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1) Con Academy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Con man Will Shea may have met his match in scammer Andrea Dufresne as they make a high-stakes deal that will determine who gets to stay at Connaughton Academy, one of the most elite and privileged preparatory schools in the country, and who must leave.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kat schemes her way into the best boarding school, hoping to leave the thieving antics of her family behind her, but Hal, a former co-conspirator, appears on campus to tell Kat that a powerful mobster believes her father stole art from a priceless collection, and in order to save him, Kat will have to recover the paintings.
Author
Series
Starbound trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Flynn, Jubilee, Tarver and Lilac forge ties with a computer hacker and a con artist on the planet of Corinth, where they team up to dismantle the corrupt LaRoux Industries.
Author
Series
Heist society novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop and her fellow talented teenagers work together to find and steal the "Cleopatra Emerald" from an unscrupulous dealer and return it to its rightful owner, while a former love of her Uncle Eddie tries to get the gem for herself.
Author
Series
Heist society novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When feisty teenaged thief Kat's on-again off-again boyfriend, Hale, suddenly inherits his family's billion dollar company, Kat gets a tip-off that the will is a fake.
Author
Series
The Agency volume 1
(Ying S.),Agency volume 01
Candlewick on BrillianceAudio
(Ying S.),Agency) volume 1
(Ying S.),Agency volume 01
Candlewick on BrillianceAudio
(Ying S.),Agency) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan (and thief) Mary Quinn is surprised to be offered a singular education, instruction in fine manners - and an unusual vocation. Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls is a cover for an all-female investigative unit called The Agency, and at seventeen, Mary is about to put her training to the test. Assuming the guise of a lady's companion, she must infiltrate a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Queen Victoria has a problem: there's a petty thief at work in Buckingham Palace. Charged with discretion, the Agency assigns quick-witted Mary Quinn to the case. Posing as a domestic in the royal household and fending off the attentions of a feckless Prince of Wales are challenge enough, but when the prince witnesses a murder in an opium den -- and scandal threatens the royal family -- Mary learns that the accused killer may be someone very close...
8) Bug boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1934 Saratoga, New York, just as fifteen-year-old Jack Walsh finally realizes his dream of becoming a jockey, complications arise in the form of a female bookie, an unexpected visit from his father, and a man who wants him to "fix" a race.
9) Fallen Grace
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Victorian London, impoverished fifteen-year-old orphan Grace takes care of her older but mentally unfit sister Lily, and after enduring many harsh and painful experiences, the two become the victims of a fraud perpetrated by the wealthy owners of several funeral businesses.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Meet Chuck Lambert, who, though not exactly a fool, is guilty of letting his imagination get the best of his wits. That's because our young, naive Lambert wants his own planet. But rather than purchase one legally from the Interior Department of the Outer Galactic Control, he soon succumbs to the flashy advertising of an unsavory galactic swindler named Madman Murphy -- the purported King of Planetary Realtors. What Madman is the king of, is selling...
11) Grounded
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her father, brother, and sister are killed in a plane crash, twelve-year-old Daralynn's life in tiny Digginsville, Missouri, proceeds as her mother turns angry and embittered, her grandmother becomes senile, and her flamboyant aunt continues to run the Summer Sunset Retirement Home for Distinguished Gentlemen, while being courted by the owner of the town's new crematorium.
12) Thieving weasels
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Just when Skip O'Rourke thinks he's finally free of his con-artist family, they drag him back to Long Island for one last scam ... but nothing about this con is what it seems"--
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
In Clover, Texas, in the late 1950s, high-schooler Frankilee deals with a devious and manipulative, not to mention prettier and more talented, foster sister, a boyfriend she does not want, and a community divided over school integration.
14) Skullduggery
Author
Series
Bloodwater mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
During a field trip in the local woods, Roni and Brian find the local archaeology professor, Andrew Dart, knocked unconscious in a cave, which leads them to investigate a land development scheme.
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