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Language
English
Formats
Description
Two sisters go into the family business they didn't know they had--catching killers. Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There she makes two important discoveries: her father stopped being an accountant and had opened up a private detective agency, and she has a teenage half sister named Baby. Baby brings in a client to the detective agency, a young man who claims he was abducted. During...
Author
Series
House of robots volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Robots on strike! Sammy's underappreciated mechanical helpers cause chaos in the house! It's up to Sammy and his disabled sister Maddie to keep the peace until his inventor mom reveals her secret project...and why it was worth the wait"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Across decades and generation, the Kennedy's have occupied a unique place in the American imagination: charmed, cursed, at once familiar and unknowable. The House of Kennedy is a revealing, fascinating account of America's most storied family, as told by America's most trusted storyteller.
Author
Series
A Doc Savage thriller volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prof. Brandt Savage--grandson of the legendary action hero--is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling...as the perfect assassin. Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, "Meed," is demanding. She's also his captor. Savage emerges...
6) Criss Cross
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 27
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse. 'You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.' Was an innocent man just put to death? Alex soon realizes he may have much to answer for, as 'M' lures the detective out of the capital to the sites of multiple homicides, all marked with...
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 23
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
Description
Returning to his North Carolina hometown to defend a cousin accused of a heinous crime, Alex Cross is drawn into the search for a brutal murderer before his world is shattered by the revelation of a devastating family secret.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Present two tales about the power of a good story to show life's possibilities, including "Tell Me Your Best Story," in which Anne sets off on a road trip to ask people, "What's your best story?," in an effort find what she's been missing in life.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Rafe Khatchadorian enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
Author
Series
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Working a summer job on the Jersey Shore, Jacky Hart, who wanted nothing more than to act and sing all summer, must juggle serious responsibilities in order to participate in a stock performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
11) Jacky Ha-Ha
Author
Series
Jacky Ha-ha volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Jacky "Ha-Ha" Hart is a class clown with a penchant for pranking--and when she's required to act in the school play to appease her frustrated teachers, she must conquer her stutter"--
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Everyone in Ellie's family, even her dog, is convinced that the day has come for her to use her potty, but she insists they are wrong.
13) First love
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
Author
Series
Middle school volume 16
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Khatchadorian family discovers they have inherited a million dollars, but to get it, they must stay in a ramshackle house in Beverly Hills and Rafe has to attend a snooty new middle school.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tandy Angel struggles to remember key details about her passionate love affair with the handsome son of a family enemy while tackling two cases including a wrongful homicide charge against her brother and a series of murders occurring on New York's Upper West Side.
16) Expelled
Author
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Expelled after a compromising photograph is posted to his Twitter account, Will Foster is determined to find out who took the picture and why he and three other students were targeted.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tandy Angel moves to Paris for a fresh start with her siblings and to be reunited with James, her lost love, but her detective work soon uncovers long-buried family secrets that threaten to destroy her life.
18) Robots go wild!
Author
Series
House of robots volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Fifth grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez has to find a solution when his robot 'brother' has repeated malfunctions at school and a newer model robot steps in as competition--and his mother's job is in jeopardy as a result"--
Author
Series
Middle school volume 7
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
301 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rafe returns to Hills Village Middle School where he attends "special classes," joins the football team, and starts a super-secret art project.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tandy Angel is, along with her brothers, a suspect in their parents' murder but having grown up under Malcolm and Maud Angel's perfectionist demands, Tandy decides she must clear the family name no matter what.