Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein

During World War II, a British spy and a pilot form a close friendship as they endure capture and torture in Nazi-occupied France, each showing incredible courage in the face of danger. 

Grades 9-12

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - 

Holly Jackson

 A determined high school senior investigates a closed murder case for her senior project, uncovering secrets about her small town and putting herself in danger. 

Grades 9-12

The Inheritance Games - 

Jennifer Lynn Barnes 

 A teenage girl inherits billions from a stranger and must move into his mansion, where his puzzled family challenges her to solve the mystery of why she was chosen. 

Grades 8-12

Monday’s Not Coming -

 Tiffany D. Jackson

 When Claudia’s best friend Monday goes missing, no one seems to notice or care, leading Claudia to uncover disturbing truths as she searches for answers. 

Grades 9-12

One of Us is Lying - Karen McManus

On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.

Only one never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention, one of the students is dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn't an accident, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder.

Grades 8-12

Spy School - Stuart Gibbs

Ben Ripley has always wanted to escape the ordinariness of his middle-school life and be a spy. But then Alexander Hale appears at his home looking like James Bond, wanting Ben to enroll immediately in the CIA’s top-secret Academy of Espionage, and immediately things begin to happen. 

Grades 5 - 7

Scat - Carl Hiaasen

Nick and Marta are both suspicious when their biology teacher, the feared Mrs. Bunny Starch, disappears, and try to uncover the truth despite the police and headmaster's insistence that nothing is wrong.

Grades 5-7

Three Times Lucky - Sheila Turnage

Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafe and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.

Grades 5-7