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"A mysterious high-stakes game proves life-threatening in this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Overnight Guest. The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the world. Completely secluded in...
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HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Zed and Gabe are back to their treasure-hunting, literary-sleuthing ways in this spooky new adventure! After some lacklustre cases involving lost books and a missing pet, the two friends have finally come across a mystery worth their attention: the secrets of Glyndebourne Manor, haunted home of a late, great opera designer. Every twenty-five years, the Manor hosts a challenge. You have three days and two nights to solve the puzzles in each room before...
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Zibby Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Competition for a Southern bridal magazine cover unleashes mayhem, forcing a mastermind maid of honor to stop being a people pleaser and start figuring out what she wants out of life. A hilarious, smart coming-of-age story. Olivia "Liv" Fitzgerald's life is on ambition autopilot. The soon-to-be-lawyer has her life plan set and can talk anyone into anything. Well, almost anything. When her scheming aunt throws her cousin, Kali, into a competition...
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Isla of adventure volume 5
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Little Simon
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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When Isla sets out to help her pastry champion grandparents in the annual Sol Bake-Off, the absence of ingredients and the animal's silence leads her to uncover the creatures' own celebration.
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Scholastic Inc
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[2024]
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English
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"Este lector de no-ficción compara y contrasta 16 feroces tiburones. Los pequeños aprenderán sobre la anatomía, el comportamiento y más de cada pez. ¡Luego podrán comparar y contrastar a los tiburones en pugna hasta finalmente descubrir al ganador! Esta serie de no ficción está llena de datos, fotos e ilustraciones realistas, e incluye una gran variedad de mamíferos, criaturas marinas, insectos y dinosaurios para satisfacer a todo tipo de...
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Survival of the Fittest: the game show where animal contestants pitch the latest and greatest in scientific innovation to a panel of shark judges! Animals of all sizes and skills compete to see who can come up with the most useful, most creative, most brilliant design for a product based on something that exists in the natural world. Today's theme is: engineering. Filled with interesting information, awesome visuals, and funny dialogue, this new...
12) The Big Cheese
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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"The Big Cheese is the best at everything, and brags about it, too. When the annual Cheese-cathlon comes around, the Big Cheese is prepared to win, as always. But what happens when the quiet new kid, Wedge Wedgeman, comes out on top? Is a slice of humility all the Big Cheese needs to discover that some things are better than being the best?"--
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Wilder boys volume 4
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The Wilder Boys are excited to be spending part of their summer at a wilderness camp. Jake is going to be working as an assistant counselor, and Taylor will be in his cabin. Along with the rest of their group, they'll spend two weeks honing their skills and learning to work together before a multiday trek traversing woodland, mountain, and desert terrain during a team-based competition. But no amount of training could have prepared them for what...
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Mad Cave Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"When eight former felons are left stranded on a deserted island with a murderous backpack strapped to them and nothing but a cartoon to help them through a deadly, constantly changing environment filled with danger around every corner, they have no choice but to result to violence in order to survive. Nature's Labyrinth is a battle royale filled with high octane action, off-kilter humor, cutthroat reality TV-style betrayals and ever-shifting alliances,...
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Umbriel
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"Un autor retirado de best sellers organiza una competencia única, con altos riesgos y altas recompensas, dándole al ganador la oportunidad de cambiar vidas. Lucy Hart ha recorrido un largo camino desde que sintió el frío abandono de sus padres, cuya atención Siempre centrada en las necesidades de su hermana con una enfermedad crónica. Ahora, una asistente de maestra de veintiséis años, Lucy puede compartir su amor por los libros con estudiantes...
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Pokémon world championship volume 1
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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The first instalment in a trilogy that follows Ash in his final quest to be crowned world champion! Join Ash and his Pokémon as they are introduced to the World Coronation Series and begin to battle their way up through the ranks of the tournament. He makes friends and encounters Gym Leaders and powerful Pokémon Trainers, each bringing him one step closer to his goal of victory. As Ash faces some epic battles and his first defeat of the tournament,...
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My weird school specials volume 9
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HarperCollins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"The My Weird School kids are fed up with Miss Banks and her constant pranks. They decide to finally prank her back. After seeing how focused and engaged the kids are with their practical joke, Mrs. Stoker suggests a week-long prank competition between the students and the teachers. If the kids manage to pull off a win, they'll get a candy party. And so begins the most epic prank war that Ella Mentry School has ever seen!"
20) Finding my elf
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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While home for winter break, Cameron takes a job as a Christmas elf and finally finds his "people" and possibly "the one" in the fakest consumerist nightmare place on Earth where he least expected it.
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