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Get A Clue @ the Library: Mysteries for Teens booklist
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*Abrahams, Peter-
Thirteen-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.
*Avi-
When 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, Edward-
Seventh 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, Kevin-
Two 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, Elise-
A 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, Jennifer-
In 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, Lois-
Nore arrives at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation to find her new family odd and an aura of evil and mystery about the place.
*Feinstein, John-
Fledgling 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, Alane-
As 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, Alan-
In 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 Dominguez-
After 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, Charles-
Teenage James has 48 hours to rescue a kidnapped professor and to keep a powerful weapon from falling into the wrong hands.
Hoffman, Mary-
Silvano 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.
Horowitz, Anthony-
"Targeted by a hitman and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6. But their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant. There he spots Desmond McCain, a high profile charity organiser, who realises that Alex is on to him and the real plans for the money he's raising. Kidnapped and whisked off to Africa, Alex learns the full horror of McCain's plot: to create an epic disaster that will kill millions. Forced to ask MI6 for protection, Alex finds himself being manipulated in a deadly game that could lead to the destruction of an entire East African country."--Amazon.com.
*Jinks, Catherine-
Fifteen-year-old genius Cadel Piggot Greenaus sets aside his new, crime-free life when his best friend Sonja is attacked, and he crosses oceans and continents trying to track down his nemesis Prosper English, breaking whatever rules he must.
*Karbo, Karen-
Thirteen-year-old amateur sleuth Minerva Clark is contacted by a boy whose parents' Portland, Oregon grocery store burned down, but when she agrees to investigate the fire, she does not expect to become an arson suspect herself.
*Miller, Kirsten-
Fourteen-year-olds Ananka Fishbein, Kiki Strike, and the other Irregulars encounter a Chinese mummy, a ghost, trained squirrels, and old enemies as they try to stop an art forgery ring and safeguard the secret streets hidden beneath New York City.
Mitchell, Saundra-
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.
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.
Peet, Mal-
In 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.
*Perez, Marlene-
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.
Price, Charlie-
A 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.
Richards, Justin-
Fifteen-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, Malcolm-
Luke 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.
Smith, Andrew-
In 1970, after their older brother is shipped off to Vietnam, sixteen-year-old Jonah and his younger brother Simon leave home to find their father, who is being released from an Arizona prison, but soon find themselves hitching a ride with a violent killer.
*Sorrells, Walter-
As 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.
Weingarten, Lynn-
Two years after the disappearance of her older sister, sixteen-year-old Ellie goes on a quest to find her.
