Bailey Carr
Author
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.
Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. But she can't shake the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name--and the last hope for thousands of people seeking justice. But she's used to being recognized for her voice, not her face. Which makes it all the more unsettling when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging for help. The small town of Neapolis is being torn apart by a devastating...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, unhappiness is hardly grounds for divorce--except in Reno, Nevada. At the Golden Yarrow, the most respectable of Reno's famous 'divorce ranches,' Lois finds herself living with half a dozen other would-be divorcees, all in Reno for the six weeks' residency that...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her. But when someone she knows goes missing and the police won't do anything, Pip has no choice to investigate. After all, Jamie Reynolds disappeared on the very same night the town hosted a memorial for the sixth-year anniversary...
5) Fever, 1793
Author
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of everything--and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes? This time it's Grace who suddenly has everyone's attention when she accidentally starts a new fad at school. It's a fad that has first her class, then her grade, and then the entire school collecting and trading and even fighting over . . . buttons?!...
9) Saint X
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears on the last night of their family vacation at a resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X. Several days later, Alison's body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men--employees at the resort--are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline against it, and the men are soon released. The story turns into national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
347 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this story with alternate scenarios, a simple flip of a coin changes the destinies of three musical prodigies involved in a love triangle and dealing with absentee fathers.
11) Stay sweet
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Amelia has looked forward to her last summer before college working at the Meade Creamery, but when the owner of the local landmark passes away her nephew has big changes in mind.
12) Wake the bones
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After dropping out of college, nineteen-year-old Laurel Early returns to her uncle's tobacco farm, where she encounters a monster as well as her mother's ghost, and soon Laureal realizes that she must tap into her own innate magic to save everyone she loves.
The sleepy little farm that Laurel Early grew up on has awakened. The woods are shifting, the soil is dead under her hands, and her bone pile just stood up and walked away. After dropping out...
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (approximately 6 hr., 15 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Jodi Lynn Anderson's epic tale-told through three unforgettable points of view-is a masterful exploration of how love, determination, and hope can change a person's fate.2065: Adri has been handpicked to live on Mars. But weeks before launch, she discovers the journal of a girl who lived in her house more than a hundred years ago and is immediately drawn into the mystery surrounding her fate.1934: Amid the fear and...
14) Can you see me?
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Tally is starting sixth grade at Kingswood Academy and she really wants to fit in, which means somehow hiding her autism, hypersensitivity to touch, and true self, and trying to act "normal" like her former best friend, Layla, who is distancing herself from Tally and her fourteen-year-old sister, Nell, who is always angry with Tally for being different; but as she records her thoughts and anxieties in her coping diary, Tally begins...
15) Dirt
Author
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Yonder stopped talking when her mother died, and she stopped going to school because of the bullies, knowing that her father would never even notice (although the social worker did); indeed the only creature that seems to care about her is the one-eyed Shetland pony called Dirt who lives on the neighboring farm--so when she discovers that Dirt is about to be sold for horsemeat she is determined to find a way to save him.
17) Stay and fight
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This hilarious, truth-telling debut upends notions of family, protest, and Appalachia, and forces us to reimagine an America we think we know" --
18) This I know
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While trying to deal with her depressed mother and her pious father in a small Midwest town in the 1960s, eleven-year-old Grace struggles with inherited psychic powers that her aunt calls "The Knowing."
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After an assignment from her teacher asks her to imagine what her life would be like if one big thing was different, Lola Harmon decides to find her father, who has never been part of her life."--Adapted from cover description.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young detective who specializes in 'tiny mysteries' finds herself at the center of a massive conspiracy in this beguiling historical fantasy set on Manhattan's Westside--a peculiar and dangerous neighborhood home to strange magic and stranger residents." --