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Pub. Date
[2023]
Lexile measure
840L
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English
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After traveling from her home planet to Ouris and sneaking into the imperial ball to steal from the galactic elite, expert thief Cass is framed for the unexpected death of the emperor, and must work together with a mysterious rebel to uncover the true plot and clear her name.
62) Hostage
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
800L
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English
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When eleven-year-old Kaci interrupts burglars in the process of robbing her house, she and her nosy elderly neighbor Mrs. Banducci are kidnapped and held hostage by the desperate and ruthless criminals.
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During the 1800s trains carried the nation's wealth throughout the east, but no one thought to rob a speeding train until 1866. In 1870 the first western train was robbed in Nevada and within hours a second train was robbed. Railroads made every alteration to their cars and changed every procedure they could imagine to thwart the robbers, but to no avail. Robbing trains became epidemic over the next five decades, even when the legislatures made train...
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The true story of the world's first robbery of a moving train, and the real origins of the Wild West. They were the first outlaws to rob a moving train. But from 1864 to 1868, the Reno brothers and their gang of counterfeiters, robbers, burglars, and safecrackers also held the town of Seymour, Indiana, hostage, making a large hotel near the train station their headquarters. When the gang robbed the Adams Express car of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad...
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Misadventures of Max Crumbly volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
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When we last left courageous hero Max Crumbly and his trusty sidekick Erin, they had just finished foiling the plans of some bumbling thieves. But Max and Erin were trapped in a smelly, dangerous dumpster of doom and about to be discovered.
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"Damnable news has reached Fort Verde. Outlaw Jessup Henry and his gang of thugs are raising hell north of Santa Fe, one homestead massacre after another. Now they're on the run in Arizona Territory, evading the law. Cavalryman Tom Skinner's command: charge south with his patrol and wipe them out. But Skinner knows the land. Military decree be damned, he's deserting the wayward route--against orders--for the right one. There's more at risk than his...
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"On a windy, moonlit night Connor Kincaid holds up a carriage, only to have a delectable young Englishwoman tumble into his arms. Pamela Darby has journeyed to Scotland in search of a powerful duke's long-lost heir. When she first sees Connor, Pamela realizes that she may have found the perfect solution to all of her problems. The two strike a devil's bargain and journey to London to launch a risky masquerade. They are both enemies and allies - a...
68) A fatal illusion
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Yorkshire, England. August 1832. Relations between Sebastian Gage and his father have never been easy, especially since the discovery that Lord Gage has been concealing the existence of an illegitimate son. When Lord Gage is nearly fatally attacked on a journey to Scotland, Sebastian and Kiera race to his side. Was the attack politically motivated? In the village where Lord Gage is being cared for, the townspeople treat Sebastian and Kiera with hostility....
69) Kill town
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Corrigan brothers western volume 02
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English
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Agon Bordner is dead, and the ranch he cheated for has been handed over to Deed Corrigan and his brothers. But before they can get the Bar 3 back on its feet, Deed, Holt, and Blue must fight to rebuild the town by buying the bank and appointing a marshal. For a moment, peace looks possible for these three weary veterans of the trail--until the guns begin to fire. Seeking vengeance for their boss, eight of Bordner's killers storm the town. They rob...
70) El Topo
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
Classic Americana and avant-garde European cinema sensibilities meet Zen Buddhism and the Bible as a master gunfighter and comic mystic must defeat his four sharp-shooting rivals on an increasingly bizarre path to allegorical self-enlightenment and surreal resurrection.
73) The highway rat
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Based on the beloved children's book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, The Highway Rat tells the tale of a ravenous rat who craves buns, cookies, and all sweet things. Tearing along the highway, he searches for sugary treats to steal. But will his sweet tooth lead him to a sticky end? This swashbuckling tale of bandits and biscuits is an animated film the whole family will enjoy"--Back cover.
74) BMX bandits
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2010.
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English
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A trio of bored BMXers, pals PJ, Goose and Judy, decide to spend a yawn-worthy afternoon of fishing but end up with more excitement than they can handle. After discovering a hidden store of stolen police radios, the threesome plots to sell the radios and buy new BMX equipment. What they don't know is that the radios are the hot property of killer criminals who want the walkie-talkies back. Once the crooks discover that it was PJ, Judy and Goose who...
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Sophie's daughters volume 2
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English
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On her way to Montana, Sally McClellan's party is attacked and robbed. But then artist Logan McKenzie saves the badly wounded cowgirl who has been left for dead. Can this landscape painter tame the tomboy without breaking her spirit? Sally doesn't know much about ribbons and lace, but Logan's presence makes her want to connect with her feminine side. Will this fractured female discover a way to capture the artist's love- or find herself captured and...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
AD 830L
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English
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What do you do with a fire-breathing monster? Adore him! The Monster from Halfway to Nowhere... When the people of a little town discover that the fire-breathing monster in their midst is really a kind-hearted mind mannered monster, they all have different ideas about what to do with him. But the ideas make Mervyn unhappy, until a professor has an idea that lightens everyonéђةs moódђؤespecially Mervyńђةs! The Monster from Halfway to Nowhere......
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"Introducing a rail blazing new series set in the early days of the transcontinental railroad - when America headed West, outlaws climbed on board, and one man risked his life to stop them in their tracks. . . The newspapers call them the Devil's Horde. A well oiled team of cutthroat bandits who terrorize the Northern Pacific Railway on route to the coast through Dakota Territory. They dynamite the tracks, blow open the express car door, murder the...
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NYU Press has put out a page-turner, and this one's a gem. Transforms a lurid front page news story into a fascinating window through which we learn about so many of the social, cultural, and moral issues that were reshaping the face of America in the 1920s. Rarely does a vivid close-up portrait offer readers such a broad and informative historical perspective. This is a wonderfully accessible introduction to the history and culture of the 1920s enlivened...
79) The most wanted
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A correspondence between a 14-year-old Texas girl and a convict leads to love. A woman lawyer arranges a secret wedding and when the pregnant girl is banished from home, takes her in. The convict is a psychopath and tragedy follows when he escapes.
80) Stage Dreams
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In this rollicking queer western adventure, acclaimed cartoonist Melanie Gillman (Stonewall Award Honor Book As the Crow Flies) puts readers in the saddle alongside Flor and Grace, a Latinx outlaw and a trans runaway, as they team up to thwart a Confederate plot in the New Mexico Territory. When Flor—also known as the notorious Ghost Hawk—robs the stagecoach that Grace has used to escape her Georgia home, the first thing on her mind is ransom....
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