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Note:
F = Adult fiction Y = Young Adult fiction J = Juvenile fiction
CS F = Adult books on tape CDB F = Adult books on CD |
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Get a Clue |
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Brooks, Kevin. Kissing the Rain, 2004. Y
Fifteen-year-old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight, and bullied by his classmates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a car chase and a fight that results in a murder. |
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Cadnum, Michael. Rundown, 1999. Y
As a game, sixteen-year-old Jennifer pretends that she has been attacked by a serial rapist, but then she finds herself getting more attention than she wanted, from the police and her parents. |
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Cooney, Caroline. The Terrorist, 1997. Y
Someone handed Laura's brother a package that exploded on a London subway and Laura is determined to find the killer. |
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Cormier, Robert. In the Middle of the Night, 1995. Y
Sixteen-year-old Denny lives in the shadow of a deadly accident from his father's past and some of the survivors still blame his father. |
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De Felice, Cynthia. The Light on Hogback Hill, 1993. J
When she investigates the mysterious light up on Hogback Hill, eleven-year-old Hadley finds and befriends a hunchbacked old woman with a tragic past. |
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Donnelly, Jennifer. A Northern Light, 2003. Y
In 1906, sixteen-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. |
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Duncan, Lois. Gallows Hill, 1997. Y
When Sarah works in the fortune-telling booth at a school carnival, she begins seeing visions in her crystal ball, a talent that earns a frightening and threatening reaction from other students. |
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Gilstrap, John. Nathan's Run, 1996. CS F
Twelve year-old Nathan Bailey is on the run after murdering a guard in juvie and then escaping the prison. |
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Hahn, Mary Downing. Dead Man in Indian Creek, 1990. J
When Matt and Parker learn the body they found in Indian Creek is a drug-related death, they fear Parker's mother may be involved. |
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Hayes, Daniel. The Trouble with Lemons, 1990. Y
Tyler and Lymie find a dead body floating in the local quarry. |
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Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, 2003. F
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother. |
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Haynes, Betsy. Deadly Deception, 1994. Y
When her boyfriend is arrested and charged with murdering the school guidance counselor, seventeen-year-old Ashlyn tries to find the real killer. |
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Hobbs, Will. Ghost Canoe, 1997. J
Set in 1874 in the wilds of Washington State, a ship's captain is murdered and 14-year-old Nathan wants to find what happened. |
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Johnson, Kathleen. A Fast and Brutal Wing, 2004. Y
This story relates the strange events that led to the disappearance of a reclusive author on Halloween night and the involvement of a teenager and his friends--a brother and sister some say can transform into animals and back again. |
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Kay, Terry. The Kidnapping of Aaron Greene, 1999. F
Aaron Greene is barely a year out of high school when he disappears on his way to work at a powerful Atlanta bank. The kidnappers demand 10 million dollars, with one condition: the money must come from the bank, not Aaron's parent's. But the bank refuses to pay. |
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Kerr, M.E. Fell Down, 1991. Y
Fell's determination to investigate his best friend's death in a car crash leads him to an unsolved disappearance from almost 20 years ago. |
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Klause, Annette Curtis. Alien Secrets, 1993. J, Y, CS F
On her journey to the distant planet where her parents are working, twelve-year-old Puck befriends a troubled alien and becomes involved in a dangerous mystery involving a precious artifact. |
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L'Engle, Madeleine. Troubling a Star, 1994. Y
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 involved her in a dangerous mystery. |
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Mazer, Harry. Who is Eddie Leonard?, 1993. Y
A fourteen-year-old boy who was raised by an abusive old woman and who has always had questions about his parents sees a picture of a missing child and sets out to discover if he is that child. |
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McDonald, Joyce. Swallowing Stones, 1997. Y
Michael and Jenna recount the horrifying aftermath of Michael's birthday celebration during which he discharges an antique rifle and unknowingly kills the father of high school classmate Jenna Ward. |
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McNamee, Graham. Acceleration, 2003. Y
Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him. |
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Nixon, Joan Lowery. Murdered, My Sweet, 1997. Y
Jenny's mom is a mystery writer, so when a relative is murdered, everyone expects mom to solve the crime; only Jenny knows that mom her mom isn't much of a detective. |
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Orenstein, Denise Gosliner. Unseen Companion, 2003. Y
In rural Alaska in 1969, the lives of several teenagers come together while trying to find out what happened to a sixteen-year-old boy who is missing. |
