HS Summer Reading 09 - Mystery/Suspense

HS Summer Reading 09 - Mystery/Suspense


Jacket	Title/Author	Annotation	Grade Level*
	Shift by Jennifer Bradbury	When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened.	9-12
	Black Rabbit Summer by Kevin Brooks	When two of sixteen-year-old Pete's childhood classmates disappear from a carnival the same night, he is a suspect, but his own investigation implicates other old friends he was with that evening--and a tough, knife-wielding enemy determined to keep him quiet.	10-12
	Dead Girls Don't Write Letters by Gail Giles	Fourteen-year-old Sunny is stunned when a letter arrives in the mail from her older sister Jazz, who supposedly died in a fire months earlier.	10-12
	Right Behind You by Gail Giles	After spending over four years in a mental institution for murdering a friend in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Kip begins a completely new life in Indiana with his father and stepmother under a different name, but has trouble fitting in and finds there are still problems to deal with from his childhood.	9-12
	Shooting Monarchs by John Halliday	Macy and Danny, two teenage boys who have both grown up under difficult circumstances, turn out very differently--one becomes a hero, the other a murderer.	9-12
	Kiss Me Kill Me by Lauren Henderson	Longing to be part of the in-crowd at her exclusive London school, orphaned, sixteen-year-old Scarlett, a trained gymnast, eagerly accepts an invitation to a party whose disastrous outcome changes her life forever.	9-12
	The Missing Girl by Norma Fox Mazer	In Mallory, New York, as five sisters, aged eleven to seventeen, deal with assorted problems, conflicts, fears, and yearnings, a mysterious middle-aged man watches them, fascinated, deciding which one he likes the best.	10-12
	Breathe My Name by R. A. Nelson	Since her adoption, seventeen-year-old Frances has lived a quiet suburban life, but soon after she begins falling for the new boy at school, she receives a summons from her mentally ill birth mother, who has just been released after serving eleven years for smothering Frances's younger sisters and still wants to kill Frances.	9-12
	Nightmare by Joan Lowry Nixon	Emily is sent to a camp for underachievers where she discovers a murderer on the staff who might provide an explanation for her recurring nightmares.	9-12
	The She by Caro Plum-Ucci	After his parents are lost at sea, Evan Barrett and his older brother leave their seaside home in West Hook to escape bad memories, but years later even worse questions emerge when Evan is asked to help a fellow student deal with another sea-related tragedy.	9-12
	After by Francine Prose	In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear.	9-12
	Me, the Missing and the Dead by Jenny Valentine	Sixteen-year-old Londoner Lucas Swain, left in possession of the ashes of Violet Park, becomes convinced that Violet is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him to finally confront the events surrounding his father's sudden disappearance.	9-12
	Deep by Susanna Vance	Somewhere in the Caribbean, seventeen-year-old Morgan and thirteen-year-old Birdie, two girls whose lives are worlds apart, are brought together by the maniacal Nicholas.	9-12
*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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