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Series
Ruby Redfort volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Ruby Redfort is an undercover agent and genius codebreaker.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
126 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Jack Lime solves problems for his fellow Iona High students. Sometimes he falls for the dames who hire him, sometimes he falls in the river and sometimes he falls asleep (he's narcoleptic). But rest assured that whether he's tracking down a missing banana-seat bike or a kidnapped hamster, Lime will follow every lead.
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English
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"Brian has always been anxious, whether at home or in class or on the basketball court. His dad tries to get him to stand up for himself, and his mom helps as much as she can, but after he and his brother are placed into foster care, Brian starts having panic attacks. And he doesn't know if things will ever be 'normal' again ... Ezra's always been popular. He's friends with most of the kids on his basketball team--even Brian, who usually keeps to...
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Series
Mr. Terupt volume 3
Language
English
Description
"The kids from Mr. Terupt's fifth- and sixth-grade classes are entering their first year of junior high school. There's a lot to be excited about, but there are new challenges, too. Everyone is missing Mr. Terupt. When a fight threatens to break up the group forever, they think their favorite teacher is the only one who can help them. But the kids soon find out that it's Mr. Terupt who needs saving"--
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English
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The third-greatest tragedy in Gideon Green's life: he doesn't live in a film noir. The second: being stuck in high school for 408 more days. The first? Well, it's not important. When Lily shows up at Gideon's door, it's just like all his old detective movies. She's investigating a story for the school newspaper, and has hit a wall. Now he has a case, and a chance to prove to his classmates and his dad that he has what it takes to be a detective. But...
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English
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Jarli Durras likes to think he's an honest guy. He developed The Truth App, a mobile application that listens in on your conversations and can tell when someone is lying. Then his app goes viral and Jarli is an internet sensation. But being famous can be dangerous-- especially when you've just exposed everyone's deepest, darkest secrets. Kids at school, teachers, the police, even his own family-- everyone is out to get him. Including an underground...
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Series
Pippa Park volume 1
Language
English
Description
Life is full of great expectations for Korean American Pippa Park. It seems like everyone, from her family to the other kids at school, has a plan for how her life should look. So when Pippa gets a mysterious basketball scholarship to Lakeview Private, she jumps at the chance to reinvent herself by following the "Rules of Cool." At Lakeview, Pippa juggles old and new friends, an unrequited crush, and the pressure to perform academically and athletically...
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Series
Pippa Park volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Korean American Pippa Park picks up right where she left off . . . trying to balance basketball, school, friends, working at the struggling family laundromat, and fitting in. Eliot, her math tutor--and the cutest boy at school--is finally paying attention to her. And Marvel--her childhood friend--is making her required volunteering much more interesting. But things with the Royals, her new friends and teammates who rule the school, still feel a bit...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Bảo Nguye̋n would describe himself as steady and strong: his grades are average, his social status unremarkable. He works at his parents' phở restaurant - as his parents' fifth favorite employee. Linh Mai would describe herself as a firecracker: stable when unlit, but full of potential for joy and fire. She dreams of pursuing a career in art, while working practically full-time at her family's phở restaurant. Bao and Linh have never even had...
10) Goodbye stranger
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English
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Bridge is an accident survivor who's wondering why she's still alive. Emily has new curves and an almost-boyfriend who wants a certain kind of picture. Tabitha sees through everybody's games -- or so she tells the world. The three girls are best friends with one rule: No fighting. Can it get them through seventh grade?... This year everything is different for Sherm Russo as he gets to know Bridge Barsamian. What does it mean to fall for a girl --...
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Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the events surrounding the 1957 photograph taken by Will Counts that captured one of nine African-American students trying to enter an Arkansas high school while being taunted by an angry white mob and discusses how the photo brought the civil rights movement to the forefront of the nation's attention.
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