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Peck, Richard. Through a Brief Darkness, 1973. Y
Forced to ask herself whether her father was indeed a criminal, Karen comes to rely on her own instincts and judgment as her situation becomes increasingly terrifying. |
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Picoult, Jodi. The Pact: A Love Story, 1998. F
This brooding novel begins with a failed suicide pact between two teenagers: Emily Gold dies, but the precise motivations behind her death remain obscure. |
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Plum-Ucci, Carol. The She, 2003. Y
After his parents are lost at sea, Evan Barrett and his older brother leave their seaside home in West Hook to escape bad memories, but years later even worse questions emerge when Evan is asked to help a fellow student deal with another sea-related tragedy. |
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Pullman, Philip. The Tin Princess, 1994. Y
In 1882 sixteen-year-old Becky applies for a tutoring job in London and becomes embroiled in assassination, intrigue, and dangerous politics in the small European kingdom of Razkavia. |
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Qualey, Marsha. Thin Ice, 1997. Y
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. |
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Reiss, Kathryn. The Glass House People, 1992. Y
Sixteen-year-old Beth and her brother discover that their mother has been estranged from her sister and the rest of her family because of the mysterious death of a man both sisters loved. |
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Rubinstein, Gillian. Galax-Arena, 1995. Y
Kidnapped from an Australian train station, Joella, Peter, and Liane are taken on a rocket to the Galax-Arena, where children stolen from Earth perform death-defying stunts for the amusement of the inhabitants of the planet Vexak. |
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Snyder, Midori. Hannah's Garden, 2003. Y
When Cassie's grandfather falls ill, she and her mother return to his farm, where Cassie discovers a wonderful, terrible secret about her family. |
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Springer, Nancy. Blood Trail, 2003. Y, CDB F, CS F
After his best friend is murdered, seventeen-year-old Booger realizes he is the only one who has any idea who might have committed the crime--but he doesn't dare tell anyone. |
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Stevenson, James. The Unprotected Witness, 1997. Y
After the murder of his father, who has been hiding under the Witness Protection Program, Pete finds himself the target of sinister men who seem to think he knows where a large sum of money is hidden. |
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Sykes, Shelley. For Mike, 1998. Y
Jeff's best friend, Mike, is missing and Jeff is having strange dreams about him. Did Kirby, another friend, play a part in Mike's disappearance? |
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Taylor, Theodore. The Weirdo, 1991. Y
Samantha Sanders, 16, befriends Chip Clewt, the "Weirdo," who lives in the Powhatan Swamp, scene of two violent murders. |
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Trueman, Terry. Stuck in Neutral, 2000. Y
Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him. |
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Twain, Mark. Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894. F
Pudd'nhead Wilson is a Northern lawyer who comes to a small Missouri town. The townspeople give him the nickname "Pudd'nhead" and refuse to give him their legal work. He spends most of his time dabbling in fingerprinting, which helps him solve a town mystery. Classic Mark Twain. |
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Vande Velde, Vivian. Never Trust a Dead Man, 1999. Y
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. |
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Voigt, Cynthia. Vandemark Mummy, 1991. Y
In a creepy thriller decked out with historical trappings, 12-year-old Phineas and his older sister, Althea, investigate the disappearance mummy. |
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Werlin, Nancy. Double Helix, 2004. Y
Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering. |
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Wilhelm, Kate. The Good Children, 1998. F
Four siblings are thrown on their own considerable resources when they're unexpectedly orphaned in this spooky, consolatory fable from veteran tale-spinner Wilhelm. |
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Wynne-Jones, Tim. Stephen Fair: A Novel, 1998. Y
Stephen is having reoccurring nightmares and has a strong feeling that his mother is hiding something in this haunting novel. |
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Zindel, Paul. Reef of Death, 1998. Y
P.C. McPhee hops a plane to Australia to help his crazy uncle solve an offshore mystery. A tidal wave of adventure and a cast of villains--including the biggest, nastiest, man-eating fish on earth--await him Down Under. |
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Short Stories |
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The Best of Sisters in Crime, 1997. M |
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Classic Mysteries : A Collection of Mind-Bending Mysteries. Molly Cooper, ed., 1996. Y |
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Classic Mysteries II : A Collection of Mind-Bending Masterpieces. Glen & Karen Bledsoe, eds., 1996. Y |
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Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes, 1981. M |
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Stine, R.L. Curtains, 1990. Y |
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Weber, Kenneth J. Five Minute Mysteries, 1989. M |
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Weber, Kenneth J. More Five Minute Mysteries, 1991. M |