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The Twisted Window

Lois Duncan

Tracy, a high school junior, becomes embroiled in the problems of a strange boy, who asks her assistance in "snatching" his half-sister from her father who has allegedly kidnapped her.

They Never Came Home

Lois Duncan

When two teenage boys vanish on a camping trip, a stranger claims that one owes him $2,000. The boys' sister volunteers to repay the money while continually looking for clues that he is alive.

Locked in Time

Lois Duncan

Nore arrives at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation to find her new family odd and an aura of evil and mystery about the place.

A Study in Scarlet ; The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

Skateboard Tough

Matt Christopher

The skateboard that Brett Thyson found buried in his backyard makes him skate better than he ever thought he could, but a series of near-accidents start Brett wondering why the skateboard was buried a

The International Association of Crime Writers Presents Bad Behavior

Mary Higgins Clark

Collection of twenty-two mystery stories both new and previously published by Thomas Adcock, Winifred Holtby, Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, Barbara Steiner, Eric Weiner, and others.

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The Undertaker's Gone Bananas

Paul Zindel

Two teenagers believe a neighbor, an undertaker, has murdered his wife but can't convince anyone else.

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Mystery of the Green Cat

Phyllis A. Whitney

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The Ghosts of Now

Joan Lowery Nixon

With her brother in a coma following a hit-and-run accident, a high school senior investigates the incident, stirring up animosity in the small, tight west Texas community where her family has recentl

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