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• Dreamland Burning

  Latham, Jennifer,

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  Mystery and historical fiction. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family’s property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past, the present…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Were Liars

  Lockhart, E

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  Mystery and suspense. A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Monday's Not Coming

  Jackson, Tiffany D.,

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  Mystery and inspired by real events. Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable—more sisters than friends. So when Monday doesn’t turn up for the first day of school, Claudia’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Code Name Verity

  Wein, Elizabeth

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  Mystery and historical fiction. October 11, 1943. A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. When…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• White Rabbit

  Roehrig, Caleb,

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  Mystery and pulp fiction. Rufus Holt is having the worst night of his life. It begins with the reappearance of his ex-boyfriend, Sebastian—the guy who stomped his heart out like a spent cigarette. Then Rufus gets a call from his sister April,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Patron Saints of Nothing

  Ribay, Randy,

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  Mystery and current events. Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall. But when he discovers that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Diviners

  Bray, Libba,

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  Mystery and fantasy. Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City—and she is positively ecstatic. It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls and rakish…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Firekeeper's Daughter

  Boulley, Angeline,

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  Mystery, romance, and current events. As a biracial, unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. Daunis dreams of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Five Total Strangers

  Richards, Natalie D.,

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  Mystery and suspense. When Mira flies home to spend Christmas with her mother in Pittsburgh, a record-breaking blizzard results in a cancelled layover. Desperate to get to her grief-ridden mother in the wake of a family death, Mira hitches a ride…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Legend

  Lu, Marie, 1984-

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  Mystery and dystopia. What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pretty Little Liars

  Shepard, Sara, 1977-

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  Mystery and intrigue. Spencer covets her sister's boyfriend. Aria's fantasizing about her English teacher. Emily's crushing on the new girl at school. Hanna uses some ugly tricks to stay beautiful. But they've all kept an even bigger secret since…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Spy in the House

  Lee, Y. S. (Ying S.), 1974-

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  Mystery, romance and historical fiction. Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan (and thief) Mary Quinn is surprised to be offered a singular education, instruction in fine manners—and an unusual vocation. Miss Scrimshaw’s Academy for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Broken Things

  Oliver, Lauren, 1982-

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  Mystery and fantasy. Everyone thinks Mia and Brynn killed their best friend. The only thing is: they didn’t do it. On the anniversary of Summer’s death, a seemingly insignificant discovery resurrects the mystery and pulls Mia and Brynn back together…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

  Jackson, Holly, 1992-

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  Mystery and true crime podcast. The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One of Us Is Lying

  McManus, Karen M.,

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  Mystery and classic whodunit. Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sadie

  Summers, Courtney,

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  Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance.