The Calder Game
When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 98
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830
subjects: calder, alexander, mobiles (sculpture), sculpture, missing persons, mystery and detective stories [X], england, mystery fiction [X], large type books [X], large print books, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories
The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle
When 13 year-old Charlotte Doyle boarded the Seahawk in June of 1832, she never dreamed that the crew would mutiny and that her life would be in danger.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 188
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: transatlantic voyages, murder, sea stories, historical fiction, mystery and detective stories [X], homicide, large type books [X], mutiny, sex role, self-perception, ships, mystery fiction, ocean travel, compact discs, audiobooks, voyages and travels, adventure fiction, newbery honor book, sea stories, historical fiction, mystery fiction [X]
Silverfin
Young James Bond, a student at the Eton boarding school in the 1930s, travels to his aunt's Scotland estate for the Easter holidays where he becomes caught up in investigating the disappearance of a local boy, a crime allegedly linked to a madman with a plot for global domination.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
subjects: bond, james (fictitious character), missing persons, boarding schools, mystery and detective stories [X], bond, james (fictional character), private schools, mystery fiction, spies, british, large type books [X], large print books, spy stories, bahamas, detective and mystery stories, mystery fiction [X]
The Missing Manatee
While coping with his parents' separation, eleven-year-old Skeet spends most of Spring Break in his skiff on a Florida river, where he finds a manatee shot to death and begins looking for the killer.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 105
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830
subjects: boats and boating, fishing, problem families, manatees, detective and mystery stories, florida, fishing stories, mystery fiction [X], large type books [X], family problems, mystery and detective stories [X], large print books, mystery fiction, dysfunctional families
Paper Towns
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 335
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: missing persons, bildungsromans, mystery fiction, florida, large type books [X], juvenile fiction / general, adolescence, coming of age, mystery and detective stories [X], bildungsromans, mystery fiction [X]
The Name Of The Game Was Murder
When she visits her great-uncle, a successful and self-centered author, at his fortress-like home on Catalina Island, fifteen-year-old Samantha becomes involved in his manipulative game that leads to murder.
FIC
year: 1994
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890
subjects: large type books [X], mystery and detective stories [X], murder, authors, mystery fiction [X], mystery fiction, homicide
Cross My Heart
"Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart -- nothing matters more to him than his children, his grandmother, and his wife, Bree.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: cross, alex (fictional character), african american detectives, mystery fiction, fiction / thrillers, fiction / suspense, washington (d.c.), mystery and detective stories [X], suspense fiction, cross, alex (fictitious character), large type books [X], large print books, suspense fiction, mystery fiction [X]
The Case Of The Silk King
The reader is asked to travel to Thailand to investigate the disappearance of an American businessman, and can choose between alternative adventures, each leading to nineteen possible endings.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: thompson, james harrison wilson, plot-your-own stories, large type books [X], mystery and detective stories [X], thailand, missing persons, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories, mystery fiction [X], plot-your-own stories
Confessions
As she fights for the family company, Tandy Angel's detective prowess is called into question and her paranoia builds, forcing her to face the possibility that her stalker could be all in her head--or the very real danger that will finally bring her down.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: large type books [X], mystery, detectives, love, family life, stalking, twins, brothers and sisters, mystery and detective stories [X], new york (n.y.), mystery fiction [X], adventure fiction