Jasper Jones
In small-town Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when one asks the other to help him cover up a murder until they can prove who is responsible.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: interpersonal relations, secrets, murder [X], family problems [X], recluses, australia, secrecy, homicide, hermits, detective and mystery stories, dysfunctional families, mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, mystery fiction
Something Rotten
In a contemporary story based on Shakespeare's play "Hamlet, " Horatio Wilkes seeks to solve the murder of his friend Hamilton Prince's father in Denmark, Tennessee.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: family problems [X], murder [X], water, pollution, mystery and detective stories, tennessee
The Killer's Cousin
After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
subjects: emotional problems, cousins, guilt, murder [X], family problems [X], homicide, family life
When The Bough Breaks
Fifteen-year-old Ophelia, orphaned and emotionally isolated, develops an unlikely friendship with elderly recluse, Portia McKay, which may lead to redemption for both.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
When Dad Killed Mom
After their college psychologist father kills their artist mother, young Jenna and Jeremy struggle with the secret each of them keeps.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
Playing In Traffic
Shy and unremarkable, seventeen-year-old Matt Lathrop is surprised and flattered to find himself singled out for the sexual attentions of the alluring Skye Colbly, until he discovers the evil purpose behind her actions.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: family problems [X], interpersonal relations, parent and child, murder [X], high schools, schools, family life, parent-child relationship, homicide, school stories, family, dysfunctional families, families
The Long Night Of Leo And Bree
On the anniversary of his sister's murder, Leo, tormented by his mother's insane accusations and his own waking nightmares, kidnaps a wealthy girl intending to kill her, but instead their long night together helps them both face their futures.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
Criminal
Eighteen-year-old Nikki's unconditional love for Dee helps her escape from her problems, but when he involves her in a murder Nikki winds up in prison, confronted with hard facts that challenge whether Dee ever loved her, and she can only save herself by telling the truth about Dee.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: love stories, murder [X], prisons, criminal investigation, family problems [X], dysfunctional families, love, homicide, family life, love stories
Ask The Dark
Billy Zeets has a story, and he wants to tell it. He is the neighborhood kid everyone suspects whenever there is a vandalism, theft, or bloodied nose.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 940
subjects: heroes and heroines, kidnapping, homicide, conduct of life, family problems [X], heroes, murder [X], dysfunctional families, mystery and detective stories, family life, mystery fiction, juvenile fiction / action & adventure / general, juvenile fiction / mysteries & detective stories, juvenile fiction / law & crime, juvenile fiction / boys & men, electronic books, mystery fiction, electronic books
Deadly Design
"Kyle McAdams races to find out what's killing kids conceived at the Genesis Innovations Laboratory, before he becomes yet another perfect, blue-eyed corpse"--.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
And Then There Were Four
"When five high school students are brought together under mysterious circumstances, they begin to piece together a theory that their parents are working together to kill them all"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year:
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: friendship, high schools, school stories, people with disabilities, family life, parent-child relationship, homicide, murder [X], parent and child, family problems [X], schools
Lizzie
"A modern-day reimagining of the story of Lizzie Borden, casting her as a shy seventeen-year-old whose blackouts become worse after her father and stepmother try to prevent her from studying to be a chef"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year:
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dysfunctional families, mental illness, child abuse, stepmothers, bed and breakfast accommodations, murder [X], family problems [X], massachusetts
The Best Lies
Remy Tsai had a boyfriend and a best friend once. But now, her boyfriend is dead, her best friend pulled the trigger (Remy swears it was out of self-defense), and Remy is being called in for questioning, as she was just outside when it happened.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: best friends, dating (social customs), family problems [X], friendship, honesty, murder [X]
This Is My America
While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 54
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: racism, administration of criminal justice, african americans, race relations, prisoners, homicide, family life, judicial error, murder [X], dysfunctional families, family problems [X], large print books
Last Girl Breathing
When the answers to a present-day murder lie in the past, seventeen-year-old Lucy must examine a tragic event to prevent more lives from being lost.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder [X], missing persons, dysfunctional families, detective and mystery stories, family problems [X], mystery and detective stories, detective and mystery fiction, thrillers (fiction)