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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian is one of the best locked room mystery writers working today. Her newest heroine, Tempest Raj, returns in The Raven Thief, where sliding bookcases, trick tables, and hidden reading nooks hide something much more sinister than the Secret Staircase Construction crew ever imagined. One murder. Four impossibilities. A fake séance hides a very real crime. Secret Staircase Construction just finished their first...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl narrates her family's move from the city to the country, where they have bought a piece of land and live in a trailer while they build a house from the ground up, with help from relatives and friends.
Author
Series
Amelia Bedelia series volume 24
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Amelia Bedelia babysits for the Hardy family, she becomes involved in some unexpected remodeling of their house.
5) Jack's house
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
Description
Cumulative text reveals who was really responsible for the house that Jack claims to have built, and all of the trucks involved, from the bulldozer used to clear the land to the van that brought a hammock for the back yard.
7) Catch a ride
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Spike, Flex, and Daisy Wheel all think they know what Molly Bolt wants in a new car, but Molly Bolt has something else in mind.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A cast of animal characters are building a brand new playground in a local park and each day of the week contains a different construction plan. The construction project comes together for a rhyming walking tour of a neighborhood, where young readers can learn the days of the week while watching everyone work as a team!"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Fox and her friends are building a playhouse. Everything goes smoothly until bossy Moose tromps in and tries to be in charge of everything. When Moose's bossing causes the project to go awry, can the friends work as a team to come up with a solution?"--
11) The lost war
Author
Series
Eidyn Saga volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The war is over, but the beginnings of peace are delicate. Demons continue to burn farmlands, violent mercenaries roam the wilds, and a plague is spreading . The country of Eidyn is on its knees. In a society that fears and shuns him, Aranok is the first mage to be named King's Envoy. And his latest task is to restore an exiled foreign queen to her throne. The band of allies he assembles each have their own unique skills. But they are strangers to...
12) Rock bottom
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Isabelle "Izzy" Flanders and Yoko Akia are beginning a new project--a café that will be the cornerstone of a market village. Izzy knows just where to get the project off the ground: her old college classmate, Zoe Danfield, now vice president of a huge construction corporation. But buildings and bridges have been collapsing all over the world, causing hundreds of deaths, and Zoe suspects her firm's inferior foundation materials are the cause. Zoe...
13) Hard hat area
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Construction workers ask Kristen, a young apprentice, to bring them snacks and supplies. Provides information on the workers' jobs and equipment.
Author
Series
Stanley books (William Bee) volume 1
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"What a job for Stanley--he's building a house for his friend, Myrtle. He will need his digger and his bulldozer and his cement mixer. He will also need his friend, Charlie, to help. But will they manage to build the whole house?"--
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