. Det. Clive Hunt is also obsessed, both with finding Alyssa and with her mother,
and his preoccupation costs him his marriage and jeopardizes his job. But this is Johnny's story
and his quest to find the sister he lost. Taking his mother's car while she's passed out and
occasionally taking along his best friend, Jack, Johnny spies and keeps meticulous records on
the townsfolk of small Raven County, NC. The world is a dark place when seen through his eyes,
and Johnny is an unforgettable character in this finely drawn yet disturbing thriller.
YA MYS HAR
Harvey, Alyxandra
Haunting Violet
Violet Willoughby doesn't believe in ghosts. But they believe in her. After spending years
participating in her mother's elaborate ruse as a fraudulent medium, Violet is about as skeptical
as they come in all matters supernatural. Now that she is being visited by a very persistent ghost,
one who suffered a violent death, Violet can no longer ignore her unique ability. She must figure
out what this ghost is trying to communicate, and quickly because the killer is still on the loose.
Afraid of ruining her chance to escape her mother's scheming through an advantageous
marriage, Violet must keep her ability secret. The only person who can help her is Colin, a friend
she's known since childhood, and whom she has grown to love. He understands the true Violet,
but helping her on this path means they might never be together. Can Violet find a way to help
this ghost without ruining her own chance at a future free of lies?
YA MYS HAU
Mysteries)
Hautman, Pete & Legue, Mary
Snatched (Bloodwater
Every good crime reporter has got to start somewhere, and for Roni Delicata, the first step to her
celebrated career is a beat for the school newspaper. Tired of writing about stolen locker magnets
and keyed vehicles in the parking lot, Roni isn't about to let a better story get away from her.
When her new classmate, Alicia Camden, is kidnapped, beaten, and released, Roni's eager to
get to the heart of the matter. If it means recruiting the aid of ninth-grade geek Brian Bain she'll do
it—after all, Brian's mom is the lead detective on the case, so he's a handy ally to have. Soon, the
pair are tracking down suspects, talking to witnesses, and trekking along the coast like
experienced detectives ... well, almost. Roni and Brian have a lot to learn before they'll give
Holmes and Watson a run for their money. Will their clumsy detecting be good enough to solve
this odd mystery? What will happen to the teen sleuths if they're found to be on the path of the
guilty party?
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Hautman, Pete
Skullduggery (Bloodwater mysteries)
The young heroes of Snatched, the first Bloodwater Mystery, get involved in efforts to save local
woodland from developers in this new outing. Amateur detectives Roni, an investigative reporter
for the school newspaper, and Brian, a science geek, are taking a summer course in Regional
Studies. While on a field trip to the woodland they hear cries for help and rescue an archeologist
who has been hit on the head in a cave—a cave with human bones in it. How is the handsome
new boy in their class involved, and who dynamited the cave entrance?
YA MYS HAW
Hawkins, Rachel
Hex Hall (Hex Hall v 1)
Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It’s gotten her into a few
scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie’s
estranged father—an elusive European warlock—only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts
too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it’s her dad who decides
her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a.
witches, faeries, and shapeshifters. By the end of her first day among fellow freak-teens, Sophie
has quite a scorecard: three powerful enemies who look like supermodels, a futile crush on a
gorgeous warlock, a creepy tagalong ghost, and a new roommate who happens to be the most
hated person and only vampire on campus. Worse, Sophie soon learns that a mysterious
predator has been attacking students, and her only friend is the number-one suspect.
As a series of blood-curdling mysteries starts to converge, Sophie prepares for the biggest threat
of all: an ancient secret society determined to destroy all Prodigium, especially her.
YA MYS HEN
Henderson, Lauren
Kisses & Lies
After discovering that someone saw what looked like Dan’s emergency EpiPen in A-lister Plum’s
designer handbag, Scarlett and her tough American sidekick, Taylor, sneak into a posh London
nightclub, where Plum has a private table. Scarlett is stunned to discover a piece of evidence that
might implicate another girl in Plum’s exclusive circle, Lucy Raleigh. Which means Scarlett must
cast a wider net in order to catch the right suspect. Back at school, groundskeeper Jase is
hoping to take Scarlett’s mind off her troubles with some heart-stopping kisses. Scarlett can’t help
but feel guilty for indulging in romantic rendezvous when she should be hunting down Dan’s killer.
However, once Scarlett finds out how Lucy is connected to Dan, she knows she must drop
everything and travel to the McAndrew estate in Scotland to hunt for more clues. But when she
arrives, Scarlett becomes the target of a dangerous hunt herself.
YA MYS HEN
Henderson, Lauren
Kiss Me Kill Me
When 16-year-old Scarlett Wakefield transfers from St. Tabby’s to Wakefield Hall Collegiate, she
is relieved that no one knows her dark, haunting secret. A few months ago, Scarlett was invited to
an elite party with a guest list full of the hottest names in British society, including Dan McAndrew.
Before the party, Scarlett had only imagined what it would be like to have her first kiss with Dan,
but on the penthouse terrace, Dan leaned in close and she no longer had to wonder. Their kiss
was beautiful and perfect and magical, and then . . . Dan McAndrew took his last breath as she
held him in her arms. No one knows how or why Dan died, and everyone at St. Tabby’s believes
Scarlett had something to do with it. But now that she’s safely hidden away at Wakefield Hall,
Scarlett would rather forget that it ever happened. Only she can’t. Especially when she receives
an anonymous note that will set her on the path to clearing her name and finding out what really
happened to the first and last boy she kissed.
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YA MYS HEN
Heneghan, James
Safe House
Liam Fogarty's father worked for peace in his community in Northern Ireland, but that doesn't
prevent his being murdered in his bed, along with his wife, one cold July night in 1999. Liam
wakes when the masked men break down their front door, charge up the stairs and start
shooting. He peers out of his room just as one of the men removes his mask and so Liam begins
running for his life. Even though the police try to help at one point, no place is really safe until the
killers are caught. Set in Belfast, a year after the Good Friday Agreement had restored rights to
the Catholics, this story offers a young boy's perspective of the continuing violence.
YA MYS HEN
Henry, April
The Night She Disappeared
Gabie drives a Mini Cooper. She also works part-time as a delivery girl at Pete’s Pizza. One
night, Kayla—another delivery girl—goes missing. To her horror, Gabie learns that the supposed
kidnapper had asked if the girl in the Mini Cooper was working. Gabie can’t move beyond the
fact that Kayla’s fate was really meant for her. She becomes obsessed with finding Kayla and
teams up with Drew, who also works at Pete’s. Together they set out to prove that Kayla isn’t
dead—and hopefully to find her before she is.
YA MYS HER
Herren, Greg
Sleeping Angel
Eric Matthews survives a near-fatal accident only to find his whole life has changed. Eric
Matthews wakes up in the hospital with no memory of how he wound up there—and soon learns
that it’s vital that he remember. Apparently, he was in a car accident, and the body of classmate
Sean Brody was found in his car, shot to death. But nothing makes sense to Eric. He and Sean
weren’t friends. In fact, they disliked each other--Sean was gay and Eric is...well, he's not sure of
much right now! Except he is certain he didn’t shoot Sean, even though he can’t remember
anything about the day of the accident. To make matters worse, he starts having psychic flashes
about the people around him: his doctor, a nurse, his mother, and other visitors. As Eric’s
memories slowly start to come back to him, he becomes more and more certain that not only is
he innocent, but that the real murderer is out there…and wants to shut him up permanently.
YA MYS ING
Ingold, Jeanette
Paper Daughter
In the month after 16-year-old Maggie Chen’s father, a respected journalist, was killed in a hitand-run accident, a basement flood destroys his notebooks. As she searches through the sodden
paperwork, Maggie discovers puzzling inconsistencies. Had her father lied about his family
history? Maggie, an aspiring journalist herself, is just beginning an internship at a Seattle paper,
and in one of her first assignments, she uncovers a story that links directly to both the
circumstances of her father’s death and to the truth about his origins.
YA MYS JAF
Jaffe, Michele
Rosebush
Instead of celebrating Memorial Day weekend on the Jersey Shore, Jane is in the hospital, trying
to determine how she woke up, paralyzed, in a rosebush. Her friends convince her she was the
victim of a hit-and-run accident. But Jane begins to suspect that someone is out to kill her. Now,
she must use the clues left behind by each person who visits her in the hospital - friend, stranger,
enemy - to piece together what really happened, before it's too late. The truth will change her life
forever. That is, if it doesn't kill her.
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YA MYS JOH
Johnson, Maureen
The Name of the Star
The day Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London marks a memorable occasion. For
Rory, it's the start of a new life at a London boarding school. But for many, this will be
remembered as the day a series of brutal murders broke out across the city, gruesome crimes
mimicking the horrific Jack the Ripper events of more than a century ago. Soon Rippermania"
takes hold of modern-day London, and the police are left with few leads and no witnesses. Except
one. Rory spotted the man police believe to be the prime suspect. But she is the only one who
saw him. Even her roommate, who was walking with her at the time, didn't notice the mysterious
man. So why can only Rory see him? And more urgently, why has Rory become his next target?
In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, full of suspense, humor, and romance, Rory will learn the truth
about the secret ghost police of London and discover her own shocking abilities.
YA MYS JOH
Johnson, Maureen
The Madness Underneath
After her near-fatal run-in with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Devereaux has been living in
Bristol under the close watch of her parents. So when her therapist suddenly suggests she return
to Wexford, Rory jumps at the chance to get back to her friends. But Rory’s brush with the Ripper
touched her more than she thought possible: she’s become a human terminus, with the power to
eliminate ghosts on contact. She soon finds out that the Shades—the city’s secret ghost-fighting
police—are responsible for her return. The Ripper may be gone, but now there is a string of new
inexplicable deaths threatening London. Rory has evidence that the deaths are no coincidence.
Something much more sinister is going on, and now she must convince the squad to listen to her
before it’s too late.
YA MYS JON
Jones, Lloyd Wild Boy
In the seedy underworld of Victorian London, a boy is born and abandoned. Snatched up by an
unscrupulous and abusive showman, Wild Boy, covered in hair from head to toe, becomes a
sideshow freak. Isolated from other children and wickedly abused by the cruel master who bought
him, Wild Boy becomes an avid observer, developing Sherlock Holmes–like deductive skills.
Although he is tormented and insulted, kicked and spat at, his quick mind takes in everything he
sees. When a murder occurs at the fair, Wild Boy is hastily accused. Can he use his powers of
deduction to save himself? And will the talented and spunky young acrobat Clarissa be with him
— or against him?
YA MYS JUB
Juby, Susan
Getting the Girl
Meet Sherman Mack. Short. Nerdy. Amateur P.I. and prepared to do anything for Dini Trioli.
Nobody knows who began it or when it became a tradition, but every girl at Harewood Tech fears
being D-listed, a ritual that wipes her off the social map forever. When Sherman believes Dini is in
danger of being D-listed, he snatches up his surveillance gear and launches a full-scale
investigation to uncover who is responsible. Could it be the captain of the lacrosse team? The
hottest girls in school, the Trophy Wives? Or maybe their boyfriends? One thing is for sure:
Sherman Mack is on the case. And he's not giving up.
YA MYS KAN
Kantor, Melissa
Invisible I (Amanda Project v 1)
Amanda Valentino changed everything.
Callie Leary has exactly one thing, and one thing only, in common with Nia Rivera and Hal
Bennett: They were each chosen by Amanda to be her guide. When Amanda arrived at Endeavor
High, she told Callie she moves around a lot and always picks one person to help her navigate
the choppy waters of a new school. Why did Amanda lie? Following a course that they suspect
Amanda deliberately plotted, Callie, Nia, and Hal piece together some cryptic clues. But they find
more questions than answers and quickly realize that before they can figure out what happened
to Amanda—the girl who changed their lives—they'll need to solve the most important mystery of
all: Who is Amanda Valentino?
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YA MYS KIR
Kirby, Jessi
Golden
Seventeen-year-old Parker Frost has never taken the road less traveled. Valedictorian and
quintessential good girl, she’s about to graduate high school without ever having kissed her crush
or broken the rules. So when fate drops a clue in her lap—one that might be the key to unraveling
a town mystery—she decides to take a chance. Julianna Farnetti and Shane Cruz are
remembered as the golden couple of Summit Lakes High—perfect in every way, meant to be
together forever. But Julianna’s journal tells a different story—one of doubts about Shane and a
forbidden romance with an older, artistic guy. These are the secrets that were swept away with
her the night that Shane’s jeep plunged into an icy river, leaving behind a grieving town and no
bodies to bury. Reading Julianna’s journal gives Parker the courage to start to really live—and it
also gives her reasons to question what really happened the night of the accident. Armed with
clues from the past, Parker enlists the help of her best friend, Kat, and Trevor, her longtime crush,
to track down some leads. The mystery ends up taking Parker places that she never could have
imagined. And she soon finds that taking the road less traveled makes all the difference.
