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Author
Series
Harry Bosch volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating the shooting death of a Chinese liquor store owner, detective Harry Bosch identifies a suspect as a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad only to have his daughter go missing, a situation that prompts his high-stakes search across the Pacific.
23) Lon Po Po
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
unp.
Language
English
Description
Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as their grandmother, in this version of Little Red Riding Hood.
Author
Series
Cotton Malone volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Receiving an anonymous note containing an unfamiliar web address, former government operative Cotton Malone logs on to discover Cassiopeia Vitt being tortured by a mysterious perpetrator who orders Cotton to deliver an unknown object.
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
116 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a call for assistance from his old friend Professor von Volt, Geronimo Stilton--adventure writer and editor of "The Rodent's Gazette"--travels to Mouse Everest and finds himself kidnapped by a yeti.
Author
Series
Treasure hunters volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"The Kidd children--including twelve-year-old twins Rebecca and Bickford--follow mysterious clues that take them from China to Germany, in the hopes of finding their missing father and the treasure that will finally free their kidnapped mother"--
28) Above all things
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
385 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the life and mysterious fate of George Mallory traces the experiences of his wife, Ruth, who in 1924 maintains a hopeful vigil in war-ravaged England during Mallory's fateful third expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
ix, 259 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While racing through the Gobi Desert in China and Mongolia, the author, a seasoned ultramarathoner, encounters a stray dog who, keeping pace with him for nearly 80 miles, gives him a new perspective on life, causing him to fight to bring her home with him with the help of strangers and a viral outpouring of assistance on the internet.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
544 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin set sail aboard the Diane for the South China Sea, shepherding a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes. If their mission fails, English merchant shipping in the area will be threatened. At the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang, the stage is set for a duel of intelligence agents, pitting the savage cunning of Stephen Maturin against the French envoys-who are already entrenched...
Author
Publisher
Tommy Nelson, a division of Thomas Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
190 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of Gobi, a lost dog who joined ultramaration runner Dion Leonard in an eighty-mile race, forging a lasting bond between dog and man that saw Leonard returning to the Gobi desert to bring Gobi home.