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English
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Two sisters go into the family business they didn't know they had--catching killers. Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There she makes two important discoveries: her father stopped being an accountant and had opened up a private detective agency, and she has a teenage half sister named Baby. Baby brings in a client to the detective agency, a young man who claims he was abducted. During...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Present two tales about the power of a good story to show life's possibilities, including "Tell Me Your Best Story," in which Anne sets off on a road trip to ask people, "What's your best story?," in an effort find what she's been missing in life.
Author
Series
A Doc Savage thriller volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prof. Brandt Savage--grandson of the legendary action hero--is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling...as the perfect assassin. Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, "Meed," is demanding. She's also his captor. Savage emerges...
4) Criss Cross
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 27
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse. 'You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.' Was an innocent man just put to death? Alex soon realizes he may have much to answer for, as 'M' lures the detective out of the capital to the sites of multiple homicides, all marked with...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Rafe Khatchadorian enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
Author
Series
House of robots volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When his underappreciated mechanical helpers cause chaos by going on strike while his mother is distracted by a secret project, Sammy and his disabled sister, Maddie, must keep the peace until the truth about the project can be revealed.
Author
Series
Middle school volume 7
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
301 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rafe returns to Hills Village Middle School where he attends "special classes," joins the football team, and starts a super-secret art project.
8) Expelled
Author
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Expelled after a compromising photograph is posted to his Twitter account, Will Foster is determined to find out who took the picture and why he and three other students were targeted.
Author
Series
House of robots volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
316 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifth grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez has to find a solution when his robot "brother" has repeated malfunctions at school and a newer model robot steps in as competition--and his mother's job is in jeopardy as a result.
10) House of robots
Author
Series
House of robots volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez struggles to fit in when his inventor mother requires him to take her latest creation, a robotic 'brother,' to school with him to learn to become a student.
11) Crazy house
Author
Series
Publisher
LIttle, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In a future world where teenagers are taken, imprisoned, and forced to fight for their survival, well-behaved Cassie will do whatever it takes to save her rebellious twin sister from Death Row.