Books you might like:
Mystery and Suspense
The book of
the sword by Carrie Asai.
Nineteen-year-old
Heaven Kogo, the sole survivor of a plane crash when she was just an infant,
has been raised in luxury as the adopted daughter of a Japanese crime boss, but
her life takes a drastic change when her wedding is interrupted by a ninja attack,
leading her to train to become a samurai and learn the truth about her past.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.6
Trick of the
eye by Dennis Haseley.
Richard has
started seeing things. And hearing
them too. Suddenly, he has
discovered that he can communicate with the characters in paintings. And theyÕve begun to tell him that
thereÕs something he has forgotten - something important in his past that heÕll
be able to remember if only he can find the right painting. Does he dare look for it? Does he dare remember?
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.8
Stained glass by Michael Bedard.
Charles Endicott
hides out at St. Bart's Church to avoid his piano lesson, but his life is
turned upside down when a homeless girl is trapped by a falling stained glass
window and he is blamed for the accident.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.5
The wrong dog
: a Rachel Alexander and Dash mystery by
Carol Lea Benjamin.
An epileptic
woman agrees to have her service dog cloned because of its talent in sensing
the onset of human seizures. But after she informs the veterinary clinic that
the clone does not possess those talents, she mysteriously dies, and New York
private investigator Rachel Alexander and her pit bull Dash must find out why.
The cat who
came to breakfast by
Lilian Jackson Braun.
The resort
development on Pear Island makes local residents, summer people, and mainland
fishermen hopping mad, but who is angry enough to commit murder?
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.0
The cat who
played post office by
Lilian Jackson Braun.
After inheriting
unexpected millions, reporter Jim Qwilleran and his crime-solving cats Koko and
Yum Yum take up residence in a mansion and hire servants. When the maid
disappears, Koko and Jim look
for clues.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level - 5.7
more titles by
Lilian Jackson Braun
The cat who
talked to ghosts - AR 5.9
The cat who
knew Shakespeare - AR 5.7
The cat who
could read backwards - AR 5.7
The cat who
ate Danish modern - AR 5.5
Wish you were
here by Rita Mae Brown
& Sneaky Pie Brown
Feline sleuth
Mrs. Murphy and her cohort Tee Tucker, a Welsh corgi, do what they can to help
their human friend, postmistress Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen,
investigate when she makes a connection between the mail and a series of
murders in Crozet, Virginia.
No time to die by Elizabeth Chandler.
Jenny is stalked
by a serial killer-- the same murderer who killed her sister Liza, who tries to
warn her from the grave.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.3
The cradle will
fall by Mary Higgins
Clark.
Katie, a young
prosecutor in a small New Jersey town, begins investigating a possible suicide
and uncovers a hidden medical conspiracy.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.1
In the middle
of the night by Robert
Cormier.
Sixteen-year-old
Denny lives in the shadow of a deadly accident with which his father was
connected when he was Denny's age, a disaster for which some of the survivors
still blame his father.
Accelerated
Reader Readning Level 5.5
The rag and
bone shop : a novel by
Robert Cormier.
Trent, an ace
interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted
twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument,
Massachusetts.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
After the first
death by Robert Cormier.
The hijacking of
a bus of children by terrorists is described from the perspectives of a
hostage, a terrorist, an Army general involved in the rescue operation, and the
general's son who has been chosen as the go-between.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.8
I am the
cheese : a novel by
Robert Cormier.
A young boy
desperately tries to unlock his past yet knows he must hide those memories if
he is to remain alive.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 8.5
The vanishing
chip by Mark Delaney.
When Mattie's
grandfather becomes a suspect in the theft of a valuable computer chip, Peter,
Byte, Jake, and Mattie, four high school students who consider themselves
misfits, pool their talents to try to discover who really stole the chip and
how.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.5
The
protester's song by Mark
Delaney.
After a
suspicious accident, Bugle Point High School's Misfits decide to investigate a
local singer that they think might be connected to the killings at Kent State
back during the Vietnam War.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.9
Of heroes and
villains by Mark Delaney.