YA MYS KLA
Klavan, Andrew
Homelanders
He went to bed an ordinary high-school student. He woke up strapped to a chair, covered in
blood and bruises. He hurts all over. And a strange voice outside the door just ordered his death.
The last thing he can remember, he was working on homework, practicing karate, day-dreaming
of becoming an air force pilot, writing a pretty girl’s number on his hand. Now the police want to
arrest him for the death of his best friend. And a team of ruthless killers is rapidly closing in for
more drastic measures. He’s desperate to survive. And to discover what happened. The truth of
the matter is more incredible—and more deadly—than he could ever imagine.
Tween & YA MYS KON
Konigsburg, E.L.
Silent to the Bone
When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell
loses his power of speech and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth
about what really happened.
Tween & YA SF LAN
Landry, Derek
Skulduggery Pleasant
When 12-year-old Stephanie's eccentric Uncle Gordon dies, a mysterious man bundled in an
overcoat, scarf, sunglasses, and a hat shows up at both the funeral and the reading of the will.
This man, as it turns out, is Skulduggery Pleasant, a walking, talking skeleton who rescues
Stephanie when she is attacked while alone in the house that she has just inherited. It seems that
a particularly evil person named Serpine is trying to obtain a scepter that will allow him to rule the
world. Stephanie is swept into a world of magic, secrets, power, and intrigue as she and
Skulduggery try to keep one step ahead of Serpine and various other nefarious folk.
Tween & YA SF LAN
Pleasant v 2)
Landy, Derek
Playing With Fire (Skulduggery
Valkyrie Cain, once known as Stephanie Edgley, is a direct ascendant of the Ancients, a people
who know about the secret world of sorcerers and midges in the normal-seeming small-town
world of Haggard, Ireland. Unfortunately, an evil element exists as well—The Faceless Ones,
who were once exiled from this world and the evil ones who want these beings to return. When
Skulduggery takes Valkyrie under his bony wing, Valkyrie must learn to live two lives: her
"reflection," a sort of double, wears the school uniform and attends school as Stephanie, not only
filling in, but absorbing a sound education, news and gossip which Valkyrie gains. As the rookie
apprentice to the living-dead-wizard detective, Valkyrie is on her way to becoming an elemental
and learning magic. Apprentice means hands-on experience: combating villains who are not of
this world—vampire Dusk, Scapegrace, Baron Vengeous, disciples of Lord Vile, and so on. So
far, Skulduggery has been there when Valkyrie has needed help, but what happens when he
doesn't appear in time? Valkyrie fears this will one day be a "pop quiz" she must pass.
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Tween & YA SF LAN Landy, Derek
Pleasant v 3)
The Faceless Ones (Skulduggery
Skullduggery Pleasant, the skeleton detective, and his teen apprentice Valkyrie Cain, aka
Stephanie Edgley, must again battle the forces of evil to save the world. But this time they are
barred from the scene of the crime by the Sanctuary, the police force for magical powers in
Dublin. Teleporters are being murdered and the Diablerie has infiltrated the Sanctuary. The
mysterious Batu and his hitman Billy Ray Sanguine must be stopped. Along with Tanith Low,
China Sorrows, and Ghastly Bespoke, Skullduggery and Valkyrie fight to prevent Batu from
opening a gate that would allow the Faceless Ones to enter the mortal realm and take over the
world. To do so, Skullduggery and Valkyrie must protect the last surviving Teleporter, an
arrogant, immature teen named Fletcher Renn. They must also find a black crystal to repair the
Sceptor, the only effective weapon against the Faceless Ones.
YA MYS LEE Lee, Y.S.
A Spy in the House (The Agency v 1)
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan (and thief) Mary Quinn is surprised to
be offered a singular education, instruction in fine manners — and an unusual vocation. Miss
Scrimshaw’s Academy for Girls is a cover for an all-female investigative unit called The Agency,
and at seventeen, Mary is about to put her training to the test. Assuming the guise of a lady’s
companion, she must infiltrate a rich merchant’s home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo
ships. But the household is full of dangerous deceptions, and there is no one to trust — or is
there? Packed with action and suspense, banter and romance, and evoking the gritty backstreets
of Victorian London, this breezy mystery debuts a daring young detective who lives by her wits
while uncovering secrets — including those of her own past.
YA MYS LEE
Lee, Y.S. The Body at the Tower (The Agency v 2)
Mary’s second adventure as an undercover agent forces her to relive some harrowing childhood
experiences as she seeks the identity of a murderer. Mary Quinn is back, now a trusted member
of the Agency, the all-female detective unit operating out of Miss Scrimshaw’s Academy for Girls.
Her new assignment sends her into the grimy underbelly of Victorian London dressed as a poor
boy, evoking her own childhood memories of fear, hunger, and constant want. As she insinuates
herself into the confidence of several persons of interest, she encounters others in desperate
situations and struggles to make a difference without exposing —or losing —her identity. Mary’s
adventure, which takes place on the building site of the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament,
offers a fictional window into a fascinating historical time and place.
YA MYS LEE
Lee, Y.S. The Traitor in the Tunnel (The Agency v 3)
Quick-witted Mary Quinn is undercover at Buckingham Palace, hunting a petty thief, when the
Prince of Wales witnesses a murder. Even more alarming is the fact that the accused killer
shares a name with Mary’s long-lost father. Meanwhile, engineer James Easton, Mary’s onetime
paramour, is at work shoring up the sewers beneath the palace, where an unexpected tunnel
seems to be very much in use. Can Mary and James trust each other long enough to solve the
mystery and protect the royal family?
YA MYS LEO Leonard, Niall
Crusher
The day Finn Maguire discovers his dad bludgeoned to death in a pool of blood, his dreary life is
turned upside down. Prime suspect in his father’s murder, Finn must race against time to clear his
name and find out who hated his dad enough to kill him. Scouring the sordid, brutal London
underworld for answers, exposing dark family secrets, and facing danger at every turn, Finn is
about to learn that it’s the people you trust who can hit you the hardest. . .
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Tween & YA SF LEV
Levine, Gail Carson
A Tale of Two Castles
Newly arrived in the town of Two Castles, Elodie unexpectedly becomes the assistant to a brilliant
dragon named Meenore, and together they solve mysteries. Their most important case concerns
the town’s shape-shifting ogre, Count Jonty Um: Someone is plotting against him. Elodie must
disguise herself to discover the source of the threat amid a cast of characters that includes a
greedy king, a giddy princess, and a handsome cat trainer.
YA MYS LIT
Littke, Lael
Lake of Secrets
Can Carlene really be remembering things from a past life? Strange, fragmented memories have
been haunting Carlene since she and her mother came to Lake Isadora. The vivid recollections
don't seem to relate to anything in Carlene's own past. Until now, she hadn't even seen the place
where Keith, the brother she never knew, disappeared during a storm fifteen years ago. Some
think he drowned, but his mother thinks he was kidnapped and is still alive somewhere. She is
sure the little boy's clothes that have just been found near the lake belonged to her son. Carlene
knows that her bizarre memories have something to do with Keith. They might even help her
discover the truth about what happened the day he disappeared. But she can't possibly be
remembering things that happened before she was born-unless the memories are from a past
life.
YA MYS LIT Littlefield, Sophie
Hanging by a Thread
In a town where appearance means everything, how deep beneath the surface will Clare dig to
uncover a murderer? Summer is the best part of the year in Winston, California, and the Fourth
of July is the highlight of the season. People consider themselves lucky to live in the quaint,
serene beachside town, and native Clare Knight, now a city girl, feels doubly lucky to be moving
back there a week before the July festivities kick off. But the perfect town Clare remembers has
changed, and everyone is praying that this summer will be different from the last two—that this
year’s Fourth of July festival won’t see one of their own vanish without a trace, leaving no leads
and no suspects. The media are in a frenzy predicting a third disappearance, but the town
depends on tourist dollars, so the residents of Winston are trying desperately to pretend nothing’s
wrong. And they’re not the only ones hiding something. Clare has been blessed—or perhaps
cursed—with a gift: she can see people’s pasts when she touches their clothes. And since she’s
a seamstress who redesigns vintage clothing, her visions are frequent—and usually unwanted.
When she stumbles across a denim jacket that once belonged to Amanda Stavros, last year’s
Fourth of July victim, Clare sees her perfect town begin to come apart at the seams.
YA MYS LYG
Lyga, Barry
I Hunt Killers
What if the world's worst serial killer...was your dad? Jasper (Jazz) Dent is a likable teenager. A
charmer, one might say. But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for
Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes
the way cops wish they could—from the criminal's point of view. And now bodies are piling up in
Lobo's Nod. In an effort to clear his name, Jazz joins the police in a hunt for a new serial killer.
But Jazz has a secret—could he be more like his father than anyone knows?
YA MYS LYG
Lyga, Barry
Game
When a desperate New York City detective comes knocking on Jazz's door asking for help with a
new case, Jazz can't say no. The Hat-Dog Killer has the Big Apple--and its police force running
scared with no leads. So Jazz and his girlfriend Connie hop on a plane to the big city and get
swept up in a killer's murderous game. Meanwhile, Jazz's dad Billy is watching...and waiting.
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Mackall, Dandi Daley
The Silence of Murder
The story of a teen's struggle to prove her brother innocent of murder.
The Crime: The murder of John Johnson, beloved baseball coach.
The Accused: 18-year-old Jeremy Long, who hasn't spoken a single word in 12 years.
Witness for the Defense: 16-year-old Hope Long, the only person who believes her brother is
innocent.
Other Suspects: The police have none. But Hope's list is growing.
YA MYS MAL
Maltman, Thomas
Little Wolves
Seth Fallon is a troubled teen, reared by his father in a rural Minnesota community where secrets
are impossible and forgiveness is slow in coming. The day that he sets out to gun down the
sheriff, Seth stops first at the home of his high school English teacher, who sees him but doesn’t
answer the door, before the young man proceeds on his mission, then dies, presumably by his
own hand, in a nearby cornfield soon after. A father’s anguish at his son’s death and a teacher’s
questions of faith and her own place in the events of the day form the crux of this dark and
brooding novel, which probes the deaths of two men and the guilt of a community too ready to
assign blame and punishment.
YA MYS MCM
McMann, Lisa
Fade
For Janie and Cabel, real life is getting tougher than the dreams. They're just trying to carve out a
little (secret) time together, but no such luck. Disturbing things are happening at Fieldridge High,
yet nobody's talking. When Janie taps into a classmate's violent nightmares, the case finally
breaks open — but nothing goes as planned. Not even close. Janie's in way over her head, and
Cabe's shocking behavior has grave consequences for them both. Worse yet, Janie learns the
truth about herself and her ability — and it's bleak. Seriously, brutally bleak. Not only is her fate
as a dream catcher sealed, but what's to come is way darker than she'd feared....
YA MYS MCN
McNab, Andy & Robert Rigby Traitor
Danny Watts' grandfather, Fergus, was a Deniable Operator in the SAS before he was betrayed,
imprisoned, and falsely denounced as a traitor. Now Fergus has escaped, but the real traitor is
determined to silence Fergus and Danny for good. Together Danny and Fergus are forced to go
on the run in an against-the-odds battle for survival. As they try to clear Fergus' name, Danny
learns all the military field craft, trade skills, and covert operations techniques that are second
nature to his grandfather. When Fergus is recaptured, Danny must put those skills to the test and
rescue Fergus before it's too late.
YA MYS MCN
McNab, Andy & Rigby, Robert
Payback
In this sequel to Traitor (Putnam, 2005), Danny and his ex-SAS grandfather, Fergus Watts,
survive an attempt on their lives while hiding out in Spain. They stop running and return to the UK
with the hope of clearing their names and resuming a normal life, and are recruited to help
uncover a corrupt MI5 agent who, at the same time, is trying to have them killed. Danny enlists
the help of his friend Elena so that he and Fergus can accomplish the impossible: breaking into
the heavily secured British Ministry of Defense in order to get official proof of Fergus's
background and save their lives. The police are on high alert because of a series of suicide
bombings carried out by teenagers, and MI5 tries to frame Danny as a terrorist.
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YA MYS MCN
McNab, Andy & Robert Rigby
Meltdown
The final installment of the Watts family adventures is the most action-packed yet!
Once again, Danny Watts and his grandfather Fergus are on the run. But when Dudley, a top MI5
agent, tracks them down for help with a new mission, they finally have the chance to clear their
names once and for all. Danny and Fergus must find the makers of a dangerous new drug called
Meltdown and destroy it before it can enter the mainstream, or even worse, fall into the hands of
a radical terrorist group. But in order to do this, they must infiltrate the drug production network
and once again get behind enemy lines, even fighting alongside their nemesis, Special Agent
Deveraux. After all that they have been through, will Danny and Fergus finally be able to stop
running?
YA MYS MCN McNamee, Graham Beyond
Jane is not your typical teen. She and her best friend, Lexi, call themselves the Creep Sisters.
