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Thrillers for Teens
Suspense and thrills to keep you at the edge of your seat! These titles are shelved in the Teen Space unless otherwise noted.
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Alphin, Elaine Marie. The perfect shot. Who shot Brian's girlfriend and her family and is trying to kill him, too? YA ALPHIN |
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Broach, Elise. Desert crossing. A summer trip across the New Mexico desert turns nightmarish for Lucy, her older brother Jamie, and his best friend Kit, as they become involved in the suspicious death of a young girl. YA BROACH |
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Burt, Guy. The hole. Five British teens stage the ultimate prank by disappearing into a small, inescapable cellar underneath their school for three days, but will they be able to get out as planned? BURT [Located in Adult Fiction on the Mezzanine] |
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Collins, Suzanne. The hunger games. In a future North America, the rulers of maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. YA SF COLLINS |
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Cooney, Caroline B. The face on the milk carton. A young girl is shocked to discover the face on a milk carton is her face when she was young. Are her parents her real parents, or was she kidnapped as a young child? YA M COONEY |
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Cormier, Robert. Tenderness. A psychological thriller told by a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him. YA CORMIER |
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Doctorow, Cory. Little brother. After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security after a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, 17 year-old Marcus, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right. YA DOCTOROW |
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Flinn, Alex. Nothing to lose. Michael is on the run as a carny after one too many abuses by his stepfather, but now his mother is on trial for killing his stepfather and he knows he must go home. YA FLINN |
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Giles, Gail. Shattering glass. When Rob, the charismatic leader of the senior class, turns the school nerd into Prince Charming, his actions lead to unexpected violence. YA GILES |
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Hartinger, Brent. The last chance Texaco. Lucy Pitt struggles to fit in as a new tenant at a last-chance foster home, amidst mysterious arson and the threat of "Eat-Their-Young Island." YA HARTINGER |
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Horowitz, Anthony. Stormbreaker. After the death of his guardian, Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, M16. 1st in a series. J HOROWITZ |
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Nickerson, Sara. How to disappear completely and never be found. With a swimming medal, a key to a mansion, and a comic book as clues, Margaret seeks the truth of her father’s mysterious death four years earlier in the Pacific Northwest. J NICKERSON [Located in J Fiction, Lower Floor Children's Area] |
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Sara Shepard. Perfect: a pretty little liars novel. When Christopher Creed, sends a puzzling email from the school library computer and then disappears, Torey Adams goes on an intensive quest to find out what happened to him. YA M SHEPARD |
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Patterson, James. Daniel X: watch the skies. A terrifying outlaw has just arrived in town, throwing it into chaos--and filming the pandemonium for the folks back home. Only one person can stop him from destroying the city. YA SF PATTERSON |
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Price, Charlie. Dead connection. A loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince the adults that he knows what happened to her. YA PRICE |
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Roberts, Willo Davis. Twisted summer. Cici is devastated when she learns that her friend, is the prime suspect in the murder of a young girl in town and begins her own dangerous search to find the real murderer. YA M ROBERTS |
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Springer, Nancy. Blood trail. After his best friend is murdered, seventeen-year-old Booger realizes he is the only one who has any idea who might have committed the crime--but he doesn't dare tell anyone. YA M SPRINGER |
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Stolarz, Laurie Faria. Blue is for nightmares. Sixteen-year-old Stacey Brown has nightmares of her roommate being murdered and hopes that her magic will be enough to protect --unlike the last person whose death she dreamed. YA SF STOLARZ |
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Zindel, Paul. Rats. Thriller about rats who escape from a dump on New York City's Staten Island and the courageous teenager who stops the rodents from taking over the city. YA ZINDEL |
Last updated November 22nd, 2011
