Mystery & Thriller

Abrahams, Peter. Down the rabbit hole : an Echo Falls mystery.
Like her idol Sherlock Holmes, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill uses her intellect to solve a murder case in her home town of Echo Falls.

Allende, Isabel. City of the beasts.
When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians. Sequel: Kingdom of the golden dragon.

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

Cooney, Caroline B. 
Fatality
A weekend four years ago that ended in someone's death comes back to haunt Rose. The police have her diary of that summer and are questioning her again, and someone else wants to keep her from telling what really happened--forever.
Janie series.
The face on the milk carton.
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
Whatever happened to Janie?
The voice on the radio.
What Janie found.
The terrorist.
Sixteen-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the person responsible for the death of her younger brother Billy, who has been killed by a terrorist bomb.

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Duncan, Lois.
Don't look behind you.
Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.
I know what you did last summer.
Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.
Killing Mr. Griffin.
A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English teacher, but did he intend it to end with murder?

Glenn, Mel. Who killed Mr. Chippendale? : a mystery in poems.
Free verse poems describe the reactions of students, colleagues, and others when a high school teacher is shot to death as the school day begins.

McNamee, Graham. Acceleration.
Stuck working in the lost and found department of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.

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Nixon, Joan Lowery.
Nightmare.
Emily is sent to a camp for underachievers where she discovers a murderer on the staff who might provide an explanation for her recurring nightmares.
Secret silent screams.
A high school senior is convinced her friend Barry did not commit suicide, but was a murder victim, and she endangers her own life to prove it.
Shadowmaker.
Soon after she and her mother come to the small Texas town of Kluney and experience a series of menacing events, Katie begins to suspect that there is something sinister going on. 
Spirt seeker.
To prove that her friend did not kill his parents, Holly enlists the help of a clairvoyant.
The trap.
Sixteen-year-old Julie agrees to spend the summer at her great-aunt and uncle's ranch in Texas, but gets more than she bargained for when valuables suddenly start disappearing and it appears that there may be a murderer in their midst.
Whispers from the dead.
After making contact with the spirit world during a near-death experience, Sarah moves to Houston with her parents and receives otherworldly messages about a murder committed in her house.

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

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Horror & Supernatural

Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia.
Demon in my view.
Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches.
In the forests of the night.
Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will.
Shattered mirror.
As seventeen-year-old Sarah, daughter of a powerful line of vampire-hunting witches, continues to pursue the ancient bloodsucker Nikolas, she finds herself in a dangerous friendship with two vampire siblings in her high school.

De Lint, Charles. The blue girl.
New at her high school, Imogene enlists the help of her introverted friend Maxine and the ghost of a boy who haunts the school after receiving warnings through her dreams that soul-eaters are threatening her life.

Duncan, Lois.
Gallows Hill.
When seventeen-year-old Sarah works in the fortune-telling booth at a school carnival, she finds that sometimes she can really see the future in the crystal ball, a talent that disturbs some of the other students and makes them suspect her of being a witch.
A gift of magic.
Until she learns to control it, Nancy's gift of extrasensory perception brings her more trouble than she can handle.
Summer of fear.
Soon after the arrival of cousin Julia, insidious occurrences begin that convince Rachel she is a witch and must be stopped before her total monstrous plan can be effected.

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Gothic: Ten original dark tales
A collection of horror stories for teenagers by authors: Joan Aiken, Vivian Vande Velde, M.T. Anderson, Neil Gaiman, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Barry Yourgrau, Janni Lee Simner, Gregory Maguire, Celia Rees, and Garth Nix.

Klause, Annette.
Blood and chocolate.
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.
Silver Kiss.
A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoe come to terms with her mother's terminal illness.

Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight.
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Jade Green.
While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings.

Shusterman, Neal. Full tilt.
When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.

Westerfeld, Scott. Peeps.
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.

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