Only Lexi knows why Jane is different from anyone else: Her own shadow seems to pull her into
near-fatal accidents. Jane is determined to find out why these terrifying things happen, and to
overcome her shadow enemy. Her sleuthing with Lexi connects her own horrors to the mystery of
a serial killer, whose secrets lie concealed in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.
YA MYS MIC
Mickelson, Marcia
Huaca
Seventeen-year-old Ellie Cummings just wants to be a regular teenager, but after her mother’s
mysterious murder, she isn’t sure if she’ll ever be normal again. Her mother’s death has left Ellie
and her father worlds apart. And when her best friend abandons her, Ellie has no one else to turn
to—except for the strange boy who says he can help. Gabe de la Cruz seems to know way too
much about everything, and her instincts tell Ellie to stay far away. But when he claims that he
can communicate with the dead through an ancient Incan artifact, Ellie can’t resist the temptation
of seeing her mother again. In the hanan pacha—the Incan afterworld—Ellie’s mother sends a
message to help Ellie understand what happened the night of the murder—a message that may
be better kept a secret . . .
YA MYS MIK
Miklowitz, Gloria
Enemy Has a Face
Netta and her family have relocated temporarily from Israel to Los Angeles, and when her
seventeen-year-old brother mysteriously disappears, she becomes convinced that he has been
abducted by Palestinian terrorists.
YA MYS MIL Miller, Kirsten
Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City
Ananka Fishbein, a seventh grader at an expensive New York City school, likens her life to
"flavorless mush." But when she wakes up one Saturday morning and finds that the small park
across the street has become a sinkhole, her decision to explore it transforms her existence. She
meets the mysterious Kiki Strike, and subsequently the group of girls (each with a particular
talent) who call themselves the Irregulars, and they embark on an adventure that involves
exploring the Shadow City, a series of tunnels under Manhattan. The identity of Kiki, along with
the motives of the mysterious individuals the Irregulars suspect are planning to attack the city, are
the mysteries at the heart of the story.
YA MYS MIL
Miller, Kirsten
The Empress’s Tomb (Kiki Strike v.2)
Ananka is in danger of being sent to a remote boarding school; Kiki’s life (as always) is in danger,
Betty seems to have found love in all the wrong places, and Oona….well, Oona’s the one in the
most serious trouble of all. From Chinatown to Fifth Avenue, whether they are rescuing
kidnapped children or resuscitating an ancient Empress at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Irregulars have a knack for finding trouble, and putting it out of its misery.
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YA MYS MIL Miller, Kirsten
Darkness Dwellers(Kiki Strike v 3)
First they ventured deep under New York to save the city itself. Then things got personal as the
Irregulars ventured into a haunted mansion in Chinatown to uncover an evil twin. Now, in the third
installment of bestselling author Kirsten Miller's Kiki Strike series, this delightful group of
delinquent geniuses jump feet first into a fast-paced international pursuit, going underground in
Paris to pursue a pair of treacherous royals who have killed Kiki's parents. With a dash of
romance, a fresh take on good manners, and loads of butt-kicking bravery, Kiki, Betty, Ananka
and the other Irregulars sharpen their amazing skills in this highly anticipated new adventure.
YA MYS MIT
Mitchard, Jacquelyn
What We Saw At Night
Allie Kim suffers from Xeroderma Pigmentosum: a fatal allergy to sunlight that confines her and
her two best friends, Rob and Juliet, to the night. When freewheeling Juliet takes up Parkour—the
stunt-sport of scaling and leaping off tall buildings—Allie and Rob have no choice but to join her, if
only to protect her. Though potentially deadly, Parkour after dark makes Allie feel truly alive, and
for the first time equal to the “daytimers.” On a random summer night, the trio catches a glimpse
of what appears to be murder. Allie alone takes it upon herself to investigate, and the truth comes
at an unthinkable price. Navigating the shadowy world of specialized XP care, extreme sports,
and forbidden love, Allie ultimately uncovers a secret that upends everything she believes about
the people she trusts the most.
YA MYS MIT Mitchard, Jacquelyn
Saw at Night v 2 )
What We Lost in the Dark (What We
Allie Kim’s fatal allergy to sunlight, XP, still confines her to the night. Now that she’s lost her best
friend Juliet to an apparent suicide, the night has never felt darker—even with Rob at her side.
Allie knows why Juliet killed herself: to escape the clutches of Garrett Tabor, whom the trio saw
committing an unspeakable crime. Garrett is untouchable; The Tabors founded the world-famous
XP clinic that keeps Allie and Rob alive and their small Minnesota town on the map. Allie can’t
rest until Garrett is brought to justice. But her obsession jeopardizes everything she holds dear.
Not even Parkour can distract her; nothing reminds her more that Juliet is gone. When Rob
introduces Allie to the wildly dangerous sport of nighttime deep diving, Allie assumes he’s only
trying to derail her investigation... until they uncover the horror terrible secret Garrett Tabor has
hidden under Lake Superior.
YA MYS MOR
Moriarty, Jaclyn
The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie
Bindy Mackenzie is a brilliant, Australian high school student-maybe too smart for her own good.
As the top student in her class, Bindy is already intimidating, but her annoying know-it-all attitude
only helps to distance her from fellow students at Ashbury High. This situation is further
complicated by a new required class, Friendship and Development ("FAD"), where Bindy is
forced to interact with a group of peers and build relationships with people whom she knows are
not fond of her. What Bindy's classmates do not realize is that she has greater problems with
which to contend: Her parents have moved to the city and have left Bindy to live with her aunt and
uncle. She feels constant pressure to stay on top of her studies, and lately she has been feeling
extremely ill. As Bindy and her FAD group begin coming to terms with each other, the mystery of
what is really going on with Bindy starts to unravel. Could it be that someone would really want to
kill Bindy Mackenzie? Could someone really be poisoning her?
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YA MYS MOR
Morris, Paula
Unbroken
Welcome back to New Orleans.
Where the streets swirl with jazz and beauty.
Where the houses breathe with ghosts.
A year ago, Rebecca Brown escaped death in a New Orleans cemetery. Now she has returned to
this haunting city. She is looking forward to seeing Anton Grey, the boy who may or may not have
her heart. But she also meets a ghost: a troubled boy who insists only she can help him. Soon
Rebecca finds herself embroiled in another murder mystery from more than a century ago. But as
she tries to right wrongs, she finds more questions than answers: Is she putting her friends, and
herself, in danger? Can she trust this new ghost? And has she stumbled into something much
bigger and more serious than she understands?
YA MYS MUC
Muchamore, Robert
The Recruit (Cherub v1)
James Onion, a twelve-year-old orphaned troublemaker, finds himself being recruited by a British
Intelligence organization called "Cherub" in this promising yet muddled first book in the "Cherub"
series. Cherub employs children between the ages of 10 and 17 to be spies for the British
Government under the rouse that adults never suspect children are spying on them. James is
arbitrarily selected to be one of the recruits (he is good at math) and the story follows him through
the recruitment process, basic training and, ultimately, his first mission.
YA MYS MUC
Muchamore, Robert
The Dealer (Cherub v2)
CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like
regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions to spy
on terrorists and international drug dealers. CHERUB agents hack into computers, bug entire
houses, and download crucial documents. It is a highly dangerous job. For their safety, these
agents DO NOT EXIST. James is on his most daring mission yet: to smack down the world's
most powerful drug lord. It means hitting the streets, where the dealers work. It's a vicious
business. But James is going to take it down...from the top.
YA MYS MUC
Muchamore, Robert
Maximum Security (Cherub v3)
CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like
regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions to spy
on terrorists and international drug dealers. CHERUB agents hack into computers, bug entire
houses, and download crucial documents. It is a highly dangerous job. For their safety, these
agents DO NOT EXIST. Two hundred eighty child criminals live in the sunbaked desert prison
Arizona Max. One of them is the son of a weapons dealer who has been selling U.S. missiles to
terrorists. If CHERUB can get the kid, they can get the parent. Over the years, CHERUB has put
plenty of criminals behind bars. Now, for the first time ever, they've got to break one out....
YA MYS MUC Muchamore, Robert
The Killing (Cherub v 4)
CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like
regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions to spy
on terrorists and international drug dealers. CHERUB agents hack into computers, bug entire
houses, and download crucial documents. It is a highly dangerous job. For their safety, these
agents DO NOT EXIST. Leona is a small-time crook with big money. When the cops call in
CHERUB, James's mission looks entirely routine: make nice with Leon's kids, dig up some leads,
and infiltrate his home. But when James suddenly unravels a much larger plot, the mission
becomes anything but ordinary. Unfortunately, the only person who might know the truth is a
reclusive eighteen-year-old boy -- who happens to have died more than a year ago.
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YA MYS MUC Muchamore, Robert
Divine Madness (Cherub v5)
CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like
regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions to spy
on terrorists and international drug dealers. CHERUB agents hack into computers, bug entire
houses, and download crucial documents. It is a highly dangerous job. For their safety, these
agents DO NOT EXIST. When CHERUB uncovers a link between eco-terrorist group Help Earth
and a wealthy religious cult known as The Survivors, James is sent to their isolated outback
headquarters on an infiltration mission. It's a thousand kilometers to the closest town, and James
is under massive pressure from the cult's brainwashing techniques. This time he's not just fighting
terrorists.... He's got to battle for his own mind.
YA MYS MUC Muchamore, Robert
Man vs Beast (Cherub v 6)
CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like
regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions to spy
on terrorists and international drug dealers. CHERUB agents hack into computers, bug entire
houses, and download crucial documents. It is a highly dangerous job. For their safety, these
agents DO NOT EXIST. Mainstream animal protection groups have always stayed within the law,
but a new band of radical liberationists argues that if humans and animals are equal, then it's
right to kill or threaten one human in order to save the lives of many animals. In a new mission,
James and the other CHERUB agents must go up against the most radical group yet in a daring
and violent attempt to save hundreds of lives...including their own.
YA MYS MUC
Muchamore, Robert
The Fall (Cherub v 7)
When an MI5 operation goes disastrously wrong, James Adams needs all of his skills to get out
of Russia alive. Meanwhile, his sister Lauren is on her first solo mission, trying to uncover a brutal
human trafficking operation. And when James does get home, he finds that his nightmare is just
beginning ...CHERUB agents have one crucial advantage: adults never suspect that children are
spying on them.
YA MYS MUC
Muchamore, Robert
YA MYS MUC
Muchamore, Robert
Mad Dogs (Cherub v 8)
Sleepwalker (Cherub v 9)
In the ninth breathtaking title in the bestselling CHERUB series, James is getting into trouble on
campus, while Lauren has an air crash to investigate.
YA MYS MUC
Muchamore, Robert
The General (Cherub v 10)
In the tenth title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series, James and Lauren are off to
America to help train the army—and to get into trouble in Las Vegas.
YA MYS MUC Muchamore, Robert People’s Republic (Cherub Series 2,
v 1)
Twelve-year-old Ryan is CHERUB's newest recruit. He's got his first mission: infiltrating the
billion-dollar Aramov criminal empire. But he's got no idea that this run-of-the-mill mission will
lead him into an extraordinary and explosive adventure involving drug smugglers, illegal
immigrants, and human trafficking, or that his first mission will turn into one of the biggest in
CHERUB's history.
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YA MYS MUL
Mulligan, Andy
Trash
In an unnamed Third World country, in the not-so-distant future, three “dumpsite boys” make a
living picking through the mountains of garbage on the outskirts of a large city. One unluckylucky day, Raphael finds something very special and very mysterious. So mysterious that he
decides to keep it, even when the city police offer a handsome reward for its return. That decision
brings with it terrifying consequences, and soon the dumpsite boys must use all of their cunning
and courage to stay ahead of their pursuers. It’s up to Raphael, Gardo, and Rat—boys who have
no education, no parents, no homes, and no money—to solve the mystery and right a terrible
wrong.
YA MYS MYE
Myers, Walter Dean
Shooter
Cameron: "Deep inside, you know that whoever gets up in your face gets there because he
knows you're nothing, and he knows that you know it too."
Carla: "What I'm trying to do is to get by—not even get over, just get by."
Leonard: "I have bought a gaw-juss weapon. It lies beneath my bed like a secret lover, quiet,
powerful, waiting to work my magic."
Statement of Fact: 17-year-old white male found dead in the aftermath of a shooting incident at
Madison High School in Harrison County.
Conclusion: Death by self-inflicted wound.
YA MYS MYR
Myracle, Lauren
Bliss
When Bliss’s hippie parents leave the commune and dump her at the home of her aloof
grandmother in a tony Atlanta neighborhood, it’s like being set down on an alien planet. The only
guide naive Bliss has to her new environment is what she’s seen on The Andy Griffith Show. But
Mayberry is poor preparation for Crestview Academy, an elite school where the tensions of the
present and the dark secrets of the past threaten to simmer into violence. Openhearted Bliss
desperately wants new friends, making her the perfect prey of a troubled girl whose obsession
with a long-ago death puts Bliss, and anyone she’s kind to, in mortal danger.
