Half-moon Investigations
Twelve-year-old Fletcher Moon, the youngest qualified private detective in the world, receives a diploma and gold-plated detective's shield after completing an Internet course, and sets out to solve petty crimes at school, but he forced to go on the run when, while investigating the town's biggest crime family, his badge is stolen and he is framed for several crimes he did not commit.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 69
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: private investigators, good and evil, coming of age [X], mystery and detective stories [X], bildungsromans, mystery fiction, conspiracies, stature, size, detective and mystery stories
Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes
The daily class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 67
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
subjects: friendship, child abuse, school stories, coming of age [X], bildungsromans, schools, high schools, interpersonal relations, conduct of life, audiobooks, obesity, mystery and detective stories [X], mystery fiction
Paper Towns
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness 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.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 335
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: missing persons, bildungsromans, mystery fiction, florida, large type books, juvenile fiction / general, adolescence, coming of age [X], mystery and detective stories [X], bildungsromans, mystery fiction
Picture Me Gone
Twelve-year-old Mila travels with her father to upstate New York to visit friends and family, who may lead them to clues to the whereabouts of her father's best friend, who has gone missing.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: missing persons, fathers and daughters, bildungsromans, detective and mystery stories, mystery and detective stories [X], coming of age [X]
Chirp
Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 53
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: farms, friendship, secrecy, child sexual abuse, coming of age [X], secrets, sexual abuse, mystery and detective stories [X], vermont, bildungsromans, detective and mystery fiction, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories