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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters.
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English
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Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home, she's built the perfect life. But beneath this faȧde, Ava's world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn't been used in years, and her toddler's tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point. Enter Winnie Fang, Ava's enigmatic college roommate from...
4) Bloodhound
Author
Series
Beka Cooper volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Having been promoted from "Puppy" to "Dog," Beka, now a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, and her former partner head to a neighboring port city to investigate a case of counterfeit coins.
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 9
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While picnicking on Squaw Island, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose find a hundred dollar bill, and when they return to explore further they find an entire cave full of money.
Author
Series
Scavenge the stars volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After escaping the city of Moray, Amaya and Cayo head to the port city of Baleine to find the mysterious Benefactor and put a stop to the counterfeit currency that is spreading Ash Fever throughout the kingdoms"--
Imprisoned on a debtor's ship for seven years, Amaya Chandra had one plan: to survive. Now she has people counting on her: for protection, for leadership, for vengeance. Cayo Mercado has lost everything: his money, his father, his reputation....
Author
Series
Carnton novel volume 2
Publisher
Fountain Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the real history of Carnton, an antebellum home that served as a Confederate hospital, Colors of Truth follows the journey of an Irish immigrant arriving in a country where her kind isn't wanted, and of a former Federal soldier returning to the scene of a battle that almost destroyed him"--
Tennessee, 1866. According to the last Catriona O'Toole received from her twin brother, Ryan, he was being dispatched to Franklin, Tennessee. As a conscripted...
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Haunted hotel: When hotel guests are scared away by a female ghost, Dink and his friends investigate the mystery.
Invisible island: While picnicking, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose find a hundred dollar bill and a cave full of money.
Jaguar's jewel: Dink and his friends use their detective skills to locate a giant emerald missing from a statue.
Author
Series
Sinful suitors volume 4
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When Niall Lindsey, the Earl of Margrave, is forced to flee after killing a man in a duel, he expects his secret love, Brilliana Trevor, to go with him, or at the very least wait for him. To his shock, she does neither and sends him off with no promise for the future. Seven years and one pardon later, Niall returns to England disillusioned and cynical. And being blackmailed by the government into working with his former love to help catch a counterfeiter...
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