Mystery - Old Bridge Public Library · Mystery Old Bridge Public Library 1 Mystery EMPTY COFFIN series by Olsen (YA Olsen) Grades 7-10 In the wake of 15-year-old Katelyn Berkley's

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Mystery

EMPTY COFFIN series by Olsen (YA Olsen)

Grades 7-10

In the wake of 15-year-old Katelyn Berkley's mysterious death, everyone in the small

town of Port Gamble, Wash., is looking for answers, though the consensus is suicide.

Unconvinced and anxious to learn the truth, teenage twin sisters Hayley and Taylor

investigate, using both knowledge gleaned from their true crime writer father (who gets

more than his share of attention) and their own psychic abilities. (ENVY)

SCARLETT WAKEFIELD series by Henderson (YA Henderson)

Grades 8 & up

When Scarlett transfers from St. Tabby’s to Wakefield Hall Collegiate, she is relieved

that no one knows her dark, haunting secret. A few months ago, Scarlett was invited to

an elite party with a guest list full of the hottest names in British society, including Dan

McAndrew. That night Scarlett no longer had to only imagine what it would be like to

have her first kiss with Dan. Their kiss was beautiful and perfect and magical, and

then…Dan McAndrew took his last breath as she held him in her arms. No one knows

how or why Dan died, and everyone at St. Tabby’s believes Scarlett had something to

do with it. (KISS ME KILL ME, KISSES & LIES, KISS IN THE DARK, KISS OF DEATH)


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SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE LEGEND BEGINS series by Lane (YA Lane)

Grades 6-9

Staying with his aunt and uncle while on his school's break, Sherlock has little to

entertain or enlighten himself besides his American tutor, Amyus Crowe. When a

runaway named Matthew witnesses a bizarre murder and Sherlock discovers another

dead body in the woods, the teens seek out the truth. (DEATH CLOUD)

LANGDON PREP series by Reid (YA Reid)

Grades 8-10

Chanti is from a poor section of Denver. She is wise to the ways of the street and has

one huge secret: her mother is an undercover cop. When a rumored gang member, MJ,

moves to town, she saves Chanti from a fight and they become instant friends. Chanti

learns that not all of the rumors about MJ are true, but that doesn't save her from being

in the wrong place at the wrong time. (MY OWN WORST FRENEMY, CREEPING WITH THE

ENEMY)

PAPER TOWNS by Green (YA Green)

Grades 9 & up

When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night -

dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows her.

Margo’s always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she’s always planned solo. After

a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q…until day breaks


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and she has vanished. Always an enigma, Margo has now become a mystery. But there

are clues. And they’re for Q.

PRETTY LITTLE LIARS series by Shepard (YA Shepard)

Grades 9 & up

Everyone has something to hide - especially high school juniors Spencer, Aria, Emily,

and Hanna. Spencer covets her sister's boyfriend. Aria's fantasizing about her English

teacher. Emily's crushing on the new girl at school. Hanna uses some ugly tricks to stay

beautiful. But they've all kept an even bigger secret since their friend Alison vanished.

(PRETTY LITTLE LIARS, FLAWLESS, PERFECT, UNBELIEVABLE, WICKED, KILLER, HEARTLESS,

WANTED, TWISTED, RUTHLESS, PRETTY LITTLE SECRETS)

REALITY CHECK by Abrahams (YA Abrahams) Grades 9 & up After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody's college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town, but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search.

ECHO FALLS series by Abrahams (YA Abrahams) Grades 6-10 Like her idol Sherlock Holmes, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill uses her intellect to solve


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a murder case in her home town of Echo Falls. (DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE, BEHIND THE

CURTAIN, INTO THE DARK)

RAT LIFE by Arnold (YA Arnold) Grades 6-10 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.

THE TRAITOR’S GATE by Avi (YA Avi) Grades 5-9 When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, fourteen-year-old John Huffman must take on unexpected responsibilities, from asking a distant relative for help to determining why people are spying on him and his family.

THE TWIN’S DAUGHTER by Baratz-Logsted (YA Baratz-Logsted) Grades 7 & up In Victorian London, thirteen-year-old Lucy's comfortable world with her loving parents begins slowly to unravel the day that a bedraggled woman who looks exactly like her mother appears at their door.


