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1) The Lost
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's backyard. He's always kept it local, attending the University of Miami on a football scholarship and, as a Miami PD officer, protecting the city's most vulnerable. Now, as the leader of an FBI task force called Operation Guardian, he is combating international crime. Moon's investigative team discovers that the opportunistic "Blood Brothers"-- Russian nationals Roman and Emile Rostoff-- have evaded authorities...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator of Dog on It, and Bernie, a down-on-his-luck private investigator, are quick to take a new case involving a frantic mother searching for her teenage daughter. This well-behaved and gifted student may or may not have been kidnapped, but she has definitely gotten mixed up with some very unsavory characters. With Chet's highly trained nose leading the way, their hunt for clues takes them into the desert to biker...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When their reckless cousin runs off with a guy she met online to avoid going to boarding school, long-suffering Richard and renegade Wild Skink brave storms, wildlife, and violence in a swampy region of Florida to find her.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
When the body of a well-dressed man is found shot execution-style in a wooded area on his property, Jim Quilleran and his feline companions, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Intrepid canine detective Chet accompanies his human police officer partner, Bernie, on a first assignment involving the disappearance of a teenage girl who ran with the wrong crowd, a case that is complicated by Bernie's dysfunctional personal life.
Author
Series
Confessions volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Tandy Angel struggles to remember key details about her passionate love affair with the handsome son of a family enemy while tackling two cases including a wrongful homicide charge against her brother and a series of murders occurring on New York's Upper West Side.
7) Spin
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
When DJ ParSec (Paris Secord), rising star of the local music scene, is found dead over her turntables, the two girls who found her, Kya (her pre-fame best friend) and Fuse (her current chief groupie) are torn between grief for Paris and hatred for each other--but when the lack of obvious suspects stalls the investigation, and the police seem to lose interest, despite pressure from social media and ParSec's loyal fans, the two girls unite, determined...
Author
Publisher
Walker
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Calla's mother suddenly dies, she goes to stay with her psychic grandmother in Lily Dale, a spiritualist community in western New York, where she discovers some disconcerting secrets about her practical, down-to-earth mother, and realizes that she herself may also have some psychic abilities.
9) Ripper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Adopted by famous Pinkerton Agency Detective Hawking in 1895 New York, fourteen-year-old Carver Young hopes to find his birth father, but when he becomes involved in the pursuit of notorious killer Jack the Ripper, Carver discovers that finding the truth can be worse than ignorance.
Author
Series
UNICORNE files volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Michael Malone saves a dog, he discovers that he has paranormal abilities, which bring him to the attention of a secret organization, UNICORNE--but he plans to use the ability to find out what happened to his father, who mysteriously vanished three years earlier, and save his new friend, Freya.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
473 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jameson and Grayson Hawthorne are each pulled into a different high-stakes game, where they must decide who they want to be and what they will sacrifice to win"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train's arrival in the English village of Bishop's Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger who whispers a cryptic message into her ear. Moments later, he is dead, mysteriously pushed under the train by someone in the crowd. Who was this...
Author
Series
Inheritance Games volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company, an imprint of Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition ;
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
473 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. When Grayson's half sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does best: take care of the problem--efficiently, effectively, mercilessly. And without getting bogged down in emotional entanglements.
Jameson Hawthorne...
14) Always watching
Author
Series
Rayne Tour volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
221 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a frightening murder occurs after one of her famous mother's rock concerts, sixteen-year-old Shaley tries to help the police find the killer and to determine whether her long-lost father has some connection to the crime.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Seven very proper Victorian young ladies conspire to hide a murder from the authorities at their boarding school"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Alternating chapters explore how race relations have changed in the past century, as Rowan Chase investigates a murder committed during the Tulsa race riot in 1921.
17) Ink and ashes
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Japanese American Claire Takata finds out that her deceased father was once a member of the yakuza, a Japanese crime syndicate, danger enters her life that could end up killing someone.
18) Egypt's fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
viii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old John Boarhog's mom dies, the last thing he wants is to be schlepped off to the Jersey Home for Boys, where kids are forced to make skinny jeans for hipsters and are fed nothing but kale. Instead, he makes himself a snug home in the ceiling of the New York Museum of Natural History, where he reads anything he get his hands on and explores the artifacts afterhours. But when a rare Egyptian ruby--the highlight of the museum's new...
19) The oracle code
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"After a gunshot leaves her paralyzed, Barbara Gordon enters the Arkham Center for Independence, where Gotham's teens undergo physical and mental rehabilitation. Now using a wheelchair, Barbara must adapt to a new normal, but she cannot shake the feeling that something is dangerously amiss."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close. Now all they have in common is Carlton High and the beginning of a very bad day. When Cal pulls into campus late for class and runs into Ivy and Mateo, they decide to ditch and go into the city. Just the three of them, like old times. Until they spot another Carlton High student skipping school-- and follow him to the scene of his own murder. Their day just turned deadly. And it's about to get worse. Mateo, and...