Sammy Keyes and the search for Snake Eyes by Van Draanen, Wendelin 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2008)

BTSB #: P00494 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-11   


Genres: Mystery Fiction

Subjects: Infants - Fiction Abandoned children - Fiction Gangs - Fiction Softball - Fiction Mystery fiction

Summary: When thirteen-year-old Sammy finds herself with an abandoned baby on her hands, she sets out to find the young mother, who may belong to a gang, and accidentally jeopardizes her position on the softball team.

Where the crawdads sing by Owens, Delia 

Paperback(Putnam, 2021)

BTSB #: 694936 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.9 UG Lexile: 880

Genres: Mystery Fiction

Subjects: Abandoned children - Fiction Hermits - Fiction Solitude - Fiction Mystery fiction North Carolina - Fiction

Summary: For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. When two young men from town become intrigued by Kya, the unthinkable happens.

Wild boy by Jones, Rob Lloyd 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2013)

BTSB #: 581254 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.6 MG RC: 3.8 6-8 Lexile: 660

Genres: Mystery Fiction

Subjects: Mystery fiction Fairs - Fiction Sideshows - Fiction Abandoned children - Fiction

Summary: Wild Boy, covered in hair from head to toe, is kidnapped and forced into a life of being a sideshow freak during the Victorian era and must use his Sherlock Holmes-like deductive skills to exonerate himself from being suspected of murder.