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3) Gold!
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Instead of making friends, seven-year-old Max Midas decides to make millions and spend it on what he loves best, gold, but one day things get lonely inside his shiny castle and Max finally learns that gold is not worth anything without friends and family by your side.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"The Greedy Python" is quick to gobble up every creature he meets--including to his own great misfortune, himself, when he mistakes the tip of his tail for a lunchtime treat. With drawings by one of the country's most popular illustrators, this story of a python who is quick to eat everything in sight, including the end of his tail on one sad day, is sure to delight and amuse young readers. Full-color illustrations.
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Interior designer Lane Harmon is called to assist in redecorating a modest townhouse in suburban New Jersey. The home belongs to the wife of a disgraced financier named Parker Bennett, who has been missing for two years. He dropped out of sight just before it was discovered that the $5 billion in the fund he had been managing had vanished. His clients and the federal government all want to trace the money and find Bennett if he is still alive. Lane...
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Magpie murders volume 1
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A "brilliant and strikingly original reimagining of the classic whodunit (a la Agatha Christie) with a contemporary mystery wrapped around it"-- After working with bestselling crime writer Alan Conway for years, editor Susan Ryeland is intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries in sleepy English villages. His traditional formula has proved hugely successful, so successful that Susan must continue to put up with his...
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Enter Valentino, a mild-mannered UCLA film archivist. In the surreal world of Hollywood filmdom truth is often stranger than celluloid fiction. When Valentino buys a decrepit movie palace and uncovers a skeleton in the secret Prohibition basement, he's not really surprised. But he's staggered by a second discovery: long-lost, priceless, reels of film: Erich von Stroheim's infamous Greed. The LAPD wants to take the reels as evidence, jeopardizing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 30
Description
Having been hired by a mysterious corporation called Gippart, twelve-year-old Josh--along with two friends and the ghost of his dead twin sister--finds himself trapped in "umaya," a place between dreams, time, and reality.
12) Pig the winner
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Series
Pig the pug volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Told in rhyming text, Pig is a greedy pug, who insists on always winning, and throws a tantrum if anything thwarts him--until one day he swallows not only all his food, but his bowl as well and when his friend Trevor saves him he learns a valuable lesson on sharing.
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Mouse books (Judy Cox) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On Thanksgiving Day while everyone naps, Mouse spots one pea, a perfect feast, but he cannot help adding all of the fixings--until Cat spots him.
Author
Pub. Date
1990
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A couple's life and love are destroyed when they win the lottery in this tragic tale of turn-of-the-century San Francisco. McTeague and Trina are in love, and with the modest income from McTeague's dentistry office, their needs are few. But when Trina wins a small fortune from a lottery ticket, jealousy and distrust begin to unravel their happy home. As tension erupts between McTeague and Trina's cousin Marcus, Trina's impulse to save her winnings...
16) The rich girl
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Series
Fear Street. Original series volume 44
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Emma and her best friend Sydney always share their secrets. And now they have a big one: They found a duffel bag filled with cash and swore never to tell anyone. But Sydney broke her promise -- she told her boyfriend, Jason.
19) Ed and Fred Flea
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Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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As his brother prepares to leave the dog they share, Fred the greedy flea pretends to have the flu in order to stay behind and have the whole dog, unaware of the fate that awaits him.
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Series
Knights of Arrethtrae volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
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Newly knighted, young Sir Bentley embarks on a quest to give up the pleasures of men and follow the path of the Prince, finding kindred spirits along the way who help him restore hope to the people of Holbrook.