Entering Grade 8
MYSTERY
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The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. This classic detective novel has it all. |
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One of us is Lying (series)
by Karen M. McManus Five students enter detention, and all have been posted about on the anonymous school chat board by Simon. By the end of detention, Simon is dead, and it wasn’t an accident. Which of the four had enough to lose to commit a murder and will they strike again? |
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia deLuce Novel (series)
by Allan Bradley For Agatha Christie lovers: Flavia de Luce goes outside early one morning to find a stranger dying in their cucumber garden. Normal 11 year old girls would have screamed and fled the scene, but Flavia is intrigued and when her father is arrested for the crime, is soon trying to untangle the knots surrounding the stranger, a rare stamp, her father's old schoolmaster, and the dead man in the garden. |
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The Leaving
by Tara Altebrando Six kindergartners disappear from a small suburban town. Eleven years later, five of them return home with no memory of where they’ve been or what happened to the sixth child who went missing that same day. |
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The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson Guests arrive at Hill House to investigate rumors of paranormal activity. At first, nothing seems awry except the husband and wife caretakers who leave the grounds before dark falls each night. But soon, the house begins to show its true colors. |
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Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
Stevie Bell begs to go away to Ellingham Academy, an elite boarding school in remote Vermont where 80 years earlier a heinous crime was committed. When a copycat murderer strikes, Stevie tries to solve the mystery. |
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Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
A wealthy man is found murdered in his luxury train car, the doors and windows locked from the inside: who could have killed him? |
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We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Cadence spends every summer on her family’s private island off the coast of Cape Cod. Until one summer when something happens, something no one talks about & Cadence can’t remember. |