YOUNG ADULT MYSTERY BOOKS

Young Adult Mystery Books , an all time friend of a young teen. There is hardly any young reader who does not like the mystery novels by Enid Blyton, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott or J.R.R. Tolkien. Mystery novels give food to a teen's fascination and widen one's imagination. In Young Adult Mystery Books the protagonists are usually between the ages of 12 to 15 years. Hence the young readers can easily identify oneself with the main character.

Mystery fiction is often synonymous with crime and detective stories. Besides, in a Young Adult Mystery Book the emphasis is given on the element of puzzle and its rational solution. It may comprise detective stories, crime or supernatural mystery. The latest teen craze Harry Potter series includes the element of mystery in the novel The Chamber of Secrets by R.K. Rowling.

The young adult literatures are based on adolescence and the coming of age. The young adult mystery books usually narrate tales of adolescent protagonists' entry in a strange period of life between childhood and adulthood, where in the process of solving mystery one learns to cope with the stages of maturation. In the end the whole experience teaches him a lesson that the protagonist will acknowledge forever.

Young Adult Mystery Books

• A Formidable Enemy by Allen
• The Man Who Was Poe by Avi
• Wolf Rider by Avi
• Night Places by Bell
• Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island by Bunting
• Grave Doubts by Corbett
• August, Die She Must by Corcorau
• Locked In Time by Duncan
• The Twisted Window by Duncan
• The Leonardo Touch by Eyerly
• Show Me the Evidence by Ferguson
• The Disappearance by Guy
• A Killing Freeze by Hall
• Last Summer's Snugglers by Joslin
• Strange Waters by Leonard
• The Keeping-Room by Levin
• Cold as Ice by Levy
• The Cliffs of Cairo by Marston
• Missing Since Monday by Martin
• Playing Murder by Scoppettone
• Love Among the Hiccups by Silsbee
• The Mystery Book Mystery by St. John
• Cadbury's Coffin by Swarthout
• The Secret of Belledonne Room 16 by Vries
• The Search for Jim McGwynn by Wood
• Floating Illusions by Yarbro

There are some other mystery novels written for adults by Dick Francis, Agatha Christie or Rex Stout which the young adults can also read and enjoy.