April Henry
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2021.
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"After a bestselling fantasy author disappears, only his biggest fan believes he's in danger and has the courage to uncover the truth in this fast-paced mystery with a chilling psychological twist"--
Bridget is RM Haldon's biggest fan. His epic fantasy series, Swords and Shadows, created a lifeline when her mom lost her battle with cancer. When Bridget met Haldon at his only book signing, she impressed the author with her encyclopedic knowledge of...
2) Girl, stolen
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When an impulsive carjacking becomes and accidental kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more in sympathy with his wealthy, blind victim, sixteen-year-old Cheyenne, than with his greedy father.
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Point last seen volume 2
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"When a woman's body is found in a vacant lot, suspicion falls on an awkward teen who lives only a few blocks away, owns several knives, loves first-person shooter video games, and doodles violent scenes in his notebooks. Nick Walter goes from being a member of a Search and Rescue team to prime suspect in a murder, his very interest in SAR seen as proof of his fascination with violence. How is this even possible? And can his friends Alexis and Ruby...
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"Nell has always wanted to be an actor, but she doubts her ability. As a member of her school’s theater program, she prefers working backstage. On the way to a contest, an unexpected blizzard strands her acting troupe in a creepy motel. Soon they meet a group of strangers from another high school—including the mysterious and handsome Knox, who insists they play the game Two Truths and a Lie. When it’s Nell’s turn, she draws a slip of paper...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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When seventeen-year-old Piper Gray starts a true crime podcast investigating a seventeen-year-old murder cold case, she puts her life in danger as she digs deep into the mysteries of the past.
"Seventeen years ago, Layla Trello was murdered and her killer was never found. Enter true-crime fan Piper Gray, who is determined to reopen Layla's case and get some answers. With the help of Jonas--who has a secret of his own--Piper starts a podcast investigating...
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Point last seen volume 1
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While helping the Portland County Sheriff's Search and Rescue to seek a missing autistic man, teens Alexis, Nick, and Ruby find, instead, a body and join forces to find the girl's murderer, forming an unlikely friendship, as well.
8) Shock point
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Fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng is determined to expose her stepfather after learning that he is giving a dangerous experimental drug to his teenaged psychiatric patients, but he sends her to a brutal boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico in order to keep her quiet.
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"Griffin, the teen who helped Cheyenne, who is blind, escape in Girl, Stolen, goes missing right before he's set to testify at his father's trial. Cheyenne sets out to save her former captor in this much-anticipated sequel"--
Six months ago Griffin accidentally carjacked Cheyenne, who is blind. He helped her escape from his father, who planned to hold Cheyenne for ransom. When Griffin goes missing right before he's set to testify at his father's...
10) The lonely dead
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Henry Holt and Company
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"When schizophrenic Adele, who possesses a paranormal gift, is implicated in an investigation that involves the murder of her ex-best friend Tori, Adele must work with Tori's ghost to find the killer."--
Adele has the ability to see and talk to the dead, but has spent years denying her gift. When she encounters her ex-best-friend Tori in a shallow grave in the woods, her gift turns into a curse. Without an alibi, Adele becomes the prime suspect in...
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"She doesn't know who she is. She doesn't know where she is, or why. All she knows when she comes to in a ransacked cabin is that there are two men arguing over whether or not to kill her. And that she must run. Follow Cady and Ty (her accidental savior turned companion), as they race against the clock to stay alive"--
13) Stay dead
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Christy Ottaviano Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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Entrusted with a key by her dying mother, sixteen-year-old Milan pretends she perished along with her mother as she navigates freezing conditions, outsmarts assassins, and unravels a deadly conspiracy to save herself and others.
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021
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"When a fire engulfs an Oregon forest, a group of trapped hikers must find another way out"--
Six years ago Natalia barely survived the house fire that killed her baby brother. Now she is cautious and always plays it safe. For months, her co-worker Wyatt has begged her to come hiking with him, and Natalia finally agrees. When a wildfire breaks out, blocking the trail back, a perfect sunny day quickly morphs into a nightmare. With no cell service,...
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Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
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When Savannah disappears after arguing with her mom's boyfriend, everyone assumes she ran away. The truth is much worse.
Told in multiple voices, sixteen-year-old Savannah Taylor is abducted after her kung fu class and must figure out how to escape and rescue fellow prisoner Jenny Dowd.
Savannah disappears soon after arguing with her mom's boyfriend, and everyone assumes she ran away. The truth is, she’s been kidnapped by a man in a white...
16) Torched
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
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In order to save her parents from going to jail for possession of marijuana, sixteen-year-old Ellie must help the FBI uncover the intentions of a radical environmental group by going undercover.
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Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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When a deadly shooting breaks out in a Portland shopping mall, six teens ends up trapped behind a store's security shutter: Miranda, Cole, Javier, Parker, Amina and Grace. To her own surprise, Miranda finds the others looking to her as their leader. The group has only three choices: Run, hide, or fight back. The wrong decision will have fatal consequences. The only thing the group has is common is that they all want to live. But not all of them will...
18) Buried diamonds
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2003
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Discovering a diamond ring that went missing fifty years earlier, Claire Montrose wonders of the young woman who owned it really committed suicide and encounters an elderly neighbor who is willing to kill in order to keep a secret.