While the Misfits
are attending a comic book convention and waiting for a sneak preview of the
new Hyperman movie, they see the film stolen by someone dressed as Hyperman's
nemesis, the Jester.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
More titles by
Mark Delaney:
The
KingfisherÕs tale - AR 5.9
GrowlerÕs horn - AR 5.9
I know what
you did last summer by
Lois Duncan.
Four teenagers
who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run
accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.7
The third eye by Lois Duncan.
High school
senior Karen, who worries that her psychic powers will make her seem different
from other people, is frightened when a young policeman asks her to use her
gift to help locate missing children.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.5
More titles by
Lois Duncan:
They never
came home - AR 5.2
Ransom - AR 4.9
A gift of magic - AR 6.0
Gallows Hill - AR 6.9
Locked in time
- AR 6.6
Killing Mr.
Griffin
Stranger with
my face - AR 6.1
DonÕt look
behind you - AR 6.2
Regarding the
sink : where, oh where, did Waters go?
by Kate Klise
A series of
letters reveals the selection of the famous fountain designer, Florence Waters,
to design a new sink for the Geyser Creek Middle School cafeteria, her
subsequent disappearance, and the efforts of a class of sixth-graders to find
her.
One for the
money by Janet Evanovich.
Novice bounty
hunter Stephanie Plum goes after Joe Morelli, who is an ex-boyfrined and former
vice cop now on the run from a charge of murder.
Two for the
dough by Janet Evanovich.
Stephanie Plum is
on the trail of Kenny Mancuso, a boy from the working-class burg of Trenton,
who's just shot his best friend.
Three to get
deadly by Janet
Evanovich.
The hilarious
adventures of bounty hunter Stephanie Plum continue.
Shattered by Dick Francis.
Glassblower
Gerard Logan is faced with a threat to his business, his courage, and his life
when he comes to the attention of a gang of thugs who are searching for an
incriminating videotape entrusted to Logan by his friend, jockey Martin
Stukely, who was unexpectedly killed in a riding accident.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level
- 7.2
Broken English
: an Ohio Amish mystery
by P.L. Gaus.
Professor Michael
Branden, Sheriff Bruce Robertson, and Pastor Cal Troyer struggle to discover
the truth when two murders rock the peaceful town of Millersburg, Ohio in the
heart of Amish country, and suspicion falls on David Hawkins, the Amish father
of the first victim.
Blood of the
prodigal : an Ohio Amish mystery by P.L. Gaus.
Professor Michael
Branden, Pastor Caleb Troyer, and Sheriff Bruce Robertson attempt to penetrate
the secrecy of the Old Order Amish of Holmes County, Ohio, in order to recover
a ten-year-old boy who has been kidnapped by his outcast father.
The first
eagle by Tony Hillerman.
Navajo Tribal
policeman Jim Chee joins with his mentor, now-retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn,
to solve a complicated case when a young officer is murdered on the same day
that biologist Cathy Pollard, hot on the trail of the source of the bubonic plague, disappears.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.1
The river king by Alice Hoffman.
An inexplicable
death of a university student in Haddan, Massachusetts leads to the unraveling
of the lives of some of the residents of the small river town.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.3
Following Fake
Man by Barbara Ware
Holmes
During his summer
in Maine, twelve-year-old Homer, together with his new friend Roger, is
determined to find the truth about himself, his long-dead father, and a
mysterious costumed man.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.7
Blue Avenger
cracks the code by Norma
Howe.
In his new
identity as Blue Avenger, sixteen-year-old David visits Venice, Italy, and
continues to pursue various crusades, including trying to solve the mystery of
who really wrote Shakespeare's works.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.1
Disconnected by Shelley Hrdlitschka.
Fourteen-year-old
Canadians, Tanner and Alex, discover they have a mysterious connection when
drug dealers kidnap Tanner while he is on a hockey trip, mistaking him for Alex
who met them while running away from an abusive father.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.6
Tangled web by Shelley Hrdlitschka.
Separated at
birth and only reunited through circumstance and a savage crime,
fifteen-year-old twins Alex and Tanner are slowly getting to know each other
and becoming accustomed to the idea of being brothers, albeit brothers with
barely controllable psychic abilities.
While spending their summer vacation together they find that their past
has resurfaced and they are in danger - again.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level - 4.7
Gifted touch by Melinda Metz.
