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Playing in traffic

2006
Shy and unremarkable, seventeen-year-old Matt Lathrop is surprised and flattered to find himself singled out for the sexual attentions of the alluring Skye Colbly, until he discovers the evil purpose behind her actions.

Neil Young's Greendale

2010
Sun Green, the eighteen-year-old great-granddaughter of a founding member of Greendale, California, has the same mysterious relationship to nature as the other women in her family, but the day the United States goes to war in 2003 a stranger that only Sun can see arrives in town and begins to destroy everything Sun holds dear.

Impact

2009
The death of Jordan's brother two years earlier in what appeared to be a random act, has lasting effects on the entire family, especially Jordan who knows more than he is saying about the murder.

Cheated

2008
Fifteen-year-old Mick recalls a series of betrayals and other life-changing events at home, school, and during the break-up with his girlfriend, and considers how those troubles led to his arrest for murder.

Hamlet

a novel
2009
Grieving for the recent death of his beloved father and appalled by his mother's quick remarriage to his uncle, Hamlet, heir to the Danish throne, struggles with conflicting emotions, particularly after his father's ghost appeals to him to avenge his death.

Alias Grace

1997
Fact-based story of Grace Marks, a sixteen-year-old girl who received a life sentence in 1843 for allegedly taking part in the murder of her employer and his lover, but whose case continued to stir debate throughout her prison stay, resulting in her release in 1872.

Hawkes Harbor

2005
Mental patient Jamie Sommers suffers from depression, partial amnesia, and a fear of the dark, but as Dr. McDevitt continues to try and probe the mind of the boy, Jamie is drawn closer and closer to the ultimate evil that could destroy him.

A mystery for Thoreau

2008
In 1846 Concord, Massachusetts, sixteen-year-old Oliver Puckle, a reporter for his uncle's newspaper, investigates a woman's murder, aided by the tracking skills of his Algonquin friend, Charley Bigbow, and the deductive skills of Henry David Thoreau.

Bang

2007
High school juniors Quentin and JD engage in a robbery that turns deadly, and one of them is left to take the blame.

The killer's cousin

2000
After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily.

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