The cuckoo's calling
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New York, NY : Little, Brown, 2018., ©2013
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Book
Physical Desc:
456, 11 pages ; 21 cm
Lexile measure:
940L
Rating:
940L
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Description

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.

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Language:
English
ISBN:
9780316486378
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 6.7, 24 Points
Lexile measure:
940

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General Note
Includes an excerpt of the author's, The silkworm.
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After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.
Target Audience
940L,Lexile
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,6.7,24.0,160427.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,6.7,24,160427.
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APA Citation (style guide)

Galbraith, R. (2018). The cuckoo's calling. New York, NY, Little, Brown.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Galbraith, Robert. 2018. The Cuckoo's Calling. New York, NY, Little, Brown.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Galbraith, Robert, The Cuckoo's Calling. New York, NY, Little, Brown, 2018.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Galbraith, Robert. The Cuckoo's Calling. New York, NY, Little, Brown, 2018.

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