Shock Point by April Henry

Imagine getting kidnapped and taken to a juvenile rehab prison…Cassie Streng’s psychiatrist stepfather prescribed an experimental drug leading to the suicide of three of his patients. When Cassie tries to gather information about the teen deaths, he plants crystal meth in her bedroom and then persuades her mother to send her to “Peaceful Cove”. Coming home from school, Cassie gets handcuffed, thrown into a van, and driven to “Peaceful Cove” in Mexico.                                                                                          

First Shot by Walter Sorrells

If you want a book that keeps you guessing, this is the book for you! 

 

David’s mother was murdered two years ago, and his father, the head of the boarding school that David attends, is emotionally distant.  One night at about 3am, David hears a noise coming from downstairs. Before going downstairs, he peeks into his father’s room and finds that his father’s bed is made like his he never went to bed that night. He goes downstairs and sees his father coming up from out of the basement with a shovel and something long, wrapped in plastic. He follows his father and becomes convinced that his father had something to do with his mother’s death.

 

David becomes involved with a girl at his school and together they get to the bottom of this mystery. Just when he thought he had solved the mysery, he began to find out more information about his mother. His father was arrested after cops dug up the gun that his dad buried, but was his father the real murderer? Was there a secret that his mother was hiding all those years? To find out who really killed David’s mother, read First Shot by Walter Sorrells.  
Grade Level: 7 and up