YA MYS MYR
Myracle, Lauren
Shine
When her best guy friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to
discover who in her small town did it. Richly atmospheric, this daring mystery mines the secrets of
a tightly knit Southern community and examines the strength of will it takes to go against
everyone you know in the name of justice.
YA MYS NIX
Nixon, Joan Lowery
A Deadly Game of Magic
Seeking shelter from a fierce Texas storm, four teens are trapped inside a strange house as
unwitting players in a magician's evil games. The phone goes dead. A plaster head suddenly
appears. A disembodied hand taps the mantel. Then the magic turns even more sinister, leading
inevitably toward murder.
YA FIC OFL
O’Flynn, Catherine
What Was Lost
In the 1980s, Kate Meaney—“Top Secret” notebook and toy monkey in tow—is hard at work as a
junior detective. Busy trailing “suspects” and carefully observing everything around her at the
newly opened Green Oaks shopping mall, she forms an unlikely friendship with Adrian, the son of
a local shopkeeper. But when this curious, independent-spirited young girl disappears, Adrian
falls under suspicion and is hounded out of his home by the press.
Then, in 2003, Adrian’s sister Lisa—stuck in a dead-end relationship—is working as a manager at
Your Music, a discount record store. Every day she tears her hair out at the outrageous behavior
of her customers and colleagues. But along with a security guard, Kurt, she becomes entranced
by the little girl glimpsed on the mall’s surveillance cameras. As their after-hours friendship
intensifies, Lisa and Kurt investigate how these sightings might be connected to the unsettling
history of Green Oaks itself.
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YA MYS OLS
Olsen, Gregg
Envy
Fifteen-year-old twins Hayley and Taylor Ryan of Port Gamble, WA, known as "Empty Coffin"
because of a local legend, investigate a former friend's Christmas suicide and, along the way,
discover a secret from their own past.
YA MYS ORE
Orenstein, Denise Gosliner
Unseen Companion
In rural Alaska in 1969, the lives of several teenagers come together while trying to find out what
happened to a sixteen-year-old boy who is missing.
YA MYS PAR
Parker, Robert B
The Boxer and the Spy
When a shy high school student's body is found washed up on the shore of a quiet New England
beach town-an apparent suicide-fifteen-year-old Terry Novak doesn't know what to think.
Something just doesn't add up, so he decides to do some investigating of his own with the help of
his best friend, Abby. It doesn't take long before they learn that asking questions puts them in
grave danger, and surviving is going to be a fight. Fortunately, Terry has been learning a thing or
two about fighting, thanks to a retired boxer named George, who teaches the boy to use his head
and always keep his feet set beneath him-lessons Terry takes to heart in more ways than one. He
will need to.
YA MYS PAR
Parker, Robert
Chasing the Bear
Parker introduces young readers to private investigator Spenser, star of his bestselling adult
novels, at age 14. Short chapters and Spenser's signature quick-fire delivery propel the story,
which reveals the ways young Spenser uses the survival skills and scruples passed on to him by
his loving, wise father and the two uncles who are raising him in a small town ("They took turns
with everything.... So none of them got ground down, so to speak, by being the only parent").
Knowing when to defend himself and when to run away comes in handy when the teen
encounters a black bear in the woods, rescues his friend from her drunken, gun-toting father and
is ambushed by a gang of racist thugs after he protects a bullied Mexican peer.
YA MYS PAT Patterson, James & Maxine Paetro Confessions of a Murder
Suspect
James Patterson returns to the genre that made him famous with a thrilling teen detective series
about the mysterious and magnificently wealthy Angel family . . . and the dark secrets they're
keeping from one another. On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel
knows just three things: 1) She was the last person to see her parents alive. 2) The police have
no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. 3) She can't trust anyone—maybe not even
herself. Having grown up under Malcolm and Maud's intense perfectionist demands, no child
comes away undamaged. Tandy decides that she will have to clear the family name, but digging
deeper into her powerful parents' affairs is a dangerous-and revealing-game. Who knows what
the Angels are truly capable of?
Tween & YA MYS PEA
Pearson, Ridley
Steel Trapp: The Challenge
Stephen "Steel" Trapp has a photographic memory, which is a blessing and a curse. On a train
trip on the way to the National Science Fair competition, Steel unwittingly stumbles onto a plot
involving a mysterious briefcase, a kidnapping, and the U.S. Marshals. Once in Washington,
D.C., Steel and his new friend Kayleigh make more unexpected discoveries and are unable to let
the mystery go. They begin their own investigation, which leads them into more danger, until
Steel finds himself and a surprise guest in a fight for his life.
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YA MYS PER
Perez, Marlene
Dead Is the New Black
Welcome to Nightshade, California—a small town full of secrets. It’s home to the pyschic
Giordano sisters, who have a way of getting mixed up in mysteries. During their investigations,
they run across everything from pom-pom-shaking vampires to shape-shifting boyfriends to a
clue-spewing jukebox. With their psychic powers and some sisterly support, they can crack any
case!
Teenage girls are being mysteriously attacked all over town, including at Nightshade
High School, where Daisy Giordano is a junior. When Daisy discovers that a vampire may be the
culprit, she can’t help but suspect head cheerleader Samantha Devereaux, who returned
from summer break with a new “look.” Samantha appears a little . . . well, dead, and all the most
popular kids at school are copying her style.
Is looking dead just another fashion trend for
Samantha, or is there something more sinister going on? To find out, Daisy joins the cheerleading
squad.
YA MYS PER
Perez, Marlene
Dead Is a State of Mind
Welcome to Nightshade, California—a small town full of secrets. It’s home to the psychic
Giordano sisters, who have a way of getting mixed up in mysteries. During their investigations,
they run across everything from pom-pom- shaking vampires to shape-shifting boyfriends to a
clue-spewing jukebox. With their psychic powers and some sisterly support, they can crack any
case! There’s a gorgeous new guy at Nightshade High: Duke Sherrad, a fortune-teller claiming to
have descended from Gypsies. Even though she’s psychic herself, Daisy is skeptical of Duke’s
powers. But when a teacher who was the subject of one of his predictions ends up dead, she
begins to wonder if Duke is the real deal after all. Maybe if Daisy can track down the teacher’s
killer, she can find out the truth. The only trouble is, all signs point to the murderer being of the
furry persuasion. Is Daisy any match for a werewolf? Maybe she is . . . in more ways than she
bargained for!
YA MYS PER
Perez, Marlene
Dead is So Last Year
Something very strange starts happening in Nightshade the summer that the eldest Giordano
sister, Rose, gets a job working at Dr. Franken's research laboratory. People are starting to see
double. Doppelgängers of Nightshade residents are popping up all over town. Daisy, Rose and
Poppy think it's a coincidence, until the rumors start that their father, who disappeared several
years ago, has been spotted in town. Meanwhile, Daisy's beau, Ryan is spending all of his time
training for football, and like the other guys on the team, he's grown enormous almost overnight.
Samantha Devereux's boyfriend's neck has doubled in size since school ended. Could the
football players be resorting to extreme measures to win? Between summer jobs, sugar rushes,
and beach parties, the Giordano girls get to the bottom of these mysteries and more.
YA MYS PER
Perez, Marlene
Dead Is Not an Option
It’s springtime of senior year, and psychic sleuth Daisy Giordano is preparing to say goodbye to
Nightshade High. But no college acceptance letters have arrived yet, and she’s beginning to
worry about where she’ll end up come fall—and if it will be anywhere near her boyfriend, Ryan.
But that’s not the only uncertainty Daisy’s dealing with. There’s a vamps-versus-shifters war
going on in Nightshade, and things are so tense that there is talk of canceling the prom. The
conflict is carrying over to the Giordano home, since Rose and Daisy are both dating werewolves
and Poppy’s new boyfriend is a vampire. Can the paranormal community in Nightshade finally
find peace? And will Daisy and her friends survive graduation? All of these questions and more
are answered in the latest explosive installment in the Dead Is series.
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Perez, Marlene
Dead is a Battlefield
Jessica Walsh is starting her freshman year at Nightshade High and trying to forget about the
tragic events surrounding her brother’s graduation. She wants to have a normal high school
experience. But that’s easier said than done in Nightshade. There’s a new guy at school who
seems to be turning the girls into lovesick zombies. And Jessica has other worries—like her crush
on a cute but moody lead singer, and the mysterious tattoo that appeared on her arm one day
that lets her know whenever there is trouble brewing. Jessica learns she’s a Virago, a woman
warrior chosen to fight evil whenever it threatens her hometown. But does a lowly freshman really
have what it takes to keep Nightshade safe?
YA MYS PER
Perez, Marlene
Dead is Just a Rumor
As the creepy little town of Nightshade prepares to celebrate its 200th anniversary—on
Halloween, of course—many of its paranormal residents are receiving mysterious blackmail
letters. Psychic teen Daisy Giordano and her sisters set out to find out who is behind the threats.
But launching an investigation isn’t easy for Daisy with her overprotective father watching her
every move. Though she’s is happy to have him back after the years he spent being held captive
by an anti-paranormal group called the Scourge, Dad is having difficult time adjusting to home
life—and the fact that his little girl is now a senior in high school. He even disapproves of Daisy’s
boyfriend, Ryan. Can their relationship take the strain? And Daisy’s got even more on her plate: A
talented amateur chef, she has won cooking lessons with celebrity chef Circe Silvertongue. After
nosing around (with a little help from Circe’s pet pig), Daisy begins to suspect the temperamental
chef’s secrets aren’t only in her ingredients. . . .
Tween & YA MYS PET
Peterson, Will
Triskellion
A sense of foreboding sets in the moment fourteen-year-old twins Rachel and Adam arrive from
New York to visit their English grandmother. The station is empty, village streets are deserted,
locals are hostile, and even their frail Granny Root is oddly distant. And what about the bees that
appear to follow a mysterious force? It all seems tied up with the Triskellion — an intertwining
symbol etched in chalk on the moors. With a growing sense of danger and white-knuckle
suspense, the twins are compelled to unearth a secret that has protected the village for centuries,
one that reveals a shocking truth about their ancestors — and themselves.
YA MYS PET
Peterson, Will
The Burning (Triskellion 2)
After the shocking revelations in Triskellion, being guests of the "Hope Project" might seem like a
relief. But Rachel and Adam soon figure out that they’re being held prisoner, and that the program
has more sinister goals than archaeological research in mind. A hideous discovery at the funeral
of their grandmother makes it clear that the teenagers must flee from England to Paris, Seville,
and fi nally Morocco, evading not only their former benefactors but also the followers of "The
Englishman," a zombie-like fi gure with a frightening agenda of his own. It will take all of their
special abilities and courage to stay alive until their journey reaches an explosive climax — and
they unearth, on the North African coast, an ancient secret even more startling than the first.
YA MYS PET
Peterson, Will
The Gathering (Triskellion v 3)
After escaping the Australian Outback — and the nefarious agents of the ill-named Hope
Organization — Rachel and Adam have fled to the United States in hopes of locating their father.
Luck is evading them, however, until they follow the clues in the note their Granny Root left them,
leading straight to a military base in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Meanwhile, their mother is facing
charges of murder in Oklahoma, even as Dr. Laura Sullivan speeds to New Mexico to snatch the
kids from the clutches of the Hope Organization. Will Rachel and Adam discover the third and
final triskellion before it’s too late?
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Petrucha, Stefan
Ripper
Carver Young dreams of becoming a detective, despite growing up in an orphanage with only
crime novels to encourage him. But when he is adopted by Detective Hawking of the world
famous Pinkerton Agency, Carver is given not only the chance to find his biological father, he
finds himself smack in the middle of a real life investigation: tracking down a vicious serial killer
who has thrown New York City into utter panic. When the case begins to unfold, however, it's
worse than he could have ever imagined, and his loyalty to Mr. Hawking and the Pinkertons
comes into question. As the body count rises and the investigation becomes dire, Carver must
decide where his true loyalty lies.
YA MYS PFE
Pfeffer, Susan Beth
Twice Taken
A support group of teenagers coping with family problems helps Amy to adjust after she's ordered
to live with her mother following the discovery that her divorced father abducted her years ago.
YA MYS PFO
Pfoutz, Sally
Missing Person
When seventeen-year-old Carrie's notoriously unstable mother disappears, only Carrie seems
interested in pursuing the truth through a world where she can trust no one but herself.
YA MYS PLU Plum-Ucci, Carol
What Happened to Lani Garver
Claire McKenzie is haunted by her brief relationship with Lani Garver, a newcomer to her close
island community who changed her life.
YA MYS PLU
Plum-Ucci, Carol
The Body of Christopher Creed
Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and
questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.
