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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Nancy Drew and her two friends help uncover a gang of swindlers while vacationing in a seaside town
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn
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English
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An acrobat, an actress, an artist, and a thief, four girls who seemingly have nothing in common, work together and plot a heist to steal the Rubaiyat off the Titanic
Josefa is an unapologetic and charismatic thief, who loves the thrill of the chase. She has her eye on her biggest mark yet--the RMS Titanic, the most luxurious ship in the world. But she isn't interested in stealing from wealthy first-class passengers onboard. No, she's out for the...
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Discworld (Young adult) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king
5) Swindle
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Swindle mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker
6) Red glove
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Curse workers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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When federal agents learn that seventeen-year-old Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, may be of use to them, they offer him a deal to join them rather than the mobsters for whom his brothers work
7) A good horse
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Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack, when it comes to light that his dam might have been stolen
8) Fly by night
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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A twelve-year-old orphan, Mosca Mye, and her homicidal goose, Saracen, travel to the city of Mandelion on the heels of smooth-talking con-man Eponymous Clent, driven by her love of language to find a better life
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Vengekeep prophecies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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When his clumsiness causes his clever thieving family to be imprisoned, young Jaxter Grimjinx is charged with fulfilling a suspiciously convenient doomsday prophecy that forces him to combat flaming monsters, a bazaar of thieves and a renegade sorcerer.
11) White cat
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them
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Vengekeep prophecies volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Jaxter Grimjinx finds himself caught in a conspiracy when he is tapped for a mission by the notorious clan of thieves known as the Shadowhands.
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Vengekeep prophecies volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When the Palatinate Mages unveil their plot to take over the Five Provinces, thirteen-year-old Jaxter Grimjinx and his family of thieves must lead the rebellion to overthrow them.
14) New in town
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English
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The people of Puddletrunk are accustomed to their bridge collapsing and being rebuilt by Mortimer Gulch--when they provide funds and labor--but a newcomer to town may have a better idea
15) Unplugged
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Relates, in multiple voices, the adventures of a group of youngsters at an electronics-free wellness camp where wealthy, spoiled Jett, leads other campers in trying to stop a criminal
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Great pet heist volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
When Mrs. Third Floor visits and reports paranormal activity on the fifth floor, Butterbean and the other pets set out to find the truth and save Mrs. Third Floor from being scammed by professional ghost hunters
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Freddy the pig volume 15
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
While camping, Freddy the pig pursues a swindler who is trying to defraud Farmer Bean, Mr. Camphor, and Mrs. Filmore of their property
19) King Con
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Series
Bill the Warthog mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Legacy Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Test your detective skills with these funny, fast-paced whodunits, with Bill the Warthog hot on the trail of the Big Pig, a master criminal who is scamming all the kids in town. Each solution comes from the Bible.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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In the summer of 1986, eleven-year-old April Grace, who lives on a rural Arkansas farm with her family, across a field from her grandmother, has her sense of Christian charity tested when a snooty couple from San Francisco moves into a dilapidated house down the road and her grandmother takes up with a loud, obnoxious, and suspicious-acting Texan.
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