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Brief text and illustrations trace the journey of a colorful train as it goes through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles. Caldecott Honor 1979 A description in text and pictures of the various cars included in a freight train, from engine to caboose. (Best Books for Children, 6th ed.)
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Judy Moody volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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When a puppy who is being trained as a police dog goes missing, third-grader Judy forms a detective agency to solve the mystery, imitating her literary heroine, Nancy Drew.
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English
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"In 1927, as Natalia Faber travels from Berlin to Prague with her mother, their train is delayed in Saxon Switzerland. In the brief time the train is idle, Natalia learns the truth about her father - who she believed died during her infancy - and meets a remarkable woman named Dr. Magdalena Schaeffer, whose family will become a significant part of her future. Shaken by these events, Natalia arrives at a spa on the shore of Lake Hévíz in Hungary....
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English
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"They live in the shadows, Jack and Jill, feuding twins who can never stop running. From earliest memory they've been taught to hide, to hunt, to survive. Their prowess is outdone only by Clare, who has always been mentor first and mother second. She trained them in the art of espionage, tested their skills in weaponry, surveillance, and sabotage, and sharpened their minds with nerve-wracking psychological games. As they grew older they came to question...
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Zig and Nola novels volume 1
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English
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"Who is Nola Brown? Nola is a mystery Nola is trouble. And Nola is supposed to be dead. Her body was found on a plane that mysteriously fell from the sky as it left a secret military base in the Alaskan wilderness. Her commanding officer verifies she's dead. The US government confirms it. But Jim "Zig" Zigarowski has just found out the truth: Nola is still alive. And on the run. Zig works at Dover Air Force Base, helping put to rest the bodies of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Jack and the Lady take the train West to visit a dude ranch. One night, there's a bank robbery next door, and Jack is pegged as the bandit. But thanks to Jack's new rope tricks, the real robber is caught, and Jack leaves the Wild West a free rabbit with a big secret.
9) The recruit
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Simon Pulse
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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James is recruited into CHERUB, a secret division of MI5 which consists of teenage spies. He successfully completes his training and goes on his first mission.
10) Sleep train
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Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After climbing into bed with his book, a little boy goes on a bedtime adventure as he counts the train cars between the engine and the caboose.
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Spy school volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Thirteen-year-old spy in training Ben Ripley is sent to Mexico to try to thwart the evil organization, SPYDER--the CIA's main enemy.
12) Blood kiss
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English
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"Paradise, blooded daughter of the king's First Advisor, is ready to break free from the restrictive life of an aristocratic female. Her strategy? Join the Black Dagger Brotherhood's training center program and learn to fight for herself, think for herself, and be herself. It's a good plan, until everything goes wrong. The schooling is unfathomably difficult, the other recruits feel more like enemies than allies, and it's very clear that the Brother...
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English
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Harrison Beck is reluctantly joining his travel-writer Uncle Nat for the last journey of the royal train, The Highland Falcon. But as the train makes its way to Scotland, a priceless brooch goes missing, and things suddenly get a lot more interesting. As suspicions and accusations run high among the passengers, Harrison begins to investigate and uncovers a few surprises along the way. Can he solve the mystery of the jewel thief and catch the culprit...
17) Shadow wave
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Series
CHERUB novels volume 12
Publisher
Hachette Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
Description
James is recruited into CHERUB, a secret division of MI5 which consists of teenage spies. He successfully completes his training and goes on his first mission.
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2014?]
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English
Description
Four-year-old Daniel Tiger invites young viewers directly into his world, giving them a kid's eye view of his life and making them feel like one of his neighbors. Episodes include: Prince Wednesday Goes to the Potty; Daniel Goes to the Potty; Daniel Visits School; Daniel Visits the Doctor; Daniel Shares his Tigertastic Car; and more.
19) Walter's wheels
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Publisher
Blue Manatee Press
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
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"Join Walter the cat as he goes on an imaginative adventure, exploring things that go: cars, trucks, trains and more!"--cover p. 4.
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Crimebiters! volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
Description
Bored by the lack of crime in Quietville lately, Jimmy's vampire dog, Abby, has chewed up his mother's entire shoe collection, and so his parents have insisted in enrolling Abby in obedience training, and the longer it goes on the more "normal" (and boring) she becomes--but when mysterious things start happening to Jimmy's lacrosse team, he and his friends (the Crimebiters) realize they need to get Abby back to her crime fighting ways.