Mystery & Mayhem

	Belle Prater’s boy. Ruth White. (MS) When Belle Prater disappeared her son, Woodrow, was left behind. After being taken in by his grandparents, Woodrow grows closer to his cousin, Gypsy, who can’t help but pry into Woodrow’s life as she tries to uncover the mystery of Belle’s disappearance.
	Body of Christopher Creed. Carol Plum-Ucci. (HS) When Christopher Creed disappeared, no one knew where he had gone and not many people actually cared. Tory and Ali are drawn together by the fact that they genuinely are concerned about Creed’s whereabouts.
	The boy in the burning house. Tim Wynne-Jones. (HS) Two years after his father’s disappearance, Jim still struggles to understand what happened. So when Ruth Rose, the stepdaughter of a local pastor tells Jim that she knows what happened to his dad, Jim wants to believe her. But who would believe that a minister could have anything to do with the disappearance?
	Flyers. Daniel Hayes. (HS) Gabe and his best friend, Bo, are young filmmakers in a small town in New York. While working on a movie about a family of green monsters, Gabe begins to notice strange events in his town.
	Kit’s wilderness. David Almond. (MS) When Kit and his family return to the old coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, Kit finds himself surrounded by the ghosts of his ancestors.
	Following Fake Man. Barbara Ware Holmes. (MS) Homer’s mother has brought him to Maine but doesn’t want him to interact with the locals. When Homer disobeys his mother’s wishes, he finds himself caught up in a dangerous game of concealed identity.
	Jade Green. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. (MS/HS) When orphan Julia Sparrow moves to Whispers, South Carolina, to live with her uncle, she learns that the last young woman to live in the house died of mysterious causes. Julia is also startled to find that a small disobedience seems to have awakened a ghostly visitor.
	Shades of Simon Gray. Joyce McDonald (HS) Freakish weather and hatching frogs may have been the cause of the car accident that caused Simon to slip into a coma. While he lies in bed, unable to wake up, Simon experiences encounters with people from the past. Meanwhile, school officials get nearer to discovering the grade-rigging scam with which Simon was involved.
	Skeleton man. Joseph Bruchac. (MS) After her parents mysteriously disappear, Molly is sent to live with a man who claims that he is her great-uncle. Molly is suspicious of this man when she meets him and living with him makes her worries grow, especially when she notices that he bears a striking resemblance to an uncle in a Mohawk tale who ate his whole family.

(MS) = Recomended for Middle School Readers
(HS) = Recomended for High School Readers