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Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 6
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kyle participates in the last of Mr. Lemoncello's fantabulous games with the hopes of winning ownership of the entire Lemoncello empire.
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Series
Applewhites volume 1
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Description
Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.
4) Iceland
Author
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Iceland begins with Paul arriving at a mysterious Institute to pick out - on doctor's orders - a new internal organ. There he meets Emily, a young, bikini-clad woman hired to stimulate the organs preserved in a nutrient-enhanced swimming pool, and falls in love amidst a flurry of chlorine and kick-boards. In Jim Krusoe's world, this is about as simple as life gets.".
"Paul's brief interlude with Emily sets the course for his extraordinary adventures,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket for a tour of Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his or her own way.
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Series
Pine Island volume 2
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
vii, 278 pages ; 22 cm
Description
The McCready sisters have just settled into their new home on Pine Island when they get word that an unwelcome houseguest is coming to visit for months.
8) Stargirl
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
186 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
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Series
Origami Yoda books volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
190 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
McQuarrie Middle School's students miss Origami Yoda when Dwight leaves for Tippett Academy, but he sends Sara a paper Fortune Wookiee that seems to give advice just as good as Yoda's--even if, in the hands of girls, it seems preoccupied with romance.
10) Tasmania
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Series
Publisher
TusQuets (Editorial Planeta Mexicana)
Pub. Date
octubre de 2023.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"En noviembre de 2015, el narrador, un periodista de formación científica, ha acudido a París para cubrir una cumbre sobre el clima pocos días después de los atentados yihadistas. La crisis que planea en el sombrío ambiente de la ciudad parece un espejo de una crisis más íntima: la que atraviesa la relación que mantiene con su compañera, Lorenza. Y en busca de un sentido a todo lo que está viviendo, a sus miedos y a sus dudas, mientras...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Ten-year-old Jane Doe, the only student average enough to be excluded from the town of Remarkable's School for the Remarkably Gifted, is joined at her public school by the trouble-making Grimlet twins, who lead her on a series of adventures involving an out-of-control science fair project, a pirate captain on the run from a mutinous crew, a lonely dentist, and a newly constructed bell tower that endangers Remarkable's most beloved inhabitant--a skittish...
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"Art historian, Elizabeth Clarke, is sent to a remote island in Southern Greece to acquire a rare female nude sculpture for a Los Angeles collection. Disoriented by time zones, migraines, and suspicious details surrounding the figure's discovery, she's dependent on her flirtatious but guileless translator. The last thing she expects is to be so pulled to his wife, Theo, a subversive artist who has amassed a small following for her provocative self-portraits,...
13) Pine Island home
Author
Series
Pine Island volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Orphaned and alone, the four McCready sisters, aged eight to fourteen, move to a house off the coast of British Columbia left them by their great aunt, and get by with the help of neighbors.
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Description
For years, 12-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille--the tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town. But when Camille is hit by a truck and killed, CeeCee is left to fend for herself. To the rescue comes her previously unknown great-aunt from Savannah, Tootie Caldwell, who whirls CeeCee into her world of female friendship, strong women, wacky humor, and good old-fashioned heart.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
124 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Armed with a photographic memory, twelve-year-old detective Agatha Mistery heads to India to assist her uncle Raymond--a wildlife photographer and a snake charmer--on a mission to find the famous Pearl of Bengal, an ancient artifact that was stolen from the temple of the Hindu goddess Kali.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
In 1925, Henry Stuart leaves his home and grown sons in Idaho to move to the woods on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, Alabama, where he builds a round house and lives for more than two decades on the property he names after Leo Tolstoy.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 4
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Now that her ne'er-do-well husband has been arrested for murder, Monk's former assistant, Sharona, is ready to reclaim her place in Monk's extremely well-ordered life. But his current assistant, Natalie, is not pleased with this turn of events. While Monk tries to maintain a delicate balance between the two women, he discovers a few snags in the case against Sharona's husband. And with other murders to investigate, Monk realizes he may be up against...
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
xiv, 347 p. ; 25 cm.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 7
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
viii, 277 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
On a trip to France, Monk takes a tour through the historic underground world of the Parisian sewers and encounters a catacomb filled with ancient human remains--and one much more recent skull.
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