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Dare Me: A Novel

Megan Abbott - Reagan Arthur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and trusted lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive...
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Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator

Jennifer Allison - Dutton Juvenile
Format: Hardcover

Ever since her father died, kooky Gilda Joyce has been working hard to sharpen her psychic skills. She's determined to communicate with spirits from the Other Side and become a crack investigator of spooky, twisted mysteries. After wrangling an invitation to visit San Francisco relatives,...
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Midnight Magic

Avi - Scholastic Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Night after night, a ghost appears in the royal castle Pergamontio, terrifying the princess. Mangus the Magician doesn't believe in ghosts, but that doesn't stop him from being charged with finding this one. The King demands that Mangus free his daughter from the torment of the ghost...otherwise,...
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Pastworld

Ian Beck
Format: Book

What if all of London were really an amusement park -- a whole city returned to Victorian times to entertain visitors from the twenty-first century? That's the wildly original premise of Ian Beck's Pastworld, a high-stakes mystery set in a simulated past.Eve is a
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Never Come Back

David Bell - NAL
Format: Paperback

Elizabeth Hampton is consumed by grief when her mother dies unexpectedly. Leslie Hampton cared for Elizabeth’s troubled brother Ronnie’s special needs, assuming Elizabeth would take him in when the time came. But Leslie’s sudden death propels Elizabeth into a world of danger...
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Shade Me

Jennifer Brown - Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book

The first book in bestselling author Jennifer Brown's thrilling suspense series for fans of Sara Shepard's Pretty Little Liars, Shade Me is about a unique girl who becomes entangled in a mysterious crime and lured into a sexy but dangerous relationship with a boy who may be a suspect.Nikki...
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The Body Finder (Body Finder, 1)

Kimberly Derting - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

The first book in the Body Finder series from Kimberly Derting is equal parts romance and mystery.Sixteen-year-old Violet is hiding two secrets. The first is her confusing new feelings for her childhood best friend Jay. The second is her unusual ability to sense the dead...and the people...
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The Musician's Daughter

Susanne Dunlap - Bloomsbury USA Childrens; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

Murder and love--from the halls of Vienna's imperial family to a perilous gypsy campAmid the glamour of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy's court in 18th-century Vienna, murder is afoot. Or so fifteen-year-old Theresa Maria is convinced when her musician father turns up dead on Christmas...
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Christopher Killer: Forensic Mystery 1

Alane Ferguson - Viking Juvenile; First Edition
Format: Hardcover

Fascinated by forensics, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney persuades her father, the county coroner in sleepy Silverton, CO, to take her on as his assistant. But she never expects her first case to involve the death of a friend! Rachel Geller, a beautiful young waitress, is found strangled...
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The Big Splash

Jack D. Ferraiolo - Amulet Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Snappy, pulp-inspired noir set in the mean hallways of middle school, from an exciting debut author.   The treacherous, hormone-soaked hallways of Franklin Middle School are the setting for this sharp, funny noir novel about tough guys and even tougher girls. “The Frank”...
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The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle

Janet Fox - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Keep calm and carry on." That's what Katherine Bateson's father told her, and that's what she's trying to do: when her father goes off to the war, when her mother sends Kat and her brother and sister away from London to escape the incessant bombing, even when...
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The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone: A Novel

Adele Griffin - Soho Teen
Format: Print book

For fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Girl, Interrupted, and A.S. King, National Book Award-finalist Adele Griffin tells the fully illustrated story of a brilliant young artist, her mysterious death, and the fandom that won't let her go.From the moment she stepped...
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Nothing Bad Is Going to Happen

Kathleen Hale - Battenberg
Format: Print book

Teenage sleuth Kippy Bushman is back in this murderously funny sequel to No One Else Can Have You, which was named one of Time's Best Young Adult Books of the Year. Even more shocking and thrilling than its critically acclaimed predecessor, Nothing Bad Is Going to Happen is another...
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Girl in the Blue Coat

Monica Hesse - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable story of bravery, grief, and love in impossible times"A tapestry of guilt and acceptance, growing responsibility, and reluctant heroism, Hanneke's coming-of-age under heartbreaking circumstances is a jarring reminder of how war consumes and transforms the passions...
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Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance, and Cookery

Susan Juby - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Sunglasses. Check.Binoculars. Check.Notepad. Check.Mom's pink bike. Check. Check? Meet Sherman Mack. Short. Nerdy. Amateur P.I. and prepared to do anything for Dini Trioli. Nobody knows who began it or when it became a tradition, but every girl at Harewood Tech fears being D-listed,...
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Running Girl

Simon Mason - David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc.
Format: Print book

Meet Garvie Smith. Highest IQ ever recorded at Marsh Academy. Lowest ever grades. What's the point? Life sucks. Nothing surprising ever happens. Until Chloe Dow's body is pulled from a pond. Garvie's ex-girlfriend. Inspector Singh is already on the case. Ambitious, uptight,...
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The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century

Sarah Elizabeth Miller - Schwartz & Wade Books,
Format: Print book

Here's middle-grade nonfiction that reads like a thriller. With murder, court battles, and sensational newspaper headlines, the story of Lizzie Borden is compulsively readable and perfect for the Common Core. Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what...
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Trash

Andy Mulligan - David Fickling Books; First Edition edition
Format: eBook

In an unnamed Third World country, in the not-so-distant future, three "dumpsite boys" make a living picking through the mountains of garbage on the outskirts of a large city. One unlucky-lucky day, Raphael finds something very special and very mysterious. So mysterious that he decides...
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Ripper

Stefan Petrucha - Philomel

You thought you knew him. You were dead wrong.Carver Young dreams of becoming a detective, despite growing up in an orphanage with only crime novels to encourage him. But when he is adopted by Detective Hawking of the world famous Pinkerton Agency, Carver is given not only the chance to find...
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Latitude Zero

Diana Renn - Viking Juvenile
Format: Book

"I have to run," said Juan Carlos. "You will call? Please? It is very important." "Yes. I will call. Definitely. At two." That's what Tessa promises. But by two o'clock, young Ecuadorian cycling superstar Juan Carlos is dead, and Tessa, one of the last...
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This Wicked Game

Michelle Zink - Dial
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Maggie Stiefvater and Holly Black comes a dark mystery set in a secret New Orleans voodoo society.Claire Kincaid would love to be normal. But as a descendant of Marie Laveau, the most powerful voodoo queen in history, that’s just not possible. Even worse, Claire’s...
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