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, best friends, fund raising, contests, middle school students, schools, murder [X], high school students, man-woman relationships, horror stories [X], homicide, mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories [X], north carolina, sisters, school stories, radio and television novels
The Perfect Place To Die
Seventeen-year-old Zuretta Palmer travels to Chicago during the 1893 World's Fair to find her missing sister, but when the police and the Pinkertons refuse to help her, Zuretta begins her own investigation by becoming a maid at the notorious Castle.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: household employees, sisters, buildings, murder [X], mystery fiction, horror tales, pinkerton's national detective agency, world's columbian exposition, chicago (ill.), detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories, horror stories [X], homicide, detective and mystery fiction, horror fiction
Where He Can't Find You
"Abby Ward lives in a town haunted by disappearances. People vanish, and when they're found, their bodies have been dismembered and sewn back together in unnatural ways.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: missing persons, families, murder [X], detective and mystery stories [X], horror tales, family life, mystery and detective stories, horror stories [X], detective and mystery fiction, horror fiction