YA MYS PLU
Plum-Ucci, Carol
Following Christopher Creed
Years later . . . what really happened to Christopher Creed?
When Torey Adams posts on his blog that a body has been found in Steepleton—four years after
Christopher Creed disappeared—college reporter Mike Mavic sells his laptop and hops a plane to
capture the story that will undoubtedly launch his journalistic career. But what Mike finds is a town
suffering under a cloud of bad frequency and people with an underlying streak of meanness. To
the teens of Steepleton, Chris is nothing more than history—but to Justin Creed, a teen obsessed
with his older brother’s memory and balancing on the edge of sanity, discovering
what really happened to Chris Creed is a matter of life and death.
YA MYS PLU
Plum-Ucci, Carol
The Night My Sister Went Missing
A tiny pistol, passed from friend to friend at a party on an abandoned pier, suddenly fires, and
Casey Carmody falls into the water below. Kurt, Casey's older brother, endures a seemingly
endless night at the police station while the coast guard searches for his sister and his friends are
questioned, one by one. Who was foolish enough to pull the trigger? Was the gunfire accidental
or deliberate? Or was the whole drama one of Casey's practical jokes? And where is Casey--or
her body--now?
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Portman, Frank
King Dork
Tom Henderson (a.k.a. King Dork, Chi-mo, Hender-fag, and Sheepie) is a typical American high
school loser until he discovers the book, The Catcher in the Rye, that will change the world as he
knows it. When Tom discovers his deceased father’s copy of the Salinger classic, he finds himself
in the middle of several interlocking conspiracies and at least half a dozen mysteries involving
dead people, naked people, fake people, ESP, blood, a secret code, guitars, monks, witchcraft,
the Bible, girls, the Crusades, a devil head, and rock and roll. And it all looks like it’s just the tip of
a very odd iceberg of clues that may very well unravel the puzzle of his father’s death and–oddly–
reveal the secret to attracting semihot girls. Being in a band could possibly be the secret to the
girl thing–but good luck finding a drummer who can count to four.
YA MYS PRE
Preble, Joy The Sweet Dead Life
“I found out two things today. One, I think I’m dying. And two, my brother is a perv.” So begins
the diary of 14-year-old Jenna Samuels, who is having a very bad eighth-grade year. Her single
mother spends all day in bed. Dad vanished when she was eight. Her 16-year-old brother, Casey,
tries to hold together what’s left of the family by working two after-school jobs— difficult, as he’s
stoned all the time. To make matters worse, Jenna is sick. When she collapses one day, Casey
tries to race her to the hospital in their beat-up Prius and crashes instead. Jenna wakes up in the
ER to find Casey beside her. Beatified. Literally. The flab and zits? Gone. Before long, Jenna
figures out that Casey didn’t survive the accident at all. He’s an “A-word.” (She can’t bring herself
to utter the truth.) Soon they discover that Jenna isn’t just dying: she’s being poisoned. And
Casey has been sent back to help solve the mystery that not only holds the key to her survival,
but also to their mother’s mysterious depression and father’s disappearance .
YA MYS PRI
Price, Charlie Dead Connection
Murray speaks to the dead—and they speak to him. When Pearl finds him talking to gravestones
in her dad's cemetery she thinks he's pretty weird. But then again, everyone finds Murray weird.
The son of the town hooker, he has grown accustomed to being an outsider and finds it difficult to
let Pearl in. When an investigation into a missing teen's disappearance leads the police to the
graveyard, it is Murray and Pearl who help bring it to closure. Written in alternating chapters with
different viewpoints, in this book we meet a cop gone bad, a schizophrenic boy who hears voices,
the caretaker at the cemetery, a cop determined to find the missing girl, and Murray and Pearl
themselves. A page-turning mystery with plenty of likely characters to point to as the killer.
YA MYS PRI
Price, Charlie
The Interrogation of Gabriel James
Eyewitness to two killings, fourteen-year-old Gabriel James relates the shocking story behind
the murders in a police interrogation interspersed with flashbacks. Step by step, this Montana
teenager traces his discovery of a link between a troubled classmate's disturbing home life
and an outbreak of local crime. In the process, however, Gabriel becomes increasingly confused
about his own culpability for the explosive events that have unfolded.
YA MYS PUL
Pullman, Phillip
The Ruby in the Smoke
Orphaned, sixteen-year-old Sally must outmaneuver a host of villainous nineteenth-century
figures to claim both her inheritance and her independence.
YA MYS PUL
Pullman, Phillip
The Shadow in the North
The year is 1878, and Sally Lockhart has started her own financial consulting business. When a
client loses a fortune in the unexpected collapse of a British shipping firm, Sally is determined to
find out why. But as she comes closer to learning the identity of the firm's elusive owner, she
discovers that her questions are far from simple —and that the answers could cost her her life.
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Pullman, Phillip
Tiger in the Well
In London in 1881, twenty-four-year-old Sally finds her young daughter and her possessions
assailed by an unknown enemy, while a shadowy figure known as the Tzaddik involves her in his
plot to defraud and exploit the hordes of Jewish immigrants pouring into the country.
YA MYS REE
Reeves, Amy Carol
Ripper
“I felt hot breath on my neck, and, horrified, I knew that he stood behind me . . .”
It’s 1888, and after her mother’s sudden death, Abbie is sent to live with her grandmother in a
posh London neighborhood. When she begins volunteering at Whitechapel Hospital, Abbie finds
she has a passion for helping the abused and sickly women there. But within days, patients
begin turning up murdered at the hands of Jack the Ripper. As more women are murdered, Abbie
realizes that she and the Ripper share a strange connection: she has visions showing the Ripper
luring his future victims to their deaths—moments before he turns his knife upon them. Her
desperation to stop the massacres leads Abbie on a perilous hunt for the killer. And her search
leads to a mysterious brotherhood whose link to the Ripper threatens not just London but all of
mankind.
YA MYS REI
Reiss, Kathryn
Blackthorn Winter
The last place fifteen-year-old Juliana wants to be is halfway around the world in Blackthorn,
England, an idyllic seaside artists' colony her mother has dragged her off to while her parents
weather a trial separation. Juliana misses her father terribly and doesn't understand why her
mother needs to travel so far to resurrect her artistic self, which she claims to have lost in the
marriage. Soon after they arrive in the tiny village of Blackthorn, the artists' colony is set on its
heels by the murder of one of its own. Juliana feels compelled to solve the crime, but she is
shocked and frightened when it seems that clues in the matter are hitting a little too close to
home. Can she figure out who the murderer is before anyone else--herself included--gets hurt?
YA MYS REI
Reiss, Kathryn
Dreadful Sorry
Seventeen-year-old Molly's recurrent nightmares become waking visions after she nearly drowns
at a party. Soon she's witnessing events through the eyes of a girl who lived in her father's house
nearly a century before.
YA MYS ROB Roberts, Willo Davis
Rebel
Her name was Amanda Jane Keeling, but from the time she was two, everyone called her Rebel.
Rebel's first word was "No!" And it was downhill from there. As a toddler she resisted strained
spinach and potty training. At five she refused to go to kindergarten. Now, at fourteen, she has
toned down her rebellious streak somewhat, but whenever faced with a challenge, she still feels
the need to confront it head on, despite the opinions or advice of others. When Rebel and her
friend Moses — the only boy she's ever met who can match her in both wit and height — witness
some strange goings-on, instead of going straight to the police, they decide to investigate the
matters themselves. A bizarre robbery, an open door in the middle of the night, muddy
footprints...all these clues lead Rebel and Moses to more questions than answers. But still they
won't go for help. Little do they know the danger that waits them....
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Roecker, Lisa & Laura
The Liar Society
Kate Lowry's best friend Grace died a year ago. So when she gets an email from her, Kate's
more than a little confused.
To: KateLowry@pemberlybrown.edu From: GraceLee@pemberlybrown.edu Subject: (no subject)
Kate,
I'm here... sort of.
Find Cameron. He knows.
I shouldn't be writing.
Don't tell. They'll hurt you.
Now Kate has no choice but to prove once and for all that Grace's death was more than just a
tragic accident. She teams up with a couple of knights-in-(not-so)-shining armor-the dangerously
hot bad boy, Liam, and her lovestruck neighbor, Seth. But at their elite private school, there are
secrets so big people will do anything to protect them-even if it means getting rid of anyone trying
to solve a murder...
YA MYS ROS
Rose, Malcolm
Framed (Traces bk. 1)
The first in the "Traces" series, this book begins at the boarding school where Luke Harding is
about to qualify as a Forensic Investigator (FI). At sixteen, Luke is competent, amusing, and not
averse to breaking the rules to get to the answers. He is the youngest FI to ever graduate in the
program and this case is vitally important to his future. His robot aide MALC adds an interesting
flavor to the novel, as his no-nonsense attitude provides a perfect complement to Luke's
irreverence. In addition, MALC's ability to do forensic analysis at the crime scene adds an
intriguing knowledge of forensic clues, such as particle type, fingerprint and DNA analysis, and
autopsy reporting, to the text. Luke's girlfriend, Jade, also adds an interesting twist to the plot, as
she is a musician and under the rules of their society, the two of them cannot be Paired for life if
from different career paths.
YA MYS ROS
Rose, Malcolm
Lost Bullet (Traces bk 2)
Recently qualified as a forensic investigator, Luke Harding is assigned to the slums of London,
where he and Malc investigate a doctor's murder. They find a bullet wound to her head, but rain
has washed away the bullet—and all other clues. As more innocent doctors die, Luke's sleuthing
leads him to a mysterious cult called The Visionaries. With no time to lose, Luke must infiltrate the
sect and find the culprit before the bizarre shooting spree becomes an all-out massacre.
YA MYS ROS
Rosoff, Meg
Picture Me Gone
Mila has an exceptional talent for reading a room—sensing hidden facts and unspoken emotions
from clues that others overlook. So when her father’s best friend, Matthew, goes missing from his
upstate New York home, Mila and her beloved father travel from London to find him. She collects
information about Matthew from his belongings, from his wife and baby, from the dog he left
behind and from the ghosts of his past—slowly piecing together the story everyone else has
missed. But just when she’s closest to solving the mystery, a shocking betrayal calls into question
her trust in the one person she thought she could read best.
YA MYS SCH Schrefer, Eliot The Deadly Sister
Abby Goodwin is sure her sister Maya isn't a murderer. But her parents don't agree. Her friends
don't agree. And the cops definitely don't agree. Maya is a drop-out, a stoner, a girl who's
obsessed with her tutor, Jefferson Andrews...until he ends up dead. Maya runs away, and leaves
Abby following the trail of clues. Each piece of evidence points to Maya, but it also appears that
Jefferson had secrets of his own. And enemies. Like his brother, who Abby becomes involved
with...until he falls under suspicion. Is Abby getting closer to finding the true murderer? Or is
someone leading her down a twisted false path?
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Sepetys, Ruta
Out of the Easy
It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old
Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a
brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan
get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangled in an investigation that will
challenge her allegiance to her mother, her conscience, and Willie Woodley, the brusque madam
on Conti Street. Josie is caught between the dream of an elite college and a clandestine
underworld. New Orleans lures her in her quest for truth, dangling temptation at every turn, and
escalating to the ultimate test. With characters as captivating as those in her internationally
bestselling novel Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys skillfully creates a rich story of secrets,
lies, and the haunting reminder that decisions can shape our destiny.
YA MYS SHE
Daughter
v 1)
Sheperd, Megan
Madman’s Daughter (Madman’s
Dr. Moreau's daughter, Juliet, travels to her estranged father's island, only to encounter murder,
medical horrors, and a love triangle.
YA MYS SHE
v 2)
Sheperd, Megan
Her Dark Curiosity (Madman's Daughter
Months have passed since Juliet Moreau returned to civilization after escaping her father's
island—and the secrets she left behind. Now back in London, she is rebuilding the life she once
knew and trying to forget Dr. Moreau's horrific legacy—though someone, or something, hasn't
forgotten her. As people close to Juliet fall victim one by one to a murderer who leaves a
macabre calling card of three clawlike slashes, Juliet fears one of her father's creations may have
also made it off the island. She is determined to find the killer before Scotland Yard does, though
it means awakening sides of herself she had thought long banished, and facing loves from her
past she never expected to see again. As Juliet strives to stop a killer while searching for a
serum to cure her own worsening illness, she finds herself once more in the midst of a world of
scandal and danger. Her heart torn in two, past bubbling to the surface, life threatened by an
obsessive killer—Juliet will be lucky to escape alive.
YA MYS SHE
Shepard, Sara
The Lying Game (Lying Game v1)
I had a life anyone would kill for. Then someone did.