A teenage girl
named Rae, whose mother suffered from mental instability, fears that she is
going insane when she begins to hear voices--yet, there may be another
explanation entirely, and her life may be in danger.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.8
Sherlock
Holmes and the Red Demon
by Larry Millett.
Millett's
Sherlock Holmes adventure, told as though written by Dr. Watson, places the
detective and his assistant on the trail of an arsonist threatening railroad
baron James J. Hill and the success of the Great Northern Railway in 1894.
The difficult
saint by Sharan Newman.
Catherine and
Hubert LeVendeur, having just returned home after a harrowing visit with
relatives in Scotland, are forced to enter the dangerously anti-Semitic climate
of medieval Germany, when Catherine's estranged sister Agnes is accused of
murdering her husband of one day.
The stalker by Joan Lowery Nixon.
When her best
friend is accused of murder, seventeen-year-old Jennifer is determined to prove
her innocence by finding the real culprit.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.5
Secret, silent
screams by Joan Lowery
Nixon.
A high school
senior is convinced her friend Barry did not commit suicide but was a murder
victim, and she endangers her own life to prove it.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.8
The dark and
deadly pool by Joan
Lowery Nixon.
Sixteen-year-old
Mary Elizabeth's summer job at an expensive health club turns out to be more
exciting than she bargained for when a series of mysterious events culminate in
murder.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.5
He shall
thunder in the sky : an Amelia Peabody mystery by Elizabeth Peters.
Intrepid
archaeologist/sleuth Amelia Peabody and her family, back in Egypt in 1914 for
another season of archaeological excavation, become caught up in the political
turmoil sweeping the country, and when an exquisite artifact from a Giza dig is
found where it ought not be, Amelia realizes her villainous arch- nemesis Sethos is at work.
Close to a
killer by Marsha Qualey.
Seventeen-year-old
Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders that are somehow connected
to her mother's hair salon.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 4.6
Adam and evil
: an Amanda Pepper mystery
by Gillian Roberts.
English teacher
Amanda Pepper's efforts to get help for one of her senior students who is
behaving oddly results in her becoming involved in the murder of a librarian.
Twisted summer by Willo Davis Roberts.
Fourteen-year-old
Cici hopes for a romantic summer at the beach but instead finds herself trying
to solve a murder which had occurred there the previous year.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.4
Ghost horses by Gloria Skurzynski and Alane Ferguson.
Visiting Zion
National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack encounters two mysteries,
the strange behavior of a band of wild mustangs and the possibly sinister
actions of his new foster brother, a Shoshone boy.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.5
The orange
curtain : a Jack Liffey mystery by John Shannon.
Jack Liffey
travels to Little Saigon to investigate the disappearance of a young college
student, and as he uncovers more clues, Jack finds himself encountering danger,
rival gangs, and extortion rings.
Streets on
fire : a Jack Liffey mystery by John Shannon.
Jack Liffey
searches through the volatile ethnic communities of Los Angeles in search of
the adopted son of a prominent civil rights campaigner, who has disappeared
after a run-in with a local motorcycle gang.
Uncovering
Sadie's secrets by Libby
Sternberg.
Fifteen-year-old
Bianca finds herself in one mess after another when she tries to figure out
what is going on with Sadie Sinclair, a shy and secretive girl who it appears
is being stalked by a pair of thugs.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.1
The killer's
cousin by Nancy Werlin.
After being
acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he
learns more about his strange young cousin Lily.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
The ghost of
Lizard Light by Elvira
Woodruff
Moving from Iowa
to a lighthouse cottage in Maine, ten-year-old Jack struggles to live up to his
father's high standards and encounters a young ghost who presents Jack with a
150-year-old unsolved sea mystery.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.3
Dead letters by Susan Kimmel Wright.
While trying to
figure out who is responsible for stealing mail from nearby mailboxes, Nellie
allows outward appearances to lead her to suspect a high school dropout, an
aging actress, Sasquatch, and a lonely classmate.
Dog days by David Lubar.
Larry canÕt stop
thinking about the growling dog in the alley. He already has three strays in his backyard. How can he afford to take care of
another one? When his brother Paul
points out a strange mark in the alley, Larry has a mystery to solve. What is the dog protecting? What is really going on in the dark
alley?
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.8