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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.
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...
3) The valiant
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a proud Celtic king is captured and sold to a training school for women gladiators under the patronage of Julius Caesar, circumstances that put her survival in the hands of an enemy who was responsible for her sister's death.
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
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...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Nancy Luo, Krystal Choi, Akil Patel, and Alexander Lin, juniors at Manhattan's elite Sinclair Prep, are forced to confront their secrets after Jamie Ruan, once their closest friend, is found dead.
7) Five survive
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Her best friend - the older brother - his perfect girlfriend - a secret crush - a classmate - and a killer. When their RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere with no cell service, they soon realize this is no accident. They have been trapped by someone out there in the dark, someone who clearly wants one of them dead. With eight hours until dawn, the six friends must escape, or figure...
8) Cold
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in alternating perspectives, Todd replays the events that lead to his death in the local park, watching as detectives investigate his murder and talk to the students responsible for it, and meanwhile Georgia, who does not know Todd, cannot stop thinking about him.
Author
Series
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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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"
11) The beautiful
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"--
12) Family of Liars
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts. A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow. A fiery, addicted heiress. An irresistible, unpredictable boy. A summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes. Welcome back to the Sinclair family. They were always liars.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows.
The town is picture-perfect, but it's hiding secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery, someone declares open season on homecoming, promising...
14) Hollow fires
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
Author
Series
Firekeeper's Daughter volume 2
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is--the laid-back twin, the troublemaker, the best fisher on Sugar Island. Her aspirations won't ever take her far from home, and she wouldn't have it any other way. But as the already striking number of missing Indigenous women continues to rise, as her family becomes embroiled in a high-profile murder investigation, and as greedy grave robbers seek to profit off what belongs to her Anishinaabe tribe,...