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Author
Series
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past"
2) The Ivies
Author
Publisher
Ember, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Ember edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
313 p.
Language
English
Description
The Ivies, five prep school elites who would kill to get into the colleges of their dreams, has a showdown after Liv gets into Harvard and queen bee Avery does not.
3) #NoEscape
Author
Series
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When contestants in an escape room challenge start being killed, seventeen-year-old Persey must solve a series of bizarre and gruesome puzzles, riddles, and games to make it out alive.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While at a girls' empowerment camp, high school pariah Neve and her new best friend Diane joke about killing each other's bullies, and soon after returning home, Neve finds herself being blackmailed into committing murder.
Author
Series
The Diviners volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 26
Physical Desc
613 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After revealing herself as a Diviner, Evie O'Neill investigates a series of mysterious deaths and becomes a target of someone who is threatened by her ability.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.
Author
Series
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Becca auditions for a new, non-lethal reality show featuring Painiacs, hoping to prove that her deceased mother was not Alcatraz 2.0 executioner, Molly Mauler.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"In 19th century New Orleans, Celine, a dressmaker from Paris, becomes embroiled in a murder mystery that's connected to a glamorous supernatural cohort"--
9) Stateless
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
384 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Stella North is one of twelve young pilots competing in a 1937 air race meant to promote peace in Europe, but when one of her competitors is sabotaged, Stella races to determine who is capable of murder, and who might be the next victim.
Author
Series
Arc of a Scythe volume 3.5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories that span the time when humans live in a world without hunger, disease, or death and Scythes act as the living instruments of population control.
11) Other
Author
Series
Other volume 1
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gwen Williams is like any seventeen-year-old except that she is a shapeshifter living in Klikamuks, Washington, where not everyone tolerates "Others" like Gwen, but when someone begins killing Others she must try to embrace her true self and find the killer before she becomes the next victim.
12) Long way down
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Sixty seconds. Seven floors. Three rules. One gun.
Will's older brother, Shawn, has been shot. Dead. Will feels a sadness so great he can't explain it. But in his neighborhood there are THE RULES: No. 1: Crying. Don't. No matter what. No. 2: Snitching. Don't. No matter what. No. 3: Revenge. Do. No matter what.
But bullets miss. You can get the wrong guy. And there's always someone else who knows to follow the rules.
13) The Best Lies
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Remy Tsai's boyfriend, Jack, is shot by her best friend, Elise, and while police investigate, Remy probes her memories for the truth of their friendship.
14) Out of the Easy
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
346 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
15) The Beautiful
Author
Series
Beautiful volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
425 pages : color illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 19th century New Orleans, Celine, a dressmaker from Paris, becomes embroiled in a murder mystery that's connected to a glamorous supernatural cohort"--
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"--
17) #MurderTrending
Author
Series
Murder Trending volume 1
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In the near future, citizens can enjoy watching the executions of society's most infamous convicted felons, streaming live on The Postman app from the prison island Alcatraz 2.0. Dee Guerrera wakes up in a haze, lying on the ground of a dimly lit warehouse, about to be the next victim of the app, found guilty of murdering her stepsister. But Dee refuses to roll over and die for a heinous crime she didn't commit. Her newly formed posse, the Death Row...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teacher--a story that made headlines after the teacher's body was found by three Saint Ambrose students in the woods behind their school. The case was never solved. Now that Brynn is moving home and starting her dream internship at a true-crime show, she's determined to find out what really happened. The kids who found Mr. Larkin are her way in, and her ex-best...
19) The confession
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
2nd ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
150 p. : 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Julie does not believe any of her friends would have killed Al, even though they all hated him, but then one of them confesses and Julie finds herself in possession of a deadly secret.
Author
Series
The Diviners volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 27
Physical Desc
552 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Diviners face ghosts that are haunting an asylum and wreaking havoc all over New York City, forgotten ones with dangerous ties to the King of Crows.