Category Archives: Mystery
Shine by Lauren Myracle
“I closed the crawl space door. I got to my feet and brushed myself off. My chest was tight, but I looked at the blue sky, clear and pale above the tree line, and said out loud, ‘Fine, I’ll do … Continue reading
Filed under GLBT, Mystery, National Book Award Finalist, Realistic Fiction, YA Lit
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock, and like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before … Continue reading
Filed under Adventure, Horror, Magical Realism, Mystery, Nontraditional Format
Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
“Because with Charlie, nothing was ever easy. Everything was windswept and octagonal and finger-combed. Everything was difficult and odd, and the theme songs all had minor chords.” Vera’s former best friend Charlie is dead. It’s hard enough when your best … Continue reading
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
“In the storybooks she’d read in school, everyone got to wake up at the prince’s kiss. But in Gemma’s version, the implication was that they all still slept under the wicked fairy’s sentence of death. Death by sleep.” Becca’s grandmother, … Continue reading
Filed under Fantasy, GLBT, Historical, Mystery, Mythopoeic Award, YA Lit
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
“1. Why would you kill a dog? a) Because you hated the dog. b) Because you were mad. c) Because you wanted to make Mrs. Shears upset. 2. I didn’t know anyone who hated Wellington, so if it was (a) … Continue reading
Filed under Alex Award, Award Winners, Grown-ups, Mystery, Realistic Fiction, YA Lit
Ruined by Paula Morris
“Rebecca nodded, watching Lisette amble away. Now she understood why Lisette haunted the Bowman house. She understood why for the past one hundred fifty years she’d drifted around in the long shadow of its quiet, oak-shaded galleries. It was the … Continue reading
Filed under Ghost Story, Mystery, YA Lit
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
“There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.” Welcome to Rick Yancey’s Gothic horror novel, The Monstrumologist. Will Henry is the young apprentice of Pellinore Warthrop, a New … Continue reading
Filed under ALA/YALSA Best Book, Mystery, Printz Honor Book
Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon
“We were up against a force more powerful than white folks and more lethal than a gator king. The color of a person’s skin alone could make one woman worth protecting, while it made another man fit to die.” Before … Continue reading
Filed under Coretta Scott King Award, Mystery, Uncategorized, YA Lit
The Danger Box by Blue Balliett
“This time, I’d be the questions-starter.” Zoomy. If you haven’t already been captivated by the intellectual mystery stylings of Ms. Balliett, which feature real-life figures such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Vermeer, and Charles Darwin, as well as plucky and realistic … Continue reading
Filed under Adventure, Children's Lit, Mystery
