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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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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...
3) Twelve sharp
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's typically chaotic life is thrown into greater turmoil by the appearance of a mysterious female stalker with a close connection to Ranger.
4) Six Years
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English
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Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself...
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 4
America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers volume no. 4
America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers volume 004
America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers volume no. 4
America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers volume 004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Ten brief cases in which the reader pits his wits against those of Encyclopedia Brown, an ingenious twelve-year-old detective.
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English
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If you can't get enough of Sherlock Holmes, the cranky, brilliant, and above all, idiosyncratic detective created by Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle, add this collection of tales to your must-read list. These short stories portray Holmes in top form, solving an array of seemingly impenetrable mysteries and crimes in his inimitable style.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Nancy tackles two interesting mysteries for Cecily, a friend she just met. One involves Cecily's fianc and the other a family treasure.
When Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery of a hidden family treasure for her friend Cecily Curtis at Misty Lake, she encounters strange aparitions and a haunted house.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"With a knack for trivia, Encyclopedia solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids through his detective agency. But his Dad is also the chief of police, and every night, Encyclopedia helps him solve his most baffling crimes. Join Encyclopedia Brown as he solves ten confounding mysteries, from recovering a client's prized tooth collection to following a trail of paint to find a sneaky thief, and more. And with the clues given in each case, readers...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Nancy Drew's keen mind is tested when she searches for a missing will.
12) Winterkill
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Joe Pickett novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"It's an hour away from darkness, a bitter winter storm is raging, and Joe Pickett is deep in the forest edging Battle Mountain, shotgun in his left hand, his truck's steering wheel handcuffed to his right - and Lamar Gardiner's arrow-riddled corpse splayed against the tree in front of him." "Lamar's murder and the sudden onslaught of the snowstorm warn: Get off the mountain. But Joe knows this episode is far from over. Somewhere in the dense timber,...
14) Howliday Inn
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Bunnicula series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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While their human family is away, Harold the dog and Chester the cat are boarded at Chateau Bow-Wow where Chester becomes increasingly alarmed by the strange behavior of his fellow guests and the sudden disappearance of one of them.
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A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Third-grader Dink and his detective friends hope to receive a big reward by finding the person whose video recorder picked up a picture of the local bank robber.
16) Blood trail
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Joe Pickett novels volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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When the call comes in on the radio, Joe Pickett can hardly believe his ears: game wardens have found a hunter dead at a camp in the mountains, strung up, gutted, and flayed, as if he were the elk he'd been pursuing. A spent cartridge and an old poker chip lie next to his body. Suddenly, two previous suspicious hunting accidents are viewed in a new light.
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"College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Iverson is a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has...
18) Heat
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English
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"Jesse Warden is at the end of his rope. Imprisoned unjustly (or at least for the wrong crime), he spends half his time in solitary confinement and the other half fighting with convicts who want to kill him because he was once a cop."--BOOK JACKET. "Then, at his lowest ebb, he is offered a way out. To earn his freedom, he must infiltrate a dangerous and reclusive religious cult in the mountains of the Idaho panhandle, a mission that turns out to be...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Loonie Kingman is in a bind. He's smack in the middle of assembling a civil suit, and the private investigator who was doing his pretrail legwork has just dropped dead of a heart attack. In a matter of weeks the court's statue of limitations will put paid to his case. Five years ago David Barney walked when a jury acquitted him of the murder of his rich wife, Isabelle. Now Kingman, acting as attorney for the dead woman's ex-husband and their child...