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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap - a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. In the days that follow, his home is robbed, his family is threatened. And then the first murder takes place.
2) Scorpia
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Alex Rider must once again do battle against the terrorist organization responsible for the death of his parents--Scorpia--when their plot in the Middle East poses a threat to humanity, but this time around the risks are bigger and Alex will not walk away so easily.
Author
Series
Diamond brothers mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When thirteen-year-old Nick is framed for a jewel robbery, he and his brother, the bumbling detective Tim Diamond, attempt to clear his name by capturing the master criminal known as the Fence. Framed for a jewel robbery, quick-thinking thirteen-year-old Nick Diamond finds himself sharing a prison cell with Johnny Powers, juvenile delinquent and Public Enemy Number One.nbsp; Suddenly, Nick is Public Enemy Number Two!nbsp; His only chance at breaking...
Author
Series
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an idyllic island off the south coast of England, they don't expect to find themselves in the middle of murder investigation--or to be trapped with a cold-blooded killer in a remote place with a murky, haunted past. Arriving on Alderney, Hawthorne and Horowitz soon meet the festival's other guests--an...
Author
Series
Diamond brothers mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nick and his brother, an ineffectual private detective, try to prevent the threatened murder of an international pop star in London at Christmas time.
Author
Series
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
A brilliantly inventive murder mystery by the author of the New York Times bestselling The Word Is MurderYou shouldn't be here. It's too late. . . .These, heard over the phone, are the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine--a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth ?2,000, to be precise.Odd, considering he didn't drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And...
Author
Series
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper - the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who's as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes....
Author
Series
Diamond brothers mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his older brother, a fledgling private detective, agrees to safeguard a package for a dwarf who does not live long, thirteen-year-old Nick scampers to solve the mystery while also trying to stay one step ahead of an assortment of thugs.
10) Magpie murders
Author
Series
Magpie murders volume 1
Language
English
Description
A "brilliant and strikingly original reimagining of the classic whodunit (a la Agatha Christie) with a contemporary mystery wrapped around it"--
After working with bestselling crime writer Alan Conway for years, editor Susan Ryeland is intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries in sleepy English villages. His traditional formula has proved hugely successful, so successful that Susan must continue to put up with his...
Author
Series
Diamond brothers mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A collection of three Diamond Brothers mysteries in which Tim and Nick bungle their way through a search for a missing philanthropist, find themselves in a Parisian prison, and are stranded on a Scottish island with a murderer.
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventure volume 09
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
Author
Series
Diamond brothers mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nick and his bumbling detective brother Tim Diamond investigate a mystery involving international spies and assassins.
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
A collection of three Diamond Brothers mysteries in which Tim and Nick bungle their way through a search for a missing philanthropist, find themselves in a Parisian prison, and are stranded on a Scottish island with a murderer.
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