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Pippi Longstocking volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Pippi Longstocking, the red-headed, fabulously strong Swedish girl, decides to take her two measle-stricken friends, Tommy and Annika, to Kurrekurredutt Island where her father is busy being king. On that strange and wonderful South Sea island the children have one adventure after another.
Author
Series
Pippi Longstocking volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In this book of the Pippi series, Pippi and her friends Tommy and Annike go on board ship for a long voyage.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pippi moves into in a house at the edge of a Swedish village with a horse, a monkey, a suitcase full of gold, and no grown-ups to tell her what to do. She has upside-down braids and is wild and funny and her crazy ideas have a way of making anything exciting! Naturally, the children next door, Tommy and Annika are curious about their new neighbor. The three children have the most rollicking adventures on their own, with horses and monkeys, the circus,...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A reluctant centenarian - much like Forrest Gump, if Gump were an explosives expert with a fondness for vodka - decides it's not too late to start over. On the eve of his 100th birthday, he climbs out the window of his nursing home and escapes in his slippers. The journey on which he embarks will certainly be hilarious and entirely unexpected.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty...
Author
Publisher
R. & S
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a rooster begins to take more food for himself, four hens try talking to him about fairness. He reacts by turning into an egotistical barnyard bully, and the hens are worse off than before. Finally, the oldest hen puts her foot down. Full color.
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they₂re not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harboring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un. Yikes! Soon Allan and Julius are at the center of a complex diplomatic...
12) Pippi on the run
Author
Publisher
Trumpet Club
Pub. Date
1990, c1971
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pippi, Tommy, and Annika have all kinds of adventures when they run away together.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home. Ever since her darling father's untimely death, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg, Sweden,...
Author
Series
Detective Gordon volume 2
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The detective lay in bed with his eyes closed. But he couldn't sleep. He was thinking. He always thought best in bed. Especially with his eyes closed. Something is going on in the forest: one of the animals is saying nasty things about the other forest creatures. But no one dares make a statement to the police. Who is the culprit? Detective Gordon and his assistant Buffy must investigate! But this is a complicated case. The two police officers split...
Author
Publisher
Yonder, Restless Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In a forest of seaweed there was ME, a rare and beautiful little axolotl, going for my first-ever swim. So graceful, and yet so lonesome-out of 987 eggs, mine was the only one that hatched. Who knows, maybe I was the last axolotl in these waters?.
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can't fix their own marriage. There's a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about...
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