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IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
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690L
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In this sequel to "Howliday Inn," the Monroe family pets are again boarded at Chateau Bow-Wow, where some spooky goings-on serve as a distraction from the kennel's poor food. First there is the omen: A relentless rain stops suddenly at 3:00 am and Chester shows Harold and Howie a cat carrier, open and waiting, by the front door. Chester, who has been reading avidly about the paranormal, predicts that they will soon be traveling someplace, and chances...
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Capital crimes series volume 5
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The British Ambassador is poisoned, his valet-chauffeur disappears and high American and British officials put the brakes on a Washington captain of detectives who is getting too close. A major cover-up is in the making, so the captain and his girlfriend decide to investigate on their own.
4) Comeback
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Parker thrillers volume 17
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Parker agrees to take part in the nearly half-million dollar robbery of a Christian crusade, having been given inside help by a disgruntled worker in the Rev. William Archibald's camp, but things start to go wrong when one of the trio of robbers decides he wants to keep all the money for himself.
6) The bat
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"An elite, rich, and spunky older lady rents a country house for the summer along with her skittish Irish maid and her niece. Some servants sort of come with the property but most soon abandon their new matron due to happenings within this large mansion. A converging plot concerns the homeowner (a banker) who has recently died and whose bank has just coincidentally failed -- the suspicion falls upon a youthful bank clerk who is the heart-throb of...
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It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse, an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the village of Three Pines. The Finney family - rich, cultured and respectable - has arrived for a celebration of their own. The beautiful inn is surrounded by nature, yet there is something unnatural looming. When a terrible summer storm leaves behind a dead body, and it is up to Chief...
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Capital crimes series volume 9
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At an election eve gala, a woman is found dead, and one of the presidential candidates and his mysterious family members prove their propensity for murder.
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Boxcar children volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
700L
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The Alden children save an old woman's house, land, and all the animals in her animal shelter from greedy contractors.
12) Thin air
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Spenser novels volume 22
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When Lisa St. Claire, the beautiful young bride of a Boston police detective vanishes mysteriously, Spenser joins the search for the missing woman, following a dangerous trail that leads him to a sociopathic Latino ex-lover and into a deadly confrontation with Lisa's dark past.
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Capital crimes series volume 11
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The investigation of the murder of a chief scientist on an antimissle system brings Major Margit Falk of the Pentagon's legal staff close to the heart of a web of espionage and betrayal.
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Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 15
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
640L
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The Hardy boys and their father solve a mystery involving inexplicable crashes of highspeed race cars being used to test an experimental turbine motor.
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690L
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While playing golf, Bobby Jones and Dr. Thomas discover a dying man at the base of a cliff. Before he dies, the man manages to get out the words, "Why didn't they ask Evans?" Days later, remembering things that don't seem to add up about the death, Bobby decides to investigate, and his friend Frances Derwent immediately agrees to help. Was it a misstep that sent a handsome stranger plummeting to his death over a cliff? Or was it a something more sinister?...
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Eleven of the most popular tales of the immortal sleuth include "Silver Blaze, " concerning the "curious incident of the dog in the night-time"; "The Greek Interpreter, " starring Holmes's even more formidable brother, Mycroft; and "The Final Problem, " the detective's notorious confrontation with arch-criminal Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Holmes and Dr. Watson remain history's greatest detective team, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's portrayals...
17) Still life
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"The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill will-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines--a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police force. But Gamache knows that evil is lurking...
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In rural, impoverished Burgoyne County, New York, a pattern of strange deaths begins to emerge: adolescent boys and girls are found murdered, their corpses left hanging in gruesome, ritualistic fashion. Senior law enforcement officials are quick to blame a serial killer, yet their efforts to apprehend this criminal are peculiarly ineffective.Meanwhile, in the county's small town of Surrender, Trajan Jones, a psychological profiler (and the world's...
19) Dirty work
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Stone Barrington novels volume 9
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Hired to prove infidelity in an heiress's marriage, Stone Barrington goes undercover. But the work turns dirty--and catastrophic--when the errant husband is found dead and the other woman disappears without a trace. Now Stone must clear his own good name and find a killer hiding among the glitterati of New York's high society. Enter Carpenter--the beautiful British intelligence agent first encountered in "The Short Forever"--Who has arrived in New...
20) Sorrow's anthem
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Private detective Lincoln Perry becomes involved in a personal investigation when his best friend, Ed Gradduk, on the run from police accusing him of arson and murder, dies in a violent confrontation with the Cleveland police.
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