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THE PACT OF WOLVES by Blazon (YA Blazon) Grades 7 & up When 16 year old Blanka is sent to boarding school by her adoptive parents, she quickly discovers that the old medieval convent building is home to a nightmarish underworld of witchcraft and murder. Almost unbearably suspenseful, this is a great read for fans of witches, wolves and the paranormal, with a blend of fantasy, history and an intriguing mystery.

DESERT CROSSING by Broach (YA Broach) Grades 8 & up A summer trip across the New Mexico desert turns nightmarish for fourteen-year-old Lucy, her older brother Jamie, and his best friend Kit, as they become involved in the suspicious death of a young girl.

BLACK RABBIT SUMMER by Brooks (YA Brooks) Grades 9 & up 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.


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THE BACK DOOR OF MIDNIGHT by Chandler (YA Chandler) Grades 7 & up Anna knows her family is crazy. But when she goes to visit her aunt and uncle for the summer and learns that her uncle's charred body has been found, her life reaches a new level of insanity.

HIGHWAY TO HELL by Clement-Moore (YA Clement-Moore) Grades 7 & up On their way to spend spring break on a Texas beach, college freshmen Maggie Quinn and D&D Lisa are stranded in a town where some believe a chupacabra is killing animals, and as the girls investigate they get help from diverse and unexpected sources.

THINGS HOPED FOR by Clements (YA Clements) Grades 6 & up Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school, joins up with another music student to solve the mystery when her grandfather suddenly goes missing.


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THE STOLEN ONE by Crowley (YA Crowley) Grades 8 & up After the death of her foster mother, sixteen-year-old Kat goes to London to seek the answers to her parentage, and surprisingly finds herself invited into Queen Elizabeth's court.

WALK OF THE SPIRITS by Cusick (YA Cusick) Grades 9 & up After losing everything in a Florida hurricane, seventeen-year-old Miranda and her mother move to her grandfather's home in Louisiana, where she falls in with an interesting group of students, and discovers that she can communicate with spirits like her grandfather did.

CURTAINS!: A HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL MYSTERY by Dahl (YA Dahl) Grades 4-8 When someone tries to sabotage the school play, Kyle, an actor, and his friend Mindy, the stage manager, work together to investigate, even though each suspects the other.


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DIRTY LAUNDRY by Ehrenhaft (YA Ehrenhaft) Grades 8-10 Carli, a teen actress who has gone undercover at a New England boarding school in order to research a role, hooks up with a student graffiti artist to investigate the disappearance of another of the school's pupils.

FINAL FOUR MYSTERY series by Feinstein (YA Feinstein) Grades 6-10 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. (Review OF LAST SHOT.) (LAST SHOT, VANISHING ACT: MYSTERY AT THE U.S. OPEN, COVER-UP: MYSTERY AT THE SUPER BOWL, CHANGE-UP: MYSTERY AT THE WORLD SERIES)

FORENSIC MYSTERIES by Ferguson (YA Ferguson) Grades 7 & up Seventeen-year-old high school senior Cameryn Mahoney uses skills learned as assistant to her coroner father to try to unravel the mystery of a local teacher's gruesome death, while also awaiting a possible reunion with her long-missing mother. (Summary of ANGEL OF DEATH.) (CHRISTOPHER KILLER, THE ANGEL OF DEATH, THE CIRCLE OF

BLOOD, THE DYING BREATH)


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THURSDAY NEXT series by Fforde (F Fforde) Grades 9 & up Great Britain circa 1985, but a Great Britain where literature has a prominent place in everyday life. In this world where high lit matters, Special Operative Thursday Next (literary detective) seeks to retrieve the stolen manuscript of Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit. (THE EYRE AFFAIR, LOST IN A GOOD BOOK, THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS, SOMETHING

ROTTEN, FIRST AMONG SEQUELS)

TOP 8 by Finn (YA Finn) Grades 9 & up When popular high school junior Madison's online profile is hacked, it sends her life into turmoil and forces her to reevaluate some important matters as she figures out who committed the crime. (Followed by What’s Your St@tus?)

