Peeled
Joan Bauer Hildy Biddle, a reporter for her high school newspaper, dreams of being a journalist. Not content to just cover school issues, Hildy is drawn to the town's big story - the haunted old Ludlow house. On the surface, Banesville seems like such a happy place, but lately, eerie happenings and ghostly sightings are making Hildy take a deeper look. Her efforts to find out who is really haunting Banesville aren't making her popular. But she refuses to give up, because, hopefully, the truth will set a few ghosts free. |
Half-Moon Investigations
Eoin Colfer Fletcher Moon has a nose for sniffing out mysteries, and after graduating at the top of his Internet class, he is officially certified as the youngest detective in the world. But when a classmate hires him to solve a crime, Fletcher finds himself framed! To clear his name, he will have to pair up with the unlikeliest of allies and go on the run from the authorities. Fletcher has twelve hours to find the guilty party - or he is the guilty party. |
The Christopher Killer
Alane Ferguson As the daughter of a coroner, 17-year-old Cameryn has always been fascinated by the science of forensics, so she’s thrilled to get some hands-on experience as her father’s assistant. But Cammie is in for more than she bargained for when the latest victim of a serial killer turns out to be someone she knows. And if dealing with that isn’t hard enough, Cammie soon realizes that if she’s not careful, she might wind up as the killer’s next target! (Sequel: The Angel of Death) |
Snatched
Pete Hautman Roni is a pushy reporter for the school paper; Brian is a science geek with a tendency to blow things up. Ordinarily, they would have nothing to do with each other. But today isn’t an ordinary day: their classmate Alicia has been kidnapped! It’s up to Roni and Brian to find Alicia and reveal the shocking secret that led to her disappearance. |
Ghost Canoe
Will Hobbs A ship wrecks off Cape Flattery, and unexplained footprints convince 14-year-old Nathan that someone survived. While searching for clues, he discovers a ghostly canoe and a skeleton that may unlock the mystery of ancient treasure - and murder. |
Bad Kitty
Michele Jaffe Meet Jasmine, forensic supersleuth, aspiring Model Daughter, and friend to animals. One second she's trying to enjoy her Vegas Vacation, the next she's tangled up in an outrageous adventure and has to outwit a crazed killer before he ends ten lives - one of them her own! |
Minerva Clark Gets a Clue
Karen Karbo Minerva Clark is a typical 13-year-old girl: she hates her hair, hates her legs, and don’t get her started on puberty. But after a fateful encounter with a lightning storm, Minerva finds herself drawn to the scene of a murder. She's determined to track down the killer, but all the clues are pointing to someone she knows. |
How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found
Sara Nickerson Margaret's father died in a mysterious accident when she was 8 years old. Four years later, her mother still won't talk about it. But when her mother takes her to an abandoned mansion and puts a FOR SALE sign in the yard, Margaret is determined to solve the puzzle of her family, once and for all. Armed with three strange clues – a swimming medal, a key, and a comic book about a half-man/half-rat – and helped by Boyd, the lonely boy next door, she discovers that truth can be stranger than fiction. |
Terrier
Tamora Pierce Beka Cooper is a rookie with the law-enforcing Provost's Guard, and she's been assigned to the Lower City. It's a tough beat that's about to get tougher, as Beka's limited ability to talk to the dead clues her in to an underworld conspiracy. Someone is using dark magic to profit from criminal enterprises, and the result is a crime wave the likes of which the city has never seen before. |
The Ruby in the Smoke
Philip Pullman 16-year-old Sally has no time for the usual trials of adolescence: her father has been murdered, and she needs to find out how and why. But everywhere she turns, she encounters new scoundrels and secrets. Why do the mere words "seven blessings" cause one man to keel over and die at their utterance? Who has possession of the rare, stolen ruby? And what does the opium trade have to do with it? (Sequels: The Shadow in the North and The Tiger in the Well) |
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered when a horrific family tragedy sets 16-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow – impossible though it seems – they may still be alive. |
Fake ID
Walter Sorrells Chastity and her mother have been on the run as long as Chass can remember, 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. 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. |