Today’s Five on Friday: Young Adult Edition features newly-announced mysteries. From suspense stories to thrillers and old-fashioned "whodunnits", get a look at the YA mystery projects we can't wait to get our hands on.

When the teen hero of Whispertown by Lamar Giles investigates the slaying of his best friend, the young man discovers a conspiracy that points to a culprit he’s very close to: his dad. This YA debut about a boy in Witness Protection will be published this spring.

Meanwhile, the heroine of Ashley Elston’s The Rules for Disappearing is ready to leave Witness Protection in hopes of finding out just what happened on the day that changed her life forever. She puts her trust in a local teen boy, and soon they have hit the road, vowing to get the bottom of the mystery — but you can be sure that nothing is what they expect in this Winter 2013 novel.

A case involving a murdered prostitute and corruption in a Montana town is going to forever change the lives of a petty thief’s son, a “scheming runaway” heroine and another girl from her foster home. The situation comes to a head in Winter 2013’s Dead Girl Moon by Charlie Price.

We’re already anxious for Jessi Kirby’s In Honor, which releases this May, but while we wait for its release date we’ll keep busy by wondering about her next novel, Golden. When a shy highschool student begins to research a ten-year-old car crash and disappearance of the couple that ruled the school, she discovers answers she could have never imagined. What could it be, murder, amnesia, aliens? Unfortunately we’ll have to wait until Summer 2013 to find out!

Ever wonder what Black Swan would be like if it were about teens in an elite ballet academy? Find out how author Yelena Black thinks that story would play out when her new trilogy Diabolical is released. Heroine Vanessa Adler’s choreographer is weirdly controlling, and she wonders if it’s because in his upcoming performance her school’s dancers will “become pawns in a world of demons.” We can’t wait for the first book in this series to be released in 2013.

And One More Exciting Announcement:

Six teens living all across the world all experience a strange and traumatizing event, but when they end up in the hospital it becomes clear that something is very, very wrong. Each has their own secret, but they must come together as a group to have even a chance of surviving the experience. We’re already ready to stay up late reading Michelle Gagnon’s Strangelets. Publishing date: TBA.

If one of these books has caught your fancy, let us know in the comments below. And for more soon-to-be-published books you can visit our Upcoming Releases page and check out our Forewords column every Monday for the week’s newest book deals across all the genres!