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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson · 400 pages

Everyone is talking about A Good Girl's Guide to Murder! With shades of Serial and Making a Murderer this is the story about an investigation turned obsession, full of twists and turns and with an ending you'll never expect. Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyo

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Another (light novel)

Yukito Ayatsuji · 496 pages

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Deeper Than the Dead

Tami Hoag · 432 pages

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Twisted

Sara Shepard

Four pretty girls have more ugly secrets than ever. It's been a year since the mystery of their former friend's disappearance was finally laid to rest, and Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily have worked hard to put their lives back together. Now seniors in high school, the pretty little liars are older, but they're not any wiser. Last spring break in Jamaica, they did something unforgivable. Th

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This Is Our Story

Ashley Elston · 320 pages

"When a hunting accident claims a boy's life, his best friends all come under suspicion"--

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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

Michelle Hodkin · 464 pages

Seventeen-year-old Mara cannot remember the accident that took the lives of three of her friends but, after moving from Rhode Island to Florida, finding love with Noah, and more deaths, she realizes uncovering something buried in her memory might save her family and her future.

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We Are All Guilty Here

Karin Slaughter · 439 pages

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The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

Jennifer Lynch · 184 pages

"The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer holds the keys to the mysterious mountain town in the Pacific Northwest, where the forces of good and evil do battle for a high school girl's innocence ..."

Diary FormatSmall Town SecretsHorrorMystery
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Anna Dressed in Blood

Kendare Blake

For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.

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Solitary

Travis Thrasher · 391 pages

When Chris Buckley moves to Solitary, North Carolina, he faces the reality of his parents' divorce, a school full of nameless faces--and Jocelyn Evans. Jocelyn is beautiful and mysterious enough to leave Chris speechless. But the more Jocelyn resists him, the more the two are drawn together. Chris soon learns that Jocelyn has secrets as deep as the town itself. Secrets more terrifying than the bul

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The Dead List

Jennifer L. Armentrout

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Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

Louise Rennison · 183 pages

The saga of fourteen-year-old Georgia Nicolson continues as she travels to Scotland on a nightmarish family vacation, confesses her anxiety over being the girlfriend of a sex god, and tests the limits of true friendship.

Diary FormatTeenagersMiddle GradeYoung Adult
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Beautiful Creatures

Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl · 563 pages

In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

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Spud

John van de Ruit · 389 pages

It's 1990. Apartheid is crumbling. Nelson Mandela has just been released from prison. And Spud Milton—thirteen-year-old, prepubescent choirboy extraordinaire—is about to start his first year at an elite boys-only boarding school in South Africa. Cursed with embarrassingly dysfunctional parents, a senile granny named Wombat, and a wild obsession for Julia Roberts, Spud has his hands full trying to

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Day by Day Armageddon

J.L. Bourne · 260 pages

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Chain Letter

Christopher Pike · 188 pages

When Alison first read the chain letter signed "Your Caretaker," she thought it was some terrible sick joke. Someone, somewhere knew about that awful night when she and six other friends committed an unthinkable crime in the desolate California desert. And now that person was determined to make them pay for it. One by one, the chain letter was coming to each of them...demanding dangerous, impos

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The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Carrie Ryan · 310 pages

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Sixsational

Meg Cabot · 238 pages

The novel that inspired the hit movie!Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there's nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who also happens to be flunking Algebra. Is she ever in for a surprise. First Mom announces that she's dating Mia's Algebra teacher. Then Dad has to go and reveal that he is the crown prince of Genovia. And guess who still doesn't have a date for the Cultur

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The Lost City of Faar

D.J. MacHale · 400 pages

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This World We Live In

Susan Beth Pfeffer · 239 pages

When the moon's gravitational pull increases, causing massive natural disasters on earth, Miranda and her family struggle to survive in a world without cities or sunlight, and wonder if anyone else in still alive.

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Asylum

Madeleine Roux · 313 pages

"Three teens at a summer program for gifted students uncover shocking secets in the sanatorium-turned-dorm where they're staying--secrets that link them all to the asylum's dark past"--

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The Dead Lifeguard

R.L. Stine · 192 pages

The young lifeguards at North Beach Country Club discount stories about a curse until, one by one, they fall victim to horrible deaths

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Nailbiter, Vol. 1: There Will Be Blood

Joshua Williamson · 144 pages

"Where do serial killers come from?" and why has Buckaroo, Oregon given birth to sixteen of the most vile serial killers in the world? NSA Agent Nicholas Finch needs to solve that mystery in order to save his friend, and he'll have to team up with the infamous Edward "Nailbiter" Warren to do it.

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The String Diaries

Stephen Lloyd Jones · 421 pages

A family is hunted by a centuries-old monster: a man with a relentless obsession who can take on any identity. The String Diaries opens with Hannah frantically driving through the night--her daughter asleep in the back, her husband bleeding out in the seat beside her. In the trunk of the car rests a cache of diaries dating back 200 years, tied and retied with strings through generations. The d

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