Can You Solve the Mystery? Teen Mysteries

This week I'm sharing mysteries for teens.  Here are a few of my favorites . . . .

The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky

Eleven schoolgirls embrace their own chilling history when their teacher abruptly goes missing on a field trip. Who was the mysterious poet they met in the garden? What actually happened that day? and most importantly, Who can they tell about it?

Paper Towns by John Green

One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boredom of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

Period 8 by Chris Crutcher

Period 8 has always been a safe haven and high school senior Paulie "The Bomb" Baum a constant attendee, but as Paulie, Hannah, their friends, and a sympathetic teacher try to unravel the mystery of a missing classmate, the ultimate bully takes aim at the school.

Blink by Sasha Dawn

Sixteen-year-old Josh falls in love with newcomer Chatham Claiborne, who has come to town to find her missing sister, but when Chatham suddenly disappears Josh unearths a web of lies and secrecy surrounding her life, and in doing so unwittingly discovers vital clues to the town's longest unsolved mystery.

More Teen Mysteries --

The Breathless by Tara Goedjen

The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas

Daughter of Deep Silence by Carrie Ryan

The Dead and Buried by Kim Harrington

The Diviners by Libba Bray

Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham

Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte

I Am Princess X by Cherie Priest

Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig

The Lost Causes by Jessica Koosed Etting

A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis

The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos

The Opposite of Here by Tara Altebrando

Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys

People Like Us by Dana Mele

Pretty Girl-13 by Liz Coly

Sadie by Courtney Summers

Spin by L.R. Giles

A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke

With Malice by Eileen Cook

Check these books out on display at the Arnold Branch through September 11, 2020.

The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky

Eleven little school girls and their teacher went to the park quite often to think, to draw, and to write.

Eleven little school girls and their teacher met the poet Morgan who showed them an aboriginal cave.

Eleven little school girls returned to school without their teacher.


What happened to their teacher Mrs. Renshaw?
Where did she go?
And will she ever return?



This is a great look at secrets and what keeping those secrets will do to people.  Although the story is set in Australia in the 1970s, it is a very relatable book for kids and teens.  I would suggest listening to this book on audio.  The narrator does a great job of telling the story.

Murder, Mayhem & Mystery

This week, I am focusing on books for teens that include murder, mayhem and mystery . . . .

The Golden Day by Ursula Durbosarsky
Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, follows the chilling stories of eleven school girls who struggle to identify a mysterious poet in the aftermath of a teacher's innocence-shattering disappearance.

Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig
Flynn's girlfriend is missing, and people are suspecting him of knowing something, so he struggles to uncover her secrets as he must also face the truth about himself.

Fake I.D. by L.R. Riles
An African-American teen in the Witness Protection Program moves to a new town and finds himself trying to solve a murder mystery when his first friend is found dead.

The Invisible by Mats Wahl
A Swedish teenager is assaulted and killed, but returns as a ghost to find his killer.

The Caged Graves by Dianne K. Salerni
Returning to her hometown of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in 1867 to marry a man she has never met, seventeen-year-old Verity Boone gets caught up in the a mystery surrounding the graves of her mother and aunt and a dangerous hunt for Revolutionary-era gold.


More Books --
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
Deadly Design by Debra Doktor
Extremities: Stories of Death, Murder, and Revenge by David Lubar
Eye of the Storm by Kate Messner
The Girl I Used to Be by April Henry
The Madman's Daughter by Megan Sheperd
The May Queen Murders by Sarah Jude
Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls by Mary Downing Hahn
The Morgue and Me by John C. Ford
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
Playing in Traffic by Gail Giles
Project Cain by Geoffrey Girard
Seraphina by Rachel Harman
A Taste for Monsters by Matthew Kirby
Three Truths and a Lie by Brent Hartinger
Unlovely by Celeste Conway
Vango: Between Sky and Earth by Timothee de Fombelle

Check these books out on display at the Arnold Branch through March 24, 2017.

Will You Survive High School?

School has been in session for a couple of weeks now.  We've met out teachers.  We've figured out our schedules and classes.  We're settling into the school routine.  So I thought I would share some books for teens about high school.  Here are a few of my favorites . . . .

Vampire High by Douglas Rees
When his family moves from California to New Sodom, Massachusetts and Cody enters Vlad Dracul Magnet School, many things seem strange, from the dark-haired, pale-skinned, supernaturally strong students to Charon, the wolf who guides him around campus on the first day.

The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky
Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, follows the chilling stories of eleven school girls who struggle to identify a mysterious poet in the aftermath of a teacher's innocence-shattering disappearance.

Story Time by Edward Bloor
George and Kate are promised the best education but instead face obsessed administrators, endless tests, and evil spirits when they are transferred to Whittaker Magnet School.

Legacies: A Shadow Grail Novel by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
After her family is killed, Spirit White is taken to Oakhurst Academy, a combination orphanage and school for those with magical powers, where she and her new friends investigate when students start mysteriously disappearing.

Quarantine by Lex Thomas
When a virus deadly to adults infects their high school, brothers David and Will and the other students soon break into gangs that fight each other for survival and the hope of escaping their quarantine.


More Teen Books About High School --
The Brimstone Journal by Ron Koertge
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Evernight by Claudia Gray
Evil Librarian by Michelle Knudson
A Field Guide to High School: A Novel by Marissa Walsh
Freshman: A Novel by Michael Gerber
Game Changer by Margaret Peterson Haddix
How to Lead a Life of Crime by Kirsten Miller
New Boy by Julian Houston
Nothing: A Novel by Janne Teller
Period 8 by Chris Crutcher
Rikers High by Paul Volponi
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie: A Novel by David Lubar
The Taking of Room 114: A Hostage Drama in Poems by Mel Glenn
Tales of the Madman Underground by John Barnes
Variant by Robison Wells


Check out these books on display at the Arnold Branch through September 18, 2015.