The Pelican Brief
A bright young law student and an investigative reporter go underground while trying to expose a cover-up about the killings of two Supreme Court Justices.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: mystery fiction, legal stories, murder, law students, reporters and reporting [X], homicide, mystery fiction [X], legal stories
Following Christopher Creed
College student Mike Mavic, having traveled to Steepleton to follow up on news that the body of Christopher Creed, who disappeared four years earlier, was found, realizes the people in the town have underlying streaks of meanness and the only person who cares about Christopher anymore is his younger brother, Justin, who is teetering on the edge of sanity.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: journalists, reporters and reporting [X], missing persons, brothers, emotions, mystery fiction, blind, people with disabilities, mystery fiction [X]
The Thomas Berryman Number
The Thomas Berryman Number begins with three terrifying murders in the South.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: reporters and reporting [X], mayors, assassination, mystery fiction, assassins, mystery fiction [X]
Big News!
This book traces young Emma Perez's journey into journalism, mystery solving, and fame when she investigates a worm found in a friend's hamburger.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540
subjects: journalists, reporters and reporting [X], hispanic americans, school stories, mystery fiction, schools, mystery and detective stories, journalism, mystery fiction [X]
Bear On The Loose!
When she hears reports of a bear roaming the backyards of Selinsgrove, Hilde and her sister/photographer Izzy are determined to get the story for their own newspaper, the Orange Street News--but when they find out the culprit is a black bear cub, their scoop turns into a rescue mission.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: reporters and reporting [X], black bears, bears, animal rescue, sisters, detective and mystery fiction, black bear, wildlife rescue, detective and mystery stories, mystery fiction [X]
Fire! Fire!
When Nina's antique store burns down, nine-year old reporter Hilde and her sister/photographer, Izzy, are determined to investigate the cause for the Orange Street News--and their main clue is a bird's nest of baby Blue jays.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: reporters and reporting [X], fires, birds, detective and mystery fiction, mystery and detective stories, sisters, mystery fiction [X]
Hero Dog!
"Nine-year-old Hilde Lysiak is an aspiring reporter with her own newspaper, the Orange Street News, and she is investigating break-ins and missing baked goods--and with the help of Zeus, a little dog with a big bark, she intends to track down the thief who is trying to steal a win in the Bake-Off Bonanza, one of Selinsgrove's biggest events"--OCLC.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: reporters and reporting [X], theft, dogs, detective and mystery fiction, stealing, detective and mystery stories, mystery fiction [X]
Ufo Spotted!
Selinsgrove is in the grip of alien fever because people saw a UFO, but nine-year-old reporter Hilde is skeptical about aliens--however when she and her photographer sister Izzy find evidence that something crashed near Grove Pond they are intrigued, (and nervous), and determined to investigate the story for Hilde's newspaper, the Orange Street News.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: unidentified flying objects, reporters and reporting [X], detective and mystery fiction, mystery and detective stories, sisters, detective and mystery stories, mystery fiction [X]
Trell
Thirteen-year-old Trell Taylor's father, Romero Taylor, was convicted of the murder of a girl Trell's age when Trell was just a baby.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: judicial error, gangs, fathers and daughters, reporters and reporting [X], lawyers, murder, errors, administration of justice, father-daughter relationship, criminal investigation, boston (mass.), mystery fiction [X], domestic fiction
Hollow Fires
School newspaper editor Safiya Mirza's dreams of becoming a journalist get a grim start when she is the first person to discover the body of the murdered boy, Jawad Ali--the fourteen-year-old Muslim boy who created a costume jet pack, which got mistaken for a bomb, which led him to be labeled a terrorist, and which finally led a group of white supremacists to murder him.
FIC
year:
copies: 39
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: hate crimes, homicide, reporters and reporting [X], muslims, ghost stories, white supremacy movements, mystery fiction, chicago (ill.), detective and mystery fiction, mystery fiction [X]