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, mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories [X], north carolina, sisters, school stories, radio and television novels
Skeleton Creek
Although housebound following an eerie accident, teenaged Ryan continues to investigate the strange occurrences in his hometown of Skeleton Creek, recording his findings in a journal and viewing email video clips sent by fellow detective Sarah.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 140
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: diaries, best friends [X], friendship, text in spanish, diary fiction, horror stories, mystery and detective stories, spanish language materials, diary fiction, detective and mystery fiction, horror fiction, detective and mystery stories [X], horror tales
The Crossbones
Ryan, who records all of his findings in his journal, and Sarah, who uses her video camera to document everything, continue to search for answers surrounding the strange occurrences in Skeleton Creek and soon find themselves in haunted and sinister places beyond their hometown.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 100
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830
subjects: diaries, best friends [X], friendship, horror fiction, mystery fiction, diary fiction, horror fiction, detective and mystery fiction, horror tales, detective and mystery stories [X], horror stories, mystery and detective stories
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 [X], diary fiction, wisconsin, homicide, secrecy, friendship
Diamonds Are A Thief's Best Friend
The "Jewels" of the Martha Washington Middle School team are focused on the upcoming quiz bowl in New York City, but when they discover that the Atkinson Preparatory School Rivals may be planning a diamond heist, they set out to foil the theft.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: friendship, school stories, middle schools, theft, diamonds, new york (n.y.), jewel thieves, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories, school contests, stealing, schools, best friends [X], mystery fiction
I Was Here
In an attempt to understand why her best friend committed suicide, eighteen-year-old Cody Reynolds retraces her dead friend's footsteps and makes some startling discoveries.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 72
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: suicide, grief, best friends [X], friendship, washington (state), mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories [X], electronic books, mystery fiction, electronic books
Genuine Fraud
Told through flashbacks, best friends Jule and Imogen are orphaned outcasts who will do almost anything to attain a happy, wealthy life.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 72
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: best friends [X], friendship, deception, impersonation, orphans, mystery and detective stories, impostors and imposture, detective and mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery fiction
The Case Of The Counterfeit Painting
While searching for her friends at the Dino Festival, Clementine Wim runs into two people carrying what she thinks is the Tiled Lunch Counter (a famous painting) away from the Capitol City Art Museum, but when she checks the painting is still hanging in place--and before she can track down the thieves, and prove that the painting now in the museum is a forgery, she has to convince her friends that she was not imagining things.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: art museums, art, art thefts, best friends [X], detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories, museums, friendship, detective and mystery fiction, mystery fiction
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 [X], secrets, friendship, mystery and detective stories, homicide, mystery fiction, detective and mystery fiction
Lie To Me
When Amelia woke up in the hospital with bruises, broken bones, and a concussion, everybody insisted that she accidentally fell down the embankment and almost into the river; but Amelia cannot shake the feeling that she was pushed, especially since another young woman was found nearby, dead--and so, with the help of a new friend, Liam, and despite her best friend's reservations, she sets out to discover the truth, even though her search seems to be leading her ever deeper into danger.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: amnesia, recovered memory, attempted murder, murder victims, best friends [X], friendship, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories, memory, murder, detective and mystery fiction, thrillers (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 [X], mystery and detective stories, homicide, siblings, school stories, mystery fiction, detective and mystery fiction, criminal investigation
The Mutant Mushroom Takeover
"Hoping to restore her father's good name and job, Maggie teams up with friend Nate to win a junior naturalist contest, but the rare bioluminescent fungus they find is big trouble.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mushrooms, bioluminescence, best friends [X], friendship, fathers and daughters, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories, detective and mystery fiction, science fiction
The Lake
Seventeen-year-old best friends Esme and Kayla return to Camp Pine Lake as counselors in training, but the dark secret they have been hiding for nine years is back to haunt them.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 550
subjects: camps, secrecy, best friends [X], friendship, camp counselors, detective and mystery stories [X], secrets, mystery and detective stories, detective and mystery fiction
Lies Like Wildfire
When Hannah and her best friends accidentally spark an enormous and deadly wildfire, their instinct is to lie, but as the blaze roars through their rural town, Hannah's friends begin to crack and one ends up missing.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: friendship, wildfires, missing persons, mystery fiction, detective and mystery fiction, best friends [X], detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories, detective fiction, mystery fiction
Bury The Lead
"Sherlock Holmes may not have been a journalist, but that doesn't stop high school senior Kennedy Carter from embracing his methods.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: high school students, murder, disappeared persons, amateur journalism, best friends [X], urban folklore, detective and mystery stories [X], missing persons, journalism, mystery and detective stories, detective and mystery fiction