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Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiancé, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.
62) Abilene gundown
Author
Series
Owlhoot Trail volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Camp Lil' Vills volume 1
Publisher
DisneyHyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
At her father's summer camp set in the middle of an enchanted forest, Bloom finds herself bunking with Cruella de Vil, who hates puppies (and pretty much everything else), and who wants to steal the rare furry Nerbit and turn it into a fancy hat.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew and the clue crew volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew investigates when someone steals a basket of gourmet dog biscuits from a dog show.
Author
Series
Rules for Thieves volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Alli Rosco escapes her orphanage, only to be hit with a deadly curse by a magic-wielding, law-enforcing Protector, and with nowhere else to turn and days to live, Alli learns to steal from a street thief named Beck and follows him back to the legendary Thieves Guild, where she hopes to find a home and the means to save herself.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-three-year-old Elaine Kelly doesn't earn much as a bank teller, and most of her salary goes toward caring for her terminally ill mother. When a lonely old man who deposits money at her bank every week gets hit and killed by a delivery truck, Elaine--a good Irish girl from Queens--thinks she's found the answer to her problems. She'll just transfer $1 million from the dead man's account into hers. Except that the lonely old man may not have...
69) Random
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Two weeks before his twenty-first birthday, Las Vegas native Bobby Ingersoll finds out he's inherited a crushing gambling debt from his scumbag father. The debt is owed to an even scummier bag named Fraser Ruphart who oversees his bottom-rung criminal empire from the classy-adjacent Trump International Hotel. Bobby's prospects of paying off the note, which comes due the day he turns twenty-one, are about as dim as the sign on the tower's façade....
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After her parents' deaths, Avery Ayers takes over the family business ... Now living back at home with her younger sister Tilly and their newly moved-in eccentric Aunt Midge and her Afghan hound, Avery's life is filled with jewels, tapestries, paintings, and rare finds. But their world is rocked when Avery learns that the theft of a priceless ruby may be connected to her parents' demise"--
Author
Series
Hardy Boys secret files volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After losing the Junior Bike Rally because of a blown tire, Frank has more trouble when his bike is stolen.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"It's spring in the tiny town of Damariscotta, a tourist haven on the coast of Maine known for its oysters and antiques. Andrew, a high school English teacher recently returned to the area, has brought his family to Ed and Steph Thatch's sprawling riverside estate to attend a reception for the Amherst women's lacrosse team. Back when they were all teenagers, Andrew never could have predicted that Ed, descended from a long line of lobstermen, or Steph,...
73) The master key
Author
Series
Publisher
Pushkin Vertigo
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The K Apartments for Ladies are occupied by over a hundred unmarried women, once young and lively, now grown and old - and in some cases, evil. Their residence conceals a secret, a secret connecting the unsolved kidnapping in 1951 of four-year-old George Kraft to the clandestine burial of a child's body in the basement bath-house. So, when news comes that the building must be moved to make way for a road-building project, more than one tenant waits...
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2010], c1998
Language
English
Description
"Lorraine Dancy has just discovered that everything she believes about her father is a lie-- starting with the fact that Thomas supposedly died years ago. Now she's learned that not only is he not dead, he's living in a small town south of the border. In the process of tracking him down, she manages to get framed for theft and pursued by the real thief, the police and a local crime boss. Her father's friend Jack Keller agrees to help her escape, although...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One frigid winter night, Mia and Michael Slate's comfortable world dissolves in an instant when they discover that their best friend has cheated them out of their life savings. At the same time, a few doors down, their teenaged son passes out in the snow at a party--a mistake whose consequences will shatter not just their family, but an entire community.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The PJ Masks must stop Night Ninja from stealing a magical ring hidden at the top of Mystery Mountain. Working together is the heroes' best option to stop Night Ninja from getting the ring and gaining more power. But is Catboy too busy racing ahead to help his friends?
Author
Language
English
Description
"On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian...
80) Hero dog!
Author
Series
Hilde cracks the case volume 1
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Hilde Lysiak is an aspiring reporter with her own newspaper, the Orange Street News, and she is investigating break-ins and missing baked goods--and with the help of Zeus, a little dog with a big bark, she intends to track down the thief who is trying to steal a win in the Bake-Off Bonanza, one of Selinsgrove's biggest events.
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