C. J. Critt
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Anastasia Krupnik volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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Anastasia's tenth year has some good things like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother and some bad things like finding out about an impending baby brother.
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2021.
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Whether you're settling in for a heaping plate of banana pudding or arepas and tostones, a good meal can always bring families together. Once a year, on a Friday night, My family leaves the city And drives hours and hours . . . First my family drives through the mountains to stop at Mamaw and Papaw's house in rural West Virginia. We share blueberry jam and toast for breakfast the next morning, then munch cookies and cut bananas to make banana pudding...
43) Platypuses
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2021.
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Platypuses are some of the worlds weirdest mammals! They may look strange, but their duck bills and flat bodies help them thrive in the wetlands. These are just a few of the many adaptations explored in this leveled title for young readers. Alongside the text are bright photos and special features that highlight the animals range, physical adaptations, and diet. Readers will come away with a new understanding of fascinating platypuses!
45) Sand sharks
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Pub. Date
2009.
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When Judge Deborah Knott travels to WrightsvilleBeach for a summer conference for North Carolina District Court Judges, she stumbles upon the body of one of her colleagues. Meanwhile, Deborah's husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, is in Virginia with his son, tying up loose ends left by the death of his first wife. When another judge is found murdered at the conference, it soon becomes evident that Deborah may be the killer's next target. Her...
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It's Christmastime in Jubilee, Texas, but Lissette Moncrief is having a hard time celebrating ..." Especially after she accidentally smashes her car into Rafferty Jones's pick-up truck. Yes, he's a whole lot of handsome--from the tips of his boots to the top of his Stetson. But he's no Christmas present. Lissy's not about to let herself get whisked away by his charming ways and words ... only to watch him drive away in the end. But what Lissy doesn't...
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Pub. Date
c1993
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Picking up where her modern classic The Bean Trees left off, Barbara Kingsolver's bestselling Pigs in Heaven continues the tale of Turtle and Taylor Greer, a Native American girl and her adoptive mother who have settled in Tucson, Arizona, as they both try to overcome their difficult pasts. Taking place three years after The Bean Trees, Taylor is now dating a musician named Jax and has officially adopted Turtle. But when a lawyer for the Cherokee...
48) High five
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
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Find out why Stephanie Plum's racy, in-your-face New Jersey adventures are attracting a growing number of fans. Join America's favorite bounty hunter as she scrambles to make an honest living, keep her family happy, and find true love. Desperate for money, Stephanie is trying to apprehend a surly "little person" when a call from her mother pulls her back to the Burg. Seventy-two-year-old Uncle Fred is missing, and the family is counting on Stephanie...
49) Fault lines
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When her daughter runs away to her aunt in California, Merritt Fowler of Georgia takes a plane to bring her back, the trip a welcome change from a demanding husband and an equally demanding mother-in-law who is suffering from Alzheimer's. The scene is set for a steamy romance during an earthquake.
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Pen /Hemingway Award-winning novelist Jane Hamilton follows up her first success, The Book Of Ruth, with this spectacularly haunting drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives. Praised by reviewers for its intimate portrayal of the minds of its characters, a novel by the author of The Book of Ruth chronicles one family's decay through guilt and betrayal. Reprint. K. PW.
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[1993]
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Deborah Knott, an attorney in Colleton County, North Carolina, is asked to investigate an unsolved murder that happened eighteen years ago.
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The author of so many spectacularly successful mystery novels featuring the inimitable Stephanie Plum, #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich displays a more playfully romantic side with The Rocky Road to Romance. Evanovich delights with a classic, pre-Plum contemporary romance novel that's sure to please-a lighthearted tale of three-way love affair involving a radio "dog lady"-turned-traffic reporter, her handsome program director,...
54) Slow dollar
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 9
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For Judge Knott, the case before her seems to be an ordinary misdemeanor--except that the personal property that's been destroyed is an inflatable carnival ride. When the carnival comes to her own town a few weeks later, Deborah soon discovers there's nothing ordinary about this rag-tag collection of rides and games.
55) Legend
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Pub. Date
[1996]
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An antique wedding dress takes Kady back to 1873 and Legend, Colorado where she saves a man from a hanging and in the process falls in love with him.
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 4
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[1996]
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A few days after Dallas Stancil refuses to sell his land to a speculator, his stepson and wife murder him. Then, Dallas's peripatetic cousin Allen, the devil from Deborah's past, comes to town. Several days later, Dallas's father, Jap, is killed just before he can divide the property between Merrilee Grimes, his late wife's niece, and Allen. So who killed Jap, and who gets the Stancil land?Dallas's widow? Allen? Merrilee and her husband, Pete? Billy...
57) Uncommon clay
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The famous Nordan family, who live in an area of North Carolina known for its pottery, is being torn apart by a traumatic and bitter divorce. Judge Deborah Knotts oversees distribution of the marital property, but her work is interrupted by a tragic death in the family reminiscent of a terrible suicide two years earlier.
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
When she receives word that Paolina, the fourteen-year-old girl with whom she had been paired in a Boston mentoring program, has vanished, private detective Carlotta Carlyle embarks on her own search for the missing teen.
59) Snapshot
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
1993
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A series of strange photos draws Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle into a chilling case of medical malpractice Carlotta Carlyle is sorting through her junk mail when she finds a snapshot of a newborn baby she has never seen before. One week later, another arrives showing the same child one year older. The next week, a third arrives. As the deliveries continue, Carlotta becomes obsessed with this unnamed little girl and is drawn into one of the most dangerous...
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2000.
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Maggody's high school has a new computer lab. Folks are calling the internet the Devil's workshop, but the adult computer class is filling up. When some unusual images flsh across monitors and a pretty student is found dead in an abandoned shack, the town demands that Arly find the answers.