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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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Invisible Emmie

By TERRI LIBENSON

55 ratings3 reviews

All the crushes, humiliations, boredom, and drama of middle school are compressed into one surpri...

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Zeus the Mighty: The Epic Escape From the Underworld (Book 4)

By Boyer, Crispin

43 ratings4 reviews

A dark land filled with shadows and strange noises. A multiheaded beast standing guard. A new, sly ruler with a few tricks in store. A lack of Mutt Nuggets to fill Ares the pug’s belly ...

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Weird But True Know-It-All: Rocks & Minerals

By Burgan, Michael

52 ratings2 reviews

Did you know that Montana’s Grasshopper Glacier is filled with millions of frozen locusts that got caught in a storm more than 300 million years ago? Or that gneiss is one of the world’s oldest rock forms? One sample from Canada is more than FOUR BILLION years old! In this latest single-subject Weird But True! book, readers will have a blast discovering that there’s a lot more to rocks and minerals than meets the eye.

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