Johnny Heller
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Baseball card adventures volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Joe Stoshack travels back to 1919, where he meets Shoeless Joe Jackson and tries to prevent the fixing of the World Series in which Jackson was wrongly implicated.
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"San Francisco, 1947. Bartender Sammy 'Two Toes' Tiffin and the rest of the Cookie's Coffee Irregulars, a ragtag bunch of working mugs last seen in Noir, are on the hustle: they're trying to open a driving school for Chinatown residents; shanghai an abusive Swedish stevedore; get Mable, the local madam, and her girls to a Christmas party at the State Hospital without alerting the overzealous head of the S.F.P.D. vice squad; all while Sammy's girlfriend,...
3) The rescue
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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A volunteer fireman and a single mother join forces to find the woman's son who has been lost in a storm. While searching for the boy, the two adults find themselves increasingly close.
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Sammy and the Cheese volume 1
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English
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Madcap, zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco. Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin is the bartender in a scruffy gin joint, with street connections that make him the go-to guy for just about everything. When one of his schemes goes south and his lady vanishes, Sammy follows a tortuous trail from Chinatown to Telegraph Hill to a hidden forest enclave in a desperate search to find his girl. Meanwhile, a suspicious flying object has...
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English
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Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie, is the last dragon on Earth and is hiding out in a Louisiana swamp. He strikes a deal with Cajun swamp rat Squib: Squib will keep him company and fetch supplies for him and Vern will protect Squib from the dirty cop that is chasing him. However, there will be soon be a firery reckoning, in which dragons wither finally become extinct or Ver's glory days are back.
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Strange things happen when Greg starts using the camera he and his friends found.
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English
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The daughter of a prominent Chicago judge and his socialite wife, inner-city art teacher Mia Dennett is taken hostage by her one-night stand, Colin Thatcher, who, instead of delivering her to his employers, hides her in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota to keep her safe from harm.
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"Sal Cupertine is a legendary hit man for the Chicago Mafia, known for his ability to get in and out of a crime without a trace. Until now, that is. His first-ever mistake forces Sal to botch an assassination, killing three undercover FBI agents in the process. This puts too much heat on Sal, and he knows this botched job will be his death sentence to the Mafia. So he agrees to their radical idea to save his own skin. A few surgeries and some intensive...
10) Otis Spofford
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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The class cut-up is given his come-uppance by gentle, timid Ellen Tebbits.
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NERDS volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Led by Duncan "Gluestick" Dewey, the NERDS team uses brain power and courage rather than gadgets when they face off against supervillain Simon, his band of savage squirrels, and Albert, a middle-aged computer genius who lives with his mother.
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Adventurers Guild volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"In the second book of The Adventurers Guild, Zed and Brock must save the elven city"--
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Adventurers Guild volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"Conscripted into the dangerous Adventurers Guild, best friends Zed and Brock must defend what is left of humanity against terrible monsters in this epic fantasy."--
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Jake Drake series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Jake is determined to win the third grade science fair not only for the grand prize, but to beat the annoying class know-it-alls, as well.
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Jake Drake series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Jake remembers the terrible days in third grade when everybody thought he was the teachers' pet.
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Embassy of the dead volume 1
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English
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"When Jake Green opens a mysterious box containing a severed finger, he accidentally summons a grim reaper intent on dragging him to the Eternal Void (yes, it's as fatal as it sounds). Now Jake is running for his life. Luckily, he has a knack for talking to ghosts, which just might help him survive long enough to reach the Embassy of the Dead and plead his case. With the help of a prankster poltergeist and a dead undertaker, Jake dodges fearsome undead...
18) Night of dangers
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Adventurers Guild volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"After falling victim to a vile betrayal, Zed is cut off from Brock and their friends and unable to warn them about a dangerous enemy on the move. The Adventurers Guild may have defeated the evil that cast the elves from their home, but that doesn't keep them in the Freestoners' good graces for long. An ordinary day at the market comes to a fatal end when a rare Danger infiltrates the city, leaving over a dozen dead. Tensions come to a boil as the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Afraid he will always be an outsider like ex-planet Pluto, nine-year-old Oliver finally shows his extremely overprotective parents that he is capable of doing great things without their help while his class is studying the solar system.
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Grimm series (Adam Gidwitz) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimms' fairy tales Faithful Johannes, Hansel and Gretel, The seven ravens, Brother and sister, The robber bridegroom, and The devil and his three golden hairs.