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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Annika, a twelve-year-old foundling in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, and soon afterwards a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This new crime thriller takes amateur sleuth Diana Pool deep into Southern California's underworld to uncover the mystery of a diamond-encrusted scorpion-and the reason for the murders that follow in its wake.One afternoon while standing outside her newly renovated Malibu house, Diana Poole sees a woman across the highway waving at her, but Diana doesn't recognize her. Still waving, the woman walks into the oncoming cars and is killed instantly. Why...
Author
Series
Loot volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
When Alfie McQuinn, the notorious jewel thief, is killed on a job, his last words to his son, March, are to "find jewels" and this instruction leads the boy to Jules, the twin sister he never knew he had--and the perfect partner to carry on the family business.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Two hotel receptionists--and archrivals--find a collection of old wedding rings and compete to return them to their owners, discovering their own love story along the way. It's the busiest season of the year, and Forest Manor Hotel is quite literally falling apart. So when Izzy and Lucas are given the same shift on the hotel's front desk, they have no choice but to put their differences aside and see it through. The hotel won't stay afloat beyond...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Jewelry designer Faith Donovan agrees to have Owen Walker act as her bodyguard after she is commissioned to create a fabulous ruby necklace as a wedding present and deliver it to the family home of the groom in Ruby Bayou, South Carolina; but what neither Faith or Owen knows is that the jewels she is using have been stolen from the royal treasure housed at Russia's Hermitage museum.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 34
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel's household is above suspicion. Hailed by T. S. Eliot as "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels,"...
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