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Owl diaries volume 11
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Eva Wingdale and her class are excited about their trip to Poppy's Pumpkin Farm, where every year, there is one very large, extra special, thank-you pumpkin; but on the second day of the visit the owls find that the Thank-you Pumpkin has gone missing, and the farm animals are in an uproar -- so Eva and the other owls turn detective to solve the mystery of the missing pumpkin.
2) UFO spotted!
Author
Series
Hilde cracks the case volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Selinsgrove is in the grip of alien fever because people saw a UFO, but nine-year-old reporter Hilde is skeptical about aliens--however when she and her photographer sister Izzy find evidence that something crashed near Grove Pond they are intrigued, (and nervous), and determined to investigate the story for Hilde's newspaper, the Orange Street News.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"With small town New Bison's Spring Festival just around the corner, the pressure is on Maddy to continue her late great-aunt Octavia's legacy. That means scoring the top prize and transforming Baby Cakes into Southwest Michigan's must-visit bakery, even though her inexperience in the kitchen brings nightmares of humiliating tagged photos and scathing reviews. There's another reason for lost beauty sleep. A second bakery is opening in town under the...
4) Fire! fire!
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When Nina's antique store burns down, nine-year old reporter Hilde and her sister/photographer, Izzy, are determined to investigate the cause for the Orange Street News--and their main clue is a bird's nest of baby Blue jays.
Author
Series
Hilde cracks the case volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"After a small tornado hits Selinsgrove during a night time thunderstorm, Hilde and her sister/photographer Izzy wake up to find fish flopping all over Orange Street, and they set out to document the path of minor destruction for their newspaper--and solve the mystery of where the fish came from."--
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started"--...
Author
Series
Thomas De Quincey mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
"Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir, 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater', is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier...Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives." --inside front cover.
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English
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"Bailey King, star of TV's Bailey's Amish Sweets, is building her dream candy factory in Harvest, Ohio. But no sooner is the frame of the new building up than she finds the dead body of a surly contractor who has a long list of enemies--including people in the Amish community. To add to the drama, Bailey is being filmed by a crew for her upcoming show ... When Bailey's TV producer pitched a reality show about building the factory, Bailey was shocked...
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English
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Years ago, Emily's childhood nemesis, Emma Callum, scandalized polite society when she eloped to Venice with an Italian count. Now Emma's father-in-law lies murdered, and her husband has vanished. There's no one she can turn to for help but Emily, who leaves at once for Venice with her husband, the dashing Colin Hargreaves. Emily soon realizes that to solve the present-day crime, she must first unravel a centuries-old puzzle. But the past does not...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When she hears reports of bear roaming the backyards of Selinsgrove, Hilde and her sister/photographer Izzy are determined to get the story for their own newspaper, the Orange Street News--but when they find out the culprit is a black bear cub, their scoop turns into a rescue mission.
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English
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"Thanksgiving is Bailey King's busiest holiday weekend. This year promises to be even more hectic, since Bailey's candy shop, Swissmen Sweets, is providing desserts for Harvest, Ohio's first village-wide Thanksgiving celebration. Yet, even with a guest list close to seven hundred people--Amish and English alike--the event's organizer, Margot Rawlings, is unfazed ... until she discovers her mother, former judge Zara Bevan, will be in attendance. Zara's...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Summer is in full swing as tourists flock back to the Northwoods and travel to Lofty Pines, Wisconsin. For Rain Wilmot, owner of the Lakeside Library, this is the perfect opportunity to bring back her mother's summer book club. But the summer sun starts to really heat up when one of the club's members, Lily Redlin, is found dead in her own home not long after the first meeting. Alongside her sidekick and neighbor Julia Reynolds and the charming Jace...
13) Hero dog!
Author
Series
Hilde cracks the case volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Hilde Lysiak is an aspiring reporter with her own newspaper, the Orange Street News, and she is investigating break-ins and missing baked goods--and with the help of Zeus, a little dog with a big bark, she intends to track down the thief who is trying to steal a win in the Bake-Off Bonanza, one of Selinsgrove's biggest events.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it's an utter tragedy . . . and an entertaining national obsession in this thoughtful and addictively readable novel that offers a fresh and provocative take on whodunits and true crime. Sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell disappeared without a trace on a crisp April morning in Frederick, Maryland. Her tragic story was a national obsession and the centerpiece of a controversial TV docu-series that followed...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"Lucy planned the perfect Outer Banks wedding, until one of the guests goes missing. Before Lucy can look forward to the rest of her life and the work she does at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, she gets a phone call from her boss, Bertie. Eddie, Bertie's friend, never made it back home after the reception. Initially, Lucy doesn't think anything of it. But then she discovers the body of a wedding guest strangled in a locked closet, and the police...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Three Hours in Paris is the story of Kate Rees, the young American markswoman who has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris on the dangerous business of trying to assassinate the Fuhrer. A country girl from rural Oregon-a grieving widow with no spy training but a vendetta and a lot of gumption-now has the state of the entire war in her hands. When the hit goes badly wrong, Kate is on the run for her life-all the time wrestling...
Author
Series
Thomas De Quincey mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his Confessions of an Opium-Eater, confronts London's harrowing streets to thwart the assassination of Queen Victoria. The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The incompetence of British commanders causes the fall of the English government. The Empire teeters. Amid this crisis comes opium-eater Thomas De Quincey, one of the most notorious and brilliant personalities of Victorian England. Along with his irrepressible...
18) A troubling tail
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The charming town of Chilson, Michigan, is beautiful in the spring, and the bookmobile is delivering great reads far and wide on one of the first warm days of the year. But a chill sweeps through when they discover that one of their favorite patrons, the owner of Henika's Candy Emporium, has been found murdered. Although Minnie can't understand who could have had a motive to murder such a kind man, she decides that the sticky problem isn't hers to...
19) Grave Errors
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Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Whose funeral will be next?
For residents of Salem, Massachusetts, the day after Halloween brings empty candy wrappers, sagging pumpkins, and a community-wide identity crisis. That is, until Lee Barrett's TV production class suggests extending the spooky season with the traditional Mexican celebration Dia de Los Muertos. But when the students discover not all of Salem's dead are resting in peace, the post-October blues don't seem so bad after all...
20) It Takes a Coven
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
There's a new witch-hunt in Salem, Massachusetts . . .
When Lee Barrett joins a former student's bridal party as maid of honor, she expects cake tastings and dress fittings. But wedding planning becomes more peculiar than Lee's scrying talents could ever predict. There's a magical baker, a best man with a checkered past, and a talking crow named Poe as the ring bearer. There's also a kindly old man dead under his apple tree-one of a series of unexplained...
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