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2) Nightwork
Author
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...
Author
Series
Dragon masters volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
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Description
When Drake discovers that his friend and fellow Dragon Master, Bo, is trying to steal the Dragon Stone, he wonders if the dark wizard might be behind it, and he must try to find a way to protect the stone while keeping Bo's family out of danger.
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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) Hollow man
Author
Publisher
Seventh Street Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
Dominic is a prosecutor, a musician, and an Englishman living in Texas. He's also a psychopath.
Dominic is a prosecutor, a musician, and an Englishman living in Texas. He's also a psychopath. His main goal is to hide his condition and lead a seemingly normal life in hopes to pay off his debts and become a full-time musician in Austin's club scene. But on one lousy day his carefully-controlled world starts to shatter: he's demoted at work and accused...
Author
Series
Didi Dodo future spy volume 1
Publisher
ABRAMS, Inc
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.--
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 22
Kinsey Milhone mysteries volume 22
Thorndike Press large print basic
Kinsey Milhone volume Bk. 22
Kinsey Milhone mysteries volume 22
Thorndike Press large print basic
Kinsey Milhone volume Bk. 22
Language
English
Description
California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiancé, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.
8) Zoobreak
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2012
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.
Author
Series
Last magician volume 2
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
Esta thought the Book of Mysteries held the key to freeing the Mageus from the Order's grasp, but everything she knew about magic was a lie. Now the Book's power lives inside Harte, and he needs to be able to control it. To bind the power, Esta and Harte must track down four elemental stones scattered across the continent, but the Order isn't alone in its mission to crush them. In St. Louis, the World's Fair hides the first stone, but an old enemy...
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a diamond goes missing from the Louvre, it is up to nine-year-old Julieta to identify the thief, exonerate her father, and return home to Boston before her baby brother is born. Includes glossary of French and Spanish words and notes about the RegentDiamond, Athena, and works of art mentioned in the book.
Author
Series
All the wrong questions volume 1
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town called Stain'd By The Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a statue.
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Series
Map to everywhere volume 1
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
To Master Thief Fin, an orphan from the murky pirate world of the Khaznot Quay, the Map is the key to finding his mother. To suburban schoolgirl Marrill, it's her only way home after getting stranded on the Pirate Stream, the magical waterway that connects every world in creation. With the help of a bumbling wizard and his crew, they must scour the many worlds of the Pirate Stream to gather the pieces of the Map to Everywhere--but they aren't the...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"For the past few years, twelve-year-old Jonas and his friends have competed to see how many bags of candy they can grab from unsuspecting trick-or-treaters. No one's supposed to get hurt, just lose their treats. So Jonas is taken by surprise when one of his smaller targets fights back against his snatching attempt. He's even more surprised when he starts to receive anonymous notes from someone who knows what happened that night. Jonas already has...
14) Now you see me
Series
Now you see me volume 1
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An elite FBI squad is in a game of cat and mouse against The Four Horsemen, a super-team of the world's greatest illusionists. The Four Horsemen pull off a series of daring heists against corrupt business leaders during their performances, showering the stolen profits on their audiences while staying one step ahead of the law.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old Simon is ready to make the Tangerine Pines his forever home, but when a robbery occurs in the apartment building, he and his new friend set out to solve the case and keep his family from moving again.
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate...
Author
Series
FunJungle volume 8
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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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.
18) The dragon thief
Author
Series
Dragons in a bag volume 2
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this collection of two graphic novels, somebody has been eating Cyborg's sandwiches, but all the other Teen Titans protest their innocence, so Cyborg employs a high-tech security system to catch the culprit; in the second story Beast Boy, Robin, and Cyborg are playing mini-golf, but their competitive instincts get in the way of the game.
20) 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.