The Dark Stairs
The intrepid Herculeah Jones helps her mother, a private investigator, solve a puzzling and frightening case.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 39
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: murder [X], mystery and detective stories, homicide, mystery fiction, jones, herculeah (fictitious character), jones, herculeah (fictional character)
The New Girl
Guided by her rules, nine-year-old Allie works to get past being just the new girl at school, eagerly awaits the arrival of her kitten, and faces turmoil when her grandmother visits while the family is still settling into their new home.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 92
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: bullying, grandmothers, rules (philosophy), moving, household, best friends, fund raising, contests, middle school students, schools, murder [X], high school students, man-woman relationships, horror stories, homicide, mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories, north carolina, sisters, school stories, radio and television novels
The View From The Cherry Tree
Though Rob saw Mrs. Calloway fall to her death, strangled by the leather strap of her binoculars, he wants to believe that it was an accident.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 41
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
Tarot Says Beware
Herculeah investigates the murder of a local fortune-teller--the only witness being the victim's parrot, who refuses to talk--and finds her own life in danger as she gets closer to the truth.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540
subjects: murder [X], mystery and detective stories, fortune-tellers, parrots, homicide, mystery fiction, fortune telling
King Of Murder
Herculeah meets a murder mystery writer, and has the uneasy feeling that he knows more about murder than he should.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
Death's Door
Super-sleuth Herculeah Jones's investigation of the attempted murder of Meat's uncle leads them to a mystery bookstore named Death's Door.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 520
subjects: murder [X], kidnapping, bookstores, jones, herculeah (fictitious character), mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, assassins, jones, herculeah (fictional character)
Dovey Coe
Accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a stronged-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother, as she attempts to clear her name.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 86
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 980
subjects: mountain life, deaf, murder [X], people with disabilities, north carolina, brothers and sisters
The Egypt Game
Melanie and April turn a deserted lot into an imaginary Egypt where they spend many hours enacting rituals and consulting oracles, but there are real dangers and problems lurking outside their make-believe world that almost bring their game to a disastrous end.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 231
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1010
subjects: games, supernatural, murder [X], mystery and detective stories, egypt, newbery, school stories, horror, schools, egypt - antiquities, newbery honor
Closed For The Season
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.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 78
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: murder [X], neighbors, friendship, virginia, mystery and detective stories, teenage boys, homicide
The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle
When 13 year-old Charlotte Doyle boarded the Seahawk in June of 1832, she never dreamed that the crew would mutiny and that her life would be in danger.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 188
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: transatlantic voyages, murder [X], sea stories, historical fiction, mystery and detective stories, homicide, large type books, mutiny, sex role, self-perception, ships, mystery fiction, ocean travel, compact discs, audiobooks, voyages and travels, adventure fiction, newbery honor book, sea stories, historical fiction, mystery fiction
The Other Side Of Dark
Seventeen-year-old Stacy awakens from a four-year coma ready to identify, locate, and prosecute the young man who murdered her mother and wounded her.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
Burning Up
When a girl she had met at an inner-city church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
Fake Id
After a lifetime on the run with her mother, sixteen-year-old Chass begins to piece together her disturbing past--which involves a mysterious tape, a deceased popular singer, and secrets in a small Alabama town--when her mother disappears, but Chass has only six days to find her before being put into foster care, and someone dangerous wants to find Chass first.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 44
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
A Northern Light
Sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and boyfriend, takes a job at a hotel in 1906 where the death of a guest renews her determination to live her own life.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 84
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: education, farm life, hotels, motels, etc, murder [X], historical fiction, adirondack mountains (n.y.), new york (state), hotels and motels, homicide, historical fiction, bildungsromans
Deadly Deception
Seventeen-year-old Ashlyn Brennan can't believe that anyone could have anything against Mrs.
FIC
year: 1994
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: mystery and detective stories, murder [X], mystery fiction, homicide, schools, school stories, detective and mystery stories