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"Theo Pincher is good at most things: drawing, tying shoelaces, working the remote control. But he just can't lie--and in the Pincher family, what matters most is being able to lie and pinch things that belong to others. Then his parents decide to visit the diamond exhibition. "Promise you won't pinch the gold diamond?" says Theo. "I promise," says his mother, one hand behind her back. "We'll just take a little look," says Theo's dad. "No touching."...
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Katharine Wright volume 1
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English
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December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, she's frustrated...
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Misfits (Lisa Yee) volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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An elite group of underdogs trained to fight crime must save their unique school from shutting down.
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"When the daughter of a well-respected family is being poisoned, Rosalind Thorn and Bow Street officer Adam Harkness work together to solve this dangerous case that is rife with politics, jealousy, jewel thieves--and a romance between them that would be frowned upon by society"--
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Thorndike Press/Gale
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"At a high-society Shanghai wedding, the reluctant bride and her two best friends, each with their own personal motives and fed up with the way society treats women, forge a plan to steal all the gift money on the big day"--
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National Archive hunters volume 1
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Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"Ten-year-old twins Ike and Iris race to find the thief stealing valuable historical artifacts before their family is framed for the crimes"--
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Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Eleven-year-old Simon is ready to make the Tangerine Pines his forever home, but when a robbery occurs in the apartment building, he and his new friend set out to solve the case and keep his family from moving again.
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Annie's
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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A winter storm is brewing in Lighthouse Bay, Massachusetts. But it's not just wind and snow swirling through the opulent halls of Castleton Manor. Eleven members of the Drelincourt family have booked the literary retreat for a private gathering. It's librarian Faith Newberry's job to convince the family patriarch, Max Drelincourt, and his nieces and nephews to sell their ancestors complete, autographed collection of valuable Agatha Christie first...
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Forever Desert volume 2
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Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Seventeen-year-old Osi is a Junior Peacekeeper in the city, and when the mysterious leader of the Cult, known only as the Aleke, commits a massacre in the capitol and steals the sacred God's Eyes, Osi steps forward to valiantly defend his home"--
13) Devil's kitchen
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Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"This tight-knit, four-person unit has worked together to save countless lives and stop out of control fires before they cause major destruction. They've also stolen millions from banks, jewelry stores, and art galleries. Under the cover of saving the city, they've used their knowledge and specialist equipment to become the most successful heist crew on the East Coast. Andy Nearland is the newest member of the unit, and she's helping them prepare...
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Chupacarter volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A cursed Aztec dagger. A five-hundred-year-old witch's riddle. And a . . . screaming sombrero? These are the ancient artifacts that mysteriously hold the answer to the location of the priceless El Dorado treasure hidden in New Mexico—not far from where Jorge and Carter live. When their friend Ernie's dad is accused of stealing the artifacts, it's a race against time to clear his name. They find help from the unlikeliest—and loudest—source they've...
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Marvel Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Spidey invites Hulk to hangout in WEB-Quarters for the day, like any good friend would do. But it quickly turns into disaster. It turns out that Hulk in WEB-Quarters is worse than a bull in a china shop. Spidey fans will delight in this hilarious 32-page tale of a hangout gone terribly wrong! With familiar words, simple sentence structures, and clear illustrations, Spidey's latest adventure is perfect for beginnings readers"--
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"There's been a theft at the middle school! Sasha's bag has been stolen from her locker. The security cameras on the school's front entrance captured four students entering the building early. Present at the time of the crime, Maddie, Jack, Nora, and Henry become top suspects. Each of them has a reason to dislike Sasha. Each has something to hide. But which of them is responsible for the break-in? And can they figure out who the thief is before Sasha...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A stunning debut novel set in the rugged, rural landscape of northwest England where two sheep farmers lose their flocks and decide to reverse their fortunes by stealing sheep from a rich farm in the south-for fans of Annie Proulx and Cormac McCarthy. In early 2001, a lethal disease breaks out on the hill farms of northern England, emptying the valleys of sheep and filling the skies with smoke as they burn the carcasses. Two neighboring shepherds...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"An epic, dazzling tale based on true events, The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye illuminates a woman of color's rise to power as one of the few purported female pirate captains to sail the Caribbean, and the forbidden love story that will shape the course of history"--
"In the tumultuous town of Yáquimo, Santo Domingo, Jacquotte Delahaye is an unknown but up-and-coming shipwright. Her dreams are bold but her ambitions are bound by the confines of...
20) In tongues
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MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discovery"-- $c Provided by publisher.