These books cover the mystery/suspense genre for YA readers.
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It’s a shame how petulant the Wrensdale Police Department treats Talia Marby. In the character’s debut in Linda Reilly’s A Deep Fried Mystery series, she confronts a man who has been harassing her boss only to find him slumped over his desk, dead. Talia eventually solves that murder mystery. In book two of the…
Out of the Dying Pan is book 2 of Linda Reilly’s A Deep Fried Mystery Series. Talia Marby is back again to solve her second murder. She’s not a police detective for her hometown of Wrensdale, but the owner of Fry Me a Sliver, a fish and chips fast food restaurant in Wrensdale Arcade, a…
Frannie James and twin brother Jeff have been uprooted from their Iowa home to a farmhouse in rural Oregon. Their father, a bank executive has been transferred to a more lucrative job, and their mother ran away when the twins were very young. One night, a gray veiled ghost appears to Frannie in her bedroom….
Talia Marby is between jobs. She endured a position at a Boston commercial real estate firm for a better part of a year, but resigned because she hated the job. Her boyfriend, Chet, refused to support her decision, so Talia returned to Wrensdale, Massachusetts, the small New England town where she grew up. Talia moved…
You’ve seen them on library and book store shelves—a book series. They are actually a book sequence having certain elements in common including characters, setting, and timeline. Some works in a series can be read in any order, like the Koolura Series. In a “Stand Alone” series each book makes few references to previous books…
Dear Pop, I’m a seventh grader at New Heights Preparatory School in Northridge. My English teacher recently assigned us a book report. I can choose any book I want, but the author must be a California resident. I also need to report a little bit about the writer. Please help me ASAP. The…
In just a few months your sons and daughters will be off from school for the summer. Plan ahead and think about summer camp. What is the best way to go –sleep away or day camp? And how do you pick the best camp for your child? If this is your child’s first camping…
In 2018 Pop read and reviewed 36 young adult novels. All of the books received 5 pops because they were thought provoking, imaginative, and the author’s writing style exemplary. Below you’ll find seven of his favorites plus his award-winning novel, Koolura and the Mayans. Title: Koolura and the Mayans Author: Michael Thal Awards: 2018 eLit…
Corporate trainer and amateur sleuth, Lysi Weston is on the road again with best friend Grace Wright. This time the duo are in Paris, France where they are assigned the task of presenting a model of their management training seminar to the American Chamber of Commerce in France in hopes of educating chauvinistic Francophiles on…