Mariah Fredericks
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1911 New York City, acclaimed novelist Edith Wharton, when fellow writer David Graham Phillips is murdered, becomes obsessed with solving the crime when his sister believes he was killed by someone determined to stop the publication of his next book, which reveals the secrets of powerful people.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Wendy Geller's body is found in Central Park after the night of a rager, newspaper headlines scream,"Death in the Park: Party Girl Found Strangled." But shy Rain, once Wendy's best friend, knows there was more to Wendy than just "party girl." As she struggles to separate the friend she knew from the tangle of gossip and headlines, Rain becomes determined to discover the truth about the murder. Written in a voice at once immediate, riveting, and...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Like Fredericks's The Girl in the Park, here is a page-turner that perfectly captures the world of New York City private schools, as it explores the notion of power among teenage girls. Publisher's Weekly, in a starred review, raves, "Fredericks again proves her gift for conveying the intensity of adolescence, while exploring the ways girls’ sexuality is used against them and asking why 'we all have to be predators and prey.'"
Queen...
Queen...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Jess and Sari, best friends since seventh grade, begin their freshman year of high school and Sari becomes obsessed with a senior boy, Jess wonders if their friendship will survive.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Forced to spend time with an ex whose new Broadway production is being financed by her employer, lady's maid Jane Prescott teams up with tabloid reporter Michael Behan to uncover the truth about a producers suspicious demise.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In 1912, as New York reacts to the news of the Titanic disaster, ladies' maid Jane Prescott accompanies her employers to a family wedding in Long Island, where a possible kidnapping gone wrong leads to the murder of their hosts' nanny.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mariah Fredericks's The Lindbergh Nanny is powerful, propulsive novel about America's most notorious kidnapping through the eyes of the woman who found herself at the heart of this deadly crime.
"A masterful blending of fact and fiction that is as compelling as it is entertaining."—Nelson DeMille
When the most famous toddler in America, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnapped from his family home in New Jersey in 1932,