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Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home, she's built the perfect life. But beneath this faȧde, Ava's world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn't been used in years, and her toddler's tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point. Enter Winnie Fang, Ava's enigmatic college roommate from...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters.
4) Rebel
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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When her grandmother decides to ditch assisted living and start a boarding house, fourteen-year-old Amanda Jane Keeling, or Rebel, signs on for the work crew, where she just happens to meet a teenaged boy taller than she is and to embroil them both in a mystery.
5) Bloodhound
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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Having been promoted from "Puppy" to "Dog," Beka, now a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, and her former partner head to a neighboring port city to investigate a case of counterfeit coins.
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Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 6
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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When they uncover a conspiracy against America and its fundamental freedoms, the Kidd children, accompanied by their great uncle, crisscross the country in a race to prove that a newly-discovered copy of the Bill of Rights is a forgery.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 3
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Teenage detectives Frank and Joe Hardy investigate a case of counterfeiting.
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Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sammy meets a mysterious man who dies of a heart attack after telling her to get rid of the large amount of money he is carrying, leading her to investigate who the man was and how he came to be carrying so much cash.
11) Secret lives
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Series
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Everybody has something to hide. At 75-years-old, Ethel Fiona Crestwater is used to being underestimated. She looks like someone's grandma, though she's never married or had children; petite and a bit frail, she's not a threat to anyone. Or is she...? Ethel runs a boarding house for government agents, and when someone murders one of her boarders, she springs into action--much to the surprise of her distant cousin Jesse, who has recently come to stay...
13) Deception
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Series
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, maid of honor to Queen Elizabeth I, describes in her diary her efforts to discover who is counterfeiting the new English silver coin.
14) Conspiracy
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Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Maid of Honor Lady Grace Cavendish becomes fearful for her queen, Elizabeth I, when mysterious events begin to unfold and sets out to investigate the strange happenings.
15) Carols and chaos
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Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
Yuletide season, 1817. At the country estate of Shackleford Park, lady's maid Kate Darby has her hands full between her household duties, caring for her ailing mother, and saving up money to someday own a dress shop. Matt Harlow is also busy acting as valet for both of the Steeple brothers, two of the estate's holiday guests. Staving off their feelings for each other becomes the least of their problems when a devious counterfeiting scheme reaches...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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A dramatic account of the 1875 attempt to steal the 16th president's body describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader and how a fledgling Secret Service and an undercover agent conducted a daring election-night sting operation.
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 74
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While celebrating his birthday with his family, Geronimo realizes someone has replaced all of his money with counterfeit bills and sets out to find the thieves.
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