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Richard Osman is back with everyone's favorite mystery-solving quartet, and the second installment of The Thursday Murder Club series is just as clever and warm as the first-an unputdownable, laugh-out-loud pleasure of a read--
Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat to...
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In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one is...
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Envisioned as a luxurious home-away from-home for Very Important People, The Home Group is a collection of celebrity members clubs dotted across the globe where the rich and famous can party hard and then crash out in its five-star suites, far from the prying eyes of fans and the media. But behind the scenes, tensions are at breaking point. As tempers fray and behaviour worsens, as things get more sinister by the hour and the body count piles up,...
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In The Pickwick Papers we are introduced not just to one of the greatest writers in the English language, but to some of fiction's most endearing and memorable characters, starting with the illustrious, immortal and colossal-minded Samuel Pickwick himself. It is a rollicking tour do force through an England on the brink of the Victorian era. Reform of government, justice and commercial life are imminent, as are rail travel, social convulsion and...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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It used to be that Mary Anne's dad was really strict, but not anymore. Mary Anne's been growing up...but that's not the only big news for the Baby-sitters Club. There's a new boy in school named Logan Bruno, and he likes Mary Anne! He has a dreamy Southern accent, he's awfully cute--and he wants to join the Baby-sitters Club. The Baby-sitters aren't sure Logan will make a good club member. And Mary Anne thinks she's too shy for Logan. Life in the...
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1989, c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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When Laura Sibbie starts a club called Pig City, she incites a near-war among her sixth-grade classmates and generates the creation of a rival club that has designs on Pig City's precious box of secrets.
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Henry Huggins volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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About a boy and his friends who build a clubhouse that spells trouble when they exclude Ramona and Beezus who try to sneak in.
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Puffin Island novels volume 1
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It's been a summer of firsts for Emily Donovan. From becoming a stand-in mom to her niece, Lizzy, to arriving on Puffin Island, her life has become virtually unrecognizable. Between desperately safeguarding Lizzy and her overwhelming fear of the ocean-which surrounds her everywhere she goes!- Emily has lost count of the number of "just breathe" pep talks she's given herself. And that's before charismatic local yacht club owner Ryan Cooper kisses her......
13) Hoof beat
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Saddle Club volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Carole trains Samson, Pine Hollow's new foal; Stevie has a visitor from Washington, D.C.; and Lisa begins writing Hoof Beat, a weekly column for the local newspaper.
14) The cat burglar
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Petsitters Club. Main series volume 2
Publisher
Barron's Educational Series
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Sam and the other members of the Petsitters Club agree to guard Mrs. Makepeace's cat from a cat burglar, they find themselves in the middle of a family feud.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 68
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1993
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English
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When one of the Baby-sitters Club members moves, Jessi's friend at school tries out. But does Wendy have the skills needed to make a good babysitter?
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Petsitters Club. Main series volume 6
Publisher
Barron's Educational Series
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The members of the Petsitters Club find themselves very busy when they agree to take care of a pampered Yorkshire Terrier and the "virtual pup" of a classmate who has to have his tonsils out.
17) Riding camp
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Saddle Club volume 10
Publisher
Gareth Stevens
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
18) Rodeo rider
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Saddle Club volume 12
Publisher
Gareth Stevens
Pub. Date
1990, 1996
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English
19) Horse play
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The Saddle Club volume 16
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English
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Upon learning that their riding instructor is in serious financial trouble, three friends drum up new business for him and arrange a riding demonstration--starring themselves!
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