The New Girl
Guided by her rules, nine-year-old Allie works to get past being just the new girl at school, eagerly awaits the arrival of her kitten, and faces turmoil when her grandmother visits while the family is still settling into their new home.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 92
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: bullying, grandmothers, rules (philosophy), moving, household [X], best friends, fund raising, contests, middle school students, schools, murder, high school students, man-woman relationships, horror stories, homicide, mystery and detective stories [X], mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories, north carolina, sisters, school stories, radio and television novels
The Ghost Of Lizard Light
Moving from Iowa to a lighthouse cottage in Maine, ten-year-old Jack struggles to live up to his father's high standards and encounters a young ghost who presents Jack with a 150-year-old unsolved sea mystery.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: ghosts, moving, household [X], fathers and sons, mystery and detective stories [X], ghost stories, maine
Powerless
Soon after moving to Noble's Green, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Daniel learns that his new friends have super powers that they will lose when they turn thirteen, unless he can use his brain power to protect them.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: supernatural, bullying, moving, household [X], schools, families, pennsylvania, bullies, moving, school stories, family life, family, detective and mystery stories, paranormal fiction, mystery and detective stories [X], mystery fiction, mystery fiction
The Deep End Gang
Twelve-year-old Martin Jessup moves to a new home and becomes intrigued by a deserted house across the street and joins two new friends in discovering the secrets inside.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: moving, household [X], adventure and adventurers, mystery and detective stories [X], moving, adventure fiction
Would My Fortune Cookie Lie?
While worrying that her mom is plotting to move the family from their Chicago home, thirteen-year-old Alexis also wonders about the mysterious young man who seems to be shadowing her and her friend.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 510
subjects: moving, household [X], brothers and sisters, family life, mystery and detective stories [X], moving
The Case Of The Time-capsule Bandit
Twelve-year-old Randi, unhappy about moving from Brooklyn to Deer Creek, Tennessee, after her mother's death, soon finds new friends and a case to solve surrounding a stolen time capsule and rumors of a centuries-old treasure.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: mystery and detective stories [X], community life, single-parent families, moving, household [X], time capsules, tennessee, treasure troves, buried treasure, mystery fiction
Book Scavenger
Just after twelve-year-old Emily and her family move to San Francisco, she teams up with new friend James to follow clues in an odd book they find, hoping to figure out its secrets before the men who attacked Emily's hero, publisher Garrison Griswold, solve the mystery or come after the friends.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 82
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: juvenile fiction / action & adventure / general, juvenile fiction / books & libraries, juvenile fiction / mysteries & detective stories, mystery and detective stories [X], moving, household [X], san francisco (calif.), treasure hunt (game), books and reading, publishers and publishing, moving, adventure fiction, mystery fiction
A Little Bit Of Spectacular
When eleven-year-old Olivia finds a strange message written on the bathroom walls of a few public places in her new hometown, she finds herself in the midst of a mystery to solve--and in need of a new friend to help her solve it.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
The Way To Stay In Destiny
Sixth-grader Theo leaves everything behind to live with his Uncle Chester, a Vietnam War veteran and loner, in Destiny, Florida, but he is drawn to play the piano in Miss Sister's dance school and soon makes friends with the feisty Anabel, a baseball fanatic who invites Theo to help solve a mystery.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: mystery and detective stories [X], orphans, baseball, pianists, boardinghouses, florida, moving, household [X], uncles, baseball stories, detective and mystery fiction
Little Monsters
When Kacey moves in with her estranged father and his new family, her new friend goes missing and Kacey finds herself at the center of the investigation.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: moving, household [X], missing children, detective and mystery fiction, mystery and detective stories [X]
The Ghost And Whatshisface
Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.
FIC
year:
copies: 89
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: shakespeare, william, moving, household [X], schools, middle schools, friendship, secrets, cell phones, ghosts, mystery and detective stories [X], detective and mystery stories, secrecy, ghost stories, detective and mystery fiction
Zenobia July
Zenobia July, an excellent coder and hacker, investigates a mystery while wrestling with the challenges of a new school, a new family, and presenting her true gender for the first time.
FIC
year:
copies: 37
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: detective and mystery stories, identity (psychology), transgender teenagers, aunts, friendship, identity, lesbians, moving, household [X], mystery and detective stories [X], transgender people, moving, mystery fiction, identity (philosophical concept)
Alguien Tiene Un Secreto
While true-crime aficionado Ellery and her twin brother are staying with their grandmother in a Vermont community known for murder, a new friend goes missing and Ellery may be next.
FIC
year:
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: homicide, missing persons, community life, siblings, twins, moving, grandmothers, secrecy, mystery fiction, spanish language, detective and mystery fiction, murder, brothers and sisters, moving, household [X], mystery and detective stories [X], secrets, spanish language materials, electronic books