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1161) Cold vengeance
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Pendergast novels volume 11
Language
English
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"A bonding trip for Pendergast and his brother-in-law, Judson Esterhazy, turns violent. Before abandoning a mortally-wounded Pendergast, Esterhazy announces his sister, Pendergast's long-dead wife Helen, is alive"--Provided by publisher.
1162) Secret identity
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Series
Shredderman volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Children's Recommended: School Related Middle Grade Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: Bullying (Chapter Books)
Children's Special Topics: Bullying (Chapter Books)
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Fifth-grader Nolan Byrd, tired of being called names by the class bully, has a secret identity--Shredderman!
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Series
Covert-One series volume 9
Language
English
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Oman Dattar, a Pakistani warlord being tried for crimes against humanity, escapes prison and puts in motion a murderous, ambitious plot to exact his revenge and bring down the West once and for all--unless Covert-One and operative Colonel Jon Smith can stop him.
1166) The throne of fire
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Series
Kane chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Ever since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed in the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister Sadie have been in trouble. As descendants of the House of Life, the Kanes have some powers at their command, but the devious gods haven't given them much time to master their skills at Brooklyn House, which has become a training ground for young magicians. And now their most threatening enemy yet -- the chaos snake Apophis -- is rising. If they don't...
1167) The Redeemer
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English
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"Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. A gunshot cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole--the Oslo Police Department's best investigator and worst civil servant--has little to work with: no suspect, no weapon, and no motive. But Harry's troubles will multiply. As the search closes in, the killer becomes increasingly desperate,...
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[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Make way for ducklings: After raising her ducklings on an island on the Charles River in Boston, Mrs. Mallard leads her brood to their permanent home in the Public Garden; Time of wonder: Simple rhythmic words that are the essence of pure poetry describe the Maine island that is the home of the author; The doughnuts: Homer is suddenly surrounded by growing stacks of doughnuts when the doughnut machine he is tending goes berserk -- it won't shut off,...
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Jack and the geniuses volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Meet Jack and his foster siblings, Ava and Matt, who are orphans. But they're not your typical kind of orphans -- they're geniuses. Well, Ava and Matt are, which sometimes makes life difficult for twelve-year-old Jack. Ava speaks multiple languages and builds robots for fun, and Matt is into astronomy and a whiz at math. As for Jack, it's hard to stand out when he's surrounded by geniuses all the time. When the kids try to spy on Dr. Hank Witherspoon,...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: Chapter Books
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
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Children's Classics: Chapter Books
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
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Description
Mark Twain created one of America's best-loved fictional characters in Huckleberry Finn. Recounting the exploits of the imaginative adolescent as he and the runaway slave, Jim, raft down the Mississippi River, Twain ultimately addresses far deeper themes - man's inhumanity to man and the hypocrisy of conventional values.
1171) The testaments
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Series
Handmaid's tale volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown,...
1172) The secrets we kept
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English
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A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.
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Series
Sophie Brinkman trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013], p2013
Language
English
Description
When Sophie Brinkmann meets Hector Guzman, her life is uneventful. She likes his quiet charm and easy smile; she likes the way he welcomes her into his family. She quickly learns, though, that his smooth facade masks something sinister. Guzman is the head of a powerful international crime family with a reach into drugs and weapons that extends from Europe to South America. His interests are under siege by a ruthless German syndicate that will stop...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"Over the course of more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. In 1986 he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true-crime journalist who created the popular website True Crime Diary, was determined to find the violent...
1176) The unteachables
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
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Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
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Told in alternating voices, the teacher and students in room 117 find their lives changed over the course of a school year.
1177) In the midst of winter
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Language
English
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"In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and...
1178) The Wizard of Oz
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"One day, Dorothy and her dog, Toto, get swept away by a powerful cyclone and find themselves in the Land of Oz. The only way she can return home is by going to the Emerald City to ask the famous Wizard of Oz for his help. As she travels along the yellow brick road, Dorothy makes the acquaintance of some of the curious inhabitants of the Land of Oz."--
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Realizing that Molly and the other Starcatchers are in danger when the sinister being Lord Ombra visits the island and seems to control people through their shadows, Peter and Tinker Bell travel to England to help save the stardust.
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Series
Sal and Gabi novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Pura Belpre Medal for Latino Literature
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2023
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2023
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
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In order to heal after his mother's death, Sal learned how to meditate. But no one expected him to be able to take it further and 'relax' things into existence. Turns out he can reach into time and space to retrieve things from other universes,