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, family problems [X], recluses, australia, secrecy, homicide [X], hermits, detective and mystery stories, dysfunctional families, mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, mystery fiction
Strings Attached
When she drops out of school and struggles to start a career on Broadway in the fall of 1950, seventeen-year-old Kit Corrigan accepts help from an old family friend, a lawyer said to have ties with the mob, who then asks her to do some favors for him.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: dance, family problems [X], italian americans, gangs, homicide [X], new york (n.y.), high school dropouts, dysfunctional families, gangsters, dropouts, historical fiction, historical fiction
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, family problems [X], homicide [X], family life
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, high schools, schools, family life, parent-child relationship, homicide [X], school stories, family, dysfunctional families, families
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, prisons, criminal investigation, family problems [X], dysfunctional families, love, homicide [X], 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 [X], conduct of life, family problems [X], heroes, murder, 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
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 [X], murder, parent and child, family problems [X], schools
The Family Lawyer
The Family Lawyer: Criminal defense attorney Matthew Hovanes is at the height of his career with a good marriage and popular athlete daughter Hannah, and smart computer whiz son Daniel.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
This Lie Will Kill You
Five teens each contributed to the death of someone at a party a year earlier.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: secrecy, homicide [X], friendship, family life, detective and mystery fiction, family problems [X], mystery fiction, thrillers (fiction)
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 [X], family life, judicial error, murder, dysfunctional families, family problems [X], large print books
Wander In The Dark
Two brothers must come together to solve the murder of the most popular girl in school after one of them is caught fleeing the scene of her death.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder, brothers, dysfunctional families, african americans, detective and mystery stories, family problems [X], mystery and detective stories, homicide [X], family life, new orleans (la.), detective and mystery fiction, thrillers (fiction)