The worst part of being dead is that there’s nothing left to live for. No more kisses. No more
secrets. No more gossip. It’s enough to kill a girl all over again. But I’m about to get something no
one else does—an encore performance, thanks to Emma, the long-lost twin sister I never even
got to meet. Now Emma’s desperate to know what happened to me. And the only way to figure it
out is to be me—to slip into my old life and piece it all together. But can she laugh at inside jokes
with my best friends? Convince my boyfriend she’s the girl he fell in love with? Pretend to be a
happy, carefree daughter when she hugs my parents good night? And can she keep up the
charade, even after she realizes my murderer is watching her every move?
YA MYS SHE Shepard, Sara
Never Have I Ever (Lying Game series v 2)
My perfect life was a lie. Now I’d do anything to uncover the truth. Not long ago, I had everything
a girl could wish for: amazing friends, an adorable boyfriend, a loving family. But none of them
know that I’m gone—that I’m dead. To solve my murder, my long-lost twin sister, Emma, has
taken my place. She sleeps in my room, wears my clothes, and calls my parents Mom and Dad.
And my killer is watching her every move. I remember little from my life, just flashes and flickers,
so all I can do is follow along as Emma tries to solve the mystery of my disappearance. But the
deeper she digs, the more suspects she uncovers. It turns out my friends and I played a lot of
games—games that ruined people’s lives. Anyone could want revenge . . . anyone could want
me—and now Emma—dead.
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YA MYS SHE
Shepard, Sara Two Truths and a Lie (Lying Game v 3)
My killer is out there. And my sister might be next. Two months before I died, my best friend’s
brother disappeared. I have no idea where Thayer went or why he left, but I know it’s my fault. I
did a lot of horrible things while I was alive, things that made people hate me, maybe even
enough to kill me. Desperate to solve my murder, my long-lost twin, Emma, is pretending to be
me and unraveling the many mysteries I left behind—my cryptic journal, my tangled love life, the
dangerous Lying Game pranks I played. She’s uncovered my friends’ darkest secrets, but she’s
never had the chance to dig into Thayer’s past—until now. Thayer’s back and Emma has to
move fast to figure out if he’s after revenge . . . or if he’s already gotten it.
YA MYS SHE
Shepard, Sara
Hide & Seek (Lying Game v 4)
My friends and I used to play lying games. Now my twin sister is living one. When I was alive,
my family seemed picture-perfect. My adoptive parents adored me, and my little sister, Laurel,
copied my every move. But now that my long-lost twin, Emma, has taken my place to solve my
murder, we’re both learning just how flawed my family really is. Laurel is shooting Emma nasty
looks and sneaking around with my ex-boyfriend. And it turns out my parents are keeping a huge
secret—could it be the reason I’m dead? How far would they go to keep the truth buried? No one
can harm me now, but Emma is still fair game. And if she’s not careful, she’ll end up buried, too. .
YA MYS SHE
Game v 5)
Shepard, Sara Seven Minutes in Heaven (The Lying
My sister wants the truth. But sometimes the truth hurts. For months, my long-lost twin, Emma,
has been living my life and trying to solve my murder. She's unearthed dark secrets about my
friends, my family, and my tangled past. But when it comes to finding my killer, she keeps running
into dead ends. Until my body shows up in Sabino Canyon. But as questions and accusations
start flying, it's harder than ever for Emma to keep playing me. The truth is bound to come out
eventually. And when it does, Emma will be suspect number one in my murder investigation. If
she can't find my killer before time runs out, she'll end up behind bars . . . or worse.
YA MYS SHE
Game v 6)
Shepard, Sara
Cross My Heart, Hope to Die (Lying
When I died two months ago, my killer told my twin sister to become me—or else. Now Emma
has it down to a T. She tosses her hair with the signature Sutton Mercer flip and can lead a Lying
Game prank with the best of them. She’s even repairing my relationship with my adoptive family.
The only thing she hasn’t done is solve my murder. Then our birth mother, the woman who
abandoned us, showed up in Tucson. Emma hasn’t seen Becky in twelve years, but Becky
recognizes Emma immediately—as Emma. Is it a mother’s intuition . . . or does Becky know I’m
already gone?
YA MYS SHO Shoemaker, Tim
Code of Silence
Telling the Truth Could Get Them Killed. Remaining Silent Could Be Worse. When Cooper, Hiro,
and Gordy witness a robbery that leaves a man in a coma, they find themselves tangled in a web
of mystery and deceit that threatens their lives. After being seen by the criminals—who may also
be cops—Cooper makes everyone promise never to reveal what they have seen. Telling the truth
could kill them. But remaining silent means an innocent man takes the fall and a friend never
receives justice. Is there ever a time to lie? And what happens when the truth is dangerous? The
three friends, trapped in a code of silence, must face the consequences of choosing right or
wrong when both options have their price.
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YA MYS SIL
Silvey, Craig
Jasper Jones
Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on
his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he
has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress, Charlie follows him
into the night. Jasper takes him to his secret glade, where Charlie witnesses Jasper's horrible
discovery. With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing
in on itself in fear and suspicion. He locks horns with his tempestuous mother, falls nervously in
love, and battles to keep a lid on his zealous best friend. In the simmering summer where
everything changes, Charlie learns why the truth of things is so hard to know, and even harder to
hold in his heart.
YA MYS SIN
Singleton, Linda Joy
Buried (Goth Girl v 1)
Thorn Matthews is a Finder, a person with the psychic ability to find things just by touching an
object. The visions she gets from objects—events and memories—are what guide her to the
things that need to be found. When Thorn locates a mysterious locket, it leads to a shocking and
grim discovery. Now she’s implicated in a crime and surrounded by people she’s just met at her
new school, any one of whom could be hiding a terrible secret. To clear her name, Thorn
reluctantly uses her music skills to enter a school talent competition, which she suspects is part of
the killer’s cover. Could one of her new friends be a murderer?
YA MYS SNI Sniegoski, Tom Sleeper Code (Sleeper Code v. 1)
Teenager Tom Lovett suffers from a rare form of narcolepsy that can knock him out for days at a
time. At least, this is what his parents and doctors have always told him. But Tom’s about to make
a shocking discovery: He’s actually a sleeper assassin. His narcoleptic "fits" are cover for his
horrific missions. In fact, his entire life has been a lie. The truth is, Tom shares a body with Tyler
Garrett, a separate personality who has committed coldblooded murder without a second thought.
Now, Tom is on a mission to take down the evil agency that created him. But can he also fight the
evil within himself?
YA MYS SNI
Sniegoski, Tom
Sleeper Agenda (Sleeper Code v. 2)
Teenager Tom Lovett suffers from a rare form of narcolepsy that can knock him out for days at a
time. At least, this is what his parents and doctors have always told him. But Tom’s about to make
a shocking discovery: He’s actually a sleeper assassin. His narcoleptic "fits" are cover for his
horrific missions. In fact, his entire life has been a lie. The truth is, Tom shares a body with Tyler
Garrett, a separate personality who has committed cold-blooded murder without a second
thought. Now, Tom is on a mission to take down the evil agency that created him. But can he also
fight the evil within himself?
YA MYS SOR
Sorrells, Walter
Fake I.D.
Sixteen-year-old Chastity and her mother have been on the run since Chass was a baby,
assuming new identities in every town. She doesn't know why they are running, who her father is,
or even her real name. On the night of Chass's sixteenth birthday, her mother disappears. Police
find her abandoned car, blood matching her DNA, and a purse containing six ID cards. Chass
doesn't believe her mother is dead, only that she had to run again. If Chastity doesn't find her
mother in six days, she'll be put into foster care—that is, if she isn't murdered first.
YA MYS SOR
Sorrells, Walter
Club Dread
Club Dread continues the story of Chastity, who has been on the run with her mother ever since
she can remember. They have just settled in San Francisco, where Chass is starting her own
band. But then Chass witnesses the murder of pop star Josh Emmit and gets involved in the
dangerous underground club scene. If Chass can solve the murder, then she and her mom can
stay in San Francisco. But if her cover is blown, the man who has been hunting them will find
them again. And this time, they may not be lucky enough to survive.
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YA MYS SOR
Sorrells, Walter
First Shot
David Crandall's mother was murdered. With few clues, no witnesses, and no motive, the police
were never able to solve the crime. Now, two years after the murder, David's starting his senior
year and struggling to get on with his life. But still, the doubt remains: could someone in his small
town know something about his mother's death? And when David uncovers troubling clues that
lead to a deep family secret, he starts to wonder if his mother's death is tied to the scandal. Then
one night, David spies his father burying an old rifle in a deserted lot near his house, and is left
with one thought—is his own father the killer?
Tween & YA MYS SPR
Marquess
Springer, Nancy The Case of the Missing
When Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her
mother has disappeared—on her 14th birthday nonetheless—she knows she alone can find her.
Disguising herself as a grieving widow, Enola sets out to the heart of London to uncover her
mother’s whereabouts—but not even the last name Holmes can prepare her for what awaits.
Suddenly involved in the kidnapping of the young Marquess of Basilwether, Enola must escape
murderous villains, free the spoiled Marquess, and perhaps hardest of all, elude her shrewd older
brother—all while collecting clues to her mother’s disappearance!
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Crinoline
Springer, Nancy
The Case of the Cryptic
For Enola, who has been longing for her absent mother, it’s difficult to make personal
connections. Other than her occasional run-ins with her brother Sherlock, Enola doesn’t have
many people in her life, except her landlady, Mrs. Tupper. While she’s nearly deaf and can’t cook
to save her life, Mrs. Tupper is endearing—really the closest thing Enola has to family these days.
So imagine her horror when Enola comes home to find Mrs. Tupper kidnapped! Who would take
her, and why? And what does Florence Nightingale have to do with it? There must be more to the
kind, homely Mrs. Tupper than meets the eye. Enola will put absolutely everything at risk to find
Mrs. Tupper. And whoever took her had better watch out—because this time, it’s personal.
Tween & YA MYS SPR Springer, Nancy
Case of the Bizarre Bouquets
Everyone knows Dr. Watson is Sherlock Holmes' right-hand man—so when he goes missing, it's
a shock. Even Sherlock hasn't the slightest clue as to where he could be. Enola is intrigued but
wary; she's still hiding from her older brothers, and getting involved could prove to be disastrous.
But Enola can't help but investigate, especially when she learns that a bizarre bouquet—with
flowers all symbolizing death—has been delivered to the Watson residence. Enola knows she
must act quickly, but can she find Dr. Watson in time?
Tween & YA MYS SPR Springer, Nancy
The Case of the Peculiar Fan
When Enola Holmes encounters her friend Lady Cecily hiding behind a pink fan, she finds it
peculiar. In fact, she realizes Cecily is in danger! But what, exactly, is the matter? And how can
Enola help? After examining the clues, Enola discovers Lady Cecily is being held hostage in an
abysmal orphanage, and if she isn't rescued, she'll be forced into a miserable marriage!
This complicated case has Sherlock and Enola (literally) running into each other all over London.
If Enola joins forces with the brother she has fought desperately to elude, she risks her
freedom...yet, if she doesn't, Lady Cecily could be doomed!
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Springer, Nancy
The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye
As Enola searches for the missing Lady Blanchefleur del Campo, she discovers that her brother
Sherlock is just as diligently searching for Enola herself—and this time he really needs to catch
her! He is in possession of a most peculiar package, a message from their long-lost mother that
only Enola can decipher. Sherlock, along with their brother Mycroft, must follow Enola into the
reeking tunnels of London's dark underbelly as they solve a triple mystery: What has happened to
their mother? And to Lady Blanchefleur? And what does either have to do with Mycroft, who holds
Enola's future in his ever so- proper hands?
YA MYS SPR
Springer, Nancy
Blood Trail
Jeremy and Aaron, 17, have been inseparable since second grade. Now Aaron has been brutally
murdered, his body mutilated with 73 knife wounds. In small-town Pinto River, rumors abound
and spread like wildfire. First there is total disbelief that this could happen. Then the community is
sure that a psychotic serial killer is on the loose. But Jeremy has kept one small fact from the
police: Aaron told him that he was afraid of his twin brother, Nathan.
YA MYS STO
Stolarz, Laurie Faria
Deadly Little Secret
Until three months ago, everything in sixteen-year-old Camelia's life had been fairly ordinary:
decent grades, an okay relationship with her parents, and a pretty cool part-time job at the art
studio downtown. But when a mysterious boy named Ben starts junior year at her high school,
Camelia's life becomes anything but ordinary. Rumored to be somehow responsible for his exgirlfriend's accidental death, Ben is immediately ostracized by everyone on campus. Except for
Camelia. She's reluctant to believe he's trouble, even when her friends try to convince her
otherwise. Instead, she's inexplicably drawn to Ben.and to his touch. But soon, Camelia is
receiving eerie phone calls and strange packages with threatening notes. Ben insists she is in
danger, and that he can help-but can he be trusted? She knows he's hiding something... but he's
not the only one with a secret.
