Runaway
When sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts learns the truth about Nikki, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted, she finds that there is only one person to turn to for help--especially since her loved ones seem to be furious with her.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: models (persons), transplantation of organs, tissues, etc, identity (psychology), new york (n.y.), runaways, parapsychology, extrasensory perception, mystery and detective stories, runaway teenagers, child abuse, immigrants, frontier and pioneer life, historical fiction, murder, psychokinesis, homicide [X], horror fiction, runaway children, homeless persons, orphans [X], survival skills, diaries
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, identity, mystery and detective stories, individuality, homicide [X], orphans [X], mystery fiction, mystery fiction, identity (philosophical concept), electronic books, electronic books
The Traitor In The Tunnel
The Agency, the all-female detective unit, assigns quick-witted Mary Quinn to the case.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: sex role, orphans [X], murder, household employees, london (england), great britain, historical fiction, murder investigation, detective and mystery fiction, quinn, mary (fictitious character), homicide [X], historical fiction, mystery fiction
Motherless Brooklyn
Lionel Essrog, a victim of Tourette's syndrome, is rescued from the St.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: orphans [X], murder, detective and mystery stories, homicide [X], mystery fiction, detective and mystery fiction
Kiss Me Kill Me
Longing to be part of the in-crowd at her exclusive London school, orphaned, sixteen-year-old Scarlett, a trained gymnast, eagerly accepts an invitation to a party whose disastrous outcome changes her life forever.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930
subjects: murder, schools, mystery and detective stories, popularity, orphans [X], england, friendship, wealth, homicide [X]
Hourglass
Seventeen-year-old Emerson uses her power to manipulate time to help Michael, a consultant hired by her brother, to prevent a murder that happened six months ago while simultaneously navigating their undeniable attraction to one another.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: psychic ability, murder, brothers and sisters, mystery and detective stories, space and time, homicide [X], siblings, orphans [X]
Kiss In The Dark
After coping with a murder, Scarlett makes a fresh start at the elite boarding school run by her grandmother.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mystery and detective stories, friendship, boarding schools, orphans [X], murder, england, schools, school stories, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories, homicide [X], private schools, mystery fiction
Kisses And Lies
Orphaned British teenager Scarlett Wakefield postpones her romance with the handsome son of the school groundskeeper in order to travel to Scotland with her American sidekick, Taylor, in search of clues to the murder of a boy who dropped dead after kissing Scarlett.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mystery and detective stories, friendship, wealth, orphans [X], murder, england, scotland, homicide [X], mystery fiction, mystery fiction
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:
The Body At The Tower
As a nearly full-fledged member of the Agency, the all-female detective unit based in Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, Mary Quinn, disguised as a poor apprentice builder, must brave the sinister underworld of Victorian London in order to unmask a murderer.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: homicide [X], orphans [X], sex role, murder, great britain, london (england), quinn, mary, detective and mystery fiction, historical fiction
Broken Glass Park
Seventeen-year-old Sacha Naimann dreams of writing a novel about her mother and killing the man who murdered her, Sacha's stepfather Vadim, while struggling to care for her younger siblings and leave behind her painful childhood.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Orphans Of Race Point
When priest Gus Silva, the man she has never stopped loving, is charged with murder, Hallie Costa, who has known Gus since childhood, must not only free him from prison, but from the curse of his past.
FIC
year:
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Shrunken Head
Philippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max, orphans with extraordinary abilities, must find out who stole a valuable artifact--an Amazonian shrunken head--in order to save their home, Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: orphans [X], museums, curiosities and wonders, mystery and detective stories, murder, robbery, homicide [X], theft, mystery fiction
Wild Boy & The Black Terror
Wild Boy and Clarissa have solved mysteries with the help of their mentor Marcus--a member of a secret league of crime-solving gentlemen--but when he is poisoned, the former sideshow freak and acrobat must race to find the culprit and a cure.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Girl I Used To Be
When her mother was killed fourteen years ago, Olivia's father disappeared, and became the prime suspect, now, it is discovered that he was murdered as well, and Olivia must track down the killer before she becomes the next victim.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 75
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: murder, identity (philosophical concept), parent, orphans [X], parents, identity (psychology), homicide [X], mystery fiction, individuality, detective and mystery fiction