Dave Barry
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Language
English
Description
Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend, a wannabe reality TV star who turned out to be a lot prettier on the outside than on the inside. Broke and desperate for a way out, Jesse stumbles across a long-lost treasure, which could solve all her problems - if she can figure out how to keep it. The problem is, some very bad men are also looking for the treasure, and they know Jesse...
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Series
Peter & the Starcatchers volume 2
Peter and the Starcatchers volume 02
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Peter and the Starcatchers volume 2
Peter and the Starcatchers volume 02
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Peter and the Starcatchers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Peter must visit London to help his friend Molly and her family of starcatchers locate the missing starstuff, leaving the boys on Mollusk Island at the mercy of Hook.
Author
Series
Peter & the Starcatchers volume 1
Peter and the Starcatchers volume 01
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Peter and the Starcatchers volume 1
Peter and the Starcatchers volume 01
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Peter and the Starcatchers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never Land, he befriends and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher, whose mission is to guard a trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate and the native inhabitants of a remote island.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
When the eighth grade civics class of Miami's Culver Middle School goes on a trip to Washington, D.C., Wyatt Palmer finds himself in deep trouble before the plane even lands because his best friend, Matt, has decided the men sitting behind them are terrorists and it is up to the boys to stop them.
5) Insane city
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Language
English
Description
Seth Weinstein always knew Tina was way, way, way out of his league. Which is why he’s still astonished that he’s on a plane heading for their wedding in Florida. The Groom Posse has already pulled an airport prank on him—and he’s survived! It should be easy going from now on. But Seth has absolutely no idea what he’s about to get into. A simple drink or two with the boys sparks a series of events that will pit Seth and his friends against...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
James, one of Peter's original Lost Boys, is now working for Scotland Yard and suspects that the heir to England's throne, Prince Albert Edward, is under the influence of shadow creatures who are after starstuff hidden in an underground vault which has only one key: the Sword of Mercy. Molly is determined to help, but when she suddenly goes missing, it's up to her eleven-year-old daughter, Wendy, to keep the starstuff out of the creatures' clutches...
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Series
Peter & the Starcatchers volume 3
Peter and the Starcatchers volume 3
Peter and the starcatchers volume 03
Peter and the Starcatchers volume 3
Peter and the starcatchers volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
Formats
Description
Fearing that the sinister Lord Ombra was not destroyed, Peter and Molly travel to the land of Rundoon, which is ruled by the evil King Zarboff.
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Language
English
Description
The Extravaganza of the Seas is a five-thousand-ton cash cow, a top-heavy tub whose sole function is to carry gamblers three miles from the Florida coast, take their money, then bring them back so they can find more money. In the middle of a tropical storm one night, these characters are among the passengers it carries: Fay Benton, a single mom and cocktail waitress desperate for something to go right for once; Johnny and the Contusions, a ship's...
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Series
Peter & the Starcatchers volume 5
Peter and the Starcatchers volume 05
Peter and the Starcatchers volume 5
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Peter and the Starcatchers volume 05
Peter and the Starcatchers volume 5
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sarah and Aidan begin to decipher a mysterious document that refers to the origins of Peter Pan and are suddenly pursued by a being that can take any form and will stop at nothing to get what it wants from them.
10) Lunatics
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Language
English
Description
One of the authors is a bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist. The other is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Together, they form the League of Comic Justice, battling evildoers in the name of... Okay, we made that line up. What they do form is a writing team of pure comic genius, and they will have you laughing like idiots. One character, Philip Horkman is a happy man, the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on...
11) Big trouble
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Chaos reigns when a couple of hit men decide to make their strike against embezzler Arthur Herk at the same time that teenagers Matt and Andrew set out to "shoot" Arthur's stepdaughter Jenny in a high school squirtgun game called Killer.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wyatt Palmer is just another undersized freshman hoping to fit in at high school, but when his best friend Matt Diaz's pet ferret ends up in the hands of the Bevins, the most popular boys at Coral Cove High, Wyatt and Matt try to get the animal back by attending a party for the cool clique and stumble onto the Bevin family's dark secret.
14) Science Fair
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Grdankl the Strong, president of Kprshtskan, is plotting to take over the American government. His plan is to infiltrate the science fair at Hubble Middle School, located in a Maryland suburb just outside Washington. The rich kids at Hubble cheat by buying their projects every year, and Grdankl's cronies should have no problem selling them his government-corrupting software. But this year, Toby Harbinger, a regular kid with Discount Warehouse shoes,...
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Language
English
Description
The national bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author—one of the warmest and most delightful Christmas stories ever.
With fond nostalgia, Dave Barry takes readers back to a simpler time: The year is 1960, and young Doug Barnes is playing a shepherd in the Christmas pageant at St. John’s Episcopal Church—which is a very big deal. But there are problems everywhere. His fellow shepherds are misbehaving,...
With fond nostalgia, Dave Barry takes readers back to a simpler time: The year is 1960, and young Doug Barnes is playing a shepherd in the Christmas pageant at St. John’s Episcopal Church—which is a very big deal. But there are problems everywhere. His fellow shepherds are misbehaving,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The president of Kprshtskan is plotting to infiltrate the science fair at Hubble Middle School in Maryland in order to take over the United States government, but when Toby Harbinger, an ordinary student, makes up his mind finally to win the fair, the terrorists' plans go awry.
Author
Series
Never Land volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Little Scallop gets more of an adventure than she bargained for when she goes pearl diving with her mermaid friends, Aqua and Surf, and Surf is captured by the evil Captain Crookshank and his crew.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
In spite of Shining Pearl and Little Scallop's warnings about a creature known as Goat Taker, James and the other Lost Boys venture into a mysterious cave in search of the cave's dark secrets.
Author
Series
Never Land volume 3
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
While investigating the strange behavior of the once-peaceful mermaids, the Lost Boys battle their old nemesis, Captain Hook, whose evil plan threatens to destroy the Mollusk village and change life on Neverland Island forever.
20) Blood Tide #3
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Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
After an earthquake strikes Never Land, the mermaids change. The once-peaceful friends of the natives have turned violent. After they injure members of the Mollusk tribe, Fighting Prawn feels he has no choice but to fight back, in this third entry of a new Never Land series.