JCPL Teens

Death Note by Tsugumi Oba
When high school student Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a Shinigami death god, he discovers that any person whose name is written in it dies.  Light decides to use the notebook to rid the world of evil.

Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks

Child prodigy Cadel Piggott, an antisocial computer hacker, is starting his first-year at an advanced crime academy.  Class subjects include disguise, basic lying, embezzlement, and explosives.  Cadel soon discovers the teachers are not all they seem to be. 

The Children and the Wolves by Adam Rapp
Wealthy and spoiled, Bounce and her drifter friends Wiggins and Orange kidnap three-year-old Frog in order to get revenge on a visiting poet in her English class.  Frog is content to eat cereal and play a video game about wolves all day--a game that parallels the reality around her--until Wiggins is overcome by guilt and tension and takes action.

I am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells

John Wayne Cleaver treads a thin line.  He's obsessed with serial killers mainly because he doesn't want to become one. In order to protect himself and those around him, he lives by rigid rules he's written for himself.  When a serial killer strikes in his home town he must convince everyone, including himself, he is not the killer.

Violence 101 by Denis Wright
Hamish is in a reformatory due to violent attacks on other teens and his therapist. He is a genius and a sociopath.  Hamish has no reservations about his violent behavior, and, in fact, he elaborately and convincingly justifies it in his journal entries.

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl is an evil genius.  He has discovered the existence of fairies and concocts a plan to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold.  Will his evil plot succeed?

I am a Genius of Uspeakable Evil and I want to be Your Class President by Josh Leib
Living in Omaha, Nebraska, Oliver Watson has everyone, including his own family, convinced that he is extremely stupid and lazy, but he is actually a very wealthy, evil genius.  When he decides to run for seventh-grade class president, nothing will stand in his way.  First step class president, next step world domination.