Teen Girl Mystery

A professor shows a colleague a painting that he has kept secret for decades. The professor swears it is a Vermeer - but why has he hidden this important work for so long? The reasons unfold in a series of stories that trace ownership of the painting back to World War II and Amsterdam, and still further back to the moment of the work's inspiration.

When Michelle runs away from her drug-addicted mother, she has just enough money to make it to New York City, where she hopes to move in with a friend. But once she arrives at the bustling Port Authority, she is confronted with the terrifying truth: She is alone and out of options. Then she meets Devon, a good-looking, well-dressed guy who emerges from the crowd armed with a kind smile, a place for her to stay, and eyes that seem to understand exactly how she feels. But Devon is not who he seems to be.

After dropping out of college, Jolie tries to settle into a new town and leave her mother's death behind her. But between her reoccurring nightmares about the cottage in the woods and the shadowy activities of her strange new friends, what's settling in is a sense that something - or someone - is not what it seems. Greta goes by a fake name and is running from someone; Jamie is trying to keep clear of his own old, insidious habits.

Carlo Diamante wonders if the beautiful and mysterious woman he keeps seeing is stalking him. If she is stalking him, why does she keep disappearing in the crowd when he approaches her? He wonders if she is just an illusion. Perhaps she is a dream woman created by his vivid imagination. Carlo finally confides in his very ill sister, who tells him there is something very special about this woman and that Carlo needs to find her. Meanwhile another mystery is unfolding in the jungles of the Amazon.

Before Pam's father left to fight in World War I, the two of them trained their pigeons to fly home at night, a time when most birds just want to sleep. This interests a stranger with a foreign accent who comes to town and offers to pay a lot of money for Pam's birds. But when Pam refuses to sell and some of her birds are later stolen, she suspects the stranger may be more than a simple bird enthusiast. He may be an enemy spy!

Thirteen-year-old Gabby Woods is looking forward to another summer vacation at her family’s lake house, even though she would rather bury herself in a mystery novel than make new friends. But soon Gabby befriends Paige, a snarky kid from Chicago, and they get caught up in a local mystery: the sudden disappearance of a glamorous couple and the extravagant lake house they left behind. To gather clues about the missing couple, Paige coaxes Gabby into trespassing, even though she knows it’s wrong. Yet, each sneaky visit to the abandoned lake house uncovers new mysteries.

Could Earth’s apocalypse really be worse than puberty for Daniela Rose-a depressive schizophrenic girl destined to meet a mysterious orphan boy who haunts her chaotic dreams? One girl. One boy. One mission. To protect their home-Earth-from invasion by the planet’s previous occupants...This epic story weaves an intricate tapestry of Divine guidance, faith, isolation, hope, and loss as it follows two children from their beginnings to their ends. If you knew your ending, how would you have lived your beginning?

Shelby is completely fine. A semi-professional fighter, she’s been hit more times than she can count. Just because it’s her boyfriend that broke her nose this time, it doesn’t mean she’s damaged. If she was as traumatized as everyone thinks she is, she wouldn’t be able to move on with the new boy at school, who helps her realize everything she wants to be.

Child prodigy Maria Torres wins a roller coaster design contest with a ride that safely jumps the track. She's then hired by a company to design rides, but as she becomes more successful she wants more freedom and fights with her family. She even starts to admire Rigel Hemroyd, an evil billionaire owner of rival theme parks, who later kidnaps her to make her design the ultimate coaster.

Jupiter stared at the mirror, which reflected a 12-year-old girl inside of a computer monitor; oh, heavens, the girl was her! Lightning crashes through the window and lights up the camera mounted on the computer. Gnomes escape through the camera hole and attack Jupiter with paper clips, ballpoint pens, and other office supplies. The computer gnomes want revenge because middle schooler, famous hacker, genius Jupiter blamed gnomes for eating her missing homework. Using magic, the gnomes shrink Jupiter into a tiny, digital girl.

Thrust into a world 116 years in the past, Adrienne Phillips must decipher the enigmatic words of her dying grandmother. "Butterfly; Go to Henri. The woman in pink." With the help of a can-can dancer and a castaway caught in the past, Adrienne attempts to solve the riddle. The answer lies in a well-known painting by Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge: The Dance.

When a small plane crashes behind Jason Lee's rural home, strange things begin to happen. He tries to tell his parents that the ghost of the pilot is haunting him, but they don't believe in such things. Then he sees Stevie Rae Sanders entering the local haunted house, and he thinks he has found someone brave enough to help him. Stevie-girl isn't certain she is all that brave, but she agrees to try. Together they confront The Phantom Pilot. But is it too late, or will he live in Jase's closet forever?

Adeline Sophia Jackson's Where There's a Will, There's a Way: International Women's Day Mystery is a teen mystery thriller. Adeline is your average teenager except she solves mysteries and is the world's most famous crime fighter.

There's a new girl at camp and Rebekah's mind and detective's notebook are filled with questions about her. Natasha is very mysterious and she certainly does not seem interested in making friends any time soon. And what's with that blood-red liquid that she drinks every day? Could she really be a vampire? Rebekah is determined to solve this mystery, even if she might feel slightly scared around the strange girl.