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Teen Reading List:
Mystery & Suspense

Avi - Wolf Rider (book, audio)
A phone call from a man who claims he has just killed someone leads Andy into a terrifying investigation to make everyone believe that he's not just "crying wolf".  
Bennett, Jay - Coverup
Brad remembers partying with his friend Alden and sleeping in the passenger seat while Alden drove home. He thinks he remembers Alden running into something--or someone on the road. Alden says nothing happened. Should Brad listen to his friend or to his own memory? 
Cormier, Robert - I Am the Cheese (book, audio)
A young teen knows that he isn't supposed to know certain things, but odd memories keep coming back. This is all very threatening, especially when he starts to remembers why. 
Cormier, Robert - Tenderness
After running away from home, 15-year-old Lori becomes obsessed with Eric, a convicted teen murder being released because he is no longer a juvenile. Lori's persistence results in an unlikely relationship with Eric and interferes with his plan to resume his serial killings. 
Duncan, Lois - I Know What You Did Last Summer
Four teens are involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident one summer. They make a pact never to reveal what happened or even talk about it among themselves. Then, a year later, Julie gets a note that starts the four friends down another terrifying road.  
Duncan, Lois - Stranger With My Face
Laurie's boyfriend is steamed because he saw her on the beach with another boy, but Laurie knows it wasn't her. Soon other people see Laurie in places she hasn't been. Who is this person who looks just like her and why does she want to take over Laurie's life? 
Hautman, Pete - Mr. Was
After moving into his dead grandfather's house, Jack Lund's family life becomes a violent nightmare. Jack escapes through a hidden door in the basement that takes him back to 1941 where he meets his grandparents in their own youth, and Jack learns why his dying grandfather has tried to strangle him in the "future". 
Hayes, Daniel - The Trouble With Lemons
Tyler and Lymie discover a body while hanging out at the quarry. As the 8th grade misfits, they band together to figure out who it is and who did it.  
Heisel, Sharon - The Eyes of a Stranger
Marissa helps out her uncle who owns a carousel, hoping that someday she will meet a boy who will look past her limp and her leg brace. There is a boy who comes sometimes, each time with a different girl-a girl who later turns up missing. But what really matters is that now this handsome boy is paying attention to her. 
L'Engle, Madeleine - Troubling a Star
While stranded on an iceberg and about to freeze to death, 16-year-old Vicky Austin thinks back on all the events that led her from her comfortable family home in Massachusetts to visit her boyfriend in Antarctica. Along the way she encounters mysterious warnings and threats from international criminals and is never sure whom she can trust. 
Lynch, Chris - Freewill
Will doesn't care about wood shop and yet he finds himself making these odd totem pole-like objects. Why do his wood sculptures keep turning up at the sites of his classmates' suicides? Is it Will's doing or is it the sculptures'? 
MacGregor, Rob - Prophecy Rock
Will Lansa, raised by his wealthy white mother, is spending the summer in Arizona on a Hopi reservation with his father, the tribal police chief. Almost immediately he becomes entangled in a dangerous and unusual murder investigation that involves ancient Native American prophecies and witchcraft. 
Nixon, Joan - Nobody's There
After vandalizing the house of her Dad's new girlfriend, Abbie is assigned to do community service with an elderly assistance program. Unfortunately, Mrs. Merkel, Abbie's assigned "friend", is crabby and bossy, and so obsessed with catching local murderers and burglars that she become their next victim, and Abbie is unsure of what to do next. 
Plum-Ucci, Carol - The Body of Christopher Creed
Torey Adams, a teen with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast. 
Qualey, Marsha - Close to a Killer
Barrie almost becomes the next victim when she discovers a clue that brings her dangerously close to a killer in her town. 
Qualey, Marsha - Thin Ice
Seventeen-year-old Arden has been raised by her older brother Scott since her parents died when she was six. When he starts acting strangely and then disappears in a mysterious snowmobile accident, Arden tries to convince everyone that he has run away instead of being killed. 
Staples, Suzanne - Dangerous Skies
Two friends who share the same name but not the same skin color discover a murder. The aftermath of this even changes their lives and their relationships to each other, their families, and their community. 
Vande Velde, Vivian - Never Trust a Dead Man
It's the Middle Ages and Selwyn Roweson is having a bad week. He's been wrongly accused of murdering the rival for his girlfriend and then sealed in a tomb with the dead body. With the help of a witch and the victim who has been resurrected as a talkative and annoying bat, Selwyn sets out to find the real killer. 
Voigt, Cynthia - The Vandemark Mummy
Within days of its arrival at Vandemark College to be put on display, a rather unimportant mummy has been stolen, vandalized, and returned. Twelve-year-old Phineas Hall and his older sister are determined to find out who did this-and why. 
Wells, Rosemary - The Man in the Woods
Helen's first day at school is terrible-a jammed locker, late to classes, no lunch… And last of all, she witnesses an attack on her way home. She follows the attacker into the woods. She's seen him, but did he see her?
Werlin, Nancy - Killer's Cousin
David has been acquitted of the murder of his girlfriend, but becomes involved in the life of a young cousin who may have also caused a death. 
Zindel, Paul - The Undertaker's Gone Bananas
Regardless of what other people think of them, or maybe because of it, Bobby and Lauri stick together, even when faced with an apparently evil new neighbor, Mr. Hulka. One morning Bobby is certain he sees Mr. Hulka murder his wife, so the two teens start their own funny and mysterious investigation.









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