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1) Twice shy
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Jonathan Derry is given a computerized horse betting system that can make the owner a rich man- or a dead one. A high speed thriller with a twisting plot, wicked villain and action.
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Boxcar children volume 34
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
650L
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English
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When their grandfather arranges for them to spend two week at Sunny Oaks, the four Alden children enjoy settling into the routines of farm life but become suspicious about a mysterious horse locked in the stables.
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"A mystery full of colorful characters (both two- and four-legged!), gorgeous country landscapes, timeless traditions, and the breathtaking thrill of the fox hunt, from the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Like a Fox. Amidst the revelry of the Christmas Hunt, mystery and intrigue abound! When the fanfare is interrupted by the discovery of a body, "Sister" Jane Arnold and her company of loyal hounds find themselves faced with a pressing...
4) Crisis
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Harrison Foster, crisis manager for a London firm, is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable horses. When human remains are found among the equestrian ones, all the stable staff are accounted for. So who is the mystery victim? The Chadwick family is a dysfunctional racing dynasty, and sibling rivalry bubbles away like volcanic magma beneath a thin crust of respectability. As Harry delves deeper into the...
5) High stakes
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830L
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English
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From a New York Times–bestselling “master of crime fiction and equine thrills,” a betrayed race horse owner must get back his stolen thoroughbred(Newsday).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Steven Scott may have been a successful, wealthy inventor with no experience in horse racing,...
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Steven Scott may have been a successful, wealthy inventor with no experience in horse racing,...
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Spenser is back and embroiled in a dangerous and multi-layered case. Someone has been killing racehorses at stables across the south, and Walter Clive, president of Three Fillies Stables, hires him to find out who. Spenser goes to Georgia to protect Hugger Mugger, a two-year-old destined to become the next Secretariat. Disregarding the resentment of the local Georgia law enforcement, he takes the case. Despite the veneer of civility, Spenser encounters...
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Though a fierce snowstorm rages on Manhattan's Midtown streets nothing can dampen the excitement inside the Pierre Hotel ballroom. Hunt clubs from all over North America have gathered for their annual gala and nobody is in higher spirits than "Sister" Jane Master of the Jefferson Hunt in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Braving the foul weather, Sister and her young friend "Tootie" Harris go to a nearby tobacco shop and find themselves regaled by...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
520L
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English
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Avery Donaldson and her three best friends are happy to be at Storm Cliff Stables for the summer, especially since gold medalist Anna Wainwright is supposed to be there to give riding lessons--but Anna is nowhere to be found, and Avery is convinced something has happened to her hero.
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Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
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English
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Alec takes the black stallion overseas in search of the horse who may be his sire.
The three foreign-born colts were exact models of the Black Stallion! Could Black's sire be alive?
10) Hopes in hiding
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
390L
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English
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There is a new girl, Cassidy, at Storm Cliff, and she seems out of place at a riding stable because she knows nothing about horses and is even a little afraid of them--so Ryleigh sets out to solve the mystery of just who Cassidy is and what she is doing at the camp.
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2019.
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Leathersmith Persephone “Perri” Morgan makes the kind of beautiful custom leashes and saddles that make wealthy dog and horse show lovers swoon-until murder strides onto the course. When Perri's BFF Babette hosts a meeting of Fairfax County's affluent animal lovers to save a local horse rescue farm, the agenda gets sidetracked by the discovery of a corpse in the master bedroom. Everyone present is a suspect, including Perri's main squeeze, Wing...
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Boxcar children volume 25
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
590L
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English
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"When the Alden children see odd lights coming from a closed amusement park and they receive a phone call warning them to stay away, they are determined to figure out what is going on at the park"--Title verso page.
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Nancy Drew diaries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
620L
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English
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When competition for lucrative prizes ranging from money to placement on the Olympic Team escalates to the point where one desperate participant drugs horses at the River Heights Horse Show, Nancy, Bess, and George track clues to identify the culprit.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
470L
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English
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At Storm Cliff Stables, Ainsley and her cabin-mates, the Four Horsekateers, are engaged in a pranking battle with another cabin group called the Core Four, but they soon find that this kind of activity can get out of hand--especially when somebody outside the group starts pranking everybody.
16) A feast of fun
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
450L
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English
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Khadija is missing her family who are in Pakistan, but when Aunt Jane announces that she is marrying her long time boyfriend, Clyde, Khadija assumes the role of wedding planner--but counselor Layla is behaving strangely and Khadija is convinced that she is planning to sabotage the wedding.
17) A filming fiasco
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
470L
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English
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Twelve-year-old CeCe Monroe is enrolled at Storm Cliff Stables as Cassidy because she does not want the other girls to know that she is an actress, so when Aunt Jane asks her to assist with the movie that is to be filmed at the stables she is mostly afraid of blowing her cover--but when she realizes that the movie man calling himself Paul Martino is not the man she knows, she finds herself cast in the role of detective.
18) Crossfire
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Captain Thomas Forsyth's tour of duty in Afghanistan is cut brutally short when he's badly wounded by a roadside bomb. Tom returns to his childhood home in Lambourn, where his mother is a racehorse trainer and the "First Lady" of racing....
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Pony-crazed princess volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
670L
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English
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Princess Ellie is crazy about ponies! The palace is buzzing with preparations for the royal jubilee party, but all Ellie wants to do is sneak off to the stables. Ellie is worried about Starlight. There's something wrong and Meg, the palace groom, won't tell her what it is. To take her mind off it, Ellie goes for a ride on the beach with her friends. But then disaster strikes. Will they get back in time for the party, and will they ever find out what's...
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Dick Francis novels volume 9
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English
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New York Times-bestselling author Felix Francis returns with another nail-biting thriller in the Dick Francis tradition. It is said that everyone over a certain age can remember distinctly what they were doing when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated, or that Princess Diana had been killed in a Paris car crash, but I, for one, could recall all too clearly where I was standing when a policeman told me that my wife had been murdered....
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