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Mermaid tales volume 19
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
89 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Kiki and her friends learn about coding as they compete to be the escort for young narwhal who will visit Trident Academy with her famous parents. Includes glossary, key to the codes used, and information about safeguarding narwhals' habitats.
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Series
Explorer Academy volume 6
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Description
"Cruz Coronado grapples with an important secret as the gang heads to China in search of the second-to-last piece of the cipher. Under the watchful eye of a new adviser, life on the ship returns to almost normal...Almost. Just as things seem to be going smoothly, a familiar face shocks Cruz back into reality, and the final piece in this life-and-death scavenger hunt veers toward a dead end"--
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Series
Code Busters Club volume 1
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Using their code-breaking skills, four middle-schoolers solve the mystery of the eccentric man who draws stick figures on his second-floor bedroom window.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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"World War II has just ended, and Britain has established the Control Commission for Germany, which oversees their zone of occupation. The Control Commission hires British civilians to work in Germany, rebuild the shattered nation and prosecute war crimes. Somewhat aimless, bored with her job as a provincial schoolteacher, and unwilling to live with her overbearing mother any longer, twentysomething Edith Graham applies for a job with the Commission--but...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. Severely dyslexic and wanting to know more, he took it to his remedial English teacher Miss Iles, not realising the chain of events that he was setting in motion. Miss Iles became convinced that the book was the key to solving a puzzle, and that a message in secret code ran through all Twyford's...
10) Rescue
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657 days ago Meg's British father left their home in France to fight the Nazis, leaving some codes in a jar for her to decipher, and Meg and her French mother moved to the Perche, a region in France near Normandy known for its forests; now Meg watches the German soldiers in town, and sometimes carries messages for the French resistance--but suddenly things have gotten much more dangerous: there is a wounded British officer hiding in her grandmother's...
Author
Series
39 clues volume 1
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
220 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
"¿Qué pasaría si descubrieras que tu familia es una de las más poderosas de toda del historia de la humanidad? ¿Y si te dijeran que la fuente de poder de la familia está escondida por todo el mundo en forma de 39 pistas? ¿Y si, además, te dieran a elegir entre tener un millón de dolares... o conseguir la primera de las pistas? Si fueras Amy y Dan Cahill, ¡escogerías la pista y emperazarías una carrera muy peligrosa!" --From publisher's...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
"Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II--an experience Eva remembers well--and the search to reunite people...
13) Flashpoint
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Unstoppable volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
222 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. + 6 game cards.
Description
Amy and Dan Cahill have their final confrontation with twisted billionaire J. Rutherford Pierce, a man whose power has no limits and is one step away from being elected president.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol, una division de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
491 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Robert Langdon, profesor de simbología e iconografía religiosa de Harvard, llega al ultramoderno Museo Guggenheim Bilbao para presenciar un importante anuncio --la revelación de un descubrimiento que "cambiará la historia de la ciencia para siempre". El anfitrión del evento esa noche es Edmond Kirsch, un billonario y futurista de cuarenta años cuyos deslumbrantes inventos tecnológicos y audaces predicciones lo han convertido en una figura de...
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Series
Dante Club novels (Matthew Pearl) volume 2
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"The year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston, a man is found murdered in the public gardens of London with an enormous stone around his neck etched with a verse from the Divine Comedy. When more mysterious murders erupt across the city, all in the style of the punishments Dante memorialized in Purgatory, poet Christina Rossetti fears her brother, the Dante-obsessed artist and writer Gabriel Rossetti, will...
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Series
Book scavenger volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"Could the Mark Twain books hidden through Book Scavenger contain clues about the string of recent arson fires plaguing the city? And will Emily and James uncover the mystery before the arsonist comes after them?"--
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