Maureen Johnson
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs. Mayzie is the brainy middle sister, Brooks is the beautiful but conflicted oldest, and Palmer's the quirky baby of the family. In spite of their differences, the Gold sisters have always been close. When their father dies, everything begins to fall apart. Level–headed May is left to fend for herself (and somehow learn to drive), while her two sisters struggle with their own demons....
2) Nine liars
Author
Series
Truly devious volume 5
Language
English
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
Truly devious volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
After solving the greatest unsolved mystery of the century, Stevie Bell goes undercover as a camp counselor to investigate the strange things going on at Camp Wonder Falls--the site of the infamous "Box in the Woods" murders.
Author
Series
Truly devious volume 1
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham an early 20th century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. A place, he said, where learning is a game. Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Scarlett, who is beginning to get over her break-up with Eric, stays busy as assistant to her theatrical-agent friend who is not only promoting Scarlett's brother Spencer, but also a new client whose bad-boy brother has transferred to Scarlett's school.
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
369 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Physical Desc
373 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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. Then politician Edward King arrives at her house to offer a deal: he will bring Stevie back to Ellingham if she will play nice with his son, David, a fellow classmate. King is in the midst of a campaign and can't afford his son stirring...
9) Girl at sea
Author
Language
English
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
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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
Series
Shades of London volume 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rory, Callum and Boo are still reeling from a series of tragic events, while new dangers lurk around the city from Jane and her nefarious organization." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
127 pages : red, white and black illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
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
Shades of London volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Physical Desc
372 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rory, of Boueuxlieu, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
In three intertwining short stories, several high school couples experience the trials and tribulations along with the joys of romance during a Christmas Eve snowstorm in a small town... "An ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow and causes quite a bit of chaos. One brave soul ventures out into the storm from her stranded train, setting off a chain of events that will change quite a few lives....
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Physical Desc
614 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of ten short stories, some of which were previously available online, that follow Jem Carstairs as he travels through the many Shadow Markets around the world, searching for a relic from his past.
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 201 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
507 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
viii, 309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirty-one young adult authors share their own struggles with mental illness, ranging from such topics as neurodiversity and addiction to OCD and PTSD.