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Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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11-year-old Nate Wright steps up to the plate! In this collection of comics from The New York Times best-selling series, everyone's favorite sixth-grade prankster takes a swing at entrepreneurship with a "Free Cold Water" stand, campaigns against Social Studies as Class President, and breaks out of a batting slump. While Nate's big ideas aren't always grand slams, he and his friends can turn any day into a win.
Based on cartoonist Lincoln...
Based on cartoonist Lincoln...
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English
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There is nothing more depressing for a middle-aged lovelorn woman with bald patches on her head than to find herself in an English seaside resort out of season. Agatha Raisin, her hair falling out after a run-in with a hairdresser-cum-murderess from a previous investigation, travels to an old-fashioned hotel in order to repair the damage away from the neighbors in her all-too-cozy Cotswolds village. Unhappy about the slow results and prompted by the...
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"Lillian and Madison were unlikely, yet inseparable friends at their boarding school. Then Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal, and they have barely spoken since. Years later, Lillian gets a letter from Madison pleading for her help. Madison's twin stepkids are moving in, and she wants Lillian to be their caretaker. However, there's a catch: the twins spontaneously combust when they get agitated. Lillian is convinced...
24) Dinosaur Boy
Author
Series
Dinosaur boy volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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A laugh-out-loud, quirky new middle grade series that looks at bullying in an entirely new and inventive way.
Sawyer's grandfather was part Stegosaurus, so it wasn't a complete surprise when puberty included growing spikes and a tail. But when the kids who bully him at school go missing it's up to Sawyer and his friends, Elliott and Sylvie, to solve the mystery!
Despite the Principal's Zero Tolerance
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Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Leave it to Big Nate to stake his claim on anything in reach!
Aspiring cartoonist Nate Wright is the star of Big Nate, the daily and Sunday comic strip. As a popular middle-grade book character, Nate is 11 years old, four-and-a-half feet tall, and the all-time record holder for detentions in school history. He's a self-described genius and sixth grade Renaissance Man. Nate, who lives with his dad and older sister, enjoys pestering his
...26) Game On!
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Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
To sixth-grader Nate Wright, life is one big game. So when he suits up for any sport, he does it with an unmistakable swagger. From fine-tuning his trash-talking skills on the basketball court to his cocky 'tude in the soccer goal, Nate can be a bigger challenge to his teammates than their opponents.
A bonus pull-out poster is also included.
27) Curious minds
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Series
Knight and Moon novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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"A brand-new series introducing a fun and entertaining crime-solving team with great romantic chemistry--fiesty financial analyst Riley Moon and eccentric savant Emerson Knight. Riley Moon is a junior analyst at a mega-bank, when she uncovers what looks like an embezzlement scheme that could lead straight to the top. With his gold gone missing and analysts disappearing, famously eccentric Emerson Knight, the bank's biggest client, decides to take...
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Series
Mercy Watson volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Fountas & Pinnell
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Language
English
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After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.
29) Hug It Out!
Author
Series
Big Nate comix volume 4
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Sixth grade is no picnic for Nate Wright. His pal Francis won't stop bombarding him with useless trivia. A wild pitch knocks him out of a ballgame and into the emergency room. And the only thing standing between Nate and summer school is a study session with the worst possible tutor: his too-obnoxious-for-words arch enemy, Gina. But a chance encounter on an amusement park ride could change everything.
Meanwhile, the troubles are piling up in...
Meanwhile, the troubles are piling up in...
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Series
Grandma Dowdel volume Book 2
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
32) Neville
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English
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When a boy and his family move to a new house, he devises an ingenious way to meet people in the neighborhood.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Where else can you learn a valuable lesson from a Frosted Flakes prize winner whose winnings are about to destroy his family? Humorous and insightful stories run the gamut of themes in a fiction collection that features John Grisham's response to a major typo, a school principal bent on erasing arithmetic from the curriculum.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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A razor-sharp tale of two couples, two marriages, a bar, and a San Francisco start-up from a best-selling, award-winning novelist. This is a story about two marriages. Or is it? It begins with a wedding, held in the small San Francisco forest of Bottle Grove--bestowed by a wealthy patron for the public good, back when people did such things. Here is a cross section of lives, a stretch of urban green where ritzy guests, lustful teenagers, drunken revelers,...
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Dragons love tacos volume 1
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English
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Explores the love dragons have for tacos, and the dangers of feeding them anything with spicy salsa!
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English
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At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in northern California. "How much is on hand, would you say?" he asked the teller. "I'll want it all." "You're robbing me?" "Not you," Boyd replied, revealing a Temptation .38 Special. Angie Bing, the teller, scraped together $81,000. Boyd stuffed the cash into a paper grocery bag. "I'm sorry about this," he said, "but I'll have to ask you to take a ride...
37) Sophie's squash
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Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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A young girl befriends a squash.
38) Freckle juice
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Language
English
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Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents.
40) Beach read
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next...
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