Some Serious YA Mystery and Adventure

Try these books if you're looking for:
  • teen reads
  • serious/dramatic books
  • male characters
  • reads like: The Black Reckoning (Books of Beginning); Nathan Fox's Dangerous Times; Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children; Hollow City; Confessions: The Private School Murders; Confessions of a Murder Suspect.
The Replacement 
By Brenda Yovanoff
YA F Yovanoff
Mackie Doyle is a Replacement, left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years before, and when creatures under the hill decide that they want him back, he must decide where he really belongs and what he really wants.

In the Shadow of the Blackbirds 
By Cat Winters
YA F WINTERS
In San Diego in 1918, as deadly influenza and World War I take their toll, sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches desperate mourners flock to seances and spirit photographers for comfort and, despite her scientific leanings, must consider if ghosts are real when her first love, killed in battle, returns.

Anna Dressed in Blood 
By Kendare Blake
YA F BLAKE
For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.

The Girl is Murder 
By Kathryn Miller Haines
YA F HAINES Iris And #1
In 1942 New York City, fifteen-year-old Iris grieves for her mother who committed suicide and for the loss of her life of privilege, and secretly helps her father with his detective business since he, having lost a leg at Pearl Harbor, struggles to make ends meet.

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