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"New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's Rockton Novels had one of the most unique towns in crime fiction. Murder at Haven's Rock is a spinoff, a fresh start... with a few new dangers that threaten everything before it even begins. Haven's Rock, Yukon. Population: 0 Deep in the Yukon wilderness, a town is being built. A place for people to disappear, a fresh start from a life on the run. Haven's Rock isn't the first town of this kind,...
43) Joanna runs away
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Pub. Date
1973
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A little girl tries to make her daydream about the vegetable man's cart horse come true.
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Mick Hardin novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Mick Hardin is supposed to be retired, transitioning to a civilian life. Back in the hills of Kentucky after a two-year absence, he'd planned to touch down briefly before heading to France, marking the end of his twenty-year Army career. But in Rocksalt, trouble is brewing. Mick's sister Linda, recently reelected as sheriff, and her deputy Johnny Boy Tolliver are investigating the murder of Pete Lowe, a sought-after mechanic at the local racetrack....
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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"In this stunning and propulsive debut, a town grieves the loss of a young girl-but some fight to keep the truth about her death a secret. For fans of Jane Harper, Ashley Flowers, and Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. The question For the last ten years, the small, claustrophobic town of West Wilmer has been struggling to understand one thing: Why did it take young Grant Dean twenty-seven minutes to call for help on the fateful night of the...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
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Thanks to a bully in gym class, unpopular Nate suffers a broken finger -- the middle one, splinted to flip off the world. It won't be the last time a middle finger is raised on this day. Dreamer Claire envisions herself sitting in an artsy caf,̌ filling a journal, but fate has other plans. One cheerleader dates a closeted basketball star; another questions just how, as a "big girl," she fits in. A group of boys scam drivers for beer money without...
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This sprawling novel follows the fortunes and losses of five families from the Stone Age through the present time. Each of the families can be identified through genetic characteristics handed down through the ages, not simply physical characteristics, but attitudes and morals, too. There is plenty of action to keep readers motivated to finish the book. Rutherford has a style and energy all his own that should appeal to young readers of historical...
48) Around town
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Pub. Date
2009
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IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Simple text and illustrations describe a day in LEGOville, from the road sweeper cleaning the streets to a police dog catching a thief.
49) Summer of night
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In the summer of 1960, in Elm Haven, Illinois, a sinister being is stalking the town's children, and when a long-silent bell peals in the middle of the night, the town residents know that it marks the end of innocence.
50) Hide and Geek
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Series
Hide and Geek volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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Eleven-year-old Gina Sparks, aspiring journalist, and her fellow GEEKs, Edgar, Elena, and Kevin, live in Elmwood, New Hampshire, a small town in serious danger of vanishing completely--unless the four friends can find the Van Houten fortune, which was supposedly promised to the town by Maxine Van Houten, a famous toymaker who loved complicated puzzles.
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Nameless City volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Every time it is invaded the City gets a new name, but to the natives in is the Nameless City, and they survive by not letting themselves get involved--but now the fate of the City rests in the hands of Rat, a native, and Kaidu, one of the Dao, the latest occupiers, and the two must somehow work together if the City is to survive.
55) Firestick
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"In his mountain-man days, Elwood "Firestick" McQueen was practically a living legend. His hunting, tracking, and trapping skills were known far and wide. But it was his deadly accuracy with a rifle that earned him the Indian name "Firestick." His two best buddies are Malachi "Beartooth" Skinner -- whose knife was as fatal as a grizzly's chompers -- and Jim "Moosejaw" Hendricks, who once wielded the jawbone of a moose to crush his enemies in the heat...
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Nameless City volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Kaidu and Rat race to prevent a war when diplomatic efforts fail to resolve the conflicts of the Dao nation, but their task is complicated by Kaidu's discovery of a formula for a lost weapon.
59) Angels on a pin
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Pub. Date
c2000
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The people living in a tiny city on a pin, thinking that theirs is the biggest city in the world but feeling lonesome, discover another city on another pin and rejoice that they are not alone.