C. J Critt
1) Loop group
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Language
English
Description
Anticipating the onset of her later years, Maggie leaves behind her manipulative daughters and psychoanalyst lover to accompany her best friend, Connie, for one final fling, but a series of misadventures prompts their desperate, gun-toting journey to a Texas ranch.
2) Slow dollar
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English
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At the annual Harvest Festival in Colleton County, while everyone else is playing games and having fun, a body is found stomped to death and choked with a mouthful of quarters. Deborah begins an investigation and discovers another side to the carnival -- a seedy and desperate side -- hidden just below its flashy, good-time facade. Now she must struggle to win a carny's confidence while a dark web of dangerous family secrets begins to unravel around...
4) Hardware
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Series
Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
Investigating a series of cab hold-ups that are depleting the G & W Cab Company of drivers, part-time cabbie and Boston private eye Carlotta Carlyle applies her new computer skills to the case and discovers a troubling secret about her lover, Sam.
5) Judy Moody
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Series
Judy Moody volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage.
7) Toy dogs
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Lexile measure
650L
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English
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"Engaging images accompany information about toy dogs. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
9) Working dogs
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Lexile measure
780L
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English
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"Engaging images accompany information about the working group. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
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English
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"In this beautiful celebration of motherhood, the universal message of unconditional love for a child shines through. Laurenne Sala's heartwarming text, accompanied by Robin Preiss Glasser's charming illustrations, creates a firsthand look at the powerful bond between mother and child from pregnancy to birth and beyond." -- Jacket flap.
11) Bead on trouble
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English
Description
Retired Texas stateswoman Kitzi Camden and her friend Beth attend a Craft Retreat where formerly happy crafters are now fighting and hiding work from each other because a big-name contractor is looking for new talent. May Feather, a renowned beader, ends up dead.
12) The twist-a-roo
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English
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"A modern spin on "The Ant and the Grasshopper," this warm-spirited, woodland tale celebrates the power of community and coming together to share in times of need"--
13) Platypuses
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English
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Platypuses are some of the world's weirdest mammals! They may look strange, but their duck bills and flat bodies help them thrive in the wetlands. These are just a few of the many adaptations explored in this leveled title for young readers. Alongside the text are bright photos and special features that highlight the animal's range, physical adaptations, and diet. Readers will come away with a new understanding of fascinating platypuses!
14) The Cookcamp
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.
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Series
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Maggody's high school has a new computer lab. Folks are calling the internet the Devil's workshop, but the adult computer class is filling up. When some unusual images flsh across monitors and a pretty student is found dead in an abandoned shack, the town demands that Arly find the answers.
16) The snake tattoo
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Series
Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
A dual search for a runaway girl from a wealthy suburb, and a fifty-buck hooker named Janine take Carlotta Carlyle, a private investigator, to the sleazier side of Boston.
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English
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When her husband drops her for a younger woman, Molly Redwine of Atlanta--mother of two adult children and a woman accustomed to comfort--thinks it is the end of the world. But as she recuperates in Martha's Vineyard, Molly discovers other reasons for living--lots of people need her--and gradually she regains confidence and happiness.
18) Steel guitar
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Series
Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
Several years ago, private eye Carlotta Carlyle's husband, Cal, ran off with Carlotta's college chum, Dee Willis, and now the successful blues singer Willis has asked Carlotta to help her locate the missing Cal.
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 13
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English
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A youth trip turns deadly, and Chief of Police Arly Hanks must catch the killer while serving as chaperone, in this hilarious small-town mystery. Arly Hanks has caught all sorts of killers since she returned home to Maggody, Arkansas, population 759, but she's never tangled with anyone as devious as the local youth group. While chaperoning a trip to Camp Pearly Gates, Arly watches the kids as closely as she would any hardened criminal, but when teenagers...
20) Snapshot
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Series
Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
Boston P.I., Carolotta Carlyle, finds herself in deadly conspiracy involving one of Boston's finest hospitals.