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2) The shack
Author
Publisher
Windblown Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack . Four years later , Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photography, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it's across Massachusetts or across the country. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2...
4) Look again
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, her heart stops--the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. She investigates the story behind the flyer, uncovering clues no one was meant to discover, and when she digs too deep, she risks losing her own life--and that of the son she loves.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
THRILLER / SUSPENSE. Winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Novel. John Hart's New York Times bestselling debut, The King of Lies, announced the arrival of a major talent. With Down River, he surpassed his earlier success, transcending the barrier between thriller and literature and winning the 2008 Edgar Award for best novel. Now, with The Last Child, he achieves his most significant work to date, an intricate, powerful story of loss, hope, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When a Gypsy woman is wrongly accused of kidnapping a local child, precocious young Flavia de Luce draws on her encyclopedic knowledge of poisons and Gypsy lore to discern what really happened while investigating the mystery of her own mother's fate.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single father whose young child feels eerily familiar, in this evocative, suspenseful drama from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell--perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Liane Moriarty. Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenaged...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - who got to this place the same...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Skye believes that moving across the country will be the perfect chance to start over. In their isolated new neighborhood Skye manages to fit in, but her younger sister Deirdre withdraws from everyone, becoming fixated on the swampy woods behind their house and building monstrous sculptures out of sticks and bones. Then Deirdre disappears. Now something awful comes scratching at Skye's window in the middle of the night, claiming she's the only one...
10) My story
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken from her home in the middle of the night by religious fanatic, Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee. She was kept chained, dressed in disguise,...
11) 10th anniversary
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Detective Lindsay Boxer's long awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a teenage girl is badly injured left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals, but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well. At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
What if the woods were full of them? And of course they were, the woods were full of everything you didn't like, everything you were afraid of and instinctively loathed, everything that tried to overwhelm you with nasty, no-brain panic. The brochure promised a "moderate-to-difficult" six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, where nine-year-old Trisha McFarland was to spend Saturday with her older brother, Pete, and...
13) Come find me
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Kennedy Jones and seventeen-year-old Nolan Chandler are drawn together by strange signals related to family tragedies, and find they are more connected than they could have imagined.
14) HARD EIGHT
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The #1 bestselling phenomenon continues in the eighth Stephanie Plum novel. The stakes get higher, the crimes get nastier, the chases get faster, and the men get hotter.
This time Stephanie, Morelli, Ranger. Lula, Valerie, and Grandma Mazur are strapped in for the ride of their lives. Stephanie is hired to find a missing child. But things aren't always as they seem and Stephanie must determine if she's working for the right side of the
15) Promise me
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A entertainment agent solves a mystery.