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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Meehan, a career thief staring at life without parole, is awaiting sentencing at the Manhattan Correctional Center when he is called to a meeting by someone masquerading as his lawyer. The man, it turns out, represents the presidential re-election campaign committee -- now finding itself in need of a little professional help. So they "outsource" Meehan in return for a walk from all pending criminal charges. All he has to do is steal a compromising...
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Series
Agent Amelia volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Elementary school secret agent Amelia continues her efforts to save the world from evil geniuses and criminal masterminds, this time foiling a jewel thief, identifying some unusual cat burglars, and evading a weed army.
3) Identity
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English
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"The #1 New York Times-bestselling author's terrifying new thriller about one man's ice-cold malice, and one woman's fight to reclaim her life. Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender. But after she and Nina host their first dinner party-attended by Luke, the flirtatious IT guy who'd been...
4) Dead even
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English
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Lawyer Jared Lynch of New York is warned he will be killed if he fails to successfully defend his client, a criminal. Lynch could ask his wife to lose--she is the prosecutor in the case--but professional pride prevents him and he says nothing.
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English
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A Gentleman of Leisure P. G. Wodehouse - P.G. Wodehouse's classic novel of humor and capers. American Jimmy Pitt falls in love while traveling on a transatlantic ocean liner. Pitt also makes the acquaintance of a burglar, and lands into some sticky situations. Detectives, impersonators, and meddling relatives become involved.
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English
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Living on a suburban cul-de-sac positioned between extremely wealthy and impoverished neighbors, high school student Mary Elizabeth McPherson witnesses acts of violence and compassion that reverberate throughout her community in the wake of a string of burglaries.
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Boxcar children volume 104
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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The Aldens investigate when a new store called the Game Spot opens in town and the neighboring shops are robbed.
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English
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While walking her poodle, Olivia Limoges discovers a dead body buried in the sand. Could it be connected to the bizarre burglaries plaguing Oyster Bay, North Carolina? At every crime scene, the thieves set up odd tableaus: a stick of butter with a knife through it, dolls with silver spoons in their mouths, a deck of cards with a missing queen. Olivia realizes that each setup represents a clich.
10) Murder-in-law
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Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 21
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English
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"While Ellie's away, murder will play . . . Is the death of Ellie's son-in-law really the result of a burglary gone wrong? Ellie's absence abroad is disastrous for her daughter, Diana - when her husband is attacked by intruders and left for dead one night, it falls to Ellie's next-door neighbour, Susan, to reluctantly pick up the pieces and take in Diana's children. Is Evan's death really the result of a burglary gone wrong? Joining forces with her...
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English
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"At 49, Beatrice Billings is rudderless. Her marriage is stale, her relationship with her son Thomas is limited to text messages--hostile haikus that he sends from university--and she is the primary caregiver for her mother, who is in the early stages of dementia. She has a complicated relationship with her older sister Ariel, with whom she carries on ongoing arguments in her head. Bea laments the loss of momentum she remembers feeling in her thirties,...
12) Someone we know
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English
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"This is a very difficult letter to write. I hope you will not hate us too much.... My son broke into your home recently while you were out." In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses--and into the owners' computers as well--learning their secrets, and maybe sharing some of them, too. Who is he, and what might he have uncovered? After two anonymous letters are received, whispers start to circulate, and...
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Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 11
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English
Description
Bernie Rhodenbarr returns in an eleventh adventure that finds him and his lesbian sidekick Carolyn Kaiser breaking into houses, apartments, and even a museum, in a madcap adventure replete with American Colonial silver, an F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscript, a priceless portrait, and a remarkable array of buttons. And, wouldn't you know it, there's a dead body, all stretched out on a Trent Barling carpet.
14) A deadly cliche'
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
While walking her poodle, Olivia Limoges discovers a dead body buried in the sand. Could the body be connected to the bizarre burglaries plaguing Oyster Bay, North Carolina? Can the Bayside Books Writers group decode the cliche clues left by the thieves?
16) Spy cat
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Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A series of burglaries in their quiet community upsets Alex's family, particularly his younger brother Benjie, but the bad guys are no match for the very protective family cat and Benjie's "spy" skills.
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Sherry Baldwin's essay wins a magazine contest, she, her father, and best friend Junie go to Hollywood, where she helps her ghost-detective mother and another ghost investigate a series of burglaries.
19) Home alone
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
Inadvertently left at home by his forgetful family, off on a Christmas trip to Paris, young Kevin McCallister needs all his ingenuity to fend off two burglars who break into his house. Illustrated with stills from the movie.
20) Rising water
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Tracy, her brother, and the new animal care volunteer at the Jefferson Science Center travel by boat to feed a dog stranded by flooding, and end up having a full day of dangerous adventures, which give them new perspectives about themselves and about each other.