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Strasser, Todd Kill You Last
"They always agreed to meet me. Of course, I told them I was bringing them money. I said it was
cash and I didn't want to send it through the mail. They might have hesitated at first about
meeting me, but I never had to work very hard to convince them. Why?. . . It was the only way
they could prolong their pathetic dreams of someday becoming rich, famous models." Shelby's
life in Soundview has always been comfortable. Her dad provides a luxurious lifestyle for his
family through his photography business. He makes a ton of money taking headshots of pretty
young teens who are desperate to become models. Shelby has always enjoyed driving around
town in a red sports car, shopping with her best friend at her side. And her Mom is laid back, so
it's all good. However, as reports of girls disappearing from nearby towns start to appear on the
news, Shelby's seemingly perfect life begins to fall apart. The three missing girls have one thing
in common--they were all clients of her dad's photography business. Secrets begin to surface as
the investigation continues. Shelby receives threatening e-mails, battles the nosy media, and tries
to keep her family together. Now that her dad is implicated in the disappearances, can Shelby
figure out a way to clear his name? Or is dad not as innocent as he seems?
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Strasser, Todd
Wish You Were Dead
The day after anonymous blogger Str-S-d wishes the popular girl would die, Lucy vanishes. The
students of Soundview High are scared and worried. Especially frightened and wracked with guilt
is Madison Archer, Lucy’s friend and the last person to see her the night she disappeared.
As days pass with no sign of the missing girl, even the attention of Tyler, an attractive new
student, is not enough to distract Madison from her growing sense of foreboding. When two more
popular students disappear after their names are mentioned on Str-S-d’s blog, the residents of
Soundview panic. Meanwhile, Madison receives anonymous notes warning that she could be
next. Desperate to solve the mystery before anyone else disappears, Madison turns to Tyler, but
can she trust him when it becomes clear that he knows more than he’s sharing? The clock is
ticking. Madison must uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearances . . . before her
name appears in Str-S-d’s blog.
YA MYS STR
Strasser, Todd
Blood on my Hands
When Callie Carson discovers ice queen Katherine Remington-Day sprawled on the ground one
night, she bends down to help her. It’s only natural—the party’s been a bit wild, after all. And it’s
only natural for her to pull out the fake knife she discovers, irritated at one more example of
Katherine’s callous disregard of other people’s feelings. But the knife is real . . . and
bloody. And then Callie hears the click of one cell phone, followed by another, and another. In
minutes, images of her holding the bloody knife have gone viral. Now wanted for murder, Callie
is on the run from the police. All the evidence points to her guilt, but she’s determined to prove
her innocence, which would mean . . . the real killer is still out there. Waiting.
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Riordan, Rick
Maze of Bones (39 Clues bk 1)
Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her will, leaving her descendants an impossible
decision: "You have a choice - one million dollars or a clue." Grace is the last matriarch of the
Cahills, the world's most powerful family. Everyone from Napoleon to Houdini is related to the
Cahills, yet the source of the family power is lost. 39 Clues hidden around the world will reveal the
family's secret, but no one has been able to assemble them. Now the clues race is on, and young
Amy and Dan must decide what's important: hunting clues or uncovering what REALLY
happened to their parents.
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bk 2)
Korman, Gordon
One False Note (39 Clues
THIS JUST IN! Amy and Dan Cahill were spotted on a train, hot on the trail of one of 39 Clues
hidden around the world. BUT WAIT! Police report a break-in at an elite hotel, and the suspects
ALSO sound suspiciously like Amy and Dan. UPDATE! Amy and Dan have been seen in a car . .
. no, in a speedboat chase . . . and HOLD EVERYTHING! They're being chased by an angry
mob?!? When there's a Clue on the line, anything can happen.
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3)
Lerangis, Peter
Sword Thief (39 Clues series v
Amy and Dan Cahill have been on a crazy trip throughout the world in the race to discover the 39
clues before their numerous relatives do. In this third book in "The 39 Clues" series the two
siblings race to Japan and find themselves making some unthinkable alliances. They discover
that the 39 clues, when found in their entirety, will reveal the seemingly impossible process of
alchemy. Along the way they are joined by their capable, slightly insane, and cool au pair, Nellie
Gomez; Dan's Mau, Saladin; the dignified, Japanese Allistair Oh; and the snobbish sibling duo,
Ian and Natalie Kabra. The adventure speeds along as the two narrowly escape death in
subways; and dodge the Japanese mafia yakuza, while weighing loyalties and deciphering old
documents.
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Watson, Jude
Beyond the Grave (39 Clues v 4)
A Clue found in Japan has Amy and Dan jetting off to Egypt to find out just what's behind the
fierce rivalry between the Tomas and Ekaterina branches of the Cahill family. Was a Clue stolen
from the Tomas branch? Where is it now? And most important, can Amy and Dan get their hands
on it before their rivals do? It's a wild race that will take Amy and Dan deep down into the tombs
of Egypt . . . and right into the hands of the enemy.
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Carman, Patrick
Black Circle (39 Clues v 5)
WHERE ARE AMY AND DAN CAHILL? The two kids were last seen in Egypt, hunting for one of
the 39 Clues that could make them the most powerful people on earth. But no one has seen the
siblings since. Has the ruthless Irina Spasky finally tracked them down? Or worse . . . the
Madrigals? No one knows where the Clue hunt leads next. But one thing is certain – Book 5 is
gearing up to be Dan and Amy’s most dangerous adventure yet.
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Lerangis, Peter
Viper’s Nest (39 Clues v 6)
It's no longer a game. The body count is rising. Shaken by recent events, Amy and Dan flee to a
distant land and trace the footsteps of their most formidable ancestor yet: a military leader of
mythic proportions. Yet just as the siblings begin to master the art of ancient warfare, they
confront a dangerous enemy that can't be felled with a sword: the truth. With the stakes higher
than ever, Amy and Dan uncover something so devastating it changes everything – the secret of
their family branch.
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Watson, Jude
In Too Deep (39 Clues v. 7)
A hint from their parents’ past puts Amy and Dan on the trail of secrets their grandmother Grace
would NEVER have wanted them to know. Awful memories begin to crowd in on Amy, just as her
enemies circle closer. How far would she go to protect Dan? How much of a Cahill is she
prepared to be? Perhaps Grace was right – some secrets are better left buried.
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v 8)
Korman, Gordon
The Emperor’s Code (39 Clues
As the race to find the 39 Clues builds to its explosive finish, Amy and Dan must explore the
ancient culture of (SORRY - TOO TOP SECRET TO REVEAL) and steal a Clue guarded by
thousands of the world's best-trained soldiers. It's the most dangerous Clue search yet . . . and it
may mean the end for Amy and Dan.
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Park, Linda Sue
Storm Warning (39 Clues v 9)
The shadow of a man in black has followed fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother
Dan on their worldwide search for 39 Clues that lead to a great power. And now, ...
Tween & YA MYS THI Haddix, Margaret Peterson Into the Gauntlet (39
Clues v 10)
Throughout the hunt for the 39 Clues, Amy and Dan Cahill have uncovered history's greatest
mysteries and their family's deadliest secrets. But are they ready to face the truth about the
Cahills and the key to their unmatched power? After a whirlwind race that's taken them across
five continents, Amy and Dan face the most difficult challenge yet- a task no Cahill dared to
imagine. When faced with a choice that could change the future of the world, can two kids
succeed where 500 years worth of famous ancestors failed?
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Riordan, Rick
Vespers Rising (39 Clues v 11)
The Cahills aren't the only family searching for the Clues. . . .The Cahills thought they were the
most powerful family the world had ever known. They thought they were the only ones who knew
about Gideon Cahill and his Clues. The Cahills were wrong. Powerful enemies —the Vespers—
have been waiting in the shadows. Now it’s their time to rise and the world will never be the
same. In Vespers Rising, a brand new 39 Clues novel, bestselling authors Rick Riordan, Peter
Lerangis, Gordon Korman and Jude Watson take on the hidden history of the Cahills and the
Vespers, and the last, terrible legacy Grace Cahill leaves for Amy and Dan.
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Secrets
Thirty-nine Clues: The Black book of Buried
The ultimate guide to the New York Times bestselling series, with an introduction by Rick
Riordan! The book you see here is the ultimate source of all Cahill knowledge. It contains every
buried secret, Cahill weapon or gadget, all the strongholds, and each agent and founder. In it, you
will discover the true story of Madeleine Cahill as well as what happened after Isabel Kabra was
charged with murder. Nothing has been held back. Seven Cahill agents came together to bring
you this book, betraying their branches and their most deeply held beliefs. They did it because
there is an enemy approaching far more powerful than the Cahills. Keep this black book close at
all times, and be ready.
Tween & YA MYS THI Korman, Gordon
Cahills vs Vespers v 1)
The Medusa Plot (39 Clues
Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, thought they belonged to the world's most
powerful family. They thought the hunt for 39 Clues leading to the source of that power was over.
They even thought they'd won. But Amy and Dan were wrong.
One by one, distress calls start coming in from around the globe. Cahills are being kidnapped by
a shadowy group known only as the Vespers. Now Amy and Dan have only days to fulfill a
bizarre ransom request or their captured friends will start dying. Amy and Dan don't know what
the Vespers want or how to stop them. Only one thing is clear. The Vespers are playing to win,
and if they get their hands on the Clues . . . the world will be their next hostage.
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vs Vespers v 2)
Watson, Jude
A King’s Ransom (39 Clues: Cahills
Amy and Dan are in a race for their lives . . . and the enemy may be even closer than they think.
When seven members of their family were kidnapped by a sinister organization known as the
Vespers, thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, vowed they'd stop at nothing to
bring the hostages home. But then the ransom comes in and the Vespers demand the
impossible. Amy and Dan have just days to track down and steal an ancient map. The only
catch? No one has seen the map for half a century. Now Amy and Dan are on a desperate
search that will lead them to the Nazis, spies, a mad king and some of history's dirtiest secrets.
It's the race of their lives . . . and one misstep will mean certain death for the hostages.
YA MYS THI Lerangis, Peter
Vespers v 3)
Dead of Night (39 Clues: Cahills vs
The Vespers have crossed a line. Amy and Dan were devastated when the Vespers kidnapped
seven Cahills around the world, holding them hostage until Amy and Dan delivered an impossible
ransom. But at least the hostages were Cahills - members of the world's most powerful family,
trained to face all odds. Now the Vespers have gone too far. They've kidnapped Atticus, an
innocent 11 year old boy and Dan's only friend. Now Dan and Amy are in the struggle of their
lives. Because if they can't outwit the Vespers, the unthinkable will happen . . . Atticus will die.
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YA MYS THI Smith, Roland Shatterproof (39 Clues Cahills vs Vespers v 4)
After pulling some spectacular heists, Amy and Dan have become two of Interpol's most wanted
criminals. So when Vesper One orders them to steal the world's largest diamond, they know
they're facing life in prison . . . or worse. But with the Cahill hostages still in peril, Amy and Dan
have no choice but to launch a mission that leads them to an ancient city full of dangerous
secrets. With a Vesper mole sabotaging the Madrigals from inside, Amy and Dan have to fulfill
their enemy's request before it's too late. Vesper One has developed a taste for killing Cahills,
and Amy and Dan aren't going to wait to see who's next.
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Gentleman?
Updale, Eleanor
Montmorency: Thief, Liar,
When a petty thief falls through a glass roof while fleeing from the police, it should have been the
death of him. Instead, it marks the beginning of a whole new life. Soon he has become the most
successful -- and elusive -- burglar in Victorian London, plotting daring raids and using London's
new sewer system to escape. He adopts a dual existence to fit his new lifestyle, taking on the
roles of a respectable, wealthy gentleman named Montmorency and his corrupt servant, Scarper.
YA MYS UPD
Updale, Eleanor
Montmorency on the Rocks
Five years after giving up his life of crime in the sewers, Montmorency is back in London. But his
evil alter ego, Scarper has returned too, pulling him back into a dark world of crime.
Montmorency's old friend and fellow government agent, Lord George Fox-Selwyn, fights to
rescue him from disaster and risks calling in Montmorency's prison doctor, Robert Farcett, to
help. However, when Montmorency turns up on a Scottish Island, he finds himself caught in
another web of mystery.
YA MYS UPD
Criminal/Spy
Updale, Eleanor
Montmorency & the Assassins: Master
As the nineteenth century draws to a close, war is in the air, and influenza is sweeping the globe.
After twenty years as a gentleman, Montmorency is glad to be free of Scarper, his wretched alterego. However, when Montmorency's young friend Frank finds himself caught in the middle of a
murderous political plot, Montmorency may have no choice but to call upon none other than
Scarper for help. Follow Montmorency, Fox-Selwyn, Dr. Farcett, and a whole new generation of
characters on their travels from London to Scotland, Italy and America.
