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, family problems [X], mystery and detective stories [X], large print books, mystery fiction [X], dysfunctional families
Jasper Jones
In small-town Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when one asks the other to help him cover up a murder until they can prove who is responsible.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: interpersonal relations, secrets, murder, family problems [X], recluses, australia, secrecy, homicide, hermits, detective and mystery stories, dysfunctional families, mystery and detective stories [X], mystery fiction [X], mystery fiction [X]
Ask The Dark
Billy Zeets has a story, and he wants to tell it. He is the neighborhood kid everyone suspects whenever there is a vandalism, theft, or bloodied nose.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 940
subjects: heroes and heroines, kidnapping, homicide, conduct of life, family problems [X], heroes, murder, dysfunctional families, mystery and detective stories [X], family life, mystery fiction [X], juvenile fiction / action & adventure / general, juvenile fiction / mysteries & detective stories, juvenile fiction / law & crime, juvenile fiction / boys & men, electronic books, mystery fiction [X], electronic books