Mystery/Suspense/Adventure

Jacket	Title/Author	Annotation	Grade Level*
	Black Mirror by Nancy Werlin	This suspenseful story of Frances, a teen of Japanese-Jewish descent, reveals both her internal struggle with grief over her brother David's suicide and the expectations of others to continue the charitable work for which he was respected.	9-12
	The Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson	On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner father, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger.	9-12
	The Closers: A Novel by Michael Connelly	Detective Harry Bosch discovers new DNA evidence that may help him solve the case of a teenaged girl who was murdered almost two decade ago.	11-12
	Club Dread by Walter Sorrells	When sixteen-year-old Chass witnesses the murder of a pop star, her hopes of settling down with her mother in San Francisco seem to disappear.	9-12
	Dead Connection by Charlie Price	A clairvoyant teenager who communes with the dead in the town cemetery hears the voice of a missing cheerleader and tries to convinces adults that he knows what happened to her.	9-12
	Desert Crossing by Elise Broach	A summer trip across the New Mexico desert turns nightmarish for fourteen-year-old Lucy, her older brother Jamie, and his best friend Kit, as they become involved in the suspicious death of a young girl.	9-12
	Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer	Through journal entries, sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.	9-12
	The Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier	When a seven-year-old little girl is murdered, Jason, the last person to see her alive, is suspected of being the killer. But could this gentle mannered boy really be capable of such a terrible crime? Can we trust an expert interrogator to find out the truth?	9-12
	Red Sea by Diane Tullson	During an around-the-world voyage, Libby's boat is attacked by pirates who kill her stepfather. Fourteen-year-old Libby must then fend for both herself and her grievously injured mother.	9-12
	The Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks	Two brothers, sons of an incarcerated gypsy, leave London for an isolated and desolate village, in search of the brutal killer of their sister.	9-12
	Shades of Simon Gray by Joyce McDonald	His car slipping on frog guts, Simon crashes into the Liberty Tree where the town had summarily hanged a murderer 100 years before. In his coma, Simon meets the ghost of the hanged man while, back in the real world, his friends sweat it out because Simon had been hacking into the school's computers to help them cheat on exams.	9-12
	Shadow People by Joyce McDonald	The Lords of Destruction, a group of four angry teenagers, begin doing minor act of vandalism but these troublesome acts quickly spiral into more dangerous crimes.	9-12
	Shock Point by April Henry	Fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng is determined to expose her stepfather after learning that he is giving a dangerous experimental drug to his teenaged psychiatric patients, but he sends her to a boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico in order to keep her quiet.	9-12
	What Happened to Cass McBride? by Gail Giles	Kyle Kirby takes a cruel and unusual revenge on the girl he believes to be responsible for his younger brother's suicide.	10-12
*Grade level suggestions are based on professional review sources. Some books contain mature themes. Please discuss reading selections as a family.

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