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2) Alias Grace
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of Grace Marks, a maid who murdered her employer and his mistress in Canada in 1843. A stablehand who was her accomplice and who claimed she put him up to it was hung for the crime, while she ended up in a lunatic asylum. The novel analyzes the question: was she actually less guilty, crazy, or smarter?
3) Thunderhead
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rowan has gone rogue and has taken it upon himself to put the Scythedom through a trial by fire. Literally. In the year since Winter Conclave, he has gone off-grid and has been striking out against corrupt scythes, not only in MidMerica, but across the entire continent. He is a dark folk hero now, Scythe Lucifer, a vigilante taking down corrupt scythes in flames. Citra, now a junior scythe under Scythe Curie, sees the corruption and wants to help...
4) The Toll
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to its core, the question remains: Is there anyone left who can stop him? The answer lies in the Tone, the Toll, and the Thunder"--
5) House Rules
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
They tell me I'm lucky to have a son who's so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there's a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn't know...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Van Allen was a strong, arrogant man who rode roughshod over anything that got in his way. Brutal and uncaring with women, he suddenly found himself guilty of an ugly murder and in a panic, tried to cover it up and destroy the evidence. Tell Sackett was a part of that evidence, but he was not going to be easy to get rid of. Allen murdered Tell's wife, Angie, while he was away. When he returned, one of Allen's men shot him and left him for dead....
7) Remember me
Author
Series
Remember me volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Shari knew she had been murdered. Making a vow to herself to finde her killer, Shari embarks on the strangest of all criminal investigations. One in which she spies on her old friends, and even enters their dreams-where she comes face-to-face with a nightmare from beyong the grave. THE SHADOW-a thing more horrible than death itself. The key to Shari's death. The only thing that can stop her murderer from murdering again.
Author
Series
Michael Bennett mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. Discovering a secret pattern to The Teacher's lessons, Detective Mike Bennett realizes he has just hours to save New York from the greatest disaster in history.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Writer Thad Beaumont announces to the public that his own pseudonym, George Stark, is dead. George Stark is a recurring hero/alter ego and is an evil character named Alexis Machine. Thad Beaumont's pseudonym is not so docile and George Stark bursts forth into reality. At that point, two stories kick into gear: a mystery-detective story about the crime spree of George Stark (or is it Alexis Machine?) and a horror story about Beaumont's struggle to...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alex Cross' latest investigation into a series of vicious murders turns deadly as his prime suspect, a British diplomat named Geoffrey Shaffer, makes Cross and his fiancee the target of a deadly cabal of killers masterminded by Shaffer
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 33
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1971
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In trying to trace a missing will, detectives Frank and Joe Hardy trap a dangerous criminal who is willing to risk all--including murder--for money.
Author
Series
Deadly reunions novels volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"As a member of the North Cascades Smokejumpers, Alexia Allen always takes care of the equipment that keeps her safe. So when she nearly dies in a fire due to equipment failure, she knows something is up. Ordered to take time off while the investigation continues, Alexia makes a last-minute decision to recuperate at her mother's home and attend her high school reunion. Yet trouble seems to be following her, and within hours of arriving home she's...
13) Space case
Author
Series
Moon Base Alpha volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon's most prominent doctors"--
14) All fall down
Author
Series
Embassy Row novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After being hospitalized for insisting that her mother was murdered, not killed in an accidental fire, Grace goes to live with her grandfather for a fresh start, but when she sees her mothers murderer again, her past comes back to haunt her.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Set in a future world of environmental collapse and mass poverty, where a mysterious boy named Rose discovers he possesses inhuman powers that can irrevocably change the lives of everyone on the planet"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Five murder suspects are invited to the haunted Barclay Hotel for a weekend getaway, and it is up to twelve-year-old JJ and eleven-year-old Penny--and a lonely ghost--to figure out who committed the crime
17) Miracle Creek
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A literary courtroom thriller about a mother accused of murdering her eight-year-old autistic son"--
18) What Holly heard
Author
Series
Fear Street. Original series volume 34
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Do you want to hear a secret? Holly did. She learned a terrible secret, and now her friends know it too. Someone wants to make sure they never talk about it. Someone who'll go to any length to keep them quiet. Lying ... Threats ... Even murder.
Author
Series
Embassy Row novels volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Desperate to protect her younger brother Jamie, Grace Blakely, her brother, and her friend Alexei are on the run from the forces in Adria who threaten them because Jamie is the true heir to the throne--but it is hard to hide from Prime Minister Alexandra Petrovic and the the secret society that is part of Grace's family heritage, and even harder to know who to trust.
20) The Speaker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Sefia and Archer's adventure continues as Archer searches for a way to combat his nightmares of his time with the impressors and Sefia becomes more and more consumed by her study of the Book"--