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 [X], 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, school stories, radio and television novels
Rucker Park Setup
While playing in a crucial basketball game on the very court where his best friend was murdered, Mackey tries to come to terms with his own part in that murder and decide whether to maintain his silence or tell J.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 42
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: basketball, conduct of life, best friends [X], friendship, murder, harlem (new york, n.y.), homicide [X]
The Body Finder
High school junior Violet uses her uncanny ability to sense murderers and their victims to try to stop a serial killer who is terrorizing her town, and although her best friend and would-be boyfriend Jay promises to keep her safe, she becomes a target.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 940
subjects: psychic ability, serial murders, dead, best friends [X], friendship, washington (state), serial killers, homicide [X], high schools, psychics
Strike Three, You're Dead
"Lenny Norbeck and his friends The Mikes set out to investigate the suspicious death of a young pitcher at a Phillies game"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 26
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: baseball, murder, best friends [X], friendship, homicide [X], mystery fiction, mystery and detective stories, juvenile fiction / sports & recreation / baseball & softball, juvenile fiction / mysteries & detective stories, philadelphia phillies (baseball team), mystery fiction
No One Else Can Have You
As sixteen-year-old Kippy of Friendship, Wisconsin, reads her best friend Ruth's diary, she is shocked at what she learns and spurred to solve Ruth's murder, certain that the boy who was arrested is innocent.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: best friends [X], conduct of life, criminal investigation, detective and mystery stories, diary fiction, wisconsin, homicide [X], secrecy, friendship
Dangerous Girls
When Anna's best friend is found murdered while they are vacationing in Aruba, Anna is targeted as a prime suspect and must fight for her freedom and prove her innocence while she remains trapped in a foreign country.
FIC
year:
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
Far From You
When Sophie's best friend Mina is murdered after Sophie and Mina are attacked in the woods by a masked man, the cops partially blame Sophie, a recovering drug addict, for the circumstances.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Drowning Is Inevitable
After seventeen-year-old Olivia and her friend Jamie accidentally kill Jamie's abusive father, two other friends, Max and Maggie, join them in running away from St.
FIC
year:
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: juvenile fiction / social issues / friendship, juvenile fiction / social issues / runaways, juvenile fiction / social issues / death & dying, murder, runaway teenagers, best friends [X], friendship, homicide [X], mother-daughter relationship, father-son relationship, new orleans (la.)
Creep
"Teenager Olivia Danvers knows that the previous residents at 16 Olcott Place moved out in the middle of the night, but nobody really knows why; the new family, the Donahues, have three children including a daughter, Janie, Olivia's age, and the two become close friends--but when the threatening letters start arriving from the 'Sentry of Glennon Heights' the two girls realize that the house and town are hiding sinister secrets, which could tear their whole world apart"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: threats of violence, secrecy, murder, neighbors, best friends [X], detective and mystery stories, secrets, friendship, mystery and detective stories, homicide [X], mystery fiction, detective and mystery fiction
Little Creeping Things
Tormented by her guilt and classmate's taunts since she accidentally set a lethal fire as a child, Cassidy is implicated in her worst bully's murder and must find the killer before someone else dies.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder, best friends [X], friendship, brothers and sisters, high schools, schools, detective and mystery stories, mystery and detective stories, homicide [X], siblings, school stories, mystery fiction, detective and mystery fiction, criminal investigation
The Counselors
After a traumatic school year, camp counselor Goldie Easton is excited to reunite with her two best friends at an elite summer camp, but when a local boy is found dead on the grounds, all three must reveal a dark secret to find the murderer.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: camps, friendship, secrecy, homicide [X], suspense fiction, mystery fiction, thrillers (fiction), best friends [X], secrets, mystery fiction
The House In The Pines
"Maya was a high school senior when her best friend Aubrey mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man, Frank, they'd been hanging around with all summer.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder, best friends [X], memory, cold cases (criminal investigation), psychic trauma, detective and mystery stories, homicide [X], friendship, criminal investigation, mystery fiction, massachusetts, thrillers (fiction), detective and mystery fiction, psychological fiction