Maureen Johnson
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
When Stevie Bell is finally able to return to Ellingham Academy after identifying the culprit in the murder of a classmate, she begins to wonder if the case was really resolved and attempts to uncover the truth about the school's founder.
Stevie Bell seemed to be on the cusp of the decades-old kidnapping and murder of Albert Ellingham's family. But a classmate's murder-- which Stevie solved-- convinced her parents to pull her out of Ellingham Academy....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After another death, Stevie must navigate mysterious riddles and track down a missing David at the same time a massive storm forces her to confront a killer.
At Ellingham Academy, three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone wrong or a murder. Another, dead by misadventure. And now, an accident in Burlington has claimed another life. Stevie Bell knows who Truly Devious is-- or thinks she does. But David disappeared of his own free...
5) Nine liars
Author
Series
Truly devious volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
"Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn't going well. With the cold case of the century solved, Stevie is adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions pinging around her brain--questions about college, love, and life in general. Relief comes when David invites Stevie and her friends to join him for study abroad, and his new friend Izzy introduces her to a double-murder cold case. In 1995, nine friends from Cambridge University...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Tempest
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ginny Blackstone precipitously travels from her home in New Jersey to London when she receives a message from an unknown man telling her he has the letters that were stolen just before she completed a series of mysterious tasks assigned by her now dead aunt, an artist.
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Swinging London, Summer 1967. Sixteen-year-old Estella, gifted with talent, ingenuity, and ambition, dreams of becoming a renowned fashion designer. But life seems intent on making sure her dreams never come true. Having arrived in London as a young girl, Estella now runs wild through the city streets with Jasper and Horace, amateur thieves who double as Estella's makeshift family and partners-in-(petty)-crime. How can Estella dedicate herself to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Scarlett Martin has grown up in a most unusual way. Her family owns the Hopewell, a small Art Deco hotel in the heart of New York City. When each of the Martins turns fifteen, they are expected to take over the care of a suite. For Scarlett's fifteenth birthday, she gets both a room called the Empire Suite, and a permanent guest called Mrs. Amberson. Scarlett doesn't quite know what to make of this C-list starlet and world traveler. And when she meets...
10) Girl at sea
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2008, 2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
High-school junior Clio Ford reluctantly gives up her dream job and a potential first kiss to take a working vacation with her estranged father on a yacht in Italy.
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
As three teenaged sisters struggle to cope with their father's sudden death, they find they must reexamine friendships, lifelong dreams, and relationships. Together they discover the key to moving on, and it's the key to their father's car.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Description
This audiobook presents an all-star collection of essays about activism and hope, edited by bestselling YA author Maureen Johnson.
Now, more than ever, young people are motivated to make a difference in a world they're bound to inherit. They're ready to stand up and be heard - but with much to shout about, where they do they begin? What can I do? How can I help?
How I Resist is the response, and a way to start the conversation.
13) Devilish
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Jane Jarvis, a senior at a Catholic girl's school in Providence, Rhode Island, tries to save her best friend by making a pact with a demon--in the form of a cupcake-eating, very friendly teenage girl.
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
In How I Resist, readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. Not just for a young adult audience, this incredibly impactful collection will appeal to readers of all ages who are feeling adrift and looking for guidance.
"Now, more than ever, young people are motivated to make a difference in a world they're bound to inherit. But with much to stand up and shout about, where do they...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"In the England of murder mysteries and TV detectives, no destination is deadlier than a quaint country village, and you never know you're in a murder village until it's too late. No attraction or local character is safe--whether in the pub for a pint, or on the manicured grounds of the local estate for a shooting party, bodies can turn up anywhere! Danger lurks around every cobblestone corner. If you are foolish enough to make the trip, at least...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
Formats
Description
A collection of eleven short stories, previously published online, that illuminate the life of the enigmatic, flashy, and flamboyant High Warlock of Brooklyn, Magnus Bane, a character in The Mortal Instruments series.
Author
Series
Welcome to Night Vale volume episodes, 2
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
This includes the episodes from season two of the podcast, in which we witness a totalitarian takeover of Night Vale that threatens to forever change the town and everyone living in it, and offers both an entertaining reading experience as well as a valuable reference guide to past episodes.