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Author
Series
Applewhites volume 2
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Language
English
Description
Changes are in store for the creative and eccentric Applewhite family when money problems force them to open a summer camp for gifted children, who immediately begin to rebel, while a mysterious interloper watches from the woods.
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 5
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Four lucky kids go on a scavenger hunt inside Mr. Lemoncello's Gameworks factory, where they compete for a chance to win a titanium ticket"--
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 8
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
It's possible police captain Leland Stottlemeyer is using the latest round of budget cuts as an excuse to cut Monk loose. But Monk is much too compulsive to stop investigating, even without pay. Soon he's calling in tips under assumed names to help solve cases.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Steel Magnolias" meets "The Help" in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom. Laugh-out-loud funny, Hoffman's charming work offers the story of a young girl who loses one mother and finds many others.
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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Newly reissued as a Picador Modern Classic, Marilynne Robinson's brilliant, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning first novel Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake...
Author
Series
Agatha girl of mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Agatha Mistery, a twelve-year-old detective with a photographic memory, travels to Egypt, where rumors of a mysterious tablet unearthed in the Valley of the Kings may be just the clue that she needs to unlock the secret curse of an ancient pharaoh.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
More compulsive, page-turning fun in this all-new, original mystery starring Monk, the popular TV detective.
Author
Series
Agatha girl of mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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
Series
Berrybender Narratives volume Bks. 1-4
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A single-volume anthology of the epic story of the Berrybender pioneer family follows the relocation of British aristocrats Lord and Lady Berrybender to 1830 Texas, where their idealistic plans are shaped by their daughter's relationship with frontiersman Jim Snow.
55) Electric blue
Author
Series
Jane Kelly mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Apprentice private investigator Jane Kelly becomes caught up in a web of greed, mental illness, deception, betrayal, and lies when Orchid, the elderly, slightly dotty matriarch of Lake Chinook's wealthy Purcell family, is murdered in the midst of Jane's efforts to convince her to give up control of the family fortune.
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to keep his comrades as young and spritely as ever, Foggy setup a training course to get Compo and Clegg in shape, but, as usual, safety isn₂t his first concern. When the trio gets a grill from Auntie Wainwrights, they have a barbecue like never before. Foggy, ever the inspired inventor, comes up with the idea to create bicycle safety underwear and, later in the season, a three man windsurfing sailboard. Finally, in the Christmas special,...
58) Sin killer
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Journeying up the Missouri River in 1830, the wealthy Berrybenders encounter the challenges of the untamed American West before Tasmin Berrybender falls in love with frontiersman and part-time preacher Jim Snow.
59) Pillage
Author
Series
Pillage trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Upon his mother's death, fifteen-year-old Beck Phillips is sent to live with an eccentric uncle he had never met in a remote manor house, where he learns that his family suffers from a curse that allows him to make plants grow on command and dragon eggs hatch.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Hoping to keep his comrades as young and spritely as ever, Foggy sets up a training course to get Compo and Clegg in shape, but, as usual, safety isn't his first concern. When the trio gets a grill from Auntie Wainwrights, they have a barbecue like never before. Foggy, ever the inspired inventor, comes up with the idea to create bicycle safety underwear and, later in the season, a three man windsurfing sailboard. Finally, in the Christmas special,...
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