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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
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...
Author
Series
Truly devious volume 1
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham an early 20th century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. A place, he said, where learning is a game. Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with...
4) Nine liars
Author
Series
Truly devious volume 5
Language
English
Description
"Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn't going well. With the cold case of the century solved, Stevie is adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions pinging around her brain--questions about college, love, and life in general. Relief comes when David invites Stevie and her friends to join him for study abroad, and his new friend Izzy introduces her to a double-murder cold case. In 1995, nine friends from Cambridge University...
Author
Series
Truly devious volume 4
Language
English
Description
After solving the greatest unsolved mystery of the century, Stevie Bell goes undercover as a camp counselor to investigate the strange things going on at Camp Wonder Falls--the site of the infamous "Box in the Woods" murders.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stevie Bell seemed to be on the cusp of the decades-old kidnapping and murder of Albert Ellingham's family. But a classmate's murder-- which Stevie solved-- convinced her parents to pull her out of Ellingham Academy. Then politician Edward King arrives at her house to offer a deal: he will bring Stevie back to Ellingham if she will play nice with his son, David, a fellow classmate. King is in the midst of a campaign and can't afford his son stirring...
7) Outrage
Author
Series
Singular menace volume 2
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"Shay Remby and her gang of renegades have struck a blow to the Singular Corporation. In a daring raid, they rescued Shay's brother, Odin, from a covert Singular lab. They also liberated a damaged girl. A girl who literally knows too much. On the surface, Singular's a biotech company creating prosthetics for veterans. But Shay and Odin have discovered that beneath the shiny veneer is a shadow company, malevolently pushing the limits of science and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte Holmes and Jamie Watson finally have a chance to start over. With all the freedom their pre-college summer program provides and no one on their tail, the only mystery they need to solve, once and for all, is what they are to each other. But upon their arrival at Oxford, Charlotte is immediately drawn into a new case: a series of accidents befell the theater program at Oxford last year, culminating in a young woman going missing on the night...
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First North American edition.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
166 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There's a mystery mischief-maker on the loose in Hills Village! Can Junior solve the mystery before disaster strikes?" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Minerva Keen volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Minerva Keen forms a detective club to uncover who is poisoning residents of her storied Chicago apartment building, knowing that any one of her neighbors could be the poisoner--or the next victim." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Real Pigeons volume 1
Lexile measure
410L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ever wonder why pigeons always act so weird? It's because they're out there chasing the bad guys and saving your butts! Did you know your city is protected by a secret squad of crime-fighting pigeons? It's true! With master of disguise Rock Pigeon, bendy Tumbler, strong Frillback and super-finder Homey, the Real Pigeons will solve any mystery and fight any bad guy to keep the city safe!
13) Cold
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of a boy who died--and a girl who wants to know why. Todd Mayer is dead. Now he's some sort of ghost, hovering over his body, which has just been found in the town park, naked and frozen in the snow. As detectives investigate Todd's homicide, talking to the very people who are responsible for how he died, Todd replays the events that lead him to his end in the park. Georgia didn't know Todd. But she can't stop thinking about him....
Author
Publisher
NorthSouth Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
530L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
The peace and quiet of the forest are shattered by a scream. Someone has stolen the squirrel's three hazelnuts! Who could have committed such a terrible crime? The squirrel begins his investigation, and no one is above suspicion. --
15) Time will tell
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Four teens dig up the time capsule that their parents buried in 1986 and never bothered to recover. In addition to the expected ephemera of mixtapes, Walkmans, photographs, letters, toys, and assorted junk, Elayah, Liam, Marcie, and Jorja discover something sinister: a hunting knife stained with blood and wrapped with a note. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to kill anyone." The teens haven't just unearthed a time capsule: they've also dug up pain and secrets...
16) Blood heir
Author
Series
Blood heir trilogy volume Bk. 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
In the Cyrilian Empire, the gifts Affinites use to control the world are unnatural and dangerous. Anastacya Mikhailov, the crown princess, has a secret and deadly Affinity to blood; it is her curse, and the reason she has lived her life behind palace walls. When Ana's father, the emperor, is murdered, her world is shattered. Framed as his killer, Ana must flee the palace to save her life. To clear her name, she must find her father's murderer...
17) A necessary evil
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the sequel to "A Perfect Evil," Maggie O'Dell is shocked by Father Keller's audacious proposition: he will help her catch a serial killer in exchange for her protection. She reasons that the deal is a necessary evil to put a killer away for good.
Author
Series
Murder she wrote volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beatrice Fletcher, great-grandniece of famous mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, is obsessed with the unsolved mysteries and murders of Cabot Cove, Maine. But this time, the case becomes personal when her best friend Jackson disappears and she must rely on the help of three students from the elite Broadmoor Academy to find him.
Author
Series
Amateurs novel volume 2
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When twenty-one-year-old social media star Chelsea Dawson disappears, Seneca, Maddox, Aerin, and Madison, noticing that she looks exactly like Aerin's murdered sister, Helena, investigate, determined to find the connection.