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, high school students, man-woman relationships, horror stories, homicide [X], mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories, north carolina [X], sisters, school stories, radio and television novels
Three Times Lucky
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafe? and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 214
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560
subjects: restaurants, community life, identity (psychology), murder, foundlings, north carolina [X], identity, mystery and detective stories, individuality, homicide [X], orphans, mystery fiction, mystery fiction, identity (philosophical concept), electronic books, electronic books
Me & Emma
Carrie Parker, an imaginative eight-year-old, struggles to make the best of things for herself and her sister Emma after their father is murdered, and their mother marries an abusive drunk, but one particular act of cruelty pushes Carrie beyond what she can endure.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: sisters, murder, cruelty, homicide [X], family violence, child abuse, domestic violence, north carolina [X]
Iron House
Michael, an enforcer for a New York organized crime family who fled the Iron Mountain Home for Boys after taking the blame for the murder of another orphan, falls in love with Elena and wishes he can start a new life and build a family with her, but the past and brother he left behind, as well as the vengeful son of the mob boss for whom he works, threaten his chance at happiness and he must confront them in order to have a future with Elena.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Cross Justice
"When his cousin is accused of a heinous crime, Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in over three decades.
FIC
year:
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: cross, alex (fictitious character), police, homicide [X], north carolina [X], african american detectives, secrets, murder, mystery fiction, suspense fiction, secrecy
Where The Crawdads Sing
"Kya Clark is the 'Marsh Girl' of Barkley Cove on the North Carolina coast.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 61
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
subjects: fiction / contemporary women, fiction / coming of age, fiction / literary, solitude, north carolina [X], homicide [X], criminal investigation, man-woman relationship, mystery fiction, bildungsromans, detective and mystery fiction