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Get A Clue @ the Library: Mysteries for Teens booklist
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*Abrahams, PeterThirteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes aficionado Ingrid Levin-Hill tries to clear her grandfather's name when he is accused of murdering an environmental activist found dead on his farm.
*AviWhen his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, 14-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.
*Bloor, EdwardSeventh grader Martin Conway believes that his life is monotonous and dull until the night the antique radio he uses as a night light transports him to the bombing of London in 1940.
Brooks, KevinTwo brothers, sons of an incarcerated gypsy, leave London traveling to an isolated and desolate village, in search of the brutal killer of their sister.
Blume, Lesley M.M.After their mother abandons them during the Great Depression, 11-year-old Tennyson Fontaine and her little sister Hattie are sent to live with their eccentric Aunt Henrietta in a decaying plantation house outside of New Orleans.
*Broach, EliseA summer trip across the New Mexico desert turns nightmarish for 14-year-old Lucy, her older brother Jamie, and his best friend Kit, as they become involved in the suspicious death of a young girl.
Donnelly, JenniferIn 1906, 16-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
*Duncan, LoisNore arrives at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation to find her new family odd and an aura of evil and mystery about the place.
*Feinstein, JohnFledgling 14-year-old sports reporters Susan Carol and Stevie investigate suspicious activities at the Super Bowl after Stevie gets fired from his co-anchor job on a ground-breaking teen sports show.
*Ferguson, AlaneAs assistant to her father, the county coroner of Silverton, Colorado Cameryn has seen more gore than the average seventeen-year-old. But even Cameryn is shocked when the most popular guy in the school, discovers the gruesome corpse of their English teacher murdered in his own bed.
*Gratz, AlanIn a contemporary story based on Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, Horatio Wilkes seeks to solve the murder of his friend Hamilton Prince's father in Denmark, Tennessee.
Greene, Michele DominguezAfter having unsettling dreams about the kidnapped daughter of her mother's employer, 15-year-old Martika learns that she is a descendant of a long line of curanderas - Mayan medicine women with special powers.
*Higson, CharlesTeenage James has 48 hours to rescue a kidnapped professor and to keep a powerful weapon from falling into the wrong hands.
Hoffman, MarySilvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.
Hoobler, DorothyReturning home to investigate the possible connection of his family's tea shop with smugglers, Seikei, now a samurai in eighteenth-century Japan, becomes involved in murder at a local puppet theater and saving the life of his sister's accused boyfriend.
Horowitz, AnthonyAfter the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, 14-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
*Jinks, CatherineChild prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.
*Johns, LindaTwelve-year-old Hannah West and her mother move into the swanky Belltown Towers in downtown Seattle, where a neighbor's stolen piece of artwork pulls Hannah into Seattle's thriving art scene and on the trail of a thief.
*Karbo, KarenStill enjoying her newfound self-confidence, a 13-year-old sleuth in Portland, Oregon, tries to uncover a missing red diamond and gets herself mixed up with a crooked animal shelter worker and some very strange animals.
*Miller, KirstenLife becomes more interesting for Ananka Fishbein when, at the age of 12, she discovers an underground room in the park across from her New York City apartment and meets a mysterious girl called Kiki Strike who claims that she, too, wants to explore the subterranean world.
Nelson, Blake A sixteen-year-old Portland, Oregon skateboarder, whose parents are going through a difficult divorce, is engulfed by guilt and confusion when he accidentally kills a security guard at a train yard.
Pagliarulo, AntonioWealthy 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 secret campus role-playing club, the murderer is not obvious.
Peet, MalIn England in 1995, 15-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
Portman, FrankHigh school loser Tom Henderson discovers that The Catcher in the Rye may hold the clues to the many mysteries in his life.
Price, CharlieA loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince the adults that he knows what happened to her.
Pullman, PhilipIn 19th-century London, 16-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
Richards, JustinFifteen-year-old Matt and his new friend Robin search the globe to retrieve an ancient code - rumored to have brought down the ancient civilization of Atlantis - from the hands of a madman who is bent on destroying the modern world.
*Rose, MalcolmLuke has barely had time to celebrate his final exams when Malc, his Mobile Aid to Law and Crime, calls him to their first case. A fellow student has been mysteriously shot dead with an arrow. Two more grisly on-campus murders follow, and all the evidence points to Luke himself.
Runholt, SusanWhile traveling in London, Paris, and Amsterdam, 14-year-old best friends Kari and Lucas solve an international art forgery mystery.
Shearer, AlexFergal Banfield, an eccentric lad who collects cans, is surprised to find some unexpected - and even alarming - things in a few of his treasures, and when he meets Charlotte, another collector, they begin an investigation that leads them into dangerous territory.
*Sorrells, WalterAs David enters his senior year of high school, a family secret emerges that could solve the mystery of why his mother was murdered two years ago.