YA MYS UPD
Updale, Eleanor
Montmorency’s Revenge
As Queen Victoria lays dying, Montmorency and his friends are already in mourningm and
determined to track down the killers who have destroyed their lives. It's become a personal
obsession, but Montmorency has public duties, too, and when the two collide, he must decide
which comes first. Can he stop Doctor Farcett's slide into insanity? And how can Montmorency
teach a new generation to forgive when the lust for revenge is eating away at his own soul? The
fourth Montmorency adventure plunges the former gentleman thief into the realms of art and
entertainment, as he races across the globe on a mission closer to his own heart than ever. And
his evil alter ego, Scarper lies in wait, too--only this time under everyone else's skin, in a world
where everyone's identity is in question.
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Wahl, Mats
The Invisible
One ordinary Monday morning in May, Hilmer Eriksson walks into his high school classroom and
discovers that he has become invisible. No one can see him, no one can hear him. In fact, a
police detective named Harald Fors arrives at school that very morning to investigate Hilmer’s
disappearance. The boy has no idea what’s going on, but he’s frightened, and he’s starting to
forget things – including what happened to him a few nights earlier. Detective Fors suspects foul
play, and those suspicions lead him – trailed by the ghostlike presence of Hilmer – to a group of
skinheads. These unpopular, disaffected kids are very vocal about their Nazi sympathies. But
how does Hilmer’s life intersect with theirs? As Fors scours the village and interviews area
residents for clues, he begins to piece together the puzzle of Hilmer’s disappearance. Meanwhile
Hilmer waits, silently, to discover what has happened to him.
YA MYS WAS
Wasserman, Robin Book of Blood and Shadow
It was like a nightmare, but there was no waking up. When the night began, Nora had two best
friends and an embarrassingly storybook one true love. When it ended, she had nothing but
blood on her hands and an echoing scream that stopped only when the tranquilizers pierced her
veins and left her in the merciful dark. But the next morning, it was all still true: Chris was dead.
His girlfriend Adriane, Nora's best friend, was catatonic. And Max, Nora's sweet, smart, softspoken Prince Charming, was gone. He was also—according to the police, according to her
parents, according to everyone—a murderer. Desperate to prove his innocence, Nora follows the
trail of blood, no matter where it leads. It ultimately brings her to the ancient streets of Prague,
where she is drawn into a dark web of secret societies and shadowy conspirators, all driven by a
mad desire to possess something that might not even exist. For buried in a centuries-old
manuscript is the secret to ultimate knowledge and communion with the divine; it is said that he
who controls the Lumen Dei controls the world. Unbeknownst to her, Nora now holds the crucial
key to unlocking its secrets. Her night of blood is just one piece in a puzzle that spans continents
and centuries. Solving it may be the only way she can save her own life.
YA MYS WAS Wasserman, Robin The Waking Dark
They called it the killing day. Twelve people dead, all in the space of a few hours. Five murderers:
neighbors, relatives, friends. All of them so normal. All of them seemingly harmless. All of them
now dead by their own hand . . . except one. And that one has no answers to offer the shattered
town. She doesn't even know why she killed—or whether she'll do it again. Something is waking
in the sleepy town of Oleander's, Kansas—something dark and hungry that lives in the flat earth
and the open sky, in the vengeful hearts of upstanding citizens. As the town begins its descent
into blood and madness, five survivors of the killing day are the only ones who can stop Oleander
from destroying itself. Jule, the outsider at war with the world; West, the golden boy at war with
himself; Daniel, desperate for a different life; Cass, who's not sure she deserves a life at all; and
Ellie, who believes in sacrifice, fate, and in evil. Ellie, who always goes too far. They have nothing
in common. They have nothing left to lose. And they have no way out. Which means they have no
choice but to stand and fight, to face the darkness in their town—and in themselves.
YA MYS WEI
Weingarten, Lynn
Wherever Nina Lies
Nina was beautiful, wild, and adored by her younger sister, Ellie. But one day, Nina disappeared.
2 years later, everyone has given up hope that Nina will return, but Ellie knows her sister is out
there. If only Ellie had a clue where to look.Then she gets one, in the form of a mysterious
drawing. Determined to find Nina, Ellie takes off on a crazy, sexy cross-country road trip with the
only person who believes she's got a chance - her hot, adventurous new crush. Along the way,
Ellie finds a few things she wasn't planning on. Like love. Lies. And the most shocking thing of all:
the truth.
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John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s spent his life doing his best not to live
up to his potential. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. So
for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules he’s written for
himself, practicing normal life as if it were a private religion that could save him from damnation.
Dead bodies are normal to John. He likes them, actually. They don’t demand or expect the
empathy he’s unable to offer. Perhaps that’s what gives him the objectivity to recognize that
there’s something different about the body the police have just found behind the Wash-n-Dry
Laundromat—-and to appreciate what that difference means. Now, for the first time, John has to
confront a danger outside himself, a threat he can’t control, a menace to everything and everyone
he would love, if only he could.
YA MYS WEL
Wells, Dan
Mr. Monster (John Cleaver series v 2)
I killed a demon. I don’t know if it was really, technically a demon, but I do know that he was some
kind of monster, with fangs and claws and the whole bit, and he killed a lot of people. So I killed
him. I think it was the right thing to do. At least the killing stopped.
Well, it stopped for a while.
In I Am Not a Serial Killer, John Wayne Cleaver saved his town from a murderer even more
appalling than the serial killers he obsessively studies. But it turns out even demons have
friends, and the disappearance of one has brought another to Clayton County. Soon there are
new victims for John to work on at the mortuary and a new mystery to solve. But John has tasted
death, and the dark nature he used as a weapon—-the terrifying persona he calls “Mr. Monster”—
-might now be using him. No one in Clayton is safe unless John can vanquish two nightmarish
adversaries: the unknown demon he must hunt and the inner demon he can never escape.
YA MYS WEL
Wells, Dan
I Don’t Want to Kill You (John Cleaver v 3)
John Wayne Cleaver has called a demon---literally called it on the phone---and challenged it to a
fight. He’s faced two monsters already, barely escaping with his life, and now he’s done running;
he’s taking the fight to them. As he wades through the town’s darkest secrets, searching for any
sign of who the demon might be, one thing becomes all too clear: in a game of cat and mouse
with a supernatural killer, you are always the mouse.
YA MYS WER
Werlin, Nancy
Black Mirror
Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins
her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school.
YA MYS WER
Werlin, Nancy
The Killer’s Cousin
Recently acquitted of murder, 17-year-old David has moved to Massachusetts to complete his
senior year of high school. His aunt and uncle have offered him shelter - escape from the media's
questions and from the uncertain glances of his neighbors and ex-friends. His attic apartment
doesn't feel much like a shelter, though. He sees ghostly shadows at night, his aunt is strangely
cold, and his 11-year-old cousin, Lily, is downright hostile. As Lily's behavior becomes more and
more threatening, David can't help but wonder what ugly secrets lurk within the walls of her
home. However, there is one thing that David knows with certainty, the more he learns about his
cousin Lily, the harder it is to avoid thinking about his own past.
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Westerfeld, Scott
So Yesterday
Aptly-named Hunter spots street trends for "a certain shoe company named after a certain Greek
god." When he meets Jen, he notices her unique shoelaces, and realizes she is an Innovator, a
person who invents trends (he's a Trendsetter, someone who is "cool, so when they pick up an
innovation, it becomes cool"). Mandy, Hunter's boss, invites Hunter and Jen to do some "original
thinking," but when the two arrive at the location, they find only her cell phone-and "the coolest
shoes we'd ever seen." The pair begins their search for Mandy and the people behind the shoes,
before the "bad guys" get Hunter. They depend on other cool hunters, from tech-savvy Lexa to
high-society Hillary, to help decipher the clues, and they take risks themselves (going undercover
to a posh party, breaking into buildings).
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Wilson, F. Paul
Jack: Secret Histories
Ever come across a situation that simply wasn’t right—where someone was getting the dirty end
of the stick and you wished you could make things right but didn’t know how? Fourteen-year-old
Jack knows how. Or rather he’s learning how. He’s discovering that he has a knack for fixing
things. Not bikes or toys or appliances—situations….
It all starts when Jack and his best friends, Weezy and Eddie, discover a rotting corpse—the
victim of ritual murder—in the fabled New Jersey Pine Barrens. Beside the body is an ancient
artifact carved with strange designs. What is its secret? What is the secret of the corpse? What
other mysteries hide in the dark, timeless Pine Barrens? And who doesn’t want them revealed?
YA MYS WOL
Wolf, Jennifer Shaw
Dead Girls Don’t Lie
Rachel died at two a.m . . . Three hours after Skyler kissed me for the first time. Forty-five
minutes after she sent me her last text. Jaycee and Rachel were best friends. But that was
before. . .before that terrible night at the old house. Before Rachel shut Jaycee out. Before
Jaycee chose Skyler over Rachel. Then Rachel is found dead. The police blame a growing gang
problem in their small town, but Jaycee is sure it has to do with that night at the old house.
Rachel’s text is the first clue—starting Jaycee on a search that leads to a shocking secret.
Rachel’s death was no random crime, and Jaycee must figure out who to trust before she can
expose the truth.
YA MYS WOO
Woodson, Jacqueline
Hush
Toswiah Green struggles toward a new identity as Evie Thomas when her family joins the
Witness Protection Program and everything she has known before is lost to her.
YA SF WOO
Woon, Yvonne
Dead Beautiful
On the morning of her sixteenth birthday, Renée Winters was still an ordinary girl. She spent her
summers at the beach, had the perfect best friend, and had just started dating the cutest guy at
school. No one she'd ever known had died. But all that changes when she finds her parents dead
in the Redwood Forest, in what appears to be a strange double murder. After the funeral
Renée’s wealthy grandfather sends her to Gottfried Academy, a remote and mysterious boarding
school in Maine, where she finds herself studying subjects like Philosophy, Latin, and the “Crude
Sciences.” It’s there that she meets Dante Berlin, a handsome and elusive boy to whom she feels
inexplicably drawn. As they grow closer, unexplainable things begin to happen, but Renée can’t
stop herself from falling in love. It’s only when she discovers a dark tragedy in Gottfried’s past that
she begins to wonder if the Academy is everything it seems. Little does she know, Dante is the
one hiding a dangerous secret, one that has him fearing for her life.
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YA MYS WRI
Wright, Rachel
You’ve Got Blackmail
Lozzie Cracknell is a girl on the edge. Her parents have recently separated; she forgot to mail the
invitations to her mum's super-important client party; the school bully is out to get her following an
unfortunate e-mail incident involving Photoshop and a picture of a horse's behind; and now it
looks like Mum might be dating her English teacher, the utterly loathsome Mr. Hilary Barnett. Just
when she's got about as much stress as she can handle, Lozzie and her best mate Dex stumble
upon a tantalizing mystery—it seems Mr. Barnett is being blackmailed. But who on earth would
blackmail a bore like him, and why? As they delve deeper into the mystery, questions pile on top
of questions, and the one thing that does become clear is that danger can lurk in totally
unexpected places . . .
YA MYS WYN
Wynne-Jones, Tim
The Uninvited
Mimi Shapiro had a disturbing freshman year at NYU, thanks to a foolish affair with a professor
who still haunts her caller ID. So when her artist father, Marc, offers the use of his remote
Canadian cottage, she’s glad to hop in her Mini Cooper and drive up north. The house is fairy-tale
quaint, and the key is hidden right where her dad said it would be, so she’s shocked to find
someone already living there — Jay, a young musician, who is equally startled to meet Mimi and
immediately accuses her of leaving strange and threatening tokens inside: a dead bird, a
snakeskin, a cricket sound track embedded in his latest composition. But Mimi has just arrived, so
who is responsible? And more alarmingly, what does the intruder want?
YA MYS YOU
You Don’t Have a Clue: Latino Mysteries for Teens
The teens featured in these stories deal with situations typical to all young adults, including
attraction to the opposite sex—or to the same sex, in one story—and first sexual encounters,
problems with family and friends, academic and personal aspirations. But they also deal with
every kind of thrilling situation imaginable, from missing girls to kidnappings and dismembered
bodies. A young girl finds herself living with her "family," though she has no memory of them or
who they claim she is. A geek at a prestigious public high school finds himself working with his
very attractive arch-rival to solve the mystery of a severed, bloody arm that appears inexplicably
in his locker. And Mike's life sucks when his parents split up, but it gets worse when his best
friend is abducted by a thug shot by Mike's dad, a police officer. There's something for everyone
here, with aliens, ghosts and even an Aztec god making appearances in these stories. Set in
schools and communities from New York City to Venice Beach, California, the protagonists reflect
the breadth and diversity of the Latino authors included in this innovative collection.
YA MYS ZUS
Zusak, Markus
I Am the Messenger
Meet Ed Kennedy—underage cabdriver, pathetic cardplayer, and useless at romance. He lives in
a shack with his coffee-addicted dog, the Doorman, and he's hopelessly in love with his best
friend, Audrey. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence, until he inadvertently stops a
bank robbery. That's when the first Ace arrives. That's when Ed becomes the messenger. . . .
Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary), until only
one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission?
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