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Abrahams, Peter
Into the Dark : an Echo Falls Mystery
Thirteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes aficionado Ingrid Levin-Hill tries to clear her grandfather's name when he is accused of murdering an environmental activist found dead on his farm.
300 p. 2008
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Arnold, Tedd.
Rat Life
After developing an unusual friendship with a young Vietnam War veteran in 1972, fourteen-year-old Todd discovers his writing talent and solves a murder mystery. [Edgar Award Winner]
199 p. 2007
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Barr, Nevada
A Superior Death : an Anna Pigeon Novel
Park ranger Anna Pigeon is immersed in an investigation far below the waters of Lake Superior after two tourist divers discover a new skeleton, among the remains of an ancient ship and its crew. During the investigation, Anna questions more than a few oddly interesting suspects.
310 p. 2003
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Bradbury, Jennifer
Shift
Imagine you and your best friend head out West on a cross-country bike trek. The two of you get into a fight -- and stop riding together. You reach Seattle, go back home, start college and expect that he does the same. Imagine he doesn't. Imagine your world going shifting...
245 p. 2008
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Brooks, Kevin
Black Rabbit Summer
When two of sixteen-year-old Pete's childhood classmates disappear from a carnival the same night, he is a suspect, but his own investigation implicates other old friends he was with that evening--and a tough, knife-wielding enemy determined to keep him quiet.
488 p. 2008
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Burke, Alafair
Dead Connection
Following the murders of two young women, with both cases possibly linked to a popular online dating service, NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher undertakes a special undercover assignment to lure a killer targeting single Manhattan women.
319 p. 2007
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Carter, Ally
Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
Cammie Morgan is a CIA legacy and attends the premier school in the world...for spies. The school hosts some mysterious guests with the code name Blackthorne. When Cammie is blamed for a security breach that threatens to expose the school's top secret status, she and her friends face danger to clear Cammie's name and learn the truth about Blackthorne.
236 p. 2007
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Cassidy, Anne
Looking for JJ
Seventeen-year-old Alice, released from prison with a new identity after serving six years for murdering a child, tries to keep her anonymity from the British tabloids, while haunted by memories of her past trauma.
323 p. 2009
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Cooney, Caroline B.
Enter Three Witches : a Story of Macbeth
When her father betrays the Scottish king and is hung as a traitor, Lady Mary's future is bleak after she loses her only true protector and ends up locked away in the tower by the powerful and deadly Lord and Lady Macbeth.
281 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
 Classics Revamped
Book Trailers Spring 2008
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Cormier, Robert
The Rag and Bone Shop : a Novel
Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts.
154 p. 2001
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Dahl, Michael
The Ruby Raven : a Finnegan Zwake Mystery
Finn's mystery writer uncle has been nominated for a prestigious literary prize that comes with a huge monetary payoff. He may even collect -- if Finn can keep his uncle and himself alive long enough to accept it.
179 p. 1999
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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 fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
396 p. 2003
Appears on the following book lists:
Good Reads for High School
Printz Honor Books
Discussion Guides - Teen Books
Amelia Bloomer Project
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Ehrenhaft, Daniel
Drawing a Blank or How I Tried to Solve a Mystery, End a Feud, and Land the Girl of My Dreams
Carlton Dunne IV, an outcast boarding school student with a secret identity as a graphic novelist, teams up with a beautiful Scottish girl who yearns to be an American police officer, to resolve an ancient feud and rescue Carlton's kidnapped father.
326 p. 2006
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Book Trailers Spring 2007
Guys in Love
Laughing Out Loud
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Feinstein, John.
Last Shot : a Final Four Mystery
After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game. [Edgar Award Winner]
251 p. 2005
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Sports Stories
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Ferguson, Alane
The Christopher Killer : a Forensic Mystery
On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner father, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger.
274 p. 2006
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Francis, Dick
Smokescreen
An actor, who plays a superstar detective in films, is thrust into several bizzare situations full of mystery, action and suspense when he is asked to go to South Africa to investigate problems with his aunt's race horses.
291 p. 2006
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Sports Fiction
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Giff, Patricia Reilly
Eleven
When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and, with the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his questions are eventually answered.
164 p. 2008
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Ravenous Readers
Mysteries for Kids
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Giles, Gail
What Happened to Cass McBride? : a Novel
After his younger brother commits suicide, Kyle Kirby decides to exact revenge on the person he holds responsible.
211 p. 2006
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Gilman, David
The Devil's Breath
When fifteen-year-old Max Gordon's environmentalist-adventurer father goes missing while working in Namibia and Max becomes the target of a would-be assassin at his school in England, he decides he must follow his father to Africa and find him before they both are killed.
511 p. 2008
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Grabenstein, Chris.
The Crossroads
When eleven-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well as another kind of ghost from Zack's past. [Agatha Christie Award Winner]
325 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Best Books for Kids - October 2008
Mysteries for Kids
Scary Stories
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