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Series:
Ali Cross volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Alex Cross' son, Ali, is eager to follow in his father's footsteps as a detective, but when his best friend goes missing, what price will he have to pay to solve the mystery?
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Series:
Area 51 files volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"When Sky Patel-Baum is sent to live with her mysterious uncle, she never imagines she'll end up i nArea 51, a top-secret military base with a bajillion rules. Sky feels like she's landed in a whole new world, even though she hasn't left the planet. Because gues what? Area 51 is full of aliens. Lots and lots of aliens. But somthing even stranger is happeing in Area 51: aliens are going missing. Where could they be? How come everyone thinks sky and...
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Series:
FunJungle volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo's star attraction--Henry the hippopotamus--is murdered.
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Series:
Book scavenger volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
Just after twelve-year-old Emily and her family move to San Francisco, she teams up with new friend James to follow clues in an odd book they find, hoping to figure out its secrets before the men who attacked Emily's hero, publisher Garrison Griswold, solve the mystery or come after the friends.
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Series:
The candymakers volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
When four twelve-year-olds, including Logan, who has grown up never leaving his parents' Life Is Sweet candy factory, compete in the Confectionary Association's annual contest, they unexpectedly become friends and uncover secrets about themselves during the process.
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Bubblegum shoes volume 1.
Description:
"When a stockpile of confiscated classroom items [goes] missing, (self-appointed) seventh grade PI Maya is on the case"--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for "The case of the missing marquess"
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Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
When Enola Holmes, sister to the detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared, she quickly embarks on a journey to London in search of her. But nothing can prepare her for what awaits. Because when she arrives, she finds herself involved in the kidnapping of a young marquess, fleeing murderous villains, and trying to elude her shrewd older brothers--all while attempting to piece together clues to her mother's strange disappearance....
Book cover for "The case of the missing moonstone"
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects"--
Book cover for "Chasing Vermeer"
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Series:
Chasing Vermeer volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
When strange and seemingly unrelated events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal. Includes extra material at the end of the book including biographical information, activities and thought-provoking questions.
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Series:
City spies volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Sara Martinez is facing years in the juvenile detention system for hacking into the foster care computer system to prove that her foster parents are crooks. But then she gets a second chance when a mysterious man offers her a chance to join a group of MI6 affiliated spies. "Sara Martinez is facing years in the juvenile detention system for hacking into the foster care computer system to prove that her foster parents are crooks. But then she gets...
Book cover for "The cookie crumbles"
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Cookie crumbles volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Laila gave Lucy a cupcake on the second day of kindergarten, and they've been inseparable ever since. But the summer before eighth grade, they find out that since they live on opposite sides of town, they'll go to different high schools. Yuck! Then Laila's invited to compete at the Golden Cookie competition, which awards its winner admission and a full ride to the prestigious Sunderland boarding school, and it's the perfect opportunity. Sunderland...
Book cover for "Curse of the Arctic Star"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Nancy, Bess, and George are on an Alaskan cruise when things start to go awry.
Book cover for "Disney after dark"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Thirteen-year-old Finn Whitman and four other young teens have been transformed into holgorams to be guides for visitors to Disney World. When Finn is unexpectedly transported to the Magic Kingdom in his hologram form, Wayne, an Imagineer, tells him that he and the other guides must save the park from the scheming witch Maleficent and the Overtakers. Thirteen-year-old Finn Whitman and four other young teens have been transformed into holgorams to...
Book cover for "The door in the alley"
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Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
A shy boy's life is sent spiraling into adventure after a fateful day when he discovers a pig in a small hat and returns it to its home at the mysterious Explorers Club.
Book cover for "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library"
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Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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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.
Book cover for "The Fenway foul-up"
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Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Cousins Mike and Kate are at Boston's Fenway Park when the Red Sox's star hitter discovers that his lucky baseball bat has been stolen.
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Thirteen-year-old twins Hope and Gordon enter a spelling bee in a last-ditch effort to save their family from financial ruin, only to find themselves in a cut-throat competition to uncover a fortune and dark secrets about the wealthy relations they have never known"--
Book cover for "Finally, something mysterious"
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Series:
One and Onlys volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
In a small California town during the summer between fifth and sixth grade, three children investigate when hundreds of rubber duckies show up in Mr. Babbage's backyard,

19. Fins

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Average Rating:
4 stars
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The world's shark population is in trouble for a sad, simple reason: shark fin soup. And although it's illegal, poachers have been targeting Florida's biannual migration of blacktip sharks. Marine biologist Doc Ford needs some assistance protecting the sharks and enlists the help of three kids, Luke, Marta, and Sabina. Together they form Sharks, Inc. and are given an important assignment: to set out each day on their small fishing boat in hopes of...

20. Flunked

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Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
When petty thief Gilly, who lives with five younger brothers and sisters in a run-down boot, gets caught stealing, she is sentenced to three months at Fairy Tale Reform School, where all of the teachers are former villains, including the Big Bad Wolf, theEvil Queen, and Cinderella's Wicked Stepmother.