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Cat Who mysteries volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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The people of Moose County prepare to celebrate the gala groundbreaking of a bookstore to replace one that burned down. But on the very same day, the body of a man shot execution style is discovered in a nearby wooded area. Now columnist James Qwill and his clever cats have their work cut out for them.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian uncles and cousin live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and anti-immigration sentiment is strong, so despite his attempts to be polite and to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at every turn.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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With his companion Polly in Paris, Qwill keeps himself occupied by writing an absurdist play called "The Cat Who Got Elected Dog Catcher." Meanwhile, things are spicing up in Pickax. Huge inheritances from old families are suddenly and mysteriously pouring in to town, but nobody is quite sure why. Except Koko, that is- -and she's not telling. Then things get really interesting when one resident drops dead from an apparent bee sting. Can Qwill...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
When fourteen-year-old Katie and her older sister, Michaela, move from New York City to upstate New York, Katie is horrified by the country life-style but is even more shocked when her sister adapts effortlessly, enjoying their new life, unlike Katie.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Heartbroken over the tragic death of her fiancé, seventeen-year-old Zora Stewart leaves
Baltimore for the frontier town of West Glory, Oklahoma, to help her young widowed
aunt keep her homestead going. There she discovers that she possesses the astonishing
ability to sense water under the parched earth. When her aunt hires her out as a
"springsweet" to advise other settlers where to dig their wells, Zora feels the burden of
holding the key to...
Author
Publisher
August House Publishers
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A boy's diary chronicling the life of a rural North Carolina family in the 1910s. He writes about everyday things interspersed with news of the period: the invention of cars and planes, revolution in Nicaragua and the building of the Panama Canal. By the author of Listening for the Crack of Dawn.
10) Lizard love
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Grace, a teenager, and her mother have moved to Manhattan where she feels alienated and out of place, far from the ponds and farm where she grew up playing with bullfrogs and lizards, until she finds Fang & Claw, a reptile store, and meets the owner's son, Walter.
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