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The Westing Game: The Deluxe Anniversary Edition
By Ellen Raskin
4.388 ratings7 reviews
fudgebrownie44 stars
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin is a highly acclaimed, 1978 Newbery Medal-winning mystery for young readers, celebrated for its complex, fast-paced plot involving 16 heirs solving a puzzle to win a million-dollar fortune. It is widely praised for its clever wordplay, witty humor, and large, dist...
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I Know Dino!: Amazing Breakthroughs, Mega Mistakes, and Unsolved Mysteries in Dinosaur Science
By Sabrina Ricci, Garret Kruger
0 ratings0 reviews
Get the deets on dinos and find out how we know what we know about them... Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years, but the world of dinosaur science has never been more alive! Over the last few decades, amazing scientific discoveries have transformed what we know about dinosaurs. And it turns out that a lot of what we thought we knew about them was … totally wrong. Fortunately, prehistory pros and podcast hosts Sabrina Ricci and Garret Kruger are here to parse dino-fact from dino-fiction and examine the incredible history of paleontology along the way.
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Griffin Speaker
By Jan M. Flynn
55 ratings5 reviews
kruzingwithk9s55 stars
Rain is an orphan grub. Sitting at the very bottom of the hierarchy, she works at her Aunt Willow’s farm helping with the animals. When she turns 13, she will be sent to spend the rest of her life working in the Tubes to collect Root for those higher up on the hierarchy. Problem being, she has Tu...
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Daddy's Little Girl
By Mary Higgins Clark
41 ratings1 reviews
deafgirlhistory44 stars
Ellie Cavanaugh, with her older sister Andrea who little Ellie would look up to, never tell on her, and truly loved her, thinking Andrea as her comfort. But one night, Andrea got murdered, but by who? Some think that Rob Westerfield, a boy that Andrea had crush on, some others also think that ano...
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Hunter X Hunter, Vol. 6
By Yoshihiro Togashi
51 ratings1 reviews
errorsans55 stars
FIRST REVIEW! This manga is so cool, it's centered around Killua Zoldyck and Gon Freeces going to heavens arena, this book is great because heavens arena is the first time they're exposed to nen, they meet Zushi, who used ren on Killua and through that they met his teacher (I forgot his name) and...
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Griffin Speaker
By Jan M. Flynn
55 ratings5 reviews
kruzingwithk9s55 stars
Rain is an orphan grub. Sitting at the very bottom of the hierarchy, she works at her Aunt Willow’s farm helping with the animals. When she turns 13, she will be sent to spend the rest of her life working in the Tubes to collect Root for those higher up on the hierarchy. Problem being, she has Tu...
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Griffin Speaker
By Jan M. Flynn
55 ratings5 reviews
kruzingwithk9s55 stars
Rain is an orphan grub. Sitting at the very bottom of the hierarchy, she works at her Aunt Willow’s farm helping with the animals. When she turns 13, she will be sent to spend the rest of her life working in the Tubes to collect Root for those higher up on the hierarchy. Problem being, she has Tu...
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The Westing Game: The Deluxe Anniversary Edition
By Ellen Raskin
4.388 ratings7 reviews
fudgebrownie44 stars
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin is a highly acclaimed, 1978 Newbery Medal-winning mystery for young readers, celebrated for its complex, fast-paced plot involving 16 heirs solving a puzzle to win a million-dollar fortune. It is widely praised for its clever wordplay, witty humor, and large, dist...
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I Know Dino!: Amazing Breakthroughs, Mega Mistakes, and Unsolved Mysteries in Dinosaur Science
By Sabrina Ricci, Garret Kruger
0 ratings0 reviews
Get the deets on dinos and find out how we know what we know about them... Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years, but the world of dinosaur science has never been more alive! Over the last few decades, amazing scientific discoveries have transformed what we know about dinosaurs. And it turns out that a lot of what we thought we knew about them was … totally wrong. Fortunately, prehistory pros and podcast hosts Sabrina Ricci and Garret Kruger are here to parse dino-fact from dino-fiction and examine the incredible history of paleontology along the way.
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Yukon Ho! (Calvin and Hobbes)

By Bill Watterson

52 ratings3 reviews

Calvin--a six-year-old boy with a boundless imagination and a zest for misadventure--confounds hi...

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The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery

By Nancy Springer

4.449 ratings5 reviews

When Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has...

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In a Heartbeat

By Loretta Ellsworth

4.7520 ratings16 reviews

For fans of Gabrielle Zevin and Lurlene McDaniel, In a Heartbeat explores the ties of family and ...

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Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 3 The Ship of the Dead

By Rick Riordan

4.8444 ratings70 reviews

Magnus Chase, a once-homeless teen, is a resident of the Hotel Valhalla and one of Odin's chosen ...

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Ark Angel (An Alex Rider Adventure)

By Anthony Horowitz

4.7617 ratings12 reviews

Shot outside the offices of MI6 and left for dead by Scorpia, Alex Rider awakens in a top-secret ...

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Running Out of Time: Two Worlds, One Answer, No Time!

By Margaret Peterson Haddix

51 ratings1 reviews

Run For Your LifeJessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana, in 184...

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Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids

By Elissa Brent Weissman, Kwame Alexander, Tom Angleberger, Kathi Appelt, Ashley Bryan, Tim Federle, Candace Fleming, Marla Frazee, Chris Gall, Alex Gino, Chris Grabenstein, Gordon Korman, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Thanhha Lai, Peter Lerangis, Gail Carson Levine, Grace Lin, Yuyi Morales, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, R. J. Palacio, Linda Sue Park, Rohmann Eric, Dan Santat, Brian Selznick, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Rita Williams-Garcia

4.54 ratings3 reviews

From award-winning author Elissa Brent Weissman comes a collection of quirky, smart, and vulnerab...

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