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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived. Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH,...
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Stainless Steel Rat volume 3
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English
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Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly intelligent creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution to her dilemma. And Mrs. Frisby in turn renders them...
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Rats of NIMH volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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The further adventures of the intelligent young rat Racso and his friends Christopher and Isabella as they try to ensure the survival of their secret community in Thorn Valley after its accidental discovery by two human children.
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Helen Potter lived a happy life until she got lost in a nightmare of sexual abuse. Now she's on a journey, a journey which takes her through urban and rural England along the same path that another Potter, Beatrix Potter, once took. Across the decades, two lives touch, and Helen discovers that the strength of two is far greater than one. Bryan Talbot constructs a very special story in The Tale of One Bad Rat which immediately endears the reader. The...
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Stainless Steel Rat volume 9
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Slippery Jim diGriz, alias the Stainless Steel Rat, the galaxy's greatest thief and con artist, returns in his most devilish caper yet.
DiGriz is strenuously fighting boredom on a ritzy pleasure planet when his beloved wife disappears while vising the Temple of Eternal Truth, an enigmatic institution that promises its patrons a sneak peek at Heaven--for a price.
Determined to get his wife back, diGriz takes on the Temple. He thinks he's ready for...
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Slippery Jim DiGriz. The galaxy's greatest thief and con artist: the Stainless Steel Rat. For novel upon novel, Jim DiGriz has outfoxed the forces of conventionality, cutting a stylish swathe through dozens of star systems.
Now, Slippery Jim and his beautiful wife Angelina find themselves becalmed on a painfully boring backwater planet, with nothing to do but practice their skills at computer crime. Then they meet a billionaire who claims to be...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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After escaping from her scientist captors, Rat finds herself aboard a space station
When Rat—a lavender-colored, highly intelligent rat—escaped from her cage and found a hiding place in a nearby crate, she had no idea she’d be headed for the stars. A space station, she quickly discovers, is no place for a rat. It’s hard to find food amid the humans and robots aboard the craft, and even harder to move around undetected....
When Rat—a lavender-colored, highly intelligent rat—escaped from her cage and found a hiding place in a nearby crate, she had no idea she’d be headed for the stars. A space station, she quickly discovers, is no place for a rat. It’s hard to find food amid the humans and robots aboard the craft, and even harder to move around undetected....
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Secrets of a lab rat volume 1
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Fearless nine-year-old "Scab" McNally tries to get his twin sister's help in convincing their parents to let them get a dog, but when he embarrasses her in school with a particularly obnoxious invention, it looks like he has lost her cooperation forever.
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Taught by her drug-addict mother to get hers by any means necessary, Tionna's heart is cold, but she holds a warm place in it for Duhan, the father of her two sons, her on-again-off-again boyfriend since they were teenagers, her knight in shining armor. But with Dunham behind bars and everything she loves seized, she finds herself starting over in the same neighborhood that she swore she'd never return to. With her best friends, Gucci, Boots, and...
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Stainless Steel Rat volume 1
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English
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Here's the original short story that first introduced us to Slippery Jim diGriz, better known as the Stainless Steel Rat! diGriz is charming, quick-witted, sophisticated, and a devious criminal mastermind. The Rat has just pulled off a successful and complex criminal operation, but the Special Corps is on his trail. Is this the end for the Stainless Steel Rat or just the beginning? Join Slippery Jim on this rollicking adventure.
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After a ten-year absence, the return of one of the most enduring series characters in modern SF
James Bolivar "Slippery Jim" DiGriz, Special Corps agent, master con man, interstellar criminal (retired), is living high on the hog on the planet of Moolaplenty when a long-lost cousin and a shipful of swine arrive to drain his bank account and send him and his lovely wife, Angelina, wandering the stars on the wildest journey since Gulliver's Travels.
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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The new Rat Pack mystery
Bing Crosby wants to buy a horse to indulge his other passion—when he's not playing golf with Bob Hope, that is. But when his trainer fails to show up in Vegas, and when he finds the horse's owner dead, problems begin to mount up. Time for Eddie G and Jerry to come to the rescue, urged on by Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, in town to watch the start of Frank Junior's career. But soon the body count—and temperature—starts
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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A Rat Pack Mystery
When a rumour spreads that Frank Sinatra's ex-wife, Hollywood Goddess Ava Gardner, was seen in the Sands Hotel & Casino in a state of distress, sleuth Eddie G. is asked to check it out. Eddie tracks her down to LA, where he finds out that Ava's afraid she did something horrible...and it falls to Eddie to find out exactly what went down. But someone's after Ava who means her harm, and soon he's dodging bullets in Vegas in an
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It's time for Little Rat to start sailing lessons. But there's a BIG problem-she's afraid of water! She's scared she'll fall in, she's scared her boat will sink, and she's sure the other students will laugh at her.
Isn't it lucky, then, that Little Rat ends up with an instructor who helps her realize she is braver than she thinks?
17) Welfare Wifeys
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In the Frederick Douglass Housing Projects, the name of Jada Butler is synonymous with drama. But there is about to be a new contender to the throne of ghetto antics. Malika is a young, single mother trying to make a life in public housing. When she meets Teddy, she has new hope for the future. The only problem is, he's already married. Gucci's fiancé is now a rising star in the music industry. She's thrilled when his tour brings him to New York....
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Watkins Media
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Marius dos Hellespont and his apprentice, Gerd, are professional looters of battlefields. When they stumble upon the corpse of the King of Scorby and Gerd is killed, Marius is mistaken for the monarch by one of the dead soldiers, is transported down to the Kingdom of the Dead. The dead need a King—the King is God's representative, and someone needs to remind God where they are.
Marius is banished to the surface with one message: if he wants...
Marius is banished to the surface with one message: if he wants...
19) Eviction Notice
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From #1 Essence bestselling author K'wan comes the next installment in his bestselling Hood Rat series. Porsha, the ghetto princess; Boots, the scandalous baby mama; Frankie, a.k.a. Francine, the con artist: these three girls live in one apartment and are into all kinds of hood foolishness while having fun—until the day they find an eviction notice taped to their door. Now they have seventy-two hours to come up with all the money they owe in months...
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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1963 was a very bad year for Frank Sinatra, but the Rat Pack are always ready to give a helping hand.
Eddie Gianelli is helping a friend's wife get out from under a blackmailer when news comes through that JFK has been assassinated. Frank Sinatra was a close friend of JFK and the Rat Pack—including Eddie—rally round to give Frank moral support. Then comes the news that Sinatra's son, Frank Jr., has been kidnapped. Eddie continues
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