Young Adult Book List

Teen Titles of Adventure & Suspense

Acceleration / McNamee, Graham.  Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, 17-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.

After / Prose, Francine.  In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear.

Body of Christopher Creed / Plum-Ucci, Carol.  Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seeming perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.

Climb or die / Myers, Edward.  After a car accident in a snowy Colorado pass seriously injures their parents, athletic 14-year-old Danielle and her brainy younger brother Jake must scale a mountain to find help.

Driver's ed / Cooney, Caroline B.  Three teenagers' lives are changed forever when they thoughtlessly steal a stop sign from a dangerous intersection and a young mother is killed in an automobile accident there.

Eagle strike / Horowitz, Anthony.  Air Force One has been hijacked! Teen spy Alex Rider survives a bullfight, a high-speed bicycle chase through Amsterdam, and even being the target in a human video game, only to face his most disturbing challenge yet!

Foreign exchange: a mystery in poems / Glenn, Mel.  A series of poems reflect the thoughts of various people--town residents young and old, teachers, and some students visiting from the city--caught up in the events surrounding the murder of a beautiful high school student who had recently moved to the small lake-side community of Hudson Landing.

The Goats / Cole, Brock.  Stripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and a girl form an uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away and disappear without a trace.

Holding at third / Zinnen, Linda.  When 13-year-old Matt's older brother Tom moves to a different hospital to receive a "treatment of last resort" for his cancer, Matt tries to adjust to a new home and school, a new baseball team, and his feelings about his brother.

In darkness, death / Hoobler, Dorothy.  In 18th century Japan, young Seiki becomes involved with a ninja as he helps his foster father investigate the murder of a samurai.

Killing Mr. Griffin / Duncan, Lois.  Mr. Griffin is the least-liked teacher at Del Norte High School. He even fails seniors and makes them beg to get back in his class--the next year. This time, he's humiliated the wrong students. When a group of classmates decide to kidnap him, the plan is only to scare their teacher--give him a taste of his own medicine. They don't intend to kill Mr. Griffin. But sometimes plans go horribly wrong.

The Kindling / Armstrong, Jennifer.  In 2007, a small band of children have joined together in a Florida town, trying to survive in a world where it seems that all the adults have been killed off by a catastrophic virus.

Leaving Protection / Hobbs, Will.  Sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels, happy to get a job aboard a troller fishing for salmon off southeastern Alaska, finds himself in danger when he discovers that his mysterious captain is searching for long-buried Russian plaques that lay claim to Alaska and the Northwest.

My life and death, by Alexandra Canarsie / O'Keefe, Susan Heyboer.  Escaping school and family problems in a cemetery, 15-year-old Allie begins attending strangers' funerals, which leads to her first real friendship and a mystery that she believes only she can solve.

Night of fear / Kehret, Peg.  Thirteen-year-old T.J. and his grandmother, who has Alzheimer's disease, find their lives in danger when they discover a disturbed arsonist hiding in a barn.

Our time on the river / Brown, Don.  1968. Steve's older brother has just broken the news that he's quit college to enlist in the army. Before David departs for Vietnam, their father decides to send the brothers on a canoe trip down the Susquehanna River. There is no map or guide for this trip: just two brothers going forward, navigating the twists and turns of the river, learning to fight for each other.

Protester's song / Delaney, Mark.  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.

Stranger online / Smith, Carol.  To save her reputation at school and keep her position on the swim team, Amber must uncover the identity of the mysterious stranger who has been sending threatening e-mail messages to her website.

Trick of the eye / Haseley, Dennis.  Richard has started seeing things. And hearing them too. Suddenly he has discovered that he can communicate with the characters in paintings. And they've begun to tell him that there's something he has forgotten something important in his past that hell be able to remember if only he can find the right painting. Does he dare look for it? Does he dare remember?

Wolf rider: a tale of terror / Avi.  After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have committed a murder, 15-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him.

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