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Author
Series
Thursday Murder Club novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"It's rarely a quiet day for the Thursday Murder Club. Shocking news reaches them--an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters--as well as heartache close to home--Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim have no idea...
Author
Series
Hat trilogy (Jon Klassen) volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) col. ill. 29 cm.
Language
English
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A bear almost gives up his search for his missing hat until he remembers something important.
Author
Series
Hat trilogy (Jon Klassen) volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st ed.
Fountas & Pinnell
J
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tiny minnow wearing a pale blue bowler hat has a thing or two up his fins in this underwater light-on-dark chase scene.
Author
Series
Olivia books (Ian Falconer) volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her best toy mysteriously disappears, Olivia the feisty pig is determined to find out who is responsible.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Atheneum Books for Young Readers edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
An expanded version of the work with the same title and author: New York : Harper & Row, 1990. While spending the day in the Robinson household, Wilbur's best friend joins in the search for Grandfather Robinson's missing false teeth and meets one wacky relative after another.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Grace Healey is rebuilding her life after losing her husband during the war. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, she finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs, each of a different woman. In a moment of impulse, Grace takes the photographs and quickly leaves the station. Grace soon learns that the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Fountas & Pinnell
K
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 32 cm.
Language
English
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A trip to the laundromat leads to a momentous occasion when Trixie, too young to speak words, realizes that something important is missing and struggles to explain the problem to her father. Using a combination of muted black-and-white photographs and expressive illustrations, this book tells a true-to-life tale about what happens when Daddy's in charge and things go terribly, hilariously wrong.
In this special edition of Mo Willems's beloved and...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Andrew Peardew collects things dropped or left behind by others and writing stories about them. He does this as a tribute to the fianc©♭e who died the day he lost one of her keepsakes. When a dying Andrew bequeaths his estate to his assistant, Laura, she begins to bond with new neighbors while attempting to reunite the objects with their owners.
10) Chasing Augustus
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
During a rough year in which she was placed in the care of her prickly grandfather after her father suffered a stroke, Rosie embarks on a search for her missing dog after he is given away by her estranged mother.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Anne-Lise Briard books a room at the Beau Rivage Hotel for her vacation on the Brittany coast, she has no idea this trip will start her on the path to unearthing a mystery. In search of something to read, she opens up her bedside table drawer in her hotel room, and inside she finds an abandoned manuscript. Halfway through the pages, an address is written. She sends pages to the address, in hopes of potentially hearing a response from the unknown...
12) A dog's way home
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a car accident strands them at opposite ends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, eleven-year-old Abby and her beloved sheltie, Tam, overcome months filled with physical and emotional challenges to find their way back to each other.
Author
Series
Hat trilogy (Jon Klassen) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2011!
A picture-book delight by a rising talent tells a cumulative tale with a mischievous twist.
Features an audio read-along! The bear's hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, whether they have seen it. Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others. But just as the bear begins to despond, a deer
16) Adèle & Simon
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Adele walks her little brother Simon home from school he loses one more thing at every stop: his drawing of a cat at the grocer's shop, his books at the park, his crayons at the art museum, and more.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
221 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-olds Shirley and Jamila meet, Jamila is simply hoping for a friend in her new neighborhood but Shirley is a detective and together they seek a missing gecko.
18) Lost cat!
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One night, Fred the cat does not come home for dinner. This is not like him since he loves food! Even more than butterflies, naps, and cuddles. Where could he be? His sweet owner is worried. But there's something she doesn't know about Fred! The pictures tell the story of what Fred is really up to in this fantastical, funny, and out-of-this world adventure."--
20) Foulsham
Author
Series
Iremonger volume 2
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
325 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"At the Iremonger mansion, set in the trash heaps of an alternate Victorian London, Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger has found a way to make objects assume the shapes of people, and how to turn people into objects. Will outcast grandson Clod--transformed into a gold coin--and servant girl Lucy (now a discarded button) be found and returned to human form?"--
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