Goldie Vance, Vol.1 by Hope Larson

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Title: Goldie Vance

Series: Goldie Vance, Volume 1

Author: Hope Larson

Illustrator: Brittney Williams

Genre: Graphic Novel, Mystery, Middle Grades

Publisher: BOOM! Box

Date: October 11, 2016

Length: 112 pages

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Move over Nancy, Harriet, & Veronica. There's a new sleuth on the block!
Sixteen-year-old Marigold “Goldie” Vance lives at a Florida resort with her dad, who manages the place. Her mom, who divorced her dad years ago, works as a live mermaid at a club downtown. Goldie has an insatiable curiosity, which explains her dream to one day become the hotel’s in-house detective. When Charles, the current detective, encounters a case he can’t crack, he agrees to mentor Goldie in exchange for her help solving the mystery. Eisner Award-winning writer Hope Larson (A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel) and artist Brittney Williams (Patsy Walker, A.K.A Hellcat!) present the newest gal sleuth on the block with Goldie Vance, an exciting, whodunnit adventure.

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If you take Nancy Drew, reimagine her as a biracial gear head, amp up the sass, and replace Ned with Diane, then you have pint size dynamo Goldie Vance.

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City of Saints & Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson

Title: City of Saints & Thieves
Author: Natalie C. Anderson
Genre: Mystery & Suspense, Realistic Fiction
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Date: January 24, 2017
Length: 432 pages

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Gone Girl in this enthralling YA murder mystery set in Kenya.               In the shadows of Sangui City, there lives a girl who doesn't exist. After fleeing the Congo as refugees, Tina and her mother arrived in Kenya looking for the chance to build a new life and home. Her mother quickly found work as a maid for a prominent family, headed by Roland Greyhill, one of the city’s most respected business leaders. But Tina soon learns that the Greyhill fortune was made from a life of corruption and crime. So when her mother is found shot to death in Mr. Greyhill's personal study, she knows exactly who’s behind it.
With revenge always on her mind, Tina spends the next four years surviving on the streets alone, working as a master thief for the Goondas, Sangui City’s local gang. It’s a job for the Goondas that finally brings Tina back to the Greyhill estate, giving her the chance for vengeance she’s been waiting for. But as soon as she steps inside the lavish home, she’s overtaken by the pain of old wounds and the pull of past friendships, setting into motion a dangerous cascade of events that could, at any moment, cost Tina her life. But finally uncovering the incredible truth about who killed her mother—and why—keeps her holding on in this fast-paced nail-biting thriller.

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Who's the good guy, who's the bad guy, and who's the bad guy you can live with?

Tina is a 16 year old so full of love for her family that she has devoted her life to revenge. She hid her sister in a gated school, joined a gang, and became the best thief in Sangui City. She hones herself into an instrument of destruction in order to utterly ruin her mother's murderer, with little care for the other innocents that will get caught up in his downfall.

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