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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
700L
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Blake and his younger brother, Quinn, are exact opposites. Blake is the responsible member of the family. He constantly has to keep an eye on the fearless Quinn, whose thrill-seeking sometimes goes too far. But the stakes get higher when Blake has to chase Quinn into a bizarre phantom carnival that traps its customers forever. In order to escape, Blake must survive seven deadly rides by dawn, each of which represents a deep, personal...
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In Los Angeles, a geological surveyor maps out a proposed subway route--and then goes missing. His eight-year-old daughter, in her desperation, turns to the one person she thinks might help--she writes a letter to Sherlock Holmes.--From publisher's description.
5) Iron house
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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At the Iron Mountain Home for Boys, there was nothing but time. Time to burn and time to kill, time for two young orphans to learn that life isn't won without a fight. Julian survives only because his older brother, Michael, is fearless and fiercely protective. When tensions boil over and a boy is brutally killed, there is only one sacrifice left for Michael to make: He flees the orphanage and takes the blame with him. For two decades, Michael has...
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Hired to guard the Pacific Express during a trip to San Francisco, crime-solving cowboy sleuths Gustav "Old Red" Armlingmeyer and his brother, "Big Red," find themselves dealing with a scheming gang of outlaws, a baggage car containing a dangerous cache of secrets, and a killer hiding among the train's colorful passengers.
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Caring for his superstar lawyer brother, who survived a shooting attack, defense attorney Leo pursues what he hopes will be his big career break only to stumble on a corrupt network in the Oakland Police Department and unsettling questions about his client's actual identity.
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Leo Maxwell mysteries volume 5
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English
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Attorney Leo Maxwell defends a young woman who was manipulated into murdering a white supremacist in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, bringing unexpected trouble to his own family.
9) The lost man
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Two brothers meet at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. In an isolated belt of Western Australia, they are each other's nearest neighbor, their homes four hours' drive apart. The third brother lies dead at their feet. Something caused Cam, the middle child who had been in charge of the family homestead, to die alone in the middle of nowhere. So the eldest brother returns with his younger sibling to the family...
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Baker Street brothers volume 2
Baker Street Letters
Baker Street mysteries volume 02
Baker Street mystery volume 02
Baker Street Letters
Baker Street mysteries volume 02
Baker Street mystery volume 02
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English
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On returning to London from California, barrister Reggie Heath finds underwhelming demand for his professional services as well as pressure to abide by the terms of his lease on 221B Baker Street by responding to letters addressed to Sherlock Holmes. An attractive solicitor, Darla Rennie, retains Heath to represent Neil Walters, a cab driver accused of murdering a young couple. Despite having been burned in his previous criminal case, Heath dives...
12) The black dove
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Holmes on the range mysteries volume 3
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English
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In San Francisco in 1893 in search of detective jobs, a man and his brother, devotees of the Sherlock Holmes method of "deducifying," pursue an old acquaintance who takes a shot at them in Chinatown.
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Holmes on the range mysteries volume 4
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English
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Journeying to San Marcos, Texas, Big Red and Old Red try to solve the murder of Old Red's fiancée, an ex-prostitute whose death was ignored by authorities and whose case is further complicated by a horse-stealing scheme.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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At age eighty-two and in failing health, Olivia Morrow must decide whether she will expose a long-held family secret and reveal that her cousin, Catherine, gave birth to a son at age seventeen and gave him up for adoption before entering a convent. Now deceased, Sister Catherine is being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church.
Olivia Morrow, a Manhattan psychologist, begins to suspect that her husband Jonathan, a brilliant obstetrician...
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Gustav and Otto Amlingmeyer travel to Chicago to take part in a "mystery cracking competition" at the 1893 Columbian Exposition. Soon after the first round, a dead body turns up face down in a large cheese and the brothers chase around "the White City" for the elusive murderer.
17) Strange affair
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"Edgar and Anthony Award-winning author Peter Robinson's fourth book is a gritty tale of brothers at odds and a story of unexpected connections. Alan and Roy Banks were never close. Alan was a normal teenager with a chaotic room and appalling taste in music. Roy was compulsively neat and kept a lock on his toy box. Alan went on to become Detective Chief Inspector Banks, with a solid, if not always shining, police career. And Roy, estranged from his...
18) A simple plan
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“Spectacular. . . . Ten shades blacker and several corpses grimmer than the novels of John Grisham. . . . Do yourself a favor. Read this book.” —Entertainment Weekly
Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane–the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash. In order to hide, keep, and share the fortune, these ordinary men all agree to a simple plan.
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Toby Peters mysteries volume 3
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English
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It's Chicago. It's February 1941. And Toby Peters, Private Eye, has a cold. Louis B. Mayer has hired him to help the Marx Brothers out of $120,000 worth of trouble - with the mob. For his trouble, Peters gets a ride with Ian Fleming, a fruit salad from Richard Daley, a sidesplitting session with Groucho's Dr. Hackenbush 'and a strange interview with Al Capone'--provided by fantastic fiction.
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Mad Dog and Englishman mysteries volume 4
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English
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Sleepy Benteen County, Kansas, turns frantic on election day. Sheriff English, better known as Englishman, faces his toughest re-election challenge yet. The radical religious right is out to unseat him, their candidate an Iraq war hero. But Englishman's only available deputy isn't winning him votes. That very morning, while pursuing a vehicle, the hurried deputy rammed a school bus carrying the Benteen County teen choir.
Englishman's brother, Mad...
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