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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. Includes previously unpublished artwork and author's notes about design elements.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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The story of the Phantom of the Opera, a half-crazed musician hiding in the labyrinth of the famous Paris Opera House and creating a number of strange and mysterious events to further the career of a beautiful young singer, is today regarded as one of the most famous of all horror stories: widely mentioned in the same breath as Frankenstein and Dracula.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny are orphans.They discover an old red boxcar that provides them shelter from the storm.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective D.D. Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. When a disturbing piece of evidence is discovered in the hills of Georgia, they bring Flora Dane and true-crime savant Keith Edgar to a small town where something seems to be deeply wrong. What at first looks like a Gothic eeriness soon hardens into something much more...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first twelve stories and includes such famous cases as "The Red-headed League," in which Holmes uncovers a well-concealed, devilishly clever criminal plot "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," in which Holmes must trap a jewel thief--with astonishing results "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," in which Holmes and Watson find themselves dealing with treachery, violence, and deadly snakes and nine more equally thrilling...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
At Baskerville Hall on the grim moors of Devonshire, a legendary curse has apparently claimed one more victim. Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead. There are no signs of violence, but his face is hideously distorted with terror. Has the spectral destroyer struck again? More important, is Sir Henry Baskerville, younger heir to the estate, now in danger? Enter Sherlock Holmes, summoned to protect Sir Henry. As Holmes and Watson begin to investigate,...
9) Bleak house
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 67
Language
English
Description
As the interminable case of 'Jarndyce and Jarndyce' grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage, but...
10) The Moor
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after he solved the case of the hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes returns to Dartmoor to investigate a murder and another sighting of the hound. On this occasion he is accompanied by his wife, Mary Russell, who narrates.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A mystery about fourteen-year-old Helen investigates what she considers the false arrest of a classmate and is nearly killed herself as her findings lead her into big-money drug dealings.
Author
Series
Dora the explorer (Ready-to-read) volume 15
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dora is missing her sneaker. Swiper is missing his skate. Where did all of the shoes go? Help Dora and her friends solve the mystery of the missing shoes!
16) Skinhead
Author
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
A plea from a dying man he has never seen before involves nineteen-year-old Jonathan in a life-and-death struggle with white-supremacist skinheads.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sick of the horrors of conquering beings on other planets, Ahvrem will end his service as a soldier and save his sister from an unhappy marriage if he can discover who is behind a rumored plot to assassinate the Emperor.