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Author
Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 27
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Junie B. cannot play in the school kickball tournament because of a sore toe, she brings her unique talents to the halftime show.
Author
Series
Thunder road novels (Katie McGarry) volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Smart. Responsible. That's seventeen-year-old Breanna's role in her large family, and heaven forbid she put a toe out of line -- until one night of shockingly un-Breanna-like behavior puts her into a vicious cyberbully's line of fire and brings fellow senior Thomas "Razor" Turner into her life. Razor lives for the Reign of Terror motorcycle club, and good girls like Breanna just don't belong. But when he learns she's being blackmailed over a compromising...
3) Sandy toes
Author
Series
Christy and Todd: the baby years volume 1
Christy and Todd. The baby years volume 1
Christy and Todd the baby years volume 1
Christy and Todd. The baby years volume 1
Christy and Todd the baby years volume 1
Publisher
Robin's Nest Productions, Inc
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
A new season begins for Christy and Todd with a pregnancy test and a disillusioning visit to the doctor. As they try to catch their balance, Todd's job swerves in a new direction; Aunt Marti overdoes her self-assigned role of preparing for the family's addition-to-come; and Christy's parents face surprising changes that might take them back to Wisconsin. Christy misses Katie more than ever, and just when she thinks life will slow down, Alissa's daughter,...
Author
Series
Fart quest volume 4
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After their latest quest, Fart, Pan, Moxie, and TickTock return to the Great and Powerful Kevin to claim their reward--a chance for Pan to see her mother, who died many years ago. But bringing her mom back seems impossible. Is Kevin full of hot air? When our heroes sniff out the truth behind his secret plans, they unleash a terrifying danger that sends them on a nail-biting journey. Will their nose for trouble take them down for good? Or will they...
Author
Publisher
Little Genius Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's the night before Christmas... And Santa has his hands full when he visits the five little piggies! Following the rhythm of the original toe-play nursery rhyme at every turn of the page, this instant classic read-aloud captures all the anticipation and excitement of the holidays!"--Back cover.
7) Stepsister
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off their toes in an attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a maimed foot, for the Marquis de la Chance is about to offer her a choice and the opportunity to change her fate--there will be blood and danger, but also the possibility of redemption and triumph, and most of all the chance to find her true self.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
During the pandemic, an aging screenwriter is holed up in a coastal South Carolina town with his beloved second wife, Peaches. He's been binge-eating for a year and developed a notable rapport with the local fast-food chain Hippo King. He struggles to work on a ludicrous screenplay about a Nazi attempt to kidnap FDR and, naturally, an article for Etymology Today on English words of Carthaginian origin. He thinks he has Covid. His wife thinks he is...
9) Bitters
Author
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The giant metal man has stood for hundreds of years, head tilted back, mouth open. All the dead of the town are disposed of this way, carried up the long staircase that winds around him and tipped in. At his toe emerges the Bitters, the lifeblood of the town, keeping them healthy and prosperous as the sick and needy come to buy and drink. McNubbin is a happy man with all he wants in life. He's carried the bodies up since he was 14, a worthwhile respected...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Boston PI Spenser faces a hot case and a personal crisis in the latest adventure in the iconic New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. The fire at a boarded-up Catholic church raged hot and fast, lighting up Boston's South End and killing three firefighters who were trapped in the inferno. A year later, as the city prepares to honor their sacrifice, there are still no answers about how the deadly fire started. Most at the department...
11) Summer schooled
Author
Series
Game master volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca Zamolo is on a mission to save her summer. Instead of going to camp like she'd planned, she's been stuck in summer school. But today is the day! She's going to present her final science assignment--using her Nana's borrowed vintage zoetrope--and then she'll be free to have fun. But as Becca and her classmates wait for her teacher to arrive, a menacing voice comes over the intercom claiming to be the Game Master! The kids quickly discover...
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The only link between a series of grisly murders in New York City is that the victims were all born with twelve fingers and twelve toes. These people are known in occult circles as the Nephilim, a forsaken people, descendants of fallen angels. After a break in the case leads to supposedly killed-in-action Marine sniper Anaba Raines, Michael finds the soldier alive and well, but shockingly no longer human. Michael then discovers that he is also a...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"One evening, Ma tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body, named Hu Gu Po. She hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterwards, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. And more mysterious events follow: Holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother; a visiting aunt leaves red on everything she touches; another aunt arrives with eels in her belly. All the while, Daughter is falling for her...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston--the sole black student at the college--was living in New York, "desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world." During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later, this singular talent is recognized as one of the most influential and revered American...
15) Love is blind
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adrian Montfort, Earl of Mowbray, had been warned that Lady Clarissa Crambray was dangerous. From stomping on toes to setting wigs on fire, the stunning beauty was clearly a force to be reckoned with. Still, he's in need of a wife and is sure he can handle one woman and her "unfortunate past." Intrigued by the mysterious vixen, he soon discovers he's greatly underestimated the lady ... Clarissa would like to find a husband, but perhaps not as much...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Kelly Flynn has been enjoying motherhood and avoiding murder, but when a friend's life is cut short, she enlists the Lambspun knitters to catch a heartless killer in the latest novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Only Skein Deep. Kelly is happily busy with her son, Jack, now a rambunctious four-year-old preschooler. Jack keeps his mom on her toes and drinking all the coffee she can handle at Pete's Porch Café. Kelly's friendly waitress...
17) Naughty on ice
Author
Series
Discreet Retrieval Agency mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The next in Maia Chance's dazzlingly fun Prohibition-era caper series featuring society matron Lola Woodby and her stalwart Swedish cook, Berta. The Discreet Retrieval Agency is doing a brisk holiday business of retrieving lost parcels, grandmas, and stolen wreaths. But with their main squeezes Ralph and Jimmy once more on the back burner, both Lola and Berta pine for a holiday out of New York City. So when they receive a mysterious Christmas card...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Virginia Heath's Never Rescue a Rogue, the next book in the Merriwell Sisters series, is filled with whip-smart banter, swoony romance, hilarious mishaps, and twisty reveals that will make you gasp and laugh in delight. Diana Merriwell and Giles Sinclair only tolerate one another for the sake of their nearest and dearest. Everyone believes that the two of them are meant to be together, but Diana and Giles know that their constant pithy barbs come...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In "master of the legal thriller" (Chicago Sun-Times) John Lescroart's electrifying new novel, attorney Dismas Hardy is called to defend the least likely suspect of his career: his longtime, trusted assistant who is suddenly being charged as an accessory to murder. Dismas Hardy knows something is amiss with his trusted secretary, Phyllis. Her out-of-character behavior and sudden disappearances concern Hardy, especially when he learns that her convict...
Publisher
MCD x FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Terraform hones the predictive capacity of science fiction and seeks new, vivid, and visceral ways to depict the future we're hurtling toward, translating the decay and anxiety that surround us into something else, something unexpected, something that burns like a beacon and upends the conventional ideas of where we'll end up next. Section by section--Watch/Worlds/Burn--the book takes on surveillance, artificial intelligence, and climate collapse....
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