Maureen Johnson
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Charlton - Shepherd Hill Summer Reading 2024
Jones Library - YA Mysteries
Springfield - Amateur Sleuths
West Boylston Teen: It's a Mystery
Jones Library - YA Mysteries
Springfield - Amateur Sleuths
West Boylston Teen: It's a Mystery
Description
When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"The fire wasn't Marlowe Wexler's fault. Dates should be hot, but not hot enough to warrant literal firefighters. Akilah, the girl Marlowe has been in love with for years, will never go out with her again. No one dates an accidental arsonist. With her house-sitting career up in flames, it seems the universe owes Marlowe a new summer job, and that's how she ends up at Morning House, a mansion built on an island in the 1920s and abandoned shortly thereafter....
Author
Series
Little blue envelopes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
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 will and is up to something. The missing Alice Ellingham and the missing David Eastman. Somewhere in this place of riddles and puzzles there must be answers....
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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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
Stevie Bell managed to solve the mystery at Ellingham Academy. Then she gets a message from the owner of Sunny Pines-- formerly known as Camp Wonder Falls, the site of the infamous "Box in the Woods" murders. The new camp owner...
6) Nine liars
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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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
Little blue envelopes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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
Truly Devious volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
When Stevie Bell is finally able to return to Ellingham Academy after identifying the culprit in the murder of a classmate, she begins to wonder if the case was really resolved and attempts to uncover the truth about the school's founder.
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....
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Series
Shades of London volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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.
Author
Series
Shades of London volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
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
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Swinging London, Summer 1967. Sixteen-year-old Estella, gifted with talent, ingenuity, and ambition, dreams of becoming a renowned fashion designer. But life seems intent on making sure her dreams never come true. Having arrived in London as a young girl, Estella now runs wild through the city streets with Jasper and Horace, amateur thieves who double as Estella's makeshift family and partners-in-(petty)-crime. How can Estella dedicate herself to...
Author
Series
Shades of London volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After her near-fatal run-in with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Devereaux is back in London to help solve a new string of inexplicable deaths plaguing the city"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
This audiobook presents an all-star collection of essays about activism and hope, edited by bestselling YA author Maureen Johnson.
Now, more than ever, young people are motivated to make a difference in a world they're bound to inherit. They're ready to stand up and be heard - but with much to shout about, where they do they begin? What can I do? How can I help?
How I Resist is the response, and a way to start the conversation.
14) Suite Scarlett
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scarlett Martin has grown up in a most unusual way. Her family owns the Hopewell, a small Art Deco hotel in the heart of New York City. When each of the Martins turns fifteen, they are expected to take over the care of a suite. For Scarlett's fifteenth birthday, she gets both a room called the Empire Suite, and a permanent guest called Mrs. Amberson. Scarlett doesn't quite know what to make of this C-list starlet and world traveler. And when she...
15) Girl at sea
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
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.
17) Scarlett fever
Author
Series
Scarlett Martin series volume 2
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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...