Among Us is a popular online game. It is described as an “online multiplayer social deduction game” wherein up to ten players run around inside a virtual spaceship completing classic spaceship maintenance tasks while trying to figure out who the “Impostors” are before they kill everyone.
If you have a tween or teen who is into this game right now (maybe you are, too), we have fun Book Bundles for Big Kids available to check out of the library. The bundles include fun Among Us crafts and a Juvenile or Young Adult book along the theme of figuring out who is lying, who the murderer is, solving a mystery. See more info on the Big Kid Book Bundles here.
Below is a list of the “sus” titles we have featured for the bundles.
Redemption Prep by Samuel Miller (Young Adult)
Twin Peaks meets Riverdale in this twisty atmospheric mystery from the critically acclaimed author of A Lite Too Bright, Samuel Miller, about the search for a missing girl at an elite prep school.
Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte (Young Adult)
Available in print, e-book, and digital audiobook
Keralie is the best pickpocket in all of the kingdoms of Quadara, but when she steals a “comm disk” and realizes a royal murder plot is afoot, she must learn who to trust and fast.
Teen Killers Club by Lily Sparks (Young Adult)
Framed for the murder of her best friend, a young girl joins a super-secret society of teenage assassins to avoid a lifetime behind bars and discovers her own true self.
DeepFake by Sarah Darer Littman (Young Adult)
Dara Simons and Will Halpern are head of the senior class at Greenpoint High, competitors for valedictorian, but also dating each other, a fact that they kept secret until Rumor Has It, an anonymous gossip site, spilled the beans–but worse is to come because the site posts a video that seems to show Dara accusing Will of paying someone to take the SAT for him and suddenly Will is under investigation and his relationship with Dara is on the rocks, even though she denies ever having said anything of the sort, and it becomes imperative to find out who is responsible for the fake video and why they are trying to wreck two lives.
Escape Room by Maren Stoffels (Young Adult)
Told from multiple viewpoints, Alissa, Sky, Mint, and Miles enter an escape room with one hour to find clues, crack codes, and solve puzzles, but the Game Master has no intention of letting them out.
I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick (Young Adult)
Working as a nanny in the Hamptons before starting college, Anna learns of her weird connection to a missing girl, but after she confesses to manslaughter a podcast producer helps reveal life-changing truths.
The Best Lies by Sarah Lyu (Young Adult)
Available in print and digital audiobook
Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Remy Tsai’s boyfriend, Jack, is shot by her best friend, Elise, and while police investigate, Remy probes her memories for the truth of their friendship.
One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus (Young Adult)
Available in print, e-book and digital audiobook
The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars, One of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walks out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide. Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Thursday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing. Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher. And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High’s notorious gossip app. Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom alive. And according to investigators, his death wasn’t an accident. He died on a Thursday. But that Friday, he’d planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates. Now, all four of them are suspects in his murder. Are they guilty? Or are they the perfect patsy.
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (Young Adult)
Available in print, e-book and digital audiobook
A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends — the Liars — whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. Spending the summers on her family’s private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (Young Adult)
Available in print, e-book and digital audiobook
As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson (Young Adult)
Available in print, Libby e-book and audiobook, Hoopla e-book and audiobook
When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder’s wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.
Nemesis by Brendan Reichs (Young Adult)
Available in print
He killed me. He killed me not. He killed me.
It’s been happening since Min was eight. Every two years, on her birthday, a strange man finds her and murders her in cold blood. But hours later, she wakes up in a clearing just outside her tiny Idaho hometown—alone, unhurt, and with all evidence of the horrifying crime erased.
This Lie Will Kill You by Chelsea Pitcher (Young Adult)
Available in print, e-book and digital audiobook
Five teens who were partly responsible for a death a year earlier are lured by the promise of a $50,000 prize to an isolated mansion by someone bent on revenge.
Nyxia by Scott Reintgen (Young Adult)
Available in print, e-book and digital audiobook
Emmett accepts an interstellar space contract but learns en route that to win the promised fortune he and nine other recruits face a brutal competition, putting their very humanity at risk.
Who Killed Christopher Goodman? by Allan Wolf (Young Adult)
Available in print
Inspired by a tragic true event in his past, Allan Wolf examines the circumstances of one boy’s inexplicable murder and the fateful summer leading up to it.
Everybody likes Chris Goodman. Sure, he’s a little odd. He wears those funny bell-bottoms and he really likes the word ennui and he shakes your hand when he meets you, but he’s also the kind of guy who’s always up for a good time, always happy to lend a hand. Everybody likes Chris Goodman, which makes it especially shocking when he’s murdered. Here, in a stunning multi-voiced narrative — including the perspective of the fifteen-year-old killer — and based on a true and terrible crime that occurred when he was in high school, author Allan Wolf sets out to answer the first question that comes to mind in moments of unthinkable tragedy: how could a thing like this happen?
Horror in Space by Janine E. Young, Courtney Huddleston (Juvenile Graphic Novel)
Your ship is on a collision course with a black hole–and to make matters worse, alien monsters, mutants, and mutineers are stowed away on board! Can you save the ship–and yourself–from both the saboteurs and powerful cosmic forces? Every Twisted Journeys® graphic novel lets YOU control the action by choosing which path to follow. Which twists and turns will your journey take?
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer by John Grisham (Juvenile Novel)
Available in print and pre-loaded audiobook
In the small city of Strattenburg there are many lawyers, and thirteen-year-old Theo Boone thinks he is one of them, but his inside knowledge of the justice system means trouble when a cold-blooded killer is about to go free and only Theo can stop him.
Truth or Dare by Barbara Dee (Juvenile Novel)
Available in print
When Lia returns after a summer with her aunt, it feels like everything has changed within her group of friends. Everyone just seems more dramatic. When a few white lies are told during a game of Truth or Dare, they make Lia’s life very complicated. Is “keeping up” with her BFFs really worth it?
Pinocula by Obert Skye (Juvenile Novel)
Available in print
Things are going pretty well for Rob Burnside until Pinocula–a cross between Pinocchio and a vampire–emerges from his closet, lying, joking, and doing his best to drive Rob crazy.
The Similars by Rebecca Hanover (Young Adult)
Available in print, Libby e-book, Hoopla e-book
The Similars are all anyone can talk about at the elite Darkwood Academy. Who are these six clones? What are the odds that all of them would be Darkwood students? Who is the madman who broke the law to create them? Emma couldn’t care less. Her best friend, Oliver, died over the summer and all she can think about is how to get through her junior year without him. Then she comes face-to-heartbreaking-face with Levi—Oliver’s exact DNA replica and one of the Similars.
Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart (Young Adult)
Available in print, e-book and digital audiobook
The story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life. But how many times can someone reinvent themselves? You be the judge. Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat. Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete. An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two. A bad romance, or maybe three. Blunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. The American dream, superheroes, spies, and villains. A girl who refuses to give people what they want from her. A girl who refuses to be the person she once was.
Space Case by Stuart Gibbs (Juvenile Novel)
Available in print, Libby e-book, Libby audiobook, Hoopla audiobook
It’s a murder mystery on the moon in this humorous and suspenseful space adventure from the author of Belly Up and Spy School that The New York Times Book Review called “a delightful and brilliantly constructed middle-grade thriller.”
#murdertrending by Gretchen McNeil (Young Adult)
Available in print
@doctorfusionbebop: Some 17 y. o. chick named Dee Guerrera was just sent to Alcatraz 2.0 for killing her stepsister. So, how long do you think she’ll last?
@morrisdavis72195: I hope she meets justice! She’ll get what’s coming to her! BWAHAHA!
@EltonJohnForevzz: Me? I think Dee’s innocent. And I hope she can survive.
WELCOME TO THE NEAR FUTURE, where good and honest citizens can enjoy watching the executions of society’s most infamous convicted felons, streaming live on The Postman app from the suburbanized prison island Alcatraz 2.0.
When seventeen-year-old Dee Guerrera wakes up in a haze, lying on the ground of a dimly lit warehouse, she realizes she’s about to be the next victim of the app. Knowing hardened criminals are getting a taste of their own medicine in this place is one thing, but Dee refuses to roll over and die for a heinous crime she didn’t commit. Can Dee and her newly formed posse, the Death Row Breakfast Club, prove she’s innocent before she ends up wrongfully murdered for the world to see? Or will The Postman’s cast of executioners kill them off one by one?