Do not miss out on E. Lockhart’s gripping novel, We Were Liars. The story begins with 17 year old Cadence, who spends the summer every year on her wealthy family’s private island on the coast of Massachusetts. She enjoys her summer with her cousins, the “liars,” and a boy who is a friend of the family. The group of them spend hours away from their mothers who are feuding over ownership of the property and inheritance of the wealth from their eccentric grandfather.
Nine Liars, Maureen Johnson’s newest entry in the Truly Devious series, is a weak companion to the books that came before it, yet still managed to retain some of the charm of its predecessors. The novel takes place between two time periods: one being the 1990s in England, following a group of nine friends in a rural house, and the other being a modern-day continuation of the lives of Stevie Bell and her friends.
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder follows a girl named Pip as she tries to uncover the murder of a girl named Andie Bell for a school project with a boy named Ravi, the brother of the boy suspected of killing Andie. Pip isn't convinced that Ravis's older brother killed Andie, and neither is Ravi. They can't ask him because he was soon dead after her, a “suicide”. Pip and Ravi work hard to find out who did this.
Space Case is a mystery novel written by Stuart Gibbs. Dashiell Gibson is a lunarnaut that lives on Moon Base Alpha. He and his fellow crew are the first humans to live on the moon, and they are pretty famous. However, Dashiell cannot go onto the lunar surface, leaving him stuck in the base to do nothing. He has no interest in playing the virtual reality games that kids his age play either. Dashiell’s peaceful yet boring life ends abruptly when the top scientist, Dr. Holtz, is found dead. While everyone believes Dr.
When their Grandmother invites them to work on her private island, after mysteriously cutting ties with their parents many years ago, three cousins reluctantly accept. But when they arrive on the island not everything is what it seems. Instead of learning the truth about why their grandma disinherited her children, they are faced with more questions and secrets about the island, their families, and each other.
Sharp Objects features Camille Preaker, a writer for the newspaper Daily Post in Chicago, who has been given a difficult assignment to investigate the death of two girls who had died in her hometown. Aside from a troubling past, Camille will have to confront her eerie mother and a half sister that she barely knows. With the help of Richard, a confident detective from Kansas City, Camille digs deeper in order to figure out what happened to the girls and to get a statement for her newspaper.
