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Author
Series
All the wrong questions volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The lives of four characters, including cemetery thief Cade Curtis, a runaway slave, and an illegally captured ocelot, flow together across time through their connections to the Houston bayou and an angel carved from Georgia marble.
4) Stoneheart
Author
Series
Stoneheart trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old George accidentally decapitates a stone statue in London, England, he falls into a parallel dimension where he must battle ancient "live" statues and solve a dangerous riddle.
Author
Series
Capital mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When they discover that one of the thumbs has been broken off the statue in the Lincoln Memorial, KC and Marshall set out to learn what happened and restore the thumb before a ceremony honoring the sculptor.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 55
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Rancid rat hairs, the cat pirates are coming to town! They're planning on stealing New Mouse City's Statue of Liberty and taking it back to Cat Island. They think it's completely made of gold! My friends and I are determined to protect our city's precious symbol. But can we stop these fearsome felines?"--Page [4] of cover.
7) End game
Author
Series
Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 20
Publisher
Forge / A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Langley is experiencing a series of gruesome murders. The CIA's own headquarters should be the safest spot on the planet, but a highly professional, violently psychopathic assassin, who hideously disfigures his victims, strikes without mercy. The murders spread from Langley to a prison outside of Athens, where the first clue to what will become the End Game surfaces. A code carved into four copper panels of the legendary statue in a courtyard at...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A community is devastated when the bronze statue of local legend Mama Cuento is stolen on Valentine's Day. When Lexy Campbell arrives on the scene, a big bronze toe is found along with a ransom note--'Listen to our demands or you will never see her again. There are nine more where this came from.' Then, Lexy's ex-husband Bran turns up begging for help to find his wife, Brandee, who has disappeared. Lexy agrees to pitch in, but when she shows up at...
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