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Mysteries for Inquiring Teens

The Accident ~ Todd Strasser
After four of his friends leave a beer party and suffer a fatal accident, eighteen-year-old Matt senses something peculiar about the police investigation and suspects a cover-up to hide the identity of who was really responsible for the accident.

Alison, Who Went Away ~ Vivian Vande Velde
Three years after the disappearance of her older sister, fourteen-year-old Sibyl and her family struggle to continue their lives, separately and together.

Angel's Gate ~ Gary Crew
Kimmy encounters two wild children who have grown up in the hills of Australia and tries to protect them from the unknown person who murdered their father.

The Art of Keeping Cool ~ Janet Taylor Lisle
In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town where they also become involved with a German artist who is suspected of being a spy.

The Body of Christopher Creed ~ Carol Plum-Ucci
Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.

Close to a Killer ~ Marsha Qualey
Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders that are somehow connected to her mother's hair salon.

Counterfeit Son ~ Elaine Marie Alphin
When serial killer Hank Miller is killed in a shoot-out with police, his abused son Cameron adopts the identity of one of his father's victims in order to find a better life.

Deadly Deception ~ Betsy Haynes
When her boyfriend is arrested and charged with murdering the school guidance counselor, seventeen-year-old Ashlyn tries to find the real killer.

Death on Sacred Ground ~ Harriet K. Feder
When tenth grader Vivi Hartman arrives with her rabbi father at a Seneca reservation to arrange the funeral of a Jewish girl who died violently, she finds herself investigating rumors of murder.

For Mike ~ Shelley Sykes
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.

Friends To Die For ~ Jane Sughrue Giberga
Sixteen-year-old Cristina is forced to evaluate her sophisticated world of elegant New York apartments, private schools and rich friends when a girl she knows is murdered after a party they both attended.

Getting Lincoln's Goat ~ E.M. Goldman
Tenth-grader Elliot wants to be a detective when he grows up and when he discovers that Lincoln the goat, the school mascot, is missing, he and some of his classmates get a taste of what their chosen careers would really be like.

Ghost Canoe ~ Will Hobbs
Fourteen-year-old Nathan, fishing with the Makah in the Pacific Northwest, finds himself holding a vital clue when a mysterious stranger comes to town looking for Spanish treasure.

The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn ~ Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.

Hawk Moon ~ Rob MacGregor
Will faces a mystery involving drugs at his high school, while being framed for the disappearance and possible murder of his girlfriend.

In the Middle of the Night ~ Robert Cormier
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.

The Killer's Cousin ~ Nancy Werlin
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.

Locked Inside ~ Nancy Werlin
After she is kidnapped from the exclusive boarding school she attends, heiress Marnie Skyedottir must rethink her idealized relationship with her mother, her own sense of who she is and her relationships with others.

The Lost Day ~ Judith Clarke
Nineteen-year-old Vinny, one of a group of young people eking out a drab and unpromising existence in Melbourne, Australia, alarms his friends when he disappears from a nightclub.

The Man Who Was Poe ~ Avi
In Providence, RI, in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of eleven-year-old Edmund whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with a ghastly final twist.

Missing Person ~ Sally Pfoutz
When seventeen-year-old Carrie's notoriously unstable mother disappears only Carrie seems interested in pursuing the truth through a world where she can trust no one but herself.

Monster ~ Walter Dean Myers
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

My Grandfather Jack the Ripper ~ Claudio Apone
A clairvoyant thirteen-year-old uses his gifts to time travel in search of clues to the unsolved crimes of Jack the Ripper but a more personal crime awaits him in the present.

Never Trust a Dead Man ~ Vivian Vande Velde
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.

The Playmaker ~ J.B. Cheaney
While working as an apprentice in a London theater company in 1597, fourteen-year-old Richard uncovers a mystery involving the disappearance of his father and a traitorous plot to overthow Queen Elizabeth.

Pool Party ~ Linda Cargill
Planning the party of the year at her mother's exclusive new hotel, Sharon is surprised when a mysterious person invites people she hardly knows to the party and begins to fear that her guests are being set up.

Prophecy Rock ~ Rob MacGregor
Will Lansa visits his father, who is the tribal police chief on the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona, and learns about some sacred Hopi traditions while he helps investigate several murders.

The Spirit House ~ William Sleator
Fifteen-year-old Julie investigates the suspicious behavior of the Thai exchange student staying with her family and comes to believe in the wish-granting power of a spirit that appears to have followed him across the ocean.

Strange Objects ~ Gary Crew
After discovering valuable relics from a seventeenth-century shipwreck a sixteen-year-old Australian disappears under mysterious circumstances.

Thin Ice ~ Marsha Qualey
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.

Tightrope ~ Gillian Cross
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.

Troubling a Star ~ Madeleine L'Engle
As she tries to stay alive after being left on an iceberg in the Antarctic, sixteen-year-old Vicky recalls the series of events that brought her to the bottom of the world and involved her in a dangerous mystery.

Twilight Boy ~ Timothy Green
Jesse Begay begins to investigate the strange circumstances surrounding a fire at his Navajo grandfather's hogan, even though the old man remains convinced that a "skinwalker" is haunting him.

Twisted Summer ~ Willo Davis Roberts
Fourteen-year-old Cici hopes for a romantic summer at the beach but instead finds herself trying to solve a murder that had occurred there the previous year.

Where It Stops, Nobody Knows ~ Amy Ehrlich
Nina and her mother move from place to place, never revealing anything of themselves, and causing Nina to wonder if they will ever stop hiding.

The White Mercedes ~ Phillip Pullman
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.

Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?: A Mystery in Poems ~ Mel Glenn
Free verse poems describe the reactions of students, colleagues, and others when a high school teacher is shot to death as the school day begins.

Zero at the Bone ~ Michael Cadnum
When eighteen-year-old Anita fails to return home from work, her parents and younger brother try to understand and cope with her disappearance.

Compiled by L. Baldwin, Librarian
Brick & Upper Shores
June 2001

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