DEATH BY LATTE by Gerber (YA PBK MYS Gerber) Grades 9 & up When sixteen-year-old Aphra sneaks away from the island resort where she lives with her father, and travels to Seattle to find the mother she has not seen for four years, she does not anticipate getting involved in a CIA plot that threatens not only her life, but that of her boyfriend and her mother as well. (Follows DEATH BY BIKINI.)


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HORATIO WILKES MYSTERIES by Gratz (YA Gratz) Grades 9 & up In a contemporary story based on Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, Horatio Wilkes seeks to solve the murder of Duncan MacKae at the Scottish Highland Games in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. (SOMETHING ROTTEN, SOMETHING WICKED)

PAPER TOWNS by Green (YA Green) Grades 9 & up One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

CHASING THE JAGUAR by Greene (YA Greene) Grades 8 & up After having unsettling dreams about the kidnapped daughter of her mother's employer, fifteen-year-old Martika learns that she is a descendant of a long line of curanderas - Mayan medicine women with special powers. Includes glossary of Spanish words.


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PICTURE THE DEAD by Griffin (YA Griffin) Grades 6-10 A ghost will find his way home.

THE BLOODWATER MYSTERIES by Hautman (YA Hautman) Grades 7-11 Too curious for her own good, Roni, crime reporter for her high school newspaper, teams up with Brian, freshman science geek, to investigate the beating and kidnapping of a classmate. (SNATCHED, SKULLDUGGERY, DOPPELGANGER)

SCARLETT WAKEFIELD series by Henderson (YA Henderson) Grades 8 & up Longing to be part of the in-crowd at her exclusive London school, orphaned, sixteen-year-old Scarlett, a trained gymnast, eagerly accepts an invitation to a party whose disastrous outcome changes her life forever. (KISS ME KILL ME, KISSES AND LIES, KISS IN

THE DARK)


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YOUNG BOND series by Higson (YA Higson) Grades 6-9 Prequel to the adventures of James Bond, 007, introduces the young James when he is just starting boarding school in England and is about to become involved in his first adventure. (SILVERFIN, BLOODFEVER, DOUBLE OR DIE, HURRICANE GOLD, BY ROYAL

COMMAND)

HERMUX TANTAMOQ ADVENTURES by Hoeye (YA Hoeye) Grades 5-9 When Linka Perflinger, a jaunty mouse, brings a watch into his shop to be repaired and then disappears, Hermux Tantamoq is caught up in a world of dangerous search for eternal youth as he tries to find out what happened to her. (TIME STOPS FOR NO MOUSE, THE SANDS OF TIME, NO TIME LIKE SHOW TIME, TIME TO SMELL THE ROSES)

A SAMURAI NEVER FEARS DEATH by Hoobler (YA Hoobler) Grades 5-9 Returning home to investigate the possible connection of his family's tea shop with smugglers, Seikei, now a samauri in eighteenth-century Japan, becomes involved in murder at a local puppet theater and saving the life of his sister's accused boyfriend. (Followed by SEVEN PATHS TO DEATH.)


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KITTY KITTY by Jaffe (YA Jaffe) Grades 9 & up When seventeen-year-old Jasmine Callihan is whisked off for an extended visit to Venice, Italy, at the start of her senior year, she tries her best to stay out of trouble but gets caught up in trying to solve a murder mystery. (Follows BAD KITTY.)

ALL UNQUIET THINGS by Jarzab (YA Jarzab) Grades 9 & up After the death of his ex-girlfriend Carly, northern California high school student Neily joins forces with Carly's cousin Audrey to try to solve her murder.

THE REFORMED VAMPIRE SUPPORT GROUP by Jinks (YA Jinks) Grades 8 & up Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them - until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime.


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GETTING THE GIRL : A GUIDE TO PRIVATE INVESTIGATION, SURVEILLANCE, AND COOKERY by Juby (YA Juby) Grades 9 & up Who is "defiling" or D-listing girls at Harewood Technical?

THE 7TH KNOT by Karr (YA Karr) Grades 7-9 Two brothers touring Europe in the 19th century become embroiled in a mystery involving Albrecht Durer's knot woodcuts and a secret German society when they go in search of their uncle's enigmatic missing valet.

