Lynn Reid Banks
Melusine
A teenaged boy becomes embroiled in the
mysterious life of a farm girl while
on vacation in the south of France.
6th Grade and Up
Jay Bennet
The Skeleton Man
When his Uncle Ed commits suicide,
after giving him $30,000 for his
eighteenth birthday, Ray
receives mysterious death
threats and becomes involved in a
dangerous sequence of events
7th Grade and Up
Tom Clancy
Net Force Mysteries
6th Grade and Up
Cloak and Dagger
Net Force Explorer Daniel Sanchez finds himself in a wealth of
trouble when a game of hide-and-seek on the Web leads to a
breach of confidentialNet Force files involving the CIA, forcing
the Explorers to find the real culprit and clear Daniel's name.
Virtual Vandals
The Net Force Explorers are teenagers
who are trying to stop the virtual vandals who opened
fire on Babe Ruth at a holographic baseball game.
Caroline B. Cooney
The Terrorist
Sixteen-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the
person responsible for the death of her younger brother Billy,
who has been killed by a terrorist bomb.
6th Grade and Up
Wanted
Alice, accused of her father's murder, is being pursued by
both the police and the real murderer.
5th Grade and Up
Robert Cormier
In the Middle of the Night
Sixteen-year-old Denny lives in the shadow of a deadly accident with
which his father was connected when he was Denny's age,
a disaster for which some of the survivors still blame his father.
7th Grade and Up
Gillian Cross
Tightrope
When she begins receiving bizarre threatening messages from someone
who seems to know her every move, teenage Ashley, after seeking
help from the neighborhood tough guy, comes to realize that
she alone can end the stalker's reign of terror.
7th Grade and Up
Mark Delaney
(Misfits, Inc)
Vanishing Chip
When Mattie's grandfather becomes a suspect in the theft of a valuable
computer chip, Peter, Byte, Jake, and Mattie, four high school students who c
onsider themselves misfits, pool their talents to try to discover
who really stole the chip and how.
5th Grade and Up
Of Heroes and Villains
While the Misfits are attending a comic book convention and
waiting for a sneak preview of the new Hyperman movie,
they see the film stolen by someone dressed as Hyperman's
nemesis, the Jester.
5th Grade and Up
Lois Duncan
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Four teen-agers who have desperately tried to conceal their
responsibility for a hit-and-run accident
are pursued by a mysterious figure seeking revenge.
7th Grade and Up
Killing Mr. Griffin
A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English teacher,
but did he intend it to end with murder.
7th Grade and Up
Peg Kehret
I'm not who you think I am
Thirteen-year-old Ginger becomes the target of a disturbed woman who
believes that she is her dead daughter.
5th Grade and Up
Joan Lowery Nixon
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Philip Pullman
Sally Lockhart Trilogy:
The Ruby in the Smoke
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old
Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved
in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
7th Grade and Up
The Shadow in the North
In 1878 in London, Sally, now twenty-two
and established in her own business, and her
companions Frederick and Jim try to solve the mystery
surrounding the unexpected collapse
of a shipping firm and its ties to a sinister corporation
called North Star.
7th Grade and Up
The 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.
7th Grade and Up
White Mercedes
Seventeen-year-old Chris, living and working in Oxford,
falls in love with an elusive girl and while searching for her
discovers the devastating consequences
of placing his trust in the wrong person.
7th Grade and Up
Marsha Qualey
Close to a Killer
Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders
that are somehow connected to her mother's hair salon.
7th Grade and Up
Thin Ice
Seventeen-year-old Arden has been raised by her older brother,
Scott, since their parents died when she was just six years old,
so when Scott is presumed drowned in
a snowmobile accident, Arden is convinced
he's really run away.
7th Grade and Up
Patricia H. Rushford
Desperate Measures
A mystery confronts Jennie when a fur farm is
vandalized and its owner disappears.
5th Grade and Up
Gloria Skurzynski
National Parks Mysteries
5th Grade and Up
Shelley Sykes
For Mike
When Jeff's best friend Mike disappears in the fall of their
senior year in high school, Jeff has disturbing dreams in which
Mike urges him to come get him, and a secret begins to unfold.
7th Grade and Up
Wendelin Van Draanen
Sammy Keyes Mysteries
5th Grade and Up
Vivian Vande Velde
Never Trust a Dead Man
Wrongly convicted of murder and punished by being sealed in the tomb
with the dead man, seventeen-year-old Selwyn enlists the help of a witch
and the resurrected victim to find the true killer.
6th Grade and Up
Robb White
Deathwatch
Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as guide
on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life.
7th Grade and Up
Nancy Werlin
Locked Inside
After she is kidnapped from the exclusive boarding school
she attends, heiress Marnie Skyedottir must rethink
her idealized relationship with her mother, her own s
ense of who she is, and her relationships with others.
6th Grade and Up
The Killer's Cousin
After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to
stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds
himself forced to face his past as he learns more
about his strange young cousin Lily.
8th Grade and Up
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