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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
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Times are changing in Pickax, and it all makes for some newsworthy notes for the "Qwill Pen." A new senior center is in the works, and a frisky production of Cats is set to delight Moose County residents, human and feline alike. Polly Duncan is off to Paris, momentarily leaving Qwill without a companion for his apple-barn concerts, and The Librarians Who Lunch are getting ready to put on a show of their spectacular Art Hats to help unite Pickax with...
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Cat Who mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
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"It all began when someone spray-painted WITCH on the side of Widow Coggin's barn on Trevelyan Road. Then someone stole some sketches of nudes from Pickax's new Art Center across the way. A few scattered drops of blood on the floor near the cage of a resident parrot - a parrot who happens to have a penchant for talking dirty - indicate that the thief did not escape without a mark."--BOOK JACKET. "When a fire erupts on the Coggin farm, taking the life...
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Cat Who mysteries volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
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The big one is on it's way, and none too soon for the resdients of an unusually arid Moose County, who are becoming increasingly anxious about wildfires as they await for the first snowstorm of the season. A Citizen's Fire Watch is formed, and volunteers go out on shifts to patrol areas of concern, particularly
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Cat Who mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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A former reporter solves the murder of a developer with the help of a cat. An innocent man may have been framed.
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Cat Who mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
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Qwill, Koko, and Yum Yum are looking forward to a quiet vacation relaxing on the porch of their cabin, but when a young backpacker is found dead in the woods and the locals believe that UFOs are responsible, the cats know that their relaxing break has been interrupted by a bizarre mystery.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
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The residents of Pickax eagerly await the start of Pickax Now, a festival celebrating the 150th anniversary of the town's founding. In the midst of preparations for parades and performances, newspaper columnist James Qwilleran must make time to entertain Harvey Ledfield, an aspiring architect visiting from out of town. Qwill welcomes Harvey into his home to sketch, but strange occurrences seem to follow Harvey around. Why, for example, did the extraordinary...
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Cat Who mysteries volume 19
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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In Pickax, PI Jim Qwilleran and his feline assistants, Koko and Yum-Yum, investigate the death of a local banker who was mugged and shot while on a business trip in Detroit. By the author of The Cat Who Said Cheese.
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Back in Pickax, Jim Qwilleran expects to resume a quiet life, but the people and animals of Pickax have other ideas. A noisy cardinal wakes him every morning, nosy neighbors drop by uninvited, and the Siamese cats—Koko and Yum Yum—misbehave, even sneezing on guests. As if they weren't bad enough, Qwill's long-time companion, Polly Duncan, acts as though she is in love—with another man.
Worst of all, Qwill finds a body in his apple
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2006
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Soon after banker Willard Carmichael and his young bride arrive in Pickax, a string of petty burglaries follow. Then Willard meets his demise—an apparent victim of a mugging—and the banker's home restoration project goes to the widow's cousin. Though the clues are as elusive as a cat burglar, the suspicious Qwill and his feline companions, Koko and Yum Yum, are determined to catch a thief—and a killer.
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Pub. Date
2006
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Persuaded by Polly Duncan, his beloved companion, to join her in a group tour of Scotland, Qwill expects to revel in his Scottish heritage while keeping Polly safe from the Pickax Prowler. Instead, his trip is cut short when a thief swipes a suitcase, the bus driver disappears, and a fellow tourist is found dead—all in the same day.
Although the town of Pickax is in a tizzy over the recent events, Qwill has other, more puzzling worries on
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Cat Who mysteries volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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The affluent owner of a historic steam locomotive and private railcar disappears with millions of dollars belonging to Moose county investors. Journalist-detective Jim Quill probes the embezzlement with the aid of his Siamese sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum. The case is complicated by a train wreck and a murder in a railroad tavern. By the author of The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, the book which launched the 17-volume series in 1966.
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Cat Who mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Qwill has decided to rent Gage mansion in Pickax for the winter. While preparing for a newscast on the devastating fire of 1869 that ravaged part of the mansion and most of the town, he and Koko uncover some interesting artifacts that lead them straight to Gage family secrets and murder. What do the former owner's apparent suicide and the murder of a potato farmer have in common? Koko knows, and the answer will surprise everyone.
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Cat Who mysteries volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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Qwill is on the Bonnie Scots Tour traveling through the heathered hills of Scotland. His cats, Koko and Yum Yum, remain home in Pickax, Maine with a catsitter. When the tour leader mysteriously dies one night, Qwill and the rest of the tour group return home in confusion. Strangely, however, Koko seems to know that there was foul play on the trip!
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Pub. Date
2003
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When an affluent railcar owner disappears with millions of dollars belonging to Moose County investors, the international police launch an intense investigation to find the fugitive. But journalist detective Jim Qwilleran and his feline crime-busters find a mystery to unravel that is closer to home: Who blew the whistle on the embezzler—and why? Qwill goes full steam ahead to solve the puzzle before tragedy occurs, but the case is complicated...
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Cat Who volume 4, 5, 6
Pub. Date
1993.
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Three early novels of sleuthing Siamese cats KoKo and Yum Yum
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