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, sisters [X], school stories, radio and television novels
The Stepsister
Emily finds it is impossible to like her new stepsister. Before long Emily is living in total fear of her.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: stepsisters, sisters [X], stepfamilies, horror stories, homicide [X], horror fiction, fear
The Boy Next Door
Scott, the new star of Shadyside High's football team, hasmoved in right next door to Lauren and Crystal, and both girls will try anything to get the chance to go out with him, but that is all Scott's last girlfriend wanted, too--and now she is dead.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: friendship, sisters [X], homicide [X], horror fiction, fear, dating (social customs), horror tales
The Deadly Sister
Abby Goodwin is used to covering up for her rebellious sister Maya's frequent misdemeanors, but she is baffled when Maya is accused of murder and resolves to clear her sister's name, with unexpectedly dangerous results.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
Sister
Refusing to believe that her pregnant, mercurial, artist sister committed suicide, Beatrice begins an obsessive search for the truth and is dismissed by her family and authorities until she closes in on a murderous predator.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Slide
Vee Bell, able to slide into other people's minds, sees someone standing over the body of her sister's best friend Sophie holding a bloody knife, but she is afraid that anyone she tells will think her crazy and so she must find a way to identify the killer herself, before he or she strikes.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
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 [X], murder, cruelty, homicide [X], family violence, child abuse, domestic violence, north carolina
No Time To Die
Jenny is stalked by a serial killer-- the same murderer who killed her sister Liza, who tries to warn her from the grave.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: murder, stalking, sisters [X], supernatural, mystery and detective stories, homicide [X], mystery fiction
Slice Of Cherry
Portero, Texas, teens Kit and Fancy Cordelle share their infamous father's fascination with killing, and despite their tendency to shun others they bring two boys with similar tendencies to a world of endless possibilities they have discovered behind a mysterious door.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: african americans, dating (social customs), supernatural, homicide [X], sisters [X], texas
Seven Minutes In Heaven
Emma, posing as her murdered twin sister Sutton, searches for her killer, but the situation becomes complicated when Sutton's body is discovered.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Third Twin
Ava and Lexi, high school seniors and identical twins, created an imaginary triplet, Alicia, to date and dump boys but now they are being stalked and impersonated by the sister they invented and their former dates are turning up dead.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: murder, identity, mystery and detective stories, homicide [X], identity (philosophical concept), sisters [X], twins, dating (social customs), adoption, identity (psychology), mystery fiction, mystery fiction
Pretty Girls
More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: missing persons, sisters [X], secrecy, family, suspense fiction, secrets, family life, homicide [X]
Dark Rooms
"... the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: homicide [X], criminal investigation, offenses against the person, teenagers, girls, victims of crimes, private schools, sisters [X], mystery fiction, mystery fiction
The Darkest Corners
When her father dies, Tessa is pulled back to the small Pennsylvania town where her life came apart when her father was sent to prison, her mother went to pieces, and her beloved older sister ran away, and where her testimony and that of her now-estranged friend Callie sent a serial killer to death row--a serial killer who may be getting a new trial as long buried secrets come to light.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: detective and mystery stories, sisters [X], friendship, secrecy, murder, pennsylvania, youths' writings, secrets, serial murderers, serial killers, homicide [X], electronic books, detective and mystery fiction, electronic books
City Of Saints & Thieves
Tina and her mother first arrived in Kenya as refugees from Congo desperately searching for a better life.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 54
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: secrets, gangs, orphans, homicide [X], congo, refugees, sisters [X], homeless persons, congo (democratic republic), kenya, murder, revenge, thieves, robbers and outlaws, children's audiobooks, audiobooks, audiobooks