Donna Jo Napoli
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Sly the sleuth mysteries volume 2
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English
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Sly uses her detective skills to help her friends solve the case of the soccer switch, the kick craze and the basketball blues.
24) The smile
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In Renaissance Italy, Elisabetta longs for romance, and when Leonardo da Vinci introduces her to Guiliano de Medici, whose family rules Florence but is about to be deposed, she has no inkling of the romance--and sorrow--that will ensue.
26) Ugly
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When the rest of the ducks turn on her little duckling, Ugly, because he isn't like them, Mother Duck sadly leaves him behind in order to protect her other children. With the help of some new friends, Ugly makes his way alone, but he doesn't know where he's going or what he's looking for.
Author
Series
Sly the sleuth mysteries volume 3
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English
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Sly uses her detective skills to help her friends solve the case of something fishy, something cooking, and something seedy.
Author
Series
Sly the sleuth mysteries volume 4
Language
English
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Sly uses her detective skills to help her friends solve mysteries that all involve some kind of code.
31) Storm
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English
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Having lost her family in a massive flood, sixteen-year-old Sebah finds her way onto a gigantic ark, where she must conceal herself from Noah and his family until it is safe for her and another stowaway to slip away.
34) Hidden
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When a marauding slave ship captures her sister, Melkorka, eight-year-old Brigid is lost at sea but survives, disguised as a boy, and sets out to rescue Melkorka, and as the years pass she becomes a woman, reputed to be fierce enough to conquer a man, but desirous only of reuniting with her family.
35) Skin
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Sixteen-year-old Sep stares into the bathroom mirror on the first day of school. It's not some weird lipstick, she didn't bump her lips or chew on ice. Her lips are just--white. In a panic, she digs up an old lipstick and smears it on her colorless lips. But soon, more and more white spots begin to bloom, spreading their chalky tendrils across her olive brown skin. Does she have a disease? Is she turning into some kind of freak? As the white blotches...
36) Spinners
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Elaborates on the events recounted in the fairy tale, "Rumpelstiltskin," in which a strange little man helps a miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.
40) Soccer shock
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When ten-year-old Adam discovers that his freckles can see and talk, he plans to use this secret to get onto the school soccer team.