Thriller

 //Playing Dead // Fourteen-year-old Blade has been on the run most of his life. A girl from his past gave him his name because he was so good with a knife. Too good. Now she's gone, and he'd just as soon leave all that behind him, including his name. But he's been followed to this new city where he's been "playing dead" so no one can find him. This works for a while, until he meets people he comes to care about, only to watch them slip into his past, too.
 * by Tim Bowler **

//Liar // True: Micah is a liar. She'll tell you herself. True: A boy at Micah's school has been brutally murdered. True: Micah is not responsible for what happened. She'll tell you herself.
 * by Justine Larbalestier **

//Tamar // When Tamar's grandfather died, he left her a boxful of strange clues and messages. As the fifteen-yearold sets out to unravel the box's meaning, the story of //another// Tamar--her namesake--emerges. He was a spy for the Dutch resistance during World War II whose job was to send and receive coded transmissions to England. Now young Tamar must decode a message from the past that will have a shocking impact on her and her family's life.
 * by Mal Peet **

//Revolver // Finland, 1910: Fifteen-year-old Sig is shocked to see a hole in the frozen lake outside his family's cabin and to find his father's corpse nearby. Why did Einar steer his dog sled across the lake instead of taking the safer land route? Sig's sister and stepmother go for help, leaving Sig alone with Einar's body in the cabin. Soon after, an armed stranger barges in, demanding a share of Einar's stolen gold. Einar never told Sig about the treasure--but he did tell him about the loaded Colt revolver hidden in the storeroom.
 * by Marcus Sedgwick **