NOTHING BUT GHOSTS by Kephart (YA Kephart) Grades 8 & up After her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Katie copes with her grief by working in the garden of an old estate, where she becomes intrigued by the story of a reclusive millionaire, while her father, an art restorer, manages in his own way to come to terms with the death of his wife.


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SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT series by Landy (YA Landy) Grades 5-8 When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones. (SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT, PLAYING WITH FIRE, THE FACELESS ONES)

THE SEASON by MacLean (YA MacLean) Grades 9 & up Showing no interest in the sumptuous balls, lavish dinner parties, and country weekends enjoyed by the rest of early nineteenth-century London society, seventeen-year-old Lady Alexandra Stafford seeks adventure as she investigates the puzzling murder of the Earl of Blackmoor, father of devilishly handsome Gavin.

JUST HENRY by Magorian (YA Magorian) Grades 8 & up It's 1949 and life is bleak for Henry. He misses his father who died a war hero, and he escapes from his annoying stepfather and stepsister whenever he can by going to the movies. One day he meets Mr. Beaumont, a man who also loves films and agrees to lend Henry a camera for his school project.


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BEAUTIFUL DEAD: JONAS by Maguire (YA Maguire) Grades 7 & up When her boyfriend becomes the fourth student at her high school to die over the course of a year, and Darina starts seeing the dead teenagers, she discovers that they have come back to deal with unresolved problems, and she begins helping them so they can go to their final rest. (Followed by BEAUTIFUL DEAD: ARIZONA.)

Devoured by Marrone (YA Marrone) Grades 8 & up Rising high school senior Megan has been haunted by her twin for ten years, but now Remy is trying to warn her about terrible danger surrounding Megan's summer job at an amusement park called the Land of Enchantment.

DEAD BALL FOUL by McGrady (McGrady) Grades 9 & up Three teens live in a quiet town in southwest Virginia, where the only excitement consists of the town's obsession with its high school football team. Their world turns upside down when a referee is murdered after a football game against a big rival.


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CRYER’S CROSS by McMann (YA McMann) Grades 7-10 Kendall loves her life in small town Cryer’s Cross, Montana, but she also longs for something more. She knows the chances of going to school in New York are small, but she's not the type to give up easily.

SHADOWED SUMMER by Mitchell (YA Mitchell) Grades 7-9 In the small town of Ondine, Louisiana, fourteen-year-old Iris uncovers family secrets when she conjures up the ghost of a boy missing for decades and decides to solve the mystery of his disappearance.

ASHBURY SCHOOL series by Moriarty (YA Moriarty) Grades 7 & up Lydia, Emily, and Cassie are longtime friends who share almost everything, especially the secret assignments that they have cooked up for one another in times of need since elementary school. When their English teacher assigns them pen pals (all boys) from rival Brookfield High, they strike out on their own to connect individually with their pen friends. (THE YEAR OF SECRET ASSIGNMENTS, THE MURDER OF BINDY MACKENZIE, THE GHOSTS

OF ASHBURY HIGH)


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THE GUILD OF SPECIALISTS series by Mowll (YA Mowll) Grades 5-8 The posthumous papers of Rebecca MacKenzie document her adventures, along with her brother Doug, in 1920s China as the teenaged siblings are sent to live aboard their uncle's ship where they become involved in the dangerous activities of a mysterious secret society called the Honourable Guild of Specialists. (OPERATION RED JERICHO, OPERATION TYPHOON SHORE, OPERATION STORM CITY)

TRASH by Mulligan (YA Mulligan) Grades 7-10 Fourteen-year-old "dumpsite boy" Raphael has never found anything valuable in the trash mounds he has combed over since age three. At least not until he unearths a leather bag containing a map, wallet, and key.

SET IN STONE by Newbery (YA Newbery) Grades 8 & up The alternating narratives of art tutor Samuel Godwin and governess Charlotte Agnew, who work for the wealthy Farrow family in 1898 England, reveal the secrets that almost everyone in the household is hiding.


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GENTLEMEN by Northrop (YA Northrop) Grades 7 & up Micheal, Tommy, Mixer, and Bones aren't so much viewed as troublemakers at Tattawa High School as they are personas non grata. On the fringe, the four friends struggle their way through school and to survive their dysfunctional families. When Tommy disappears, his friends write it off as another one of his escapades until Mr. Haberman, their remedial English teacher, starts speaking in riddles that lead them to believe that he may have killed the boy.

THE CELEBUTANTES: IN THE CLUB by Pagliarulo (YA Pagliarulo) Grades 7 & up Wealthy triplets Madison, Park, and Lexington Hamilton are shocked when one of their classmates at St. Cecilia's Prep is killed during the opening of their father's newest nightclub, but even after they narrow down the suspects to the members of a secretcampus role-playing club, the murderer is not obvious.

THE BOXER & THE SPY by Parker (YA Parker) Grades 9 & up A conversation accidentally overheard leads to a body washing ashore in a small town on the Massachusetts shoreline.


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WATCHING ALICE series by Parker & Miller (YA Parker) Grades 9 & up High school senior Tom Sinclair's journal chronicles events leading up to the disappearance of Alice, the only person he has confided in after moving from Vermont to Manhattan in an attempt to run away from his past. (BREAK THE SURFACE, WALK ON

WATER, SEEK THE PROPHET, FIND THE MIRACLE)

DEATH IN KINGSPORT by Parkinson (YA Parkinson) Grades 6-8 Young Neil is thrown into a dangerous mystery after a ghostly voice in a stable tells him a secret that leads the young detective to look into the events leading to the sudden deaths of his uncle and others in town.

FEARLESS series by Pascal (YA Pascal) Grades 7 & up Gaia was born with amazing eyesight, off-the-chart reflexes, near-superhuman strength, and a complete lack of fear. These attributes, coupled with an unusual home situation, threw her into a life of vigilante justice. (KILL GAME, LIVE BAIT, AGENT OUT, NAKED EYE)


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DEAD IS series by Perez (YA Perez) Grades 7 & up While dealing with her first boyfriend and suddenly being pressed into service as a substitute cheerleader, seventeen-year-old Daisy Giordano, daughter and sister of psychics but herself a "normal," attempts to help her mother discover who is behind a series of bizarre attacks on teenage girls in their little town of Nightshade, California. (DEAD IS THE NEW BLACK, DEAD IS A STATE OF MIND, DEAD IS SO LAST YEAR, DEAD IS JUST A

RUMOR)

THE BODY OF CHRISTOPHER CREED by Plum-Ucci (YA Plum-Ucci) Grades 8 & up Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.

THE NIGHT MY SISTER WENT MISSING by Plum-Ucci (YA Plum-Ucci) Grades 9 & up When his sister goes missing under mysterious circumstances, seventeen-year-old Kurt spends a night at the local police station overhearing statements from a variety of witnesses that reveal the deep prejudices and shocking secrets of his small beach community.


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THE NIGHT CHILDREN by Reed (YA Reed) Grades 4-7 Squatters in the huge, midwestern MegaMall, fifteen-year-old Tick and his gang of lost, abandoned, or runaway children face off against a rival gang, and thirteen-year-old Jule Devereaux, whose parents and aunt have mysteriously disappeared, gets caught between.

BLACKTHORN WINTER by Reiss (YA Reiss) Grades 7 & up An idyllic seaside artists' colony in England is the scene of murder, and fifteen-year-old American-born Juliana Martin-Drake attempts to solve the crime while unraveling the mystery of her own past.

JOEY FLY, PRIVATE EYE IN CREEPY CRAWLY CRIME by Reynolds (YA G Reynolds) Grades 4 & up Have you ever had one of those moments? You know--you're trying to find a stolen diamond pencil box for your beautiful butterfly customer, your mosquito witness won't give you any information, and your clumsy scorpion assistant has just tampered with your only bit of evidence?Joey Fly has those moments a lot. (Followed by JOEY FLY 2, PRIVATE EYE IN BIG HAIRY DRAMA.)


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THE DEATH COLLECTOR by Richards (YA Richards) Grades 6-10 Three teens and a curator of unclassified artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to use unorthodox methods to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs.

THE MYSTERY OF THE THIRD LUCRETIA by Runholt (YA Runholt) Grades 4-7 While traveling in London, Paris, and Amsterdam, fourteen-year-old best friends Kari and Lucas solve an international art forgery mystery.

PRETTY LITTLE LIARS by Shepard (YA Shepard) Grades 9 & up When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who seems to know everything about their past and present secrets.


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THE LYING GAME by Shepard (YA Shepard) Grades 9 & up Foster kid Emma never knew she had an identical twin until she sees an online video of a girl named Sutton being choked by a masked figure.

ENDYMION SPRING by Skelton (YA Skelton) Grades 4-7 Having reluctantly accompanied his academic mother and pesky younger sister to Oxford, twelve-year-old Blake Winters is at loose ends until he stumbles across an ancient and magical book, secretely brought to England in 1453 by Gutenberg's mute apprentice to save it from evil forces, and which now draws Blake into a dangerous and life-threatening quest.

FIRST SHOT by Sorrells (YA Sorrells) Grades 8 & up David Crandall, haunted by his mother's murder two years ago, uncovers a dark family secret that leads him to believe that his father, headmaster of the military school in which David is currently a senior, is the killer.


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HUNTED series by Sorrells (YA Sorrells) Grades 8 & up After a lifetime of moving and assuming new identities, sixteen-year-old Chass begins to piece together the disturbing past that haunts her and her mother and which involves a mysterious tape, a deceased popular singer, and the secrets of several people in a small Alabama town. (FAKE ID, CLUB DREAD)

CATHY series by Stewart (YA Stewart) Grades 8 & up Cathy, an aspiring artist who is still getting over her father's death, becomes embroiled in a mystery after discovering that her ex-boyfriend - who appears to be only a few years older than herself - is actually more than two hundred years old. (CATHY’S BOOK: IF

FOUND CALL (650)266-8233, CATHY’S KEY: IF FOUND CALL (650)266-8202, CATHY’S RING: IF

FOUND CALL (650)266-8263)

BLOOD ON MY HANDS by Strasser (YA Strasser) Grades 8 & up Callie has a history of violence in her home, a volatile and public feud with queen-bee Katherine Reminigton-Day, and a bloody knife in her hand.


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HOUSE OF MYSTERY series by Sturges (YA G House) Grades 9 & up Meet the five lost souls who unwillingly make the House of mystery their home. (ROOM &

BOREDOM, LOVE STORIES FOR DEAD PEOPLE, THE SPACE BETWEEN, THE BEAUTY OF DECAY)

FALL FOR ANYTHING by Summers (YA Summers) Grades 9 & up As she searches for clues that would explain the suicide of her successful photographer father, Eddie Reeves meets the strangely compelling Culler Evans who seems to know a great deal about her father and could hold the key to the mystery surrounding his death.

MONTMORENCY series by Updale (YA Updale) Grades 6-10 In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself. (MONTMORENCY: THIEF, LIAR, GENTLEMAN?, MONTMORENCY: ON THE ROCKS, MONTMORENCY &

THE ASSASSINS, MONTMORENCY’S REVENGE)


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BROKEN SOUP by Valentine (YA Valentine) Grades 9 & up A photographic negative and two surprising new friends become the catalyst for healing as fifteen-year-old Rowan struggles to keep her family and her life together after her brother's death.

SO YESTERDAY by Westerfeld (YA Westerfeld) Grades 7-10 Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager who is paid by companies to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with his girlfriend's creative talents to find a missing person and stop a conspiracy.

JACK: SECRET HISTORIES by Wilson (YA Wilson) Grades 6-9 Teenaged Jack, later to be known as Repairman Jack, begins to uncover some unsuspected talents in himself after he and his friends, the clever, imaginative Weezy and her brother Eddie, discover a corpse deep in the mysterious Pine Barrens near their New Jersey town.


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Mystery - Old Bridge Public Library · Mystery Old Bridge Public Library 1 Mystery EMPTY COFFIN series by Olsen (YA Olsen) Grades 7-10 In the wake of 15-year-old Katelyn Berkley's