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Series
Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 6
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Elmer Kelton, author of more than 40 Western adventures, has won an unprecedented seven Spur Awards. Jericho's Road follows the perilous trail of young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard, who has been assigned to control feuding ranchers on each side of the Mexico-Texas border. Caught in the middle of a potential bloodbath, Andy is determined to find a peaceful way to end the conflict.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
One day, Mac (smartest boy in his class in a small town in California) receives a telephone call from the Queen of England, recruiting him to find the crown jewels (well, actually just the Coronation Spoon) and so Mac embarks on his first adventure as a secret agent--with the assurance that the Queen will give him a note excusing him from school.
5) Framed
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Griffin Bing is in big trouble when a Super Bowl ring disappears from his middle school's display case, replaced by Griffin's retainer, and the more he and his friends investigate, the worse his situation becomes.
Author
Series
Didi Dodo future spy volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
When Koko Dodo's secret chocolate sauce is stolen just before an important cooking contest Didi, a dodo bird, devises a daring plan to help--whether he wants her to or not.--
7) Zoobreak
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
After a class trip to a floating zoo where animals are mistreated and Savannah's missing pet monkey is found in a cage, Long Island sixth-grader Griffin Bing and his band of misfits plan a rescue.
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Series
Hopalong Cassidy novels volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
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Description
Hopalong Cassidy finds his friend Rod Connors shot and left for dead by rustlers. Jack Bolt, a ruthless killer, has brought a rough band of hard cases to run his operation and to take care of Hopalong, the man who stands in his way.
Author
Series
FunJungle volume 8
Language
English
Description
While visiting his girlfriend Summer in Malibu, Teddy stumbles upon two mysteries involving a blown up whale explosion and a string of beach sand thefts, but his investigation is sidetracked by a rumor that his girlfriend is dating a celebrity, leading him to question their relationship.
12) The dragon thief
Author
Series
Dragons in a bag volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Told in two voices, Jax and Kavita, Kavita's brother Vik, and new friend Kenny try to return the baby dragon to the realm of magic before anything else goes wrong.
13) The fourth ruby
Author
Series
Section 13 volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Jack Buckles, a thirteenth-generation tracker whose senses are on the fritz, and Gwen Kincaid, a clerk hoping to become an apprentice quartermaster, are framed for stealing a legendary jewel--one of a set of rubies thought to bring the owner loyalty, knowledge, and power--and they must locate the remaining rubies before the thief does or risk his unleashing a reign of terror worse than Genghis Khan's.
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Series
Language
English
Description
There is a legend that if the ravens at the Tower of London ever leave then Britain will fall, so when somebody steals the birds, the Queen calls for Mac B. to find the thief and retrieve them--a mission that takes him to Iceland, where he encounters secret submarines, hungry polar bears, and his arch-nemesis from the KGB.
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Series
Misfits volume 1
Language
English
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Description
An elite group of underdogs trained to fight crime must save their unique school from shutting down.
16) Flying high
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Something strange has happened to the birds of Gotham City. The Penguin has enlisted his fine feathered friends to distract the DC Super Friends while he swoops in and plucks Gotham's biggest bank clean.
17) Nightwork
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago--but kept up his nightwork. Wandering from the Outer Banks to Savannah to New Orleans, he dons new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. He can't afford to attract attention--or get attached. Still, he...
18) Ben rides on
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Ben rides his new bicycle the very, very long way to school but Adrian Underbite, perhaps the world's largest third-grader, takes the bike anyway and later, when Ben finds Adrian in trouble, he must decide whether or not to help the larcenous bully.
19) Get that pest!
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When a farmer and his wife discover that something is stealing the eggs laid by their ten red hens, they set up elaborate traps to catch the thief.
Author
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon.
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