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Miss Julia series volume 6
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English
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Missing her friends while she adjusts, with difficulty, to life as a wife, Miss Julia agrees to help Hazel Marie organize a beauty pageant and makes two distressing discoveries: her marriage ceremony may not have been legal, and Etta Mae Wiggins seems to be after her man.
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Boxcar children volume 121
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
530L
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English
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The Alden children stumble upon a mystery when they enter their dog, Watch, in a contest that could lead to fame and fortune, but where things keep going wrong.
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The times has come for San Ladron, California's, annual Miss Tangorli beauty pageant, and Poly has agreed to use Material Girl's inventory of shimmery silks to create embellished gowns fit for a crown. But when millionaire Harvey Halliwell - the man who revived the city's citrus trade with his imported Tangor tree - is found dead days before the pageant contestants are announced, something sour takes over the town. To make matters worse, local mechanic...
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Boxcar children volume 147
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Jessie and Henry's robotics team is competing in a big tournament. But when their robot is stolen, the Aldens have a high-tech mystery to decode!
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Ryder and Loveday mystery volume 7
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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As a snowstorm rages outside, Oxford high society gathers to ring in the new year at the citys most exclusive party. This is a soiree no one will forget not least because a guest is found dead in his car the next morning. It seems the young man tragically froze to death overnight after crashing into a snowdrift, but when WPC Trudy Loveday and coroner Clement Ryder are called in to investigate, they discover a tangled web of secrets that plainly points...
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"When she is hired to write lyrics for a contestant in the talent competition for the Miss Teen Queen America pageant, freelance writer Jaine Austen is plunged into a glittering nightmare of vicious stage moms, exacting judges and trash-talking teens after a catfight turns deadly"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
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English
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"Aunt Molly has entered a joke-telling contest at a local comedy club and Cam, her best friend Eric, and Mr. Jansen are in the audience to watch her perform. The prizes are exciting, but the competition is stiff -there's a prop comic, a knock-knock joker, and more! As the show starts, Cam notices that one of the prizes, an engraved silver plate, has disappeared. Suddenly, everyone in the club becomes a suspect. Can Cam solve the mystery of the missing...
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Normally Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura wouldn't be caught dead at a beauty pageant, but when Mel's mom asks them to provide cupcakes for the seventy-fifth annual Sweet Tiara contest as a favor for her best friend, they can't say no. Plus between cooking up a daily display for the three-day event and sponsoring a cupcake creation challenge for the participants, Fairy Tale Cupcakes will get great publicity. But the world of pageants is even hotter...
10) Bone appetit
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On R&R at a spa and cooking school, Sarah, a P.I. hopes the pampering and the food will cure her depression. Another welcome distraction is a beauty contest and cook-off to find the spa's next spokesperson. When the competition boils over and the top contender is poisoned, the prime suspect hires Sarah to clear her name.
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"Poppy McAllister is happy about opening a Jersey Shore B&B--but working in a professional kitchen has always been her real dream. Now it's coming true, at least briefly, as she teams up with her former fianc©♭e, Tim--and his condescending partner, Gigi--during the high-profile Restaurant Week challenge. Poppy's specialty is pastries, despite her devotion to a Paleo diet. But if anyone can make glorious gluten-free goodies, it's Poppy. Things get...
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Camper and criminals cozy mystery volume 23
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English
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Around here we say BLESS HER HEART and sometimes it's just not in a good way. Take Neva Hudson for instance, bless her heart, she's the town gossip, not to mention someone who likes to toot her own horn. Two toots too many 'cause bless her heart, someone has strangled Neva and left her for dead in of all places ... the church's Christmas play. Trust me when I say there's no shortage of suspects since her tongue lashed a few too many lies about people....
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Nancy Drew and the clue crew volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
560L
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English
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When a local ice cream factory hosts a contest for new flavors, Nancy and the Clue Crew enter, but when a friend's secret recipe goes missing, Nancy suspects that someone is up to no good.
14) Crime rib
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Food Lovers' Village volume 2
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English
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"Gourmet food market owner Erin Murphy is determined to get Jewel Bay, Montana's, scrumptious local fare some national attention. But her scheme for culinary celebrity goes up in flames when the town's big break is interrupted by murder. Food Preneurs, one of the hottest cooking shows on TV, has decided to feature Jewel Bay in an upcoming episode, and everyone in town is preparing for their close-ups, including the crew at the Glacier Mercantile,...
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Nature's Labyrinth volume 3
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English
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In the middle of the ocean lies a remote island complex lined with traps and an ever-changing landscape. Created by a mysterious man known only as "Ahab", the island was designed to test the wills of the world's most notorious criminals. In a battle royale style game, eight violent felons will fight for survival and to the death over the course of three days of relentless action. The winner receives a wealth or riches and complete anonymity, but at...
16) Space case
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Hoping to solve the mystery behind a missing jelly-bean jar and win a free week to space camp, eight-year-old Nancy Drew carefully follows one clue after another.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Six chefs are preparing to compete in an outdoor tent at Storyton Hall in Virginia for prizes that will boost their careers-but is there someone who can't stand the heat? It looks that way when one of the contestants is found dead in a pantry packed with two centuries' worth of cookbooks, among other treasures and rarities. Could there be a connection to other recent events in town, like tampering with the costume of a local mascot? Jane isn't sure,...
18) What we buried
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Told in separate voices, Jory, whose face is partly paralyzed, and his sister Liv, a former reality television performer and child beauty pageant contestant, join forces to search for their missing parents.
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In the 1940s young women, winners of beauty contests and dance competitions, flocked to Hollywood with stars in their eyes. Violet Harcourt seems to have disappeared there without a trace. Sixty years later, a young woman sets out to discover what happened to Violet on that long ago summer.
20) The story seeker
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Story collector volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"Twelve-year-old Viviani Fedeler, proud resident of the New York Public Library, has her sights set on becoming a star reporter. She's thrilled when Miss Hutch announces a story contest where the winner gets their essay printed in the New York Times! But then Viviani gets her first-ever case of writer's block. As she struggles to find inspiration, the library is hit with a strange mystery involving overdue books, secret messages, and perhaps a spy...
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