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Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date:
©2024
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 480L
Language:
English
Description:
When Squirrel sees snow for the first time, Bird helps him adjust, but just as Squirrel starts to enjoy it, the snow disappears, leaving Squirrel convinced a thief is on the loose.
2. Iced
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English
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5 stars
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It's Christmas in Aspen, and P.I. Regan Reilly has come to ski and celebrate with her parents and their rich Aspen friends. As the snow falls, million-dollar paintings start to disappear, along with an old friend of Regan's - who happens to be an ex-con and reformed jewel thief. Regan may be the only person in town who believes he is innocent, but proving it is going to be an uphill, and dangerous, battle.
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Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 490L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina is preparing for art school, first dates, and all that summer has to offer. But one night, the Soviet secret police barge violently into her home, deporting her, along with her mother and younger brother, by cattle car to Siberia. Lina's father has been separated from the family and sentenced to death in a prison camp. All seems to be lost, but Lina refuses to give up hope. Will that be enough to keep her alive?
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Series:
Grimm Legacy volume 1
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 600L
Language:
English
Description:
New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the "New-York Circulating Material Repository," and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.
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Publisher:
Gecko Press
Pub. Date:
2015
Lexile measure:
510L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Someone's stealing the squirrel's nuts, and it's up to Detective Gordon to catch the thief. Unfortunately, solving this crime means standing in the snow and waiting for a long time...If only he had an assistant - someone small, fast, and clever - to help solve this terrible case. Then detective Gordon would be able to go back to doing what he's best at: thinking, eating cakes, drinking tea, and stamping important papers.
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Language:
English
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A #1 New York Times Bestseller: Mark Helprin's masterpiece transports you to New York of the Belle Époque, to a city clarified by a siege of unprecedented snows, and to a love story that is one of the most beautiful and unforgettable in American literature.
One winter night, Peter Lake—master mechanic and second-story man—attempts to rob a fortresslike mansion on the Upper
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Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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When handsome thief Beau enters the castle that appeared out of nowhere he finds himself trapped in Arabella's curse, which can only be broken if she finds a boy who loves her for her true self--a seeming impossibility for a girl who has been told she isimpossible to love.
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Series:
Britt Montero volume 8
Language:
English
Description:
A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of reporter Britt Montero forever. The encounter is at Miami's morgue, where the unidentified stranger lies dead. His unusual old scars capture her curiosity-the dead man clearly had a tale to tell. This thief, who was accidentally electrocuted, may be the key that unlocks the long-sought secrets of a sensational cold murder mystery unsolved for more than fourteen years. Sunny and Ricky, teenagers...
10. To the dark
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Series:
Simon Westow mysteries volume 3
Publisher:
Severn House
Language:
English
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"Leeds, 1822. The city is in the grip of winter, but the chill deepens for thief-taker Simon Westow and his young assistant, Jane, when the body of Laurence Poole, a petty local thief, emerges from the melting snow by the river at Flay Cross Mill. A coded notebook found in Laurence's room mentions Charlie Harker, the most notorious fence in Leeds who's now running for his life, and the mysterious words: To the dark. What was Laurence hiding that caused...
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Zapato Power volume 5
Language:
English
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When a freak spring blizzard buries Starwood Park, Freddie works with Mr. Vaslov to clear the sidewalks using a new invention-Zapato Power snowshoes! But, not even the snow can stop a thief from causing trouble in the neighborhood. Can Freddie solve the case, even if it means helping Erika, the Starwood Park bully?
12. Christmas sweets
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English
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Gathered in one volume for the very first time, here are three yuletide tales of mystery, murder, and romance, featuring your favorite sleuths . . . THE TWELVE DESSERTS OF CHRISTMAS by JOANNE FLUKE It's the perfect mix of naughty and nice when two lovestruck boarding school teachers watch six kids over Christmas break. But when someone wants the cozy couple's romance to burn out faster than a scorched fruitcake, it's Hannah Swensen to the rescue,...
13. Pilgrim soul
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Pub. Date:
2013
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English
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It's 1947 and the worst winter in memory: Glasgow is buried in snow, killers stalk the streets - and Douglas Brodie's past is engulfing him. It starts small. The Jewish community in Glasgow asks Douglas Brodie, ex-policeman turned journalist, to solve a series of burglaries. The police don't care and Brodie needs the cash. Brodie solves the crime but the thief is found dead, butchered by the owner of the house he was robbing. When the householder...
14. Old Granny Fox
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English
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Winter's here, and there's a carpet of deep snow covering the Green Forest and the nearby meadow - which means Reddy Fox and Granny Fox are having trouble finding food. Reddy, of course, is full of reckless ideas, such as getting into Farmer Brown's chicken house in daylight. Using the wisdom she's acquired over the years, Granny overrules many of Reddy's foolhardy suggestions, taking the conceit out of a youngster who thinks he knows more than anyone...
15. Disney Princess
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Publisher:
Disney Press
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
Join the Disney Princesses in this collection of three enchanting stories. In "The Little Mermaid Storybook," a daring mermaid princess, Ariel, rescues the human Prince Eric from drowning and falls in love with him. The little mermaid trades her voice to the scheming sea witch, Ursula, for the chance to become human. Unless Eric falls in love with Ariel in three days, she will become Ursula's captive forever! In "Listen to Your Heart," English settlers...
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Publisher:
TOKYOPOP
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
In this land of ice and death . . . where often the only warmth to be found is in the salty splash of blood from your enemy . . . a lone warrior treks across the snow-covered wasteland. His entire body wrapped in bloodstained bandages, at first glance he looks like an escaped nightmare, a macabre creature animated by unnatural means. But this is no walking corpse. Oh, no-a heart beats strong and true within its skeletal cage, and the eyes . . . one...
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Series:
Zapato power volume 5
Publisher:
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date:
[2014]
Lexile measure:
540L
Language:
English
Description:
"When a freak spring blizzard buries Starwood Park, Freddie works with Mr. Vaslov to clear the sidewalks using a new invention--Zapato Power snowshoes. But not even the snow can stop a thief from causing trouble in the neighborhood. Can Freddie solve thecase, even if it means helping Erika, the Starwood Park bully?"--
Publisher:
Warner Bros
Pub. Date:
[2023]
Language:
English
Description:
After defeating the Reverse Flash once and for all, the ninth season of THE FLASH picks up one week later following their epic battle, and Barry Allen and Iris West-Allen are reconnecting and growing closer than ever before. But when a deadly group of Rogues descends on Central City led by a powerful new threat, The Flash and his team Caitlin Snow, Meta-Empath Cecile Horton, the light-powered meta, Allegra Garcia, brilliant tech-nerd Chester P. Runk,...
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Publisher:
Arcadia Publishing
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
The story of a teenage thief who became a killer-and how prison transformed him-in turn-of-the-century New England. On a crisp September evening in 1899, a seventeen-year-old petty thief named Edwin Ray Snow shot and killed a bakery deliveryman named Jimmy Whittemore outside Yarmouth, Massachusetts. The gunshots rang out for only a moment, but the effects resounded on Cape Cod for half a century. The idyllic atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Cape...