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Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When his cat Koko develops an odd obsession, Jim Qwilleran will have to sniff out the cause in this mystery in the New York Times bestselling Cat Who series.
Having inherited millions, Jim Qwilleran and his two feline companions, Koko and Yum Yum, are preparing to settle down into a life of purrfect luxury in Pickax. That is, until the son of a rich banker and his wife are found murdered. To the police it looks like a robbery...
Having inherited millions, Jim Qwilleran and his two feline companions, Koko and Yum Yum, are preparing to settle down into a life of purrfect luxury in Pickax. That is, until the son of a rich banker and his wife are found murdered. To the police it looks like a robbery...
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Qwill rents Euphonia's Gage's mansion in Moose County, he and Koko soon discover closet after closet jammed with several generations of junk. Meanwhile, the mansion's former occupant is enjoying a new life in warm, sunny Florida. Or is she? Word soon comes that Euphonia is dead, an apparent suicide.
Why would someone so happy and full of life kill herself? And what is the connection between the Gage family and potato farmer Gil Inchpot, who...
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Jim Qwilleran, and two cats, Koko, and Yum Yum work as a team to investigate the murder case that happened in Pickax.
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
As the Highland Games approach, Jim Qwilleran and the citizens of Pickax prepare to celebrate their Scottish heritage. But the revelry is marred when a visiting jewelry dealer is found dead in his hotel room. His assistant is missing, and the winner of the caber-tossing contest disappears as well. Qwill has a lot of mysteries to sort out, including Koko's sudden interest in photos, pennies, and paper towels.
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
An accident has claimed the life of the local paper's eccentric publisher, but to Qwilleran and his feline friends it smells like murder. They soon sniff out a shocking secret, but the snooping of Koko the cat may prove disastrous.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Nellie Bly wasn't always Nellie Bly. First she was Elizabeth Cochrane, a shy girl from Cochran's Mill, Pennsylvania. All her life Elizabeth had been told, 'girls can't do this' and 'girls can't do that.' But Elizabeth didn't believe it ... so one day she set out to prove it ..."
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Born into slavery in 1862, Ida Bell Wells was freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865. Yet she could see just how unjust the world she was living in was. This drove her to become a journalist and activist. Throughout her life, she fought against prejudice and for equality for African Americans. Ida B. Wells would go on to co-own a newspaper, write several books, help cofound the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...
13) Ten days a madwoman: the daring life and turbulent times of the original "girl" reporter, Nellie Bly
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Nellie Bly, the pioneering journalist whose showy but substantive stunts skyrocketed her to fame"--
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Tarbell was the catalyst for exposing the truth behind corruption and unfair business practices. She investigated and published works about the Standard Oil Trust for McClure's Magazine that informed the world of shady business dealings and skyrocketed her into the public eye. She wrote inspiring and engaging biographies on public figures, her most notable on Abraham Lincoln. Although largely forgotten as the country forged into the 20th century,...
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