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Jasper Jones

author: Silvey, Craig
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

Something Rotten

author: Gratz, Alan
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

author: Werlin, Nancy
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

author: Myers, Anna
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
subjects: family problems [X], guilt, orphans, old age, murder [X], oklahoma

When Dad Killed Mom

author: Lester, Julius
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
subjects: murder [X], family problems [X], artists, brothers and sisters, parent and child

Playing In Traffic

author: Giles, Gail
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

The Long Night Of Leo And Bree

author: Wittlinger, Ellen
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
subjects: family problems [X], murder [X], victims of crimes, emotional problems

Criminal

author: Mcvoy, Terra Elan
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

Ask The Dark

author: Turner, Henry
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

Deadly Design

author: Dockter, Debra
"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:
subjects: science fiction, murder [X], family problems [X], twins, brothers

And Then There Were Four

author: Werlin, Nancy
"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
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Lizzie

author: Ius, Dawn
"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
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The Best Lies

author: Lyu, Sarah
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

author: Johnson, Kim
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

Last Girl Breathing

author: Stevens, Court
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:

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