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Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In the small city of Strattenburg there are many lawyers, and thirteen-year-old Theo Boone thinks he is one of them, but his inside knowledge of the justice system means trouble when a cold-blooded killer is about to go free and only Theo can stop him.
2) Monster
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
4) Ophelia
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
In a story based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia tells of her life in the court at Elsinore, her love for Prince Hamlet, and her escape from the violence in Denmark.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafae and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
310L
Language
English
Description
As he grieves his best friend Benny's death, Mason and his friend Calvin, who are targeted by the neighborhood bullies, create an underground haven for themselves, but when Calvin goes missing Mason finds himself in trouble.
8) Black mirror
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school.
10) Guilty
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Finn watches in horror as his stepmother is gunned down in front of his house. His father reacts and kills the gunman. When Finn learns that the killer is the same man who admitted to killing his birth mother years before, he is shocked and wants to know if this is more than a terrible coincidence. At the police station, he meets Lila, daughter of the killer, and they strike up a wary friendship. Both of them are desperate to find the truth. What...
11) Roll call
Author
Series
Traces volume 3
Publisher
Kingfisher
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
In a futuristic London, sixteen-year-old forensic investigator Luke Harding and his robotic assistant, Malc, investigate a series of murders in which there are no traces of a murder weapon, and the only thing the victims seem to have in common is their name.
12) Ten
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Description
"Ten teens head to a house party at a remote island mansion off the Washington coast . . . only for them to picked off by a killer one by one"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Logan and his family move into a run-down old house in rural Virginia, he discovers that a woman was murdered there and becomes involved with his neighbor Arthur in a dangerous investigation to try to uncover the killer.
15) Remembering Mog
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
After graduating from a private high school in Baltimore, Annie comes to terms with the loss of her sister who had been murdered two years earlier.
16) Framed!
Author
Series
Traces volume 1
Publisher
Kingfisher
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Luke Harding is the youngest person to qualify for forensic investigator, and it will take all his skills to unravel the murder of a fellow student.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
When her abusive boyfriend dies in what seems to be a drunk-driving accident, Sawyer is secretly relieved until she opens her locker and finds a note from a secret admirer that says "You're welcome."
18) Timebound
Author
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
When Kate Pierce Kellers grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen year old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kates present day life. Suddenly, that medallion is the only thing protecting Kate from blinking out of existence. Kate learns that the 1893 killing is part of something much more sinister, and her genetic...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Set apart from other people because of their unusual abilities, Nola, a teenage witch, and her mother find themselves in great danger when Nola uses her power to call up images and when she witnesses a murder.