Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library
Youth Services Department

Young Adult
MYSTERY FICTION (PART II)


L'Engle, Madeleine.  Troubling A Star.  Y FIC L'Engle
As she tries to stay alive after being left on an iceberg in the Antarctic, sixteen-year-old Vicky recalls the series of events that brought her to the bottom of the world and involved her in a dangerous mystery.

McNamee, Graham.  Acceleration. Y Fic McNamee.
Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.

Murphy, Jim.  Death Run. Y FIC Murphy
An incident in a park leads to an accidental death, but a police detective wonders if it was an accident -- or murder.

Nixon, Joan Lowery. Search for the Shadowman. YPB N
While working on a genealogy project for his seventh grade history class, Andy Bonner becomes determined to solve the mystery surrounding a distant relative who was accused of stealing the family fortune.

Page, Katherine Hall. Christie & Company. Y FIC Page
Three new eighth-grade girls at Cabot School find that their shared interest in mysteries comes in handy when the roommates are blamed for a series of thefts at the school.

Patneaude, David.   Someone Was Watching.  Y FIC Patneaude
When his baby sister disappears from the river near their summer home, eighth grader Chris fights the assumption that she has drowned and uncovers evidence that something entirely different has happened to her.

Petersen, P. J.  The Freshman Detective Blues.  Y FIC Petersen
Eddie, age fourteen, and Jack, age seventeen, find a skeleton weighted down in Muir Lake, and Jack thinks it just might be his father who's been missing for nine years.

Qualey, Marsha.  Close to a Killer.  Y FIC Qualey
Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders that are somehow connected to her mother's hair salon.

Roberts, Willo Davis. The Kidnappers : A Mystery. Y FIC Roberts
No one believes eleven-year-old Joey, who has a reputation for telling tall tales, when he claims to have witnessed the kidnapping of the class bully outside their expensive New York City private school.

Silsbee, Peter.   Love Among the Hiccups. Y FIC Silsbee / Y PB S
Palmer Swain, a teenage tour guide in the Thousand Islands, finds his new romantic misadventures complicated by mysterious strangers fighting over possession of a decaying mansion.

Sleator, William.  The Spirit House.  Y FIC Sleator
Fifteen-year-old Julie investigates the suspicious behavior of the Thai exchange student staying with her family and comes to believe in the wish-granting power of a spirit that appears to have followed him across the ocean.

Smith, Alison.  A Trap of Gold.  Y FIC Smith
Thirteen-year-old Margaret finds a mysterious, shadowy figure watching her as she searches for a lost gold nugget from an abandoned mine.

St. George, Judith.  Do You See What I See?  Y FIC St. George
A seventeen-year-old, unhappy over his family's move to Cape Cod and irritated by his classmates' attitude towards protecting the environment, becomes convinced that a neighbor has murdered his wife.

Strasser, Todd. The Accident. Y FIC Strasser
After four of his friends leave a beer party and suffer a fatal accident, eighteen-year-old Matt senses something peculiar about the police investigation and suspects a cover-up to hide the identity of who was really responsible for the accident.

Vande Velde, Vivian.  Never Trust A Dead Man.  Y FIC Vande Velde
Wrongly convicted of murder and punished by being sealed in the tomb with the dead man, seventeen-year-old Selwyn enlists the help of a witch and the resurrected victim to find the true killer.

Voigt, Cynthia.  The Vandemark Mummy.  Y FIC Voigt
When, as the new Classics professor at Vandemark College, their father is made responsible for a collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts, twelve-year-old Phineas and his older sister Althea try to find out why the collection is the target of thieves, especially when the mummy disappears.

Wells, Rosemary. When No One Was Looking. Y FIC Wells //  Y FIC W
A tragic chain of events threatens a 14-year-old girl's promising tennis career.

Westall, Robert.   Stormsearch.  Y FIC Westall
Tim Vaux's discovery of an antique model ship on an English beach leads him to an unsolved family mystery involving a London heiress, a heartbroken drunkard, and the fanatic miser Black Idris.

Windsor, Patricia.  The Sandman's Eyes.  Y FIC Winsdor
Angry because he was confined in a school for disturbed juveniles for two years after witnessing a murder, upon his release eighteen-year-old Michael seeks to prove his innocence by tracking down the killer only he saw.
 

Yep, Laurence. The Case of the Lion Dance. Y FIC Yep
When $2000 is stolen during the opening of a restaurant, Lily and her aunt, a Chinese American movie actress, search for the thief throughout San Francisco's Chinatown.

12/06