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