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Truly Devious volume 1
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English
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2024 FPPL Summer Reading YA Mysteries
Abraham Lincoln Book Award 2021
AMPL Dark Academia
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Abraham Lincoln Book Award 2021
AMPL Dark Academia
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When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.
Ellingham Academy was founded by Albert Ellingham, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only...
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"In Treasure Hunt, Montalbano is hailed as a hero after news cameras film him scaling a building-- gun in hand-- to capture a pair of unlikely snipers. Shortly after, the inspector begins to receive cryptic messages in verse from someone challenging him to go on a 'treasure hunt.' Intrigued, he accepts, treating the messages as amusing riddles-- until they take a dangerous turn" -- from publisher's web site.
4) Fear itself
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As the new Keepers of the School, sixth-graders Ben and Jill must decipher a handful of clues written as maritime riddles to save their school from demolition by a greedy company.
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YouSpace volume 2
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Maurice has just killed a dragon with a bread knife. And had his destiny foretold and had his true love spirited away. That's precisely the sort of stuff that'd bring out the latent heroism in anyone. Unfortunately, Maurice is pretty sure he hasn't got any latent heroism. Meanwhile, a man wakes up in a jar in a different kind of pickle (figuratively speaking). He can't get out, of course, but neither can he remember his name, or what gravity is, or...
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"Former beauty queen and fledgling private investigator Madeline Maclin, has married her best friend, Jerry Fairweather, and settled into his old house in the small town of Celosia, North Carolina...And now Madeline is involved in the mysterious death of Amelia Lever, an unpopular teacher at Celosia Elementary School...And then there's Maddy's latest case. Nathan Fenton has hired her to help solve a riddle left to him by his Uncle Elijah, a man who...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 9
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English
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Dolphins at Daybreak begins the third set of four books in this magical (and increasingly popular) series! Jack and Annie are off in the Magic Tree House again, this time to a whole new world under the ocean. Complete with a giant octopus, a hungry shark, and dolphins to the rescue, this Magic Tree House book delivers an underwater adventure kids can dream about.
10) The spider
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"Three years ago, Detective Saga Bauer received an ominous postcard describing a gun and nine white bullets--one of which was intended for her partner, Detective Joona Linna. The sender alleged that Saga was the only person who could save him. But as time passed, the threat faded. Until now. A sack with a decomposing body has been found hanging from a tree in the forest. A milky white bullet casing turns up at the scene. When the body count begins...
12) The Riddle
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Pellinor volume 2
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English
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"Maerad's powers grow stronger by the day, but she and her mentor, Cadvan, are hunted by both the Light and the Dark, and their world threatens to erupt into chaos. Their quest to unravel the Riddle of the Treesong leads Maerad over terrifying seas and glacial wilderness, into the grasp of the seductive Winterking and the prison of his icy realm"--Publisher's description.
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Rather novels volume 4
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English
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Newlywed American heiress Penny Nichols and her English husband Jeremy Laidley return from their honeymoon only to be sent by Prince Charles on a mission to Cornwall to solve an Elizabethan riddle and save an historic village from a developer's wrecking ball.
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Tales of Sasha volume 10
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English
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Flying horses from the Royal Guard arrive in Crystal Cove to deliver a message for Sasha, but in order to open it she must first solve a riddle, which requires her to find the petals of rare and different-colored flowers.
17) Smell that clue!
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When his class wins a free trip to the circus, Goofball gathers clues to track down the winning number his teacher must produce.
18) What am I?
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"Readers are given clues and asked to identify the object being described. Includes reading activities"--Provided by publisher.
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After a mysterious key arrives for her, eleven-year-old Lin Rosenquist finds a crack in the cellar, a gate to the world of Sylver. This frozen realm is the home of every dead animal that ever loved a child. Lin is reunited with Rufus, the pet she buried under the rosebush and together they must find the missing Winter Prince in order to save Sylver from destruction.
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