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1) Paperboy
Author
Language
English
Description
When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 29
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie use the magic tree house to travel back in time to 1947 Brooklyn, New York, where they pretend to be batboys at Jackie Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Four mysterious letters change Miranda's world forever. By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it's safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they know whom to avoid, like the crazy guy on the corner. But things start to unravel. Sal gets punched by a new kid for what seems like no reason, and he shuts Miranda out of his life. The apartment key that Miranda's mom...
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Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--Provided by publisher.
8) Little women
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
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Series
Encyclopedia Brown volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
191 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meeting at a video-game convention to try an exciting new underwater game only to be kidnapped by a pirate, Neil, Sam, and Biggs are forced to help their nefarious captor with her plans to destroy the world.
11) The Calder game
Author
Series
Chasing Vermeer volume 3
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.
12) Pollyanna
Author
Language
English
Description
When orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, her philosophy of gladness brings happiness to her aunt and other unhappy members of the community.
13) Eagle Strike
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 4
Language
English
Description
After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.
14) Keeping score
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Language
English
Description
In Brooklyn in 1951, a die-hard Giants fan teaches nine-year-old Maggie, who is a "Bums" (Dodgers) fan, how to use a technique to keep score of a baseball game which creates a special friendship between them.
Author
Series
Encyclopedia Brown volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
16) Fading echoes
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296, 34 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Dovepaw, Jayfeather, and Lionblaze strive to understand and fulfill the prophecy that promises them great power, the cats of the Dark Forest begin to teach battle skills and techniques to different Clan cats through dreams.
17) Who do you love?
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At bedtime a mother cat and her kitten Holly play the game "Who Do You Love?" and Holly describes everyone she loves and her reasons for doing so.
Author
Series
Horrible Harry volume 36
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
69 pages : illustrations ; 20-22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spurred on by the promise of a mystery prize, Harry and Doug are determined to win the most points on Field Day, but Harry's sneaky tactics annoy their competition, making the two boys targets for revenge.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Donald thinks nothing could be worse than missing a pop fly in a baseball game that most of his Montana town was watching, but through the end of 1947 and beginning of 1948, he suffers one humiliation after another.
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