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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
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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...
2) Twelve sharp
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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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.
3) Six Years
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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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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Nancy Drew's keen mind is tested when she searches for a missing will.
8) Howliday Inn
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Bunnicula series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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A black family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.
11) Heat
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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...
12) The Canary Caper
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Robinson renders a happy mixture of English village procedural and Canadian atmosphere. After failing to solve the murder of a wandering hiker near a Yorkshire village, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks flies to Toronto to question a key witness. The plot still revolves around several Yorkshire suspects, including an abusive social climber, a wealthy squire, an emotionally repressed innkeeper, and a bitter ex-husband--who all seem to have some...
15) Dark of the moon
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Virgil Flowers, 30, a cop with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, had come to Bluestem in search of a killer. There hadn't been a murder in Bluestem in years, but now suddenly there had been three. He thought some of his previous cases had been hard, but they were nothing compared to this one. All he knew for sure was that the three murders were somehow connected and he was determined to discover how, hopefully before he became the next...
19) 10 lb. penalty
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The book begins with Ben's expulsion from Vivian Durridge's stables; he's removed with a false accusation of glue sniffing. But as Ben soon discovers, it is, in fact, his powerful father's machinations that are behind his ill fortunes. The elder Juliard is "standing for Parliament," and the bachelor candidate needs his son by his side for a year of campaigning if he hopes to win. Ben accedes to his father's wishes. He almost always has, but he soon...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Nancy Drew sets out to prove that her father's client was unjustly accused of trying to sabotage the United States space program.