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1) Swindle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
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English
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When Griffin Bing plans a spooky sleepvoer in a haunted house that's about to be demolishied, he isn't planning on making a fortune. But then he discovers something more valuable than gold: a rare Babe Ruth baseball card, hidden out fo view for many years. Griffin's on his way to a million dollars...until a mean collector named S. Wendell Palomino (a.k.a. Swindle) tricks him out of the card. Now Griffin must put together a team of friends (and one...
2) Razor girl
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"When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an innocent accident is anything but (this is Hiaasen!). Behind the wheel of the offending car is Merry Mansfield--the eponymous Razor Girl--so named for her unique, eye-popping addition to what might be an otherwise unexciting scam. But, of course--this is Hiaasen!--the scam is only the very beginning of a situation that's going to spiral crazily out...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore "Uncle Sunny" Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it's up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in--not his poker buddies, not his bimbo girlfriend, not his two right-hand men, Shorty and Moe. Even Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli, has skin in the game,...
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"Texas socialite Claire Massey's world is filled with designer clothes, luxury cars, and stunning homes. But her Neiman-Marcus lifestyle comes crashing down when her charming cattle broker husband is arrested for fraud. Suddenly, Claire finds herself facing attorneys, a media frenzy, and a trail of broken hearts. Betrayed and humiliated, she must start over against incredible odds to save her family--and discover a life worth living. And with unbending...
5) Unplugged
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
750L
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English
Description
Relates, in multiple voices, the adventures of a group of youngsters at an electronics-free wellness camp where wealthy, spoiled Jett, leads other campers in trying to stop a criminal.
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Lexile measure
1100L
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English
Description
The "Woman in White" famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his "charming" friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman...
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From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes this noir-style psychological thriller starring Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett. When a manipulative carnival man (Cooper) teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist (Blanchett) to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society, he learns that his new partner in crime might be his most formidable opponent yet. NIGHTMARE ALLEY is directed by del Toro, who co-wrote the film with Kim Morgan, based on...
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Life comes in stages. Even the Sisterhood has been content to let their gold shields gather a little dust while they enjoy friends and family. But when a string of anonymous emails arrives at Pinewood suggesting shady dealings at a local assisted-living facility, Myra Rutledge and best friend Annie de Silva are ready to out-hustle a master con-artist at his own game. This time, they'll need to enlist some new allies in order to pull off their brilliant...
11) Fallon
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English
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"Macon Fallon had never needed more than a deck of cards, a fast horse, and a ready gun; he was counting on those things now as he led an unsuspecting group of settlers to an abandoned mining town. But while Fallon prepared to pass the ghost town off as a gold mine in the making, a funny thing happened: a real-life community started to take shape in the town he'd christened Red Horse. So when a band of vicious outlaws and a kid who fancied himself...
12) The job
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"FBI Agent Kate O' Hare is a force of nature, and she's lived for one thing and one thing only, to put the slippery conman known as Nicolas Fox behind bars. Nick is a fed's worst nightmare: exceptionally talented in his line of work, known the world over for being able to pull off some of the most dangerous, high-profile cons. In a cruel twist of fate, Kate's bosses at the FBI force her to covertly partner up with Nick to take down big league crime....
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The three wily and beautiful McDougal sisters can swindle a man faster than it takes to lasso a calf. But their luck is running out. When the wagon carrying them to jail falls under attack, each sister is picked up by a different man. Unfortunately for Abigail, she's grabbed by a twit of a shoe salesman, Mr. Hershall Digman. After stealing his horse, she discovers the secret papers in his saddlebag. Could Digman be a Confederate spy? The man who comes...
14) The hustle
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Josephine Chesterfield is a glamorous, seductive Brit who defrauds gullible wealthy men. Penny amasses wads of cash by ripping off her marks in neighborhood bars. Despite their different methods, both are masters of the art of the fleece, so they con the men that have wronged women.
15) Flint
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"He left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of violence. In the East, he became one of the wealthiest financiers in America--and one of the most feared and hated. Now, suffering from incurable cancer, he has come back to New Mexico to die alone. But when an all-out range war erupts, Flint chooses to help Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher. A cold-eyed speculator is setting up the land swindle of a lifetime,...
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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In The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard -- bodyguard Michael Bryce, hitman Darius Kincaid and his wife Sonia are back as the mismatched, high-octane trio -- that are once again forced together into another life-threatening mission to save Europe from a vengeful and powerful zealot.
17) Preacher's fire
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A big city like St Louis is the last place where a mountain man like Preacher would pick a fight. But how else will he get at the ruthless power broker who is using fear and bloodshed to take over the Western fur trade? Shaving his beard, posing as a greedy hayseed from Ohio, the Preacher comes face-to-face with Shad Beaumont - who is leaving St. Louis with an army of hired gunmen...with the Preacher on his tail. The odds couldn't be worse and the...
18) Tower heist
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Queens native Josh Kovacs has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh's building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage.
19) A good horse
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Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack, when it comes to light that his dam might have been stolen.
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This cynical allegory takes place on a Mississippi riverboat on April Fools Day. It portrays a group of passengers--- including several satires of nineteenth-century literary greats---and their reactions to the central character, an ambiguous stranger who sneaks aboard the boat and test their confidence.
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