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All the wrong questions) volume 1
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Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town called Stain'd By The Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a statue.
2) Woof
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Bowser and Birdie volume 1
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Bowser is a mutt, just adopted by eleven-year-old Birdie Gaux and her grandmother, but when they all get home to Grammy's bait and tackle shop in the bayou they discover that their prize stuffed marlin has been stolen--so Bowser decides to investigate, and things quickly become complicated and dangerous.
4) Arf
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Bowser and Birdie volume 2
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Birdie Gaux's dog, Bowser, considers himself in charge of security at 19 Gentilly Lane, so when the house is broken into Bowser wants to find the man with the limeade aftershave (and the cat) responsible--but nobody seems to know what the culprits were looking for, or why a strange girl is asking questions about Birdie's father, a policeman who was killed in the line of duty years before Bowser was adopted.
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Mac B. kid spy volume 3
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There is a legend that if the ravens at the Tower of London ever leave then Britain will fall, so when somebody steals the birds, the Queen calls for Mac B. to find the thief and retrieve them--a mission that takes him to Iceland, where he encounters secret submarines, hungry polar bears, and his arch-nemesis from the KGB.
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Jolley-Rogers volume 1
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"Every full moon, a mysterious ship is seen off the coast of Dull-on-Sea and its pirates loot the town's treasure. Can Matilda and Jim Lad retrieve the stolen booty and vanquish the scurvy crew, or will they end up stuck on board the ghostly galleon forever?"--Page [4] of cover.
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Mac B. kid spy volume 1
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One day, Mac (smartest boy in his class in a small town in California) receives a telephone call from the Queen of England, recruiting him to find the crown jewels (well, actually just the Coronation Spoon) and so Mac embarks on his first adventure as a secret agent--with the assurance that the Queen will give him a note excusing him from school.
8) Jingle
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Swindle mystery volume 8
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Santa's Workshop Holiday Spectacular at the Colchester mansion is a long standing tradition in Cedarville, however Griffin, Ben, and Antonia are not happy to find that they have been volunteered as elves by their friend Logan and can not get out of it--but this year the pageant seem plagued by frequent electrical outages, and during one of them the valuable antique known as the Star of Prague disappears from the giant Christmas tree, and as they are...
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Nancy Drew and the clue crew volume 1
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Nancy Drew investigates when a doll goes missing at a sleepover party.
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Mac B. kid spy volume 2
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In 1989 someone is threatening to steal the crown jewels, so the Queen of England summons Mac B. to England to protect them--and when they are stolen from a locked dungeon cell, where Mac and Holcroft, one of the warders, are supposed to be guarding them, it is up to Mac to figure out how they were stolen, and whether the thief is the descendant of an Irish soldier-of-fortune who tried to steal them in 1671, or someone else entirely.
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2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #14 - Armchair Travel
2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge - #16 Everyday Adventures
2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge - #16 Everyday Adventures
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When Chaya steals first the queen's jewels, then the king's prized elephant, her prison escape leads her and her friends on an adventure through the jungle.
12) Rivals
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Robyn Hood volume 2
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When a rival gang comes to town and starts stealing from innocent people, can master thief Robyn Hood find a way to give them a taste of their own medicine?
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Robyn Hood volume 1
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Master thief Robyn Hood must discover who is taking money from a local orphanage before the kids' fates are put in danger.
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Mac B. kid spy volume 5
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Mac B. is on a secret mission to retrieve a stolen, priceless piece of history in this totally true kid spy adventure from New York Times bestselling author, Mac Barnett!England is in trouble! A priceless violin has been stolen, and there's only one person who can help: kid spy, Mac B. Mac's adventure takes him on a top-secret museum night watch and face-to-face with a mummy, zip-lining in Italy with his trusty corgi sidekick,...
15) Just like that
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With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...
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Geronimo Stilton volume 68
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I am not the kind of mouse who spends money on useless things. But one day I kept getting packages of things I did not order or need. Someone on the Internet had stolen my identity! Professor Margo Bitmouse, a well-known computer expert, helped me track down the hacker. Could I find the thief before my reputation is was ruined?
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Didi Dodo future spy volume 1
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When Koko Dodo's secret chocolate sauce is stolen just before an important cooking contest Didi, a dodo bird, devises a daring plan to help--whether he wants her to or not.
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Owl diaries volume 3
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Eva's teacher, Miss Featherbottom, is getting married, but when her special necklace disappears, Eva and her friends set out to track down the thief and